Meeting

Presenter: John Monaghan

Presenting: Curbing the Cost of Health Insurance

The cost of health insurance has continued to rise much faster than the typical rate of inflation.  This presentation will pull back the blinds as to why this has continued to happen and reveal ways employers are able to offset many of the drivers of these increased cost including alternative financing models Partial self-funding, medical captives, etc as well as specific plan strategies that can improve benefits at a greatly reduced cost.  Yes,

Presenter:  Celina Peerman

Presenting: Importance of Networking

Dr. Celina Peerman currently serves as an organizational psychologist with over 27 years of experience from front line to senior level positions, in a wide range of industries and organizations. She is passionate about engaging our human resources in new ways to achieve even better organizational results. Celina is a strategist with a sense of humor and a love for building capacity in organizations.

Presenter: Kelli Lieurance, JD

Presenting: The "Frenemies" of Workplace Culture

HR professionals continually face the difficult task of navigating what is best for the organization and what is best for its employees, all while not running afoul of the law.  But just because a decision is "legal," does not mean it is the most fair or ethical choice.  Similarly, the "ethical" decisions one makes may not, in fact, be permissible under relelvant laws.  In other words, sometimes ethics and the law play w

Presenter:  Cherrie Spurlin

Presenting: Talent Attraction Strategies

The talent shortage is real and it is crippling business growth.  Yesterday's recruitment and retention practices simply won't work anymore.  Employers have reached new levels of creativity and innovation in their search for talent.  Cherrie Spurlin will share the numbers behind the talent shortage and her top talent attraction strategies.

Cherrie Suprlin is the Executive Director at MRA Western Illinois & Iowa

Presenter:  Dr. Susan Hill and Dr. Brittany Flokstra

Presenting: Implicit Bias: What It Is, How it Works, and Why Should I Care?

Why Does Implicit Bias Matter?

Presenter: Sinikka Waugh

Presenting: Enabling Change with Grace, Speed, and Value

Change appetites vary, and changes can be hard. But they don’t have to be. Equipped with a few simple concepts, each one of us can help enable change in our organizations.
• Defining the terms makes change simpler.
• A growth mindset helps with any change.
• A people-positive attitude helps with any stakeholder.

Presenter:  Jill R. Jensen-Welch

Presenting: Marijuana and CBD in the Iowa Workplace

One of the more complex and confusing areas of employment law is that of Marijuana and CBD in the Workplace. States are legalizing medical and recreational use of CBD and marijuana despite the fact that it remains largely illegal under federal law. Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol  law is relatively new and still evolving. This presentation will sort out this mess, to the extent possible.

Presenter:  Heather Woody, MCC

Presenting: Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

The workplace creates all kinds of emotions from joy, to stress, to frustration to satisfaction.  And we as a people have everything to do with how well or how poorly our emotions are managed and how this impacts the organizations mission and outcomes.  It is imperative, as professionals, that we learn about our emotions, triggers, strategies and more in order to hone our emotions which are accountable for the majority of our overall

Presenter:  Stephanie Carter

Understanding Poverty

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Presenter:  Paul Thelen, Univeristy of Iowa

Presenting: Leadership on Display - Your Leadership Coat of Arms

Paul is the director of the Larned A. Waterman Iowa Nonprofit Resource Center at the University of Iowa. He leads a team that provides information, guidance, and resources on a range of legal, leadership, and management issues to Iowa’s nonprofit sector.