Join your ASTD colleagues on Tuesday, April 20, 8:30—5:00, at the Okemos Conference Center, for this unique and innovative workshop that can transform your presentation style and help you more effectively communicate your message. Pinnacle Performance Company’s acclaimed Performance-Based Training® methods and curriculum will enable you to learn to master the communication skills that will sharpen your ability to influence your peers and other decision makers.

After participating in this all-day workshop, you can expect to be able to:

• Engage an audience immediately
• Build self-confidence and control any audience at any time
• Communicate a clear message and establish instant credibility
• Create a positive, lasting impression
• Overcome speech anxiety and nervousness
• Influence key decision makers and build consensus

More about Pinnacle Performance Company…

Pinnacle Performance Company was founded by professional actors and Fortune 500 executives to teach a unique method of Performance-Based Training® to the corporate world.

Pinnacle has meshed the time-tested performance delivery techniques that have helped make actors more engaging and credible for hundreds of years, with the business communication skills needed to succeed and influence at every level of the corporate world!

Over the past 5 years Pinnacle has trained thousands of people including CEOs, high level executives, professional speakers, sales people, trainers, engineers, customer service reps and more! Each workshop is a unique experience as we focus on the individual needs of each participant as well as the overall group curriculum.

When

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 8:30 AM–5:00 PM

Where

Okemos Conference Center
2187 University Park Drive
Okemos, MI 48864

Fee

• Member Pricing: $179 for tickets purchased before March 23, 2010
• Regular Pricing: $219 for tickets purchased before March 23, 2010

• Member Pricing: $230 following March 23 and “at -the-door” tickets
• Regular Pricing: $270 following March 23 and “at -the-door” tickets

Online Registration deadline:Midnight on March 23. Following that, all other registrations will be at the door.

We’re living in an ever changing world. We invite you to explore the opportunities and possibilities that await us in these uncertain times.

Let’s explore the possibilities of:

• Performance Professionals sitting at the ‘strategic table’!
• Decision makers asking for and acting on your recommendations!
• Having the resources and support you need at your finger tips!
• Sharing your ideas with like-minded professionals!

The café environment builds on collective wisdom, collective knowledge and shared experiences! Join Mid-Michigan ASTD, your Café Host-Bernadette Johnson, and your peers as we explore making these possibilities into a reality together!

When

Tuesday, March 23 2010 5:30–7:30 PM

Networking and light meal with refreshments start at 5:30 pm until the beginning of the presentation at 6:00 pm.

Where

Two Men and a Truck
3400 Belle Chase Way
Lansing, MI 48911

Fee

• Chapter Members: $20.00
• Non-Member: $40.00
• Students: $10.00

Note: Additional $15.00 charge for each ticket type will be administered for tickets purchased at the door.

The ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter achieved 100% CORE (Chapter Operating REquirements) for 2008

Prior to coming to Dart five years ago, Lori was responsible for leadership and employee training at Foote Health System in Jackson, MI and prior to that, started a new training department for a large, mid-west uniform rental company headquarted in the Detroit area. Her early work history was with associations in the Lansing area, including as Chief of Physician Education at the Michigan State Medical Society and Executive Director of the Michigan Dental Hygienists Association. With this strong background in the association arena, she has been a member and strong supporter of ASTD, both national and the South Central Michigan Chapter, since early on in her career.

Through her training, Lori specializes in presenting creative and “participant-centered” learning experiences for employees on a variety of topics, including: personal accountability, improved communication skills, diversity/harassment, customer service excellence, and other leadership development topics. In addition to training for Dart, she occasionally trains similar courses for the Michigan State University Human Resource Development department, and plans to branch out this fall by offering some Saturday programs to bring some of her favorite courses to the general public. Some of her favorite classes to teach include a custom-designed course on personal accountability, “Thunderbolt Thinking” (a creative thinking course), “Fish Philosophy” (based on the Seattle-based, Pike’s Place Fish Market), “Feedback Fundamentals”, and Mindmapping. Her most difficult course? She says, “It has to be either conducting the “Fish Philoso phy” course to a group of nurses on a bus-ride to Chicago so that they could get CE credit for their trip, or the time I had to teach creative thinking skills to a room full of Engineers!”

Lori’s educational background includes a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) in Management and Marketing from Northern Michigan University. In 2004 she earned a Masters in Adult Education/online-learning (M.A.E.D.) from the University of Phoenix. She loves to read and considers herself blessed to have a career where she gets paid to continually read and learn new information.

Lori is the single parent of three “twenty-something” young adults, 2 daughters and a son. They are all living out of the house (for the moment anyway!) and in college or graduate school in East Lansing, Lexington, and Boston. She is active in the Lansing Area Emmaus community and her local church, working to develop strong Christian leaders. She has also served as a volunteer, on-call advocate for a local domestic violence project. She says that her most far-reaching leadership role was when she led a group of high school students on a work project in a Russian orphanage during the summer of 1997. This summer she plans to repeat that experience when she travels to Romania with an adult group to do volunteer work in orphanages, children’s hospitals, and gypsy camps. She loves to travel and has also recently been to the Grand Caymans, England, Australia and various places around the U.S.

Use our chapter code (CH5093) when you buy ASTD products and services from National ASTD (such as: books, National conferences, HPI or ROI courses, and new or renewal memberships) to benefit the chapter. Not a Local or National ASTD member? That’s OK, you can still use the chapter code.

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