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You were handed a myth at the start of your career: success is inevitable if you find and follow your passion. But what if you don’t know what that passion even is? The New York Times reports that an estimated 25 million Americans left their jobs in the second half of 2021—the highest number since the Bureau of Labor Statistics has recorded. Known as The Great Resignation, this post-pandemic period of a mass exodus from the world of work is far more complex than it seems. Even if you have no (actual) plans to quit your job, chances are you’re wondering about the meaning of work in your life. Terri Trespicio, author of the new book Unfollow Your Passion, whose TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion” has more than 7 million views, will lead an insightful hour of ideas and discussion as we reframe work, ambition, and yes, passion in our work and our lives.

About the author: Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and author of  Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You. Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has surpassed 7 million views, and Hubspot named her one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it” and one of the world’s leading creatives by Creative Boom magazine. A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show, and The Anderson Cooper Show. Her work has been featured in Oprah magazine, Marie Claire, Prevention, Business Insider, Forbes.com, and Inc.com.

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The FGCU New York City Eagles wants to take YOU to the ball game! Cheer on the Mets with fellow Eagles and friends as they play the St. Louis Cardinals. 

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*tickets are included in your registration

Only 2% of businesses scale globally. But, what if we as business leaders could break free of the gravitational pull of every day and shoot for the stars? What if there was a source code that could walk you through each stage of the scaling process in one elegant, integrated framework, showing you how to overcome all challenges along the way? In this deep dive webinar, author Brendan McGurgan explores the 10 Principles of Scaling – from developing a scaleup psyche to establishing your purpose, sourcing the right people, planning, and implementing repeatable performance to fuel 10x growth.

About the author: Brendan McGurgan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses. Over seventeen years, twelve as CEO of CDE Group, he helped the company achieve 25x revenue growth and become an industry leader. Driven by his desire to inspire, connect and enable ambitious leaders of SMEs to scale with purpose, he co-founded Simple Scaling with Claire Colvin, with whom he co-authored Simple Scaling: 10 Proven Principles to 10x your Business. Brendan also acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of CDE Group).

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Are you looking to feel confident, purposeful, and essential in your job or career? Are you ready to wake up and love Mondays because you get to do work you love? Are you tired of feeling anxious and overwhelmed? What if slowing down and reflecting on where you are now, what you enjoy and what you’re good at, what lights a fire in your belly will help you get ahead – to a job you love, where you are valued, recognized, and happy? In this enlightening presentation, career alignment coach Kim Bilawchuk will lead you through simple techniques to calm your mind and body, leaving you feeling refreshed and focused, so you can discover the path to work you genuinely enjoy.

About the presenter: Kimberly Bilawchuk is passionate about helping you live in alignment with who you are truly meant to be by slowing down to get ahead. She inspires you to let go of the “shoulds,” and to intuitively sort out hidden talents and secret longings that you may not recognize, quickly leading the way to discovering your most significant potential for finding the work you are here to do. She offers individualized support and encouragement to BE who you need to be to land your most rewarding and fulfilling career. Since 2008, Kim has inspired busy young professionals and new college grads, drawing on her corporate HR background, career counseling, yoga, and meditation. Kim holds a BBA, an MBA, and an MEd. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200).

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Join us for this FREE workshop to help you Rev Up, Reset, or Even Reboot Your Career with Darcy Eikenberg.

When hard things happen in our fast-moving careers, too many of us think we either have to find a new job (exhausting) or suck it up and deal (soul-sucking). In this high-energy, interactive conversation, Coach Darcy Eikenberg offers a different approach: simple, practical ways we can reset how we think, revise what we say, and rescue our careers without changing everything in our lives. How can YOU stay in control of your career and be the hero of your own life at work now and always? Join us to find out.

June 8
Campus Support Complex, FGCU
5:30 pm – Food and networking
6 pm – Workshop begins

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Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck blocking greater purpose, profit, and potential?

In this interactive session, Jenny Blake, bestselling author of Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business, and Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, will share practical strategies for freeing time now and into the future through the lens of heart-based operating principles. Jenny will share the Free Time Framework—Align, Design, Assign—to help you move from overwhelm toward a sense of ease, flow, and possibility in your work.

You will walk away with strategies to:

• Identify friction areas in your personal and professional life
• Continually free time for your future self through small steps
• Better leverage your unique strengths through the power of smarter systems

We will then open it up for Q&A with Jenny for more on navigating flexible schedules, remote work, distributed teams, and bringing ourselves back from the brink of burnout.

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Do you feel you are “always-on,” continuously checking email, and working long hours? Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that burn people out and hurt performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation, and engagement. Collaborative work consumes 85% of employees' time and is drifting earlier into the morning, later into the night, and deeper into the weekend. Through in-depth stories and tools, bestselling author and leadership expert Rob Cross will show you how to break your work addiction and reclaim close to a day a week by:

• Identifying and challenging beliefs that lead us to jump into collaborative work too quickly
• Imposing structure in our work to shield from unproductive collaboration
• Altering behaviors to create efficiencies in collaborations
• Cultivating and then mobilizing a broad network – not a big one – for innovation and scale

About the author: Rob Cross is a Professor of Global Leadership and the co-founder and Chief Research Scientist of the Connected Commons business consortium. For more than twenty years, he has studied the underlying networks of influential organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers. Working with more than three hundred organizations and reaching thousands of leaders from the front line to the C-suite, he has identified specific ways to cultivate vibrant, effective networks at all levels of an organization and any career stage. Cross has authored six Harvard Business Review articles on practical approaches to enhancing collaboration. He is the co-author of five books, including The Hidden Power of Social Networks.

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