2016 Speaker Contest Finalists
Customer Experience: Dragging an Aging Organization into the 21st Century
How I took a bunch of skeptics and taught them to love their jobs again.
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Toxicity in Government Workplaces and Using Humor and Self-Care to Cope
Utilizing tips for resilience and self-care in the environments that often leave you thinking and/or saying, ‘”Pardon the Apprehensiveness of My Terminology but your Vocabulary is too in dubious for my comprehension, please endeavor to articulate these matters more distinctively”!
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Show Me What You’ve Got
This presentation provides insight on the importance of showing your capabilities as a leader and the three steps you can take to demonstrate your best skills and abilities that can lead to the next stage in your career.
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From Intern to Superhero: Meet Ready Girl
Learn about one employee’s journey from intern to Ready Girl — New York City’s emergency management superhero — that has since taught thousands of students and captured the likes of Marvel Comics!
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Discovering the Intrapreneur: The Best Inside Job Every Government Employee Should Know
This talk will explore the traits of intrapreneurs, including their creative confidence to rethink and remix solutions to existing problems in a mission-based yet silo-resistant approach.
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Oh, THAT Guy: Why Your Reputation is Everything
Your reputation at work is crucial to your career success, and a bad reputation is impossible to undo, so you must take great care to build a good one.
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An Artist Sketches a Federal Career: How Painting + Performing Set the Stage for Success in Gov
This speaker is an artist and storytelling performer, who struggled in his career as a right-brained person among left-brained, analytical people at a government agency. But then he learned that everything he needed to be an effective, successful government employee was already in his artist’s toolkit. Though he usually doesn’t find himself bursting into poetry, song and dance at work, Jay’s experiences in these areas have boosted his ability to be valuable at his agency.
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Finding the Win in the Total Fail
This is a talk about how to find success after experiencing failure and tragedy.
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The Path to Resilience
In this presentation I will discuss how a 28 day wilderness trip prepared me for a career in public service.
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“GOV” like A Maker: Applying the Maker Mindset to Public Service
Exploring the principles and strategies of the maker movement, NextGen leaders will be motivated to build, hack, and jam their way through challenges and silos–no 3D printer required!
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