STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Key points
The course is exactly all that is necessary to take down from a long class/lecture. Would recommend this course.
OVERVIEW
Learn different ways you can develop your business, organization and personal skills.
Instructors:
Allison Shapira
SPEAKER, TRAINER AND PERFORMER
Allison Shapira, a former opera singer, founded her own public-speaking business, Global Public Speaking, a consulting business that helps leaders from around the world become more powerful and authentic public speakers. Her clientele includes diplomats, business executives, doctors, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and elected officials. Allison also teaches in an executive leadership program at Georgetown University. She also teaches public speaking both privately and through group workshops for international organizations, federal agencies, and private companies. To see her public-speaking training videos you can visit her website at http://allisonshapira.com/videos/. Previously, Allison was a diplomatic speechwriter for the Israeli Consulate in Boston, coaching diplomats on their public speaking and political strategy, and at Harvard University, managing the Wexner Israel Fellowship Program for Israeli public officials. Allison speaks Italian, Hebrew, and Spanish and has studied Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, Georgian, German, Modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish.
Dr. D. Christopher Kayes
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AT THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Dr. D. Christopher Kayes is a professor of management at the School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is author or co-author of five current and forthcoming books including Destructive Goal Pursuit: The Mt. Everest Disaster (Macmillan) and The Learning Advantage: Six Practices of Learning Directed Leaders, (Macmillan). Dr. Kayes has consulted with organizations around the world including National Institutes of Health, Oracle, Ericsson, Bank of New York Mellon, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Judiciary, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy. He has taught at universities around the world including Singapore Institute of Management, Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Helsinki School of Economics, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia, University of Hull, U.K., and Holy Spirit University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Sadhana Hall
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
Sadhana Hall is the deputy director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. In this capacity, Hall designs, implements and oversees programs for undergraduate students focusing on leadership, public policy and civic engagement. Prior to this appointment, Hall worked for more than 20 years with communities around the world in strategic planning, staff and program management, financial planning, and program development. She helped implement programs in health, agriculture, economic development and water supply.