What can AI do and cannot do for your LinkedIn profile? What will make your personal brand stand out? Check out Joanne Tan as she shares her brilliance.

Joanne Tan is an authority in brand strategies, brand building, and brand marketing, with clients all over the US and globally. For 14 years she has been leading an award-winning branding agency, 10 Plus Brand. Her passion is to empower leaders and organizations with business brand-building and personal branding, especially on LinkedIn. Joanne has a law degree, was trained in business. She was a professional journalist. She is also a photographer, writer, and backpack hiker.

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Shifting how we are in the world, needs us to shift how we do things together in our daily routines. As leaders it is on us to lead by example and doing something different, innovative and impactful in how we are with people every day. Let's create the change we want to see by becoming the change we want to be. Define the one thing that can make a difference with each other, commit and then bring it into life. And let's invite more Inclusive Leadership and a Better World (ILBW) will emerge.

Patrick Cowden, a bestselling author, twice a TEDx speaker, and former Fortune 500 executive, has made a profound impact on more than 100 organizations through the application of his Beyond Leadership Protocols. With over four decades of experience, he has consistently demonstrated a track record of cultivating cultures of respect, appreciation, and gratitude. These cultures have become the driving force behind exceptional and sustained performance for some of the most innovative companies in the world. Now merging this philosophy and life experience with a technology that can ignite the best of us in any setting, language, or culture. In minutes.

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While speaking is a fundamental skill, true communication involves much more than just words. It requires active listening, empathy, and understanding. Have you ever felt misunderstood or overlooked in a conversation? This often happens when we only hear what we expect to hear, rather than the intended message. We explored the barriers that hinder effective communication and learn how to listen not just with our ears, but also with our eyes. Together, let's discover what gets in the way of clear communication and how we can improve our skills to connect more deeply with others.

Viki Johnston is British, a Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), DiSC certified, and Certified in Applied Improvisation. She currently lives in Irvine, Southern California with her Husband and Daughter, she is a self-confessed lifelong learner with a passion for helping others experience light bulb moments and achieve their own goals. Helping people in Business experience the Light Bulb Moments.

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This week, Mary Weckerle facilitated a discussion on destigmatizing psychotherapy. With society so disconnected, the human spirit can find it difficult to comprehend how they belong and feel and how to carry on and function, we discussed how to remedy this and be therapeutic for ourselves and those around us.

Mary Weckerle is an RN Psychotherapist with 22 years of in hospital care experience. Her mission is to facilitate clients towards healing and growth. She is a holistic and empathic therapist, which involves listening, understanding, and supporting emotional, physical, and spiritual needs. She also uses her joy for creative skills to help create and facilitate expressive therapies. The creative arts can be a powerful tool for self-expression, reflection, and recovery often missed by talk therapy.

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In this session, we’ll explore how a holistic approach to well-being influences your leadership effectiveness. Through guided reflection, you’ll identify key areas of your well-being that may be overlooked and examine how this impacts your leadership. By reflecting on moments when you felt energized and in flow, you’ll gain insight into what supports your best leadership and how you can intentionally align your well-being to lead with greater impact.

Maria Loebach BSN, RN, is a holistic nurse with over 13 years of experience, including eight years coaching post-9/11 combat veteran family caregivers at risk for burnout in the VA. She now helps organizations strengthen leader and staff resilience through whole-person approaches. Maria is committed to promoting a culture that values self-care to improve the resilience and well-being of all people and the planet.

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Having allies has never been more important than it is now, personally and professionally. But it's not always easy. Sometimes we don't get it right. And sometimes we're too afraid to try. In this session we'll talk about what we can do to be allies for/to ourselves and others in theses days of mis- and disinformation and understanding and the deterioration of all kinds of safety.

Practicing both the art and science of Human Resources, Leadership and DEI for more than 30 years, Gloria Cotton (Glo) identifies herself as a validator and epic ally for the people she works with so they can all be and do their best when they agree/disagree, when the answer is yes/no and when they like what they're doing/don't or even really like each other or not -- for real.

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This week, understand different types of conversations, and how those conversations map to trust building. We'll also walk through the 'ladder of conclusions', which helps slow down the process of judging others too soon. 

Jennifer Ghelfi De Smedt is founder and principal of Ghelfi-De Smedt and Associates, a consultancy specializing in organizational culture development and leadership coaching since 2000. Her mission is to align strategy, people, and culture by partnering with leaders and influencers to discover and integrate values, behaviors, and competencies. She has served in executive level roles in Human Resources and Organization Development in high tech, bio tech, consumer products and non-profit organizations, such as Oracle, GSK, and McKesson. 

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Do you see the world as it truly is, or as you perceive it to be? This presentation delves into the fascinating world of perception, revealing how our individual lenses impact our interactions and interpretations. Join us as we dissect the concepts of perception and perspective, and discover the need to see beyond our own biases.

Arthur “Art” Jones has three decades of experience working in Fortune 100 corporations, startups, and entrepreneurial ventures. His experience as a business strategist and coach allows him to turn narratives into strategies and insights into scalable, high-value services and solutions. His expertise in technology allows him to leverage AI, automation, and digital platforms to create scalable, systemized frameworks for leadership development and business transformation.

Each week, Inclusive Leadership in a Virtual World (#ILVW) features a different world-class Inclusive Leader highlighting their unique approach to Inclusive Leadership. Join us for #ILVW any Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Register once⁠⁠⁠⁠ and join whenever your schedule permits. 

Lyrics 'N Leadership Institute integrates leadership training, brain health, and creativity with a top iconic artist for a whole new way of learning in professional development. In 2025, we are pulling the wisdom from the music of Prince to develop these skills, build brain capital, and help people come together to address the loneliness epidemic. Enjoy this episode from Wednesday, February 19, 2025 with Genein Letford.

Genein Letford, M.Ed, is national award winning educator and has created and trademarked Intercultural Creativity®, NeuroSomatic Creativity® and the Lyrics 'N Leadership Institute, which increases creative thinking through cultural awareness and brain and body connections. She has administered her curriculum to thousands around the world and is a highly sought after keynote speaker and published author with over six books on these topics.

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There are no monolithic groups; every person is unique and representative of multiple groups. In this timely conversation from Inclusive Leadership Weekly on February 12, 2025 on overcoming efforts to “divide and rule” us by acknowledging we have more in common than different, how most of what is happening is because people are seeking externally what can only be found internally, and how using intellectual humility, getting curious and listening will ignite learning and healing.

Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills is a multi-credentialed executive, leadership, and mental fitness coach, community, economic, and business development expert, and leader of Purpose-Filled Solutions & Evolutions®. Through coaching, training, and consulting, we’ve helped thousands of companies, executives, leaders, and individuals feel seen, heard, valued, validated, and BEcome their vision of extraordinary.

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