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Saturday, September 26, 2020 @10am Our Guest:
75+ Team Building Activities for Remote Teams – Christopher Littlefield is an International/TEDx Speaker, Harvard Business Review Ascend Contributor and founder of Beyond Thank You. As an expert in employee appreciation, recognition, and workplace culture, he has trained thousands of leaders across six continents at organizations like Accenture, Boston Medical, Salesforce, Reserve Bank of Australia, U.S. Army, United Nations, and more. His work has been featured in Forbes, New York, Mindful and British Psychologies Magazines, and profiled in Harvard Business Review.
Chris is also the author of the new book 75+ Team Building Activities for Remote Teams –Simple Ways to Build Trust, Strengthen Communication, and Laugh Together from Afar.
Saturday, September 19, 2020 @10am Our Guest:
Why Diversity and Inclusion Programs Fail – Asker A. Saeed is Principal of Saeed Consulting LLC, a full-service consulting firm for law firms, legal departments, and other organizations with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion process improvement, strategic plan development, assessments, and awareness training. Asker also serves as the Executive Director of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of North America. With over 8000 members and 29 chapters across the United States and Canada, SABA North America provides the South Asian legal community with a trusted forum for professional growth and development while at the same time promoting civil rights and access to justice for the South Asian community. Previously, Asker headed up the diversity and inclusion initiative at international law firm Fried Frank and prior to that at northeast regional law firm Day Pitney. Prior to becoming a diversity and inclusion professional Asker held various roles at United Technologies Corporation (now known as Raytheon Technologies), including as Vice President, Customer Business, Commercial at International Aero Engines AG and Assistant Counsel at Pratt & Whitney. Asker started his legal career as an associate at Connecticut based law firms Murtha Cullina and Robinson & Cole. He has also held management level roles at Robert Half Legal Consulting Solutions and FutureShop. Mr. Saeed is a long time speaker on diversity and inclusion and career development and has received numerous awards for his efforts, including the 2015 Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award from the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity. Originally from Canada, Asker is a founding member of the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut. Saturday, September 12, 2020 Guest:
Jennifer McCollum is CEO of Linkage, where she oversees the strategic direction and global operations of the Boston, MA–based leadership development company. With a mission to “Change the Face of Leadership,” Linkage has dedicated 30 years to improving leadership effectiveness and equity in hundreds of organizations globally. Linkage provides assessments, training, coaching, consulting and conferences designed to accelerate purposeful leaders, advance women leaders and create inclusive cultures. Jennifer has 20 years of experience building and leading businesses in the leadership space. Her expertise includes bringing analytic rigor to critical talent decisions by linking leadership behavior to corporate performance outcomes. The products she and her teams build help global organizations across industries make the right bets on their current and future leaders at critical decision points: when identifying high potentials, developing leaders and planning for succession. Background & ExperiencePrior to Linkage, Jennifer spent a decade growing businesses within Korn Ferry and Corporate Executive Board (CEB), now Gartner. At CEB, she led product management within the leadership division, driving innovative solutions that helped organizations select, develop and place leaders at all levels. She also ran CEB’s Leadership Academies business, which developed more than 30,000 professionals in 2,100 companies throughout 50 countries and grew revenue at a 97% combined annual growth rate across five years. Previously, Jennifer served as CEO of IntraVision, a leadership consultancy she founded and grew over the course of eight years. She worked with public companies, start-ups, associations and nonprofits. Her passion is creating vision, executing strategy and managing cohesive teams toward aspirational goals, with a special focus on supporting women in leadership roles. She is an avid tennis player and skier, and lives in Bethesda, MD, with her husband and three children. Education & TrainingJennifer has a master’s degree in communications from the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland, and an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in psychology and communications. Saturday, September 5, 2020 @10am Our Guest:
Mental Resiliency in the Workplace – Kate is the co-author of Take Two: a Journal for New Beginnings (www.taketwojournal.com) a concept that originated from research on how to build resilience. She also works in the sustainable investment field for ValuesAdvisor, a platform that helps investors align their investments with their values. Kate has a master’s degree in international comparative education from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in secondary education from Boston College. She lives in Maine with her three children. |
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Christopher Littlefield,
Asker Saeed,
Jennifer McCollum
Kate Simpson,