Led by: Eilis Wasserman

The resume may get you the interview, but the interview gets you the job!

Learn holistically about in-person, phone, and video interviewing strategies to ensure you are prepared for your next interview.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

In today’s fast-paced work environment, building a stress-resilient workplace is essential for employee well-being and productivity. In this 90 min interactive workshop, “NeuroResilience: Building a Stress-Resilient Workplace,” participants will explore the neuroscience of stress and learn practical strategies to foster resilience. Through discussions and hands-on activities, they’ll gain tools to enhance personal resilience and contribute to a supportive workplace culture. 

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how stress affects employee performance and well-being from a neuroscience perspective.
2. Identify key elements of a stress-resilient workplace culture.
3. Learn practical strategies to support mental well-being and resilience.
4. Apply practical techniques for personal stress management and resilience in the workplace.

About Our Facilitator

Vivi Tean is a leadership coach with 15 years of experience in leadership development and transformation management. As the Founder and Lead Executive Coach at Neuro-Integration Coaching & Consulting, she collaborates with mid-size & global companies across various industries, including technology, healthcare, manufacturing, consumer goods, and fashion & beauty, in North America, Europe, and Asia to elevate leadership capabilities and organizational performance. Her work focuses on executive coaching, leadership development, resilience, and fostering inclusive, psychologically safe cultures. Driven by a passion for helping leaders make conscious decisions for a healthier world, she applies neuroscience-based strategies to create thriving, high-performing teams. Her programs consistently enhance leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, and organizational resilience.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Prepare and practice so that you can stand out!

During an interactive session, we will discuss and practice common interviewing questions and how to answer them most effectively.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time. 

Too many leaders allow damaged trust to fester within their teams, hoping it will eventually get resolved or fade away. Instead, they find themselves pulled into mediating conflicts, see their teams work around each other, and experience a lack of open communication and minimal innovation. These are predictable and avoidable issues. Christin Nevins will help you understand the three parts of trust, how trust gets damaged, what behaviors to watch for on your team to know something is off, and what to do to help your team repair damaged trust. With proven frameworks, practical tools, and over a decade of experience equipping leaders, you’ll leave with solid tools that will serve you and others for the rest of your career.

Learning Objectives

1. Learn the three parts of trust and how trust gets damaged.
2. Discover the signs that indicate trust needs to be repaired, and the three conflict styles.
3. Understand how to use a trust repair template and how to facilitate a trust repair process.

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

Christin Nevins has been with Kairos Consulting for eight years as an Executive Coach and Leadership Consultant. She and her team help CEOs build elite executive teams through executive leadership coaching and guiding executive teams through conflict. Christin has used DISC, Birkman, and the Enneagram to support leaders in increasing their leadership influence and effectiveness. She worked for Spiritual Leadership, Inc for 11 years as a Lead Coach for teams in challenging contexts. She served on the Senior Leadership Team, Faculty of the Coach Training Team, and contributed to the Leadership Academy developed in partnership with the Beeson Center. Christin and her husband of 25 years raised their three children in central Indiana. She loves being outdoors, watercolor painting, and walking their two crazy rescue dogs.

Led by: Kate Elliott

What makes you tick and want to come to work every day?

Learn how to identify and utilize your strengths so that you can find work that is meaningful to you.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time. 

Taking a nod from author Anne Lamott’s story, and book by the same name, “Bird by Bird” is a reminder to break down our large to-do lists, our overwhelming projects, our yearly KPIs, and anything else that has us stuck. This workshop will discuss how we take our tasks, and our lives, one thing at a time.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will learn the meaning behind “bird by bird”
2. Participants will explore the things that have them overwhelmed, and therefore stuck.
3. Participants will learn strategies for breaking down their daily tasks “bird by bird”.

About Our Facilitator

Erika Petrelli Bayh stands at the helm of “The Extraordinary In You,” an organization that provides vibrant partnerships and facilitated experiences designed to ignite and unleash the extraordinary in individuals, teams, and projects. A master facilitator, inspirational coach, growth trainer, curriculum designer, and strategic partner with over thirty years of expertise in igniting the personal and professional growth in individuals and organizations, Erika recently left her decades-long stead with the NYC-based Leadership Program, where she was responsible for overseeing the programmatic growth of one of the city’s largest afterschool programs, designed ongoing professional development trainings for staff of the NYC DOE as well as educators around the country, and spearheaded the creation of leadership curricula honored by CASEL, OJJDP, SAMHSA, and more.

 Erika is also an adjunct professor, currently instructing students at Ball State University in Indiana on an undergraduate course she created, “An Introduction to Youth Work,” designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the diverse realm of youth work. She is the author of the interactive personal growth journal, “On Wings & Whimsy: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary,” as well as the deck of cards, “52 Ways to Connect,” designed for leaders to strengthen their team time. Both are available on Amazon.

Led by: Kate Elliott

How do you know what an employer is really looking for?

Together we will talk through how to examine a job description and apply to a job with an application that stands out.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time to guarantee lunch. If you have food allergies or require accommodations please let us know in advance.

In-Person 3 Hour Session

Learning Objectives

1. 1. Deep Self-Understanding: Discover why certain tasks energize you while others drain you.
   2. Enhanced Team Dynamics: Learn to communicate better, avoid misunderstandings, and leverage the diverse strengths of your team members.
   3. Improved Productivity: Make strategic adjustments to roles and responsibilities to optimize performance and efficiency.
   4. Relief from Guilt and Misjudgments: Understand and accept struggles with specific types of work, leading to a more positive and supportive team environment.

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

Amy Neal is a catalyst for innovation that seeks to connect people with their purpose. After serving for more than 20 years as an educator and instructional coach, Amy expanded her impact by co-founding Aspen Root Collective and cultivating leadership across Northeast Indiana. An avid reader and podcast listener, Amy is always learning about a diverse area of topics and finding unlikely connections across a broad spectrum of sectors. As a certified CliftonStrengths and Working Genius Coach, Personal Development has been transformative in Amy’s career and life, and she is empowered to spark this progress in the life of others!

Led by: Dr. Joe Misiewicz

As we age, how we can find fulfillment as our priorities and life circumstances change?

During this session, we will discuss the challenges, opportunities, and realities of ageism in the world of work and how we can define what works means for us!

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time to guarantee lunch. If you have food allergies or require accommodations please let us know in advance.

In-person Lunch & Learn

Individuals committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging often find themselves deciding between “calling someone in” versus “calling someone out.” This session will facilitate a dialogue about the most impactful and supportive use of these strategies within a variety of contexts. Attendees will leave the session with sample phrases and strategies that will help them navigate “calling” conversations.

Learning Objectives

1. Be able to distinguish between what is meant by “calling in” versus “calling out” in the DEIAB context.
2. Recognize the dynamics that impact decisions around “calling in” versus “calling out.”
3. Identify times and topics that might influence our personal decision to “call in” versus “call out.”
4. Practice using various phrases and strategies to help navigate conversations.

About Our Facilitator

Melinda Messineo, PhD is a professor of Sociology and the Distinguished Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence and Community Engagement at Ball State University. She is a nationally recognized award winning teacher and workshop facilitator. Her research explores representations of individuals in the media and the impact that all media forms have on our understanding of people different from ourselves.