“Building Bravery in the Workplace”

Presented by: Christopher Ridenhour and Chantelle Fitzgerald

This workshop will focus on how we can go from surface level of interacting with our colleagues in the workplace to creating workplace cultures that cultivates depth, inclusiveness and belonging. The session will be highly interactive, fun, engaging, and deep. Be ready to participate and share your experience with others and walk away with a commitment and an accountability buddy to practice the tools we will learn.

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will understand how to:

• Practice tools for grounding and centering as leaders
• Learn and practice how to listen with depth and feeling.
• Experience surface level interactions with colleagues and more deep interactions that require empathy, compassion, and allyship.
• Practice tools to support each other in addressing micro-aggressions.
• Discover what bravery looks like in the workplace, how to show up and what commitments to make.

Approved 2.00  SHRM PDCs
Approved 2.00  HRCI Business Credits

Christopher Ridenhour

For the last two decades, Christopher served as Chief Learning Officer to two large multi-site Health Care corporations. His responsibilities included “actionizing” the Mission, Vision, and Values into daily commitments from personnel across all levels of the organization. He also directed system-wide Onboarding, DEI, Leadership Development, and Engagement strategies, resulting in above-industry increases in retention.

Over the same time, Christopher’s passion and enthusiasm led to innumerable opportunities to travel nationally as a perennial Conference Keynote and Performance Improvement Consultant. Audiences spanning The Pioneer Network, LeadingAge(all state affiliates), Argentum, AHCA/NCAL, NADONA, ANFP, AHE, among many others, have profoundly benefitted from the tools, techniques, and belly laughs that are hallmarks of his high energy trainings.

As recognition for the years of service to hundreds of communities across the country, LeadingAge awarded Christopher “Facilitator of the Year.” Christopher asks us to imagine the inevitable positive outcomes for our clients when EVERY colleague, across all levels, and walks-of-life, feels cherished and fired up to serve!

Chantelle Fitzgerald

Chantelle Fitzgerald is passionate about transforming workplace cultures so that they serve and support all humans. Having had her own personal challenges in the workplace, Chantelle took her 18 years of experience and founded Mindset Strategies, a leadership development firm that focuses on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB).

As a trained mindfulness and emotional intelligence coach and trainer, Chantelle approaches the work of DEIB from a mindfulness and emotional intelligence background. What makes her different from most, is her boldness in challenging the status quo through her provocative programs, such as her White men, Black women, Connection Sessions, Leadership Institute For Black Women, Let’s Talk Race events and more.

Chantelle has had the great opportunity to work and advise dozens of C-suite executives in their DEIB strategy from Fortune 500 companies, to nonprofits, school districts, small businesses and many others.

Chantelle holds a Master’s in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania and BA in French with Secondary Certification from Muhlenberg College. She is also a certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher through the Search Inside Yourself program. Chantelle serves on the advisory board of PHL Diversity and board of Studio Incamminati. Chantelle also loves to travel internationally, enjoys cooking, reading, meditation and salsa dancing.

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Meeting Location:

The JCC Katz Center
1301 Springdale Rd, Cherry Hill Township, NJ 08003

Meeting Agenda:

We look forward to seeing you!

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