Inclusive Leadership as a Catalyst for Growth

Presented by Christa Kirby

As our global markets, workforce and customers become increasingly diverse, inclusive leadership is taking center stage as a business-critical capability. Inclusive leaders create work environments in which a host of different perspectives, contributions, and talents flourish. They build teams and organizations where people feel a deep sense of belonging and where a focus on well-being amplifies performance.

In this webinar, we will expand the landscape around the concept of “inclusion” to explore a variety of dimensions in which leaders need to be inclusive in order to succeed. How do we leverage best practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) to build teams where everyone feels welcome to fully contribute, learn, and grow? What norms do we need to put in place so that people from different generations and cultures collaborate effectively? How do we foster cognitive diversity and productive conflict to drive innovation in our teams?

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Corporate Education Group    @CorpEdGroup

Cost: Free

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Social Event to "Build a Community"

Presented by Stephanie Hawkings, Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Cathy Warren, Southeast Michigan IIBA Chapter

In this Memorial Day themed Agile Tips & Tricks Social event as we continue to "Build our Community" and learn about the User Story Mapping technique.

Bluegrass and Southeast Michigan IIBA Chapters are joining together to celebrate our veterans for Memorial Day, and learn about some Agile Tips & Tricks from our community members and resident experts. Bring your favorite Agile Tips & Tricks to share as well as we continue to "Build our Community".

Please dress in something patriotic for Memorial Day. The Agile Tips & Tricks and what we built together as a User Story Map will be shared with all participants following the event.

This promises to be a fun and interactive event. Don't miss it!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 17, 2022; 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and Southeast Michigan IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass    @iibasemi2

Cost: Free

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How to Manage Your Time, Energy, and Priorities

Presented by Vicki Wrona

In this webinar, learn how to manage your time, energy, and priorities in today’s distracted world to make sure you are working on the right things to meet deadlines and accomplish your goals.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 18, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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From Business Analyst to Business Architect: Are you Ready to take on Business Architecture?

Presented by Roger Burlton, President, Process Renewal Group

Many Business Analysts would love to become a senior BA who can seize the opportunity to tackle wider and more strategic roles in the organization. If this describes the future that you may aspire to one day, then you will have to develop or enhance the skills and techniques that will help you make the transition. Many of these come under the umbrella of Business Architecture. This session will introduce you to many of the competencies you will need to hone or acquire to make the career jump to becoming trusted and more impactful with the business leaders of your organization. In it, Roger Burlton will feature highlights covered in his new book titled ‘Business Architecture: Collecting, Connecting and Correcting the Dots’. In addition to a presentation covering the key topics, there will be ample opportunity to discuss the essentials of such a career jump with Roger.

Audience: IIBA Members

Date/Time: Wednesday, May 18, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: International Institute of Business Analysis    @IIBA

Cost: Free

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Business Architecture:  Strategy Execution’s Secret Weapon

Presented by Brian Cameron

The discipline of business architecture enables companies to see where they are, where they want to be, and how to achieve the end goal. This session will explore business architecture as a facilitator of strategy execution.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, 2022; 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT

Host: The Great IT Pro

Cost: Free

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How to Succeed in Your IIBA® Exam in The 1st Attempt

Presented by LN Mishra, President, Adaptive US

By the end of this webinar, you’ll know:

    • How IIBA certifications can play an important role in your BA career

    • How to pass IIBA exam in the 1st attempt

    • Adaptive support for IIBA Exam prep

    • Q&A

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, 2022; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT

Host: Adaptive US    @AdaptiveUS

Cost: Free

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The Benefits of Visual Storytelling on the Path to Product Agility

Presented by Stuart Young, Innovation Practice Lead at Cprime

In an ever-changing complex world, how can you get individuals on the same page, gain a deeper level of understanding of customer needs, and bring stakeholders on a compelling journey?

Visual storytelling is a simple, yet powerful, way to create a shared understanding and maximize learning, enabling customer-centric product agility and product success.

Join us on May 19, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET, as Stuart Young, resident visual storyteller / Innovation Practice Lead at Cprime, shares his experiences, thoughts and best practices on visual thinking, visual literacy, and visual storytelling as they relate to Product Agility.

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Thursday, May 19, 2022; 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT

Host: Cprime

Cost: Free

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The Escape Room: A Breakout Adventure

Presented by Bluegrass IIBA Chapter

The Escape Room is a new, fun, interactive breakout experience for you and your team to use your business analysis skills to solve a series of puzzles to receive the key to the room so you can:

B R E A K O U T !

This is a virtual breakout adventure. You will be placed into a virtual room with a team of 3 to 4 people. You may register yourself and we'll place you on a team, or come with your team to experience the adventure together; you may identify your team members during the registration process. Use this experience as a team building exercise, or just challenge yourself on your business analysis skills.

You can expect it to take 45 to 60 minutes to breakout of your room. A Game Master will be available if you should get stuck on a puzzle. So come for a short, fun, interactive, challenging experience.

Once you Breakout, you may stick around and enter the Green Room to network with fellow game players to tell war stories and compare your experience. Feel free to bring your favorite food and drinks to the Green Room and stay as long as you like!

Audience: Public

Date/Time: Saturday, May 21, 2022; 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT

Host: Bluegrass IIBA Chapter    @IIBABluegrass

Cost: $25

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