Are you ready to transform your negotiation game?

Virtual 2-Part Series

Session #1: 
Wednesday, March 19th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2: 
Thursday, March 20th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Negotiation doesn’t have to be a daunting task! This interactive and fun training session is designed to transform negotiation from a challenge into an opportunity. Get ready to discover and unleash your innate negotiation prowess, turning every interaction into a win-win scenario. Participants will leave this training equipped with practical tools, newfound confidence, and a personalized negotiation toolkit ready for immediate implementation in their professional lives.

Learning Objectives

1. Uncover Your Negotiation Style: Gain insights into different negotiation and conflict styles through real-world scenarios to understand how you can best approach negotiations.
2. Set Clear Objectives with Confidence: Learn how to clarify your priorities and define specific goals that align with your vision for successful outcomes.
3. Harness the Power of Persuasion: Discover the “What’s In It For Me” (WIIFM) concept to effectively influence and persuade others.
4. Build Consensus and Create Value: Develop practical communication techniques that foster relationships and create value during negotiations.
5. Navigate Pushback with Ease: Equip yourself with strategies to handle resistance and make informed trade-offs for win-win solutions.

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $250 non-member. $200 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Leah Stallone is an experienced Career Strategist, Leadership Coach, and Trainer with roots in Human Resources. 15+ years of talent management, professional development, and learning & development experience in industries such as litigation consulting, finance, technology, and healthcare influences her hands-on approach. Leah’s experience spans leading global learning & development practice at Charles River Associates to running performance management at William Blair & Company. She currently facilitates corporate training, runs a coaching practice, and teaches management at the University of Denver. As a lifelong “career junkie,” Leah uses an intuitive approach to build customized programs to educate clients on communications, performance management, and leadership. She prides herself in helping clients demystify the complicated. Leah shares the power of storytelling to help clients communicate their meaningful career moments. Professional certifications include BetterUp Coaching, ATD Facilitation, Purpose-driven Leader, and SPHR certification

Read a book. Lead with inspiration.

SLA in partnership with Muncie Public Library is offering a unique quarterly gathering, highlighting important take-aways from inspirational leadership books. At each event, facilitators will share key leadership development lessons from leadership-focused books. This is not a book club, rather a guided discussion around the key takeaways from each book.

Prior reading of the book is not required but we encourage participants to share about what they learned and check-out one of the books from Muncie Public Library. All participants attending will be entered in a raffle to win a digital copy of one of the books discussed.

All sessions are FREE and open to the public. Registration is required.

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Success by Subtraction

In a world that celebrates hustle and adding “just one more thing” to achieve success, what if the real key to growth lies in subtraction? Instead of overloading your schedule with new habits, routines, or strategies, it’s time to identify and eliminate the hidden obstacles that quietly block your progress and dilute your impact. Subtraction practices have been powerful tools for transformation for centuries: fasting to renew the body, saving to achieve financial freedom, embracing boredom to spark creativity, and sobriety to regain clarity and focus. By strategically removing what no longer serves you, you can create the clarity, bandwidth, and energy needed to accelerate your success.

Learning Objectives

1. Discover how removing obstacles impacts your focus, creativity and energy
2. Learn how to identify the overlooked barriers that silently hold you back
3. Create your own experiment with subtraction to test this in your life
4. Build this muscle to protect your time, energy and goals long-term

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $50 non-member. $30 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs.

About Our Facilitator

Halle Simpson is highly driven, a self-starter and her career path has been pretty non-traditional. She sold knives in college, has a Biology degree from Indiana University (that she’s never used), and for over a decade she drove a pink Cadillac. In that role her responsibilities included: recruiting talent, training hundreds of sales professionals, speaking to the masses and coaching high performers through the challenges of leadership.

Now a globally recognized Professional Certified Coach and Author of the Know Thyself Journal, Halle helps small business owners and leaders find respite from a hustle and grind mindset to consciously curate a business and life filled with joy, peace, balance and growth.
In her down time, she enjoys daily journaling, yoga, massages and watching cooking shows. She resides in Traverse City, Michigan with her Boston Terrier, Marco (named after Marco Andretti) and attends the Indy 500 each year.

Virtual 2-Part Series

Session #1: 
Wednesday, April 16
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #2: 
Thursday, April 17
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Are you noticing people are more burnout at work?

You’re not alone, in 2024 SHRM released a study showing that 44% of employees feel burned out at work. Seventy-six percent of U.S. workers report at least one mental health symptom, and 84% attribute at least one mental health challenge to their workplace conditions (MindShare Partners, 2021). And with 42% of Gen Z dealing with a mental health condition, these challenges will increase.

These issues don’t just impact individual well-being—they directly correlate with absenteeism, decreased productivity, increased errors, and even lawsuits. This represents a critical challenge for leaders—and an opportunity. Trauma-informed leadership offers a proactive, research-backed approach to fostering workplace environments where safety, productivity, and employee well-being thrive. Contrary to some misconceptions, trauma-informed leadership is NOT about practicing therapy in the workplace. By leveraging neuroscience research and trauma-informed care principles, leaders can foster environments where employees feel safe, supported, and empowered to do their best work. What’s more, attendees will glean actionable insight that benefits their personal relationships as well.

Learning Objectives

1. Develop an understanding of how trauma impacts brain function and performance
2. Apply the key to fostering psychological safety in the workplace
3. Identify actionable strategies to support people, without overstepping
4. Develop boundaries to prioritize self-care routines to recharge your inner battery

Cost: Free for SLA Members. $250 non-member. $200 nonprofits.

Individuals who are either unemployed or connected with an employer who is unable to pay can request scholarships for any of our programs. *Please note this particular workshop is not able to be recorded. 

About Our Facilitator

Ariana Friedlander, MPA, is an organizational anthropologist, a leadership development expert and an author. She is the founder and principal of Rosabella Consulting and has over 20 years of experience in fostering positive change within organizations and companies of all shapes and sizes including small business, non-profit, government and higher education. Ariana is a master facilitator, Certified Conversational Intelligence® Coach, certified HeartMath Mentor, and trained Breathwork practitioner. She specializes in modeling shared leadership and navigating co-creating conversations that lead to new innovations. She is adamant about walking her talk, which is why she wrote her first book, “A Misfit Entrepreneur’s Guide to Building a Business your Way” with a community of 31 co-creators. Ariana earned her master’s degree in organizational leadership from the University of Delaware. Clients have included the Colorado PGA, Department of Denfense, Water for People, New Belgium Brewing Company, Colorado State University and Promethean. When not working, Ariana enjoys journaling, walks in nature and impromptu dance parties. She lives in Fort Collins, CO with her family.