Associations Now recently shared some great wisdom from Outspoken speaker and leadership expert Mary Abbajay on how to facilitate better and more productive meetings in the workplace that will benefit everyone involved.
Read More2020 is off to an exciting start for Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet, which hosts mass meditations in cities across the world. The Outspoken speaker has been invited to join Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 Vision Tour. The tour, in partnership with WW (formerly Weight Watchers), makes stops in nine arenas across the United States.
Israel guides 15,000 attendees through a meditation exercise focused on how embracing quiet and silencing the “noise” of our lives provides an opportunity to be the best of who we are. The mass meditation is set to the relaxing notes of a sound bath. In a recent Instagram post, Israel shared, “I think it’s so rad that @oprah and her team are creating time at each show to not only share about meditation, but to allow the entire arena to experience it together.”
“As Israel and Oprah told us, it’s important to periodically unplug from our phones to stop and—quite literally—listen to our hearts. Doing so made me feel at peace—even if just for a few moments,” said Jonathan Borge, senior editor OprahMag.com, in a recent article.
Celebrity guests that will join Oprah on the nine-city tour include Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama, Dwayne Johnson, Tina Fey, Jennifer Lopez, and Gayle King.
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Have you been searching for a way to forge a more personal connection with your customers? After all, only 49-57% of marketers report being satisfied with their engagement tools, according to Marketing Insider Group. Amanda Slavin, founder and CEO of the award-winning brand consulting firm, CatalystCreativ, may have the solution for you!
In her debut book, The Seventh Level, Slavin hands you the keys to unlock authentic engagement and attain higher achievement across the board. The book is based on her technique for marketers, the Seventh Level Engagement Framework.
In the book, Slavin unveils the tools marketers need to measure and grow a brand’s engagement, forge an emotional connection with customers, and unite employees around a shared mission. If you want to dismantle the obstacles standing in your path to more meaningful engagement, let The Seventh Level be your guide.
This guide to authentic connection can not only help brands grow relationships but grow revenue while doing it. It’s a tale of refining your message and your mission in order to grow loyalty from customers and employees while on your path to organizational success.
Slavin’s work is hailed as the answer to building connections while inspiring and educating others at the same time. She’s worked with some of the world’s most notable brands, like Coca-Cola, Google, and WeWork, to do good in the world without sacrificing their bottom line. To do this, she utilizes her proprietary method for quantifying and scaling engagement.
“I’d recommend this book for anyone looking to make change in their organization for the better by connecting more meaningfully to employees, customers, or other stakeholders,” said Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos.
Slavin has spoken at events like SXSW and Chicago Ideas Week about how this framework is the future of meaningful connection, and her work has been featured in Inc. magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and Time magazine.
Flynn Coleman, known best as an international human rights attorney, professor, and social innovator is releasing a new book that melds her extensive knowledge of humanitarianism with today’s digital age of artificial intelligence.
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are explores the ways intelligent technology will have an impact on humanity. It’s a groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology.
The book was released on October 1, 2019, and has already received praise and esteem from authors who’ve explored similar topics.
“The era of thinking machines is no longer the stuff of science fiction; it is our present reality. In this compulsively readable, mind-bending book, Flynn Coleman encourages us to now start grappling with the daunting challenges ‘the Intelligent Machine Age’ presents to our conception of what it means to be human,” said Reza Aslan, author of God: A Human History. “A Human Algorithm is more than a book; it is a manifesto for our times,”
In the book, Coleman recognizes that while these technologies challenge our personal beliefs and our socio-economic world order, they also have the potential to transform our health and well-being, alleviate poverty and suffering, and reveal the mysteries of intelligence and consciousness. She argues that now is the time to instill values, ethics, and morals into artificial intelligence as well as developing and implementing laws, policies, and oversight mechanisms to protect us from potential threats.
As the era of human intellectual superiority is ending, Coleman uses her latest work to make a resounding assertion that now is the time to plan for this monumental shift - and many experts agree.
“This book is urgently needed. Humanity can’t afford to ignore the horrendous possibilities that lie ahead should we fail to imbue artificial intelligence with the values of empathy and compassion. We need to consciously protect and nurture our deepest values as we forge new technological frontiers. The time to do it is now, and this is the book to show us how,” said Marianne Williamson.
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Caroline Maguire has made helping your kids her mission. That’s why the renowned parenting expert and former Hallowell Center coach has put pen to paper and released her first book on September 24, 2019.
In Why Will No One Play With Me? A Parent’s Guide to Coaching Your Child from Social Challenge to Success Maguire shares her proven strategies for teaching parents how to use coaching to help children dealing with chronic social dilemmas, ranging from shyness to aggression to ADHD, and more. The book is based on the author’s successful “Play Better Plan,” a three-part program where children make noticeable progress while building confidence and enjoying a more satisfying social life.
The “Play-Better-Plan” is a decade-in-the-making and founded on Maguire’s internationally-recognized protocol that draws out the best in her clients and is a direct result of her own struggles to fit in as a child with ADHD and dyslexia. Children of all ages - from kindergarten to post-secondary education - will gain the confidence to make friends and get along with others, using tools like:
Social Sleuthing: learn to pay attention to social cues
Post-Play Date Huddles: help kids figure out what to look for in a friendship
Reflective Listening: improve your child's relationship with their peers
But the book isn’t just for parents. Child educators and counselors can learn from Maguire’s cutting-edge experience detailed in her new book.
“If your child is lonely at school, if your child cannot make a friend, if, as a parent, you are feeling at a loss to help, then Caroline Maguire’s groundbreaking Why Will No One Play With Me? is the book you have been waiting for,” said Michael Thompson, PhD, author of Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children and Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys. “Caroline provides a wise, tested, and detailed plan for helping your child to develop social skills and open up the pathways to friendship. Even the most experienced counselors and teachers can learn from her experience. I certainly did.”
Before becoming an author, Maguire, ACCG, PCC, M.Ed., has been a resource for many journalists as well as leading ADHD organizations and can be seen in publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Huffington Post, ADDitude, Attention Magazine and WebMD.
Click here to learn more about Caroline Maguire.
Download this book speaking kit to share Caroline with your programming committee.
