How do your mindsets, thoughts, and beliefs make you more effective or get in your way? Build your awareness of these dynamics and how they affect your work performance as well as those around you. Learn how to start monitoring the voice in your head, build focus and presence.

The session will be an Interactive Keynote Workshop that will include time for reflection, and talking with others in breakout sessions. Leave this session with the tools needed to reduce stress, communicate better, instill trust and rapport with your team, and be more productive. Get your video and audio ready to participate in the breakout sessions!

Rachel Gorman

Rachel is an executive coach, speaker and master facilitator, who connects with people at all levels, questioning the status quo and inspiring her clients to do the same. She infuses both a calm focus and an enthusiastic energy into the client experience. People and businesses thrive from her open, engaging approach and her encouragement to practice new thinking and behaviors.

Rachel’s clients benefit from her being a committed “lifelong learner.” Her voracious reading on relevant subjects, keeps her industry knowledge on the cutting edge. Her own experiential education increases her ability to empathize with her clients.

Rachel was a pioneer in living a minimalist lifestyle, long before the “Tiny Home” movement became hip. Living small in NYC, she has learned what to keep and what to discard. This mindset is valuable in her work with clients, helping them focus on what is of the utmost importance, and what detritus they can rid themselves of in life. She encourages clients to zoom in and focus on their deepest values which generates meaningful change and impact.

Rachel’s high energy, engaging and approachable style is sought after by numerous global clients in a wide variety of sectors and industries. She has an MA in Social Sciences and is a Positive Psychology practitioner. She lives in NYC with her husband and teenage son. When not out and about soaking in all that NYC offers, including rock climbing, Bikram yoga and running in Central Park, she can be found taking refuge in her tiny haven on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Do you ever feel that your voice is not being heard? Do you hesitate to ask for what you want or what you feel your company needs to be successful? Walk away from this session understanding that your confidence and your ability to Speak Up, Stand Out and Step Up has a real impact on you and your organization. Learn instantly applicable tactics for speaking up and tap into your strengths to create your Powerful and Persuasive Positioning statement.

Nancy Medoff

After close to three decades of walking the talk in corporate sales leadership, Nancy Medoff, best-selling author, keynote and executive coach has literally “written the book” on women and confidence. Unmute Yourself and Speak Up to Stand Out is a game changer and a call to action for women (and men) who are ready to shatter the glass ceiling and take their careers to the next level.

The “Confidence Evangelist”, Nancy is an indoor cycle enthusiast, two-time marathoner, and feet-in-the sand philosopher who views life as an ongoing journey to pay it forward. She lives these beliefs every day by empowering women of all ages to step into their strengths and own their authenticity to truly thrive at work. She won’t stop until women everywhere show up confident, compelling and walk through the doors being opened like they own them.

Get ready to engage and learn from your peers, swap ideas, and get valuable insights on the challenges of today and tomorrow. The roundtable topic of Women, Leadership, and Power will be moderated to lead the group through a set of points for discussion. We’ll keep the breakout groups small so everyone gets a front-row seat and can engage in the conversation.

ISA Roundtables – the power of peer-to-peer learning & networking!

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Keynote: Zap the Generational Gap

The workplace is NOT what it used to be. The global marketplace has become a myriad of different generations. What people want from an employer; their expectations of corporate benefits, organizational culture and motivation to do what’s best for business differs from generation to generation. Your challenge is to figure out how to communicate successfully with the individual generations to achieve personal growth and enriched company morale. Learn something new; hear something different; laugh out loud and learn how it’s time for the generations to be Redefined!

Meagan Johnson

Known as a Generational Humorist, Meagan Johnson is a nationally recognized multi-generational expert and generational explorer. She has educated through entertainment since 1998. Over the span of Meagan’s speaking career as a Business Owner, Professional Speaker, and Author, she has worked with a variety of organizations and associations to build multi-generational effective relationships. Her focus is on how to build a culture of multi-generational inclusivity and collaboration… not alienation. Rather than promoting generational stereotypes, Meagan explores what drives a generation to succeed.

Meagan is the co-author of the best-selling book Generations Inc, From Boomers to Linksters: Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work. She has been Quoted by the Indy Star, Weight Watchers, The Advocate, Chicago Tribune, CNNMoney.com, and US News & World Report.

Meagan has been heard and seen on NEWSY.com, CBSN, ABC Talk Live, NPR, Conde’ Nast’s Profile.com, It’s Not a Crisis Podcast (Hosted by Doryn Wallach), The Preconceived Podcast (Hosted by Zale Mednick), and the Wise Idea Podcast (Hosted Christopher J Harris).

Her company, Meagan Johnson Inc, is based in Phoenix, Arizona where she resides with her husband and 2 big dogs who drool A LOT! (The dogs, not her husband.)

Please and Thank You: Practical Mindfulness for Real-World Challenges

We live in a frenzied world where pressure has mounted exponentially in the last year and a half. As people, as professionals, as parents, as colleagues, and as leaders, we have seen our world rocked by forces we did not create and we cannot control. What can we do? What should we already be doing? In this session, we will explore a handful of practical ways to use the techniques of mindfulness-based thinking and practice to live, love, and lead in a very impractical world.

Mike Reynolds

Being with things as they are, and letting things be. These are the words that have launched not just weekly mindfulness sessions for hundreds of Stanley Black & Decker employees, but also dozens of innovation initiatives for the company globally. For Mike Reynolds, VP Innovation Strategy at SBD, all of these things (need to) come from the same type of practice: If we can all be present for things as they unfold in the moment, then in their unfolding we will cultivate healthier relationships to them, from which new insights and possibilities arise. For over 5 years,

Mike has been leading daily mindfulness calls and hosting a Mindfulness Workplace (Facebook) group for Stanley Black & Decker employees. He also heads up Innovation Everywhere, a Stanley Black & Decker innovation initiative aimed at inspiring thousands of employees to innovate on themselves as they innovate on processes and products. Through a combination of reinvented mentoring and Emotional Intelligence programs, innovation training, and mindfulness, employees are soaring to new heights of self-discovery, learning, and value. A long-time meditator, innovator, and strategy consultant, Mike has led market and innovation strategy at companies such as Thomson Reuters, Pitney Bowes, and IBM among others for decades.

Mike also holds an MBA from Dartmouth, an MA from Stanford, and a BA from NYU. He is excited (in a meditative way, of course) to be leading a mindfulness session for the ISA.

Redefining the Channel: What can we do as individuals and organizations to encourage and support women in the channel? Learn best practices from an industry leader on how each of us can take action to support, attract, retain and advance females in the industrial supply channel.

Allison Grealis

Allison Grealis is founder and president of the Women in Manufacturing® Association (WiM), a national trade association focused on supporting, promoting and inspiring women in the manufacturing sector. She also is president of the WiM Education Foundation, the 501(c)(3) arm of WiM, which provides effective and affordable educational opportunities for women in manufacturing.

From 2001 until March 2020, Grealis also served as vice president of association services for the Precision Metalforming Association (PMA), a full-service trade association representing the metalforming industry.

Grealis is a frequent speaker at industry events, including the Financial Times’ Future of Manufacturing Summit, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence conference, the North American Manufacturing Excellence Summit, the Generis American Manufacturing Summit, and more. She also regularly is featured on industry podcasts and in the media. Grealis is also the host of Hear Her Story, a monthly podcast which celebrates the stories of women in manufacturing careers.

Grealis was recognized as one of 2018 Crain’s Cleveland Business’ Women of Note, which celebrates women for their outstanding leadership in the community.

Grealis currently serves as a member of the Saint Joseph Academy Engineering and Design Honors Program Advisory Board, as an executive committee member for the Cleveland chapter of the Private Directors Association, and as a member of the national Skilled Trades Coalition. She previously served as a board member for the Greater Cleveland Society of Association Executives, The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Our Lady of the Elms High School.

Grealis earned her Bachelor of Arts in English with a certificate in Women’s Studies from Ohio University and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Akron.