April 17th, 2024 | FFA Enrichment Center | Ankeny
The Workplace Well-being Conference is an event that welcomes executives, professionals, and leaders from organizations across Iowa, to learn best practices for supporting the physical, social and mental health of coworkers and employees.
2024 Keynote Speakers
Abena S. Imhotep, CEO, Sankofa Literary & Empowerment Group
What measurable benefits await your team? Understand the influence a leader's character wields on workplace morale, job satisfaction, and mental health. What's the unfiltered connection between leadership character and workplace resilience? Discover the insights that transcend the boardroom and create a thriving workplace where you are leading the change. Executives, this isn't your typical leadership talk—it's a wake-up call to redefine success and workplace culture, empowering you to lead with integrity, compassion, and a focus on the well-being of your team
Caring for Self While Caring for Others: You’re Hardy and You Know It!
Barry A. Schreier, Director of the Higher Education Program, Scanlan Center for School Mental Health & Professor of Counseling Psychology
In our work, we are called upon to be thoughtful and caring of others especially when others struggle. Within our ever-changing work world, the struggles others are managing can often be the same struggles we are managing. In this on going time of significant world and workplace change, we can find ourselves caring for others while also having to care for ourselves. This interactive program shares practical ideas and tools to have and use to help with managing the changing world we all now inhabit and stay hardy while helping others. While the changing world has provided opportunities for positive change, there are also losses and significant ongoing challenges. This program focuses on capitalizing on our positives, so we can best care for ourselves while also caring for others. This program takes an identities-based, mental health, and well-being focus. Being called upon to help others can be challenging on a good day. This program provides navigation for the stormier days as we navigate the current work year and beyond.
Continuing Education Credits
If you are a certified HR professional through the Society for Human Resource Management, you may apply your attendance at the following pre-approved program toward recertification credit with SHRM. t
The Central Iowa Society for Human Resource Management (CI-SHRM) is an approved recertification provider through SHRM. CI-SHRM is an affiliate of the Society for Human Resource Management and works to elevate the HR profession in Central Iowa by supporting and developing the HR professional, equipping them to create better workplaces for a better world. Find out more information here: https://www.ci-shrm.org/
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