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• Turn Business Failure into Financial Success, pg. 4

• Finding My Reason for Being, pg. 6

• Buying My First Dream Home, pg. 10

• Acing a Performance Review, pg. 12

…and more!

LEARNING FROM FAILURE

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JUNE 2018 VOLUME 11, EDITION 6

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Losing My Job Cleared My Career Vision

One of the best things to happen in my professional career was to lose my job.

Don’t get me wrong. It was an emotionally paralyzing experience that imploded my self-worth and confidence. I felt like a failure. But getting the proverbial pink slip from Grey Advertising became my Moonstruck moment. It snapped me out of career comfort.

That’s because prior to joining Grey, I was an enthusiastic reporter. Newspapers were in my DNA. As a teenager, I worked for my family’s company of weekly newspapers in New York’s Hudson Valley. After graduating from Syracuse University, I advanced to the big league of daily newspapers in the Philadelphia suburbs. I loved the newsroom buzz, the crunch of deadlines, page one bylines and the smell of print. It was wonderfully familiar. My comfort zone for most of my twenties.

Then along came an opportunity at Grey’s Manhattan headquarters in a new career arena — corporate communications. This big professional leap challenged me to sharpen my interviewing, networking and writing skills from reporting — and learn like mad about corporate culture, organizational dynamics, operational dashboards, KPIs, annual reports and shareholders.

It was all so new and exciting. For a few years, anyway. Grey announced a reduction in force that affected me.

Feeling vocationally vulnerable and lost, my initial instinct was to retreat to reporting. Snap out of it! No way! I need a big bodacious learning. Time to look forward and wide.

Losing my job at Grey cleared my career vision. I developed with a gusto game plan for making contacts, working networks and uncovering opportunities in corporate communications. I wanted a bigger job in a bigger company. Three months later, I joined General Electric as a manager of corporate communications. A dream come true — sprouted by the colossal setback of a job loss. GE, as it turned out, became as profoundly influential in my professional growth as my family’s business.

Learning from failure is the focus of this month’s issue of Community Connection. Dulye Leadership Experience colleagues candidly share stories and advice for reviving from career setbacks. Celebrated actor Leslie Odom Jr. (Aaron Burr to you Hamilton fans) calls it “failing up” — the title of his current bestseller and this month’s recommended read for recovery tips from career stumbles. The topic is also a headliner at this November’s 2018 Gen Now Retreat, where our power house faculty of business executives, owners and starters will reveal comeback strategies.

Falling down can help you soar higher.

LINDA DULYE: FOUNDER’S COLUMN

Photo left. Linda welcomes Anne McCarthy back to the Berkshires for a visit earlier this month. Anne, DLE ’10-’12, ’14-’15, is a senior product marketing manager at Splunk and lives in San Francisco.

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DLE Berkshire group The DLE Berkshire networking group gathered at the Cranwell Spa & Golf Resort in Lenox, MA on June 12 for dinner and conversation about jobs, careers and challenges. Timely advice and professional connections were exchanged by all attending. From left to right: Beth Kie-Burdick, Kathryn Gesner, Raeayn Warren, Linda Dulye, Nathan Haddad, Jacob Dextradeur and Michael Laureyns.

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Turning Business Failure into Financial Success By Danielle Waugh Sheila Keator’s legacy is lined with accolades: Barron’s Magazine named her one of the top financial advisers in Massachusetts. The family financial team she founded was selected as one of the best in the country in a Dow Jones publication. But the matriarch of the family business, based in Lenox, MA, will be the first to tell you that her success started with failure. “That’s how I started my career,” she recalls. “A very, very gut punch failure.” In the early 1970s, Sheila and her husband started a copy business called KNE Graphics. She describes it as the original Kinkos. The Keator’s took their business public — but lost it all when a recession caused interest rates to go up, and the family business to go under. “We were financially on oxygen,” she said, “and I just had my eighth baby.” Looking back, Sheila recognizes this point in her life might have been rock bottom — but at the time, she didn’t have a moment to think about that. “I said ‘Get going, lady, and make something happen.’ I didn't have time to be emotional,” she said.

With her hands full at home, having eight mouths to feed — the Keator’s took their second stab at starting a business, and founded The Shopper’s Chance, a free weekly newspaper. With kids in the car, Sheila would hit the town selling advertisements and fulfilling deliveries. Finally — a bit of a break. A competing newspaper offered to buy out The Shopper’s Chance, helping Sheila stop the “financial hemorrhage” at home. Instead of dwelling on her difficult experiences, Sheila looked back on her “failures” as learning opportunities. Her experience taking her first business public taught her about the stock market. “I learned how to make the sausage, and that was a phenomenal experience for me.” Sheila decided to take a roll of dimes and reinvent herself. She answered an ad in the local paper to start selling debt collection services. Without an office to make cold calls, she traveled to Albany or Springfield, stood in a phone booth, and started dialing potential clients.

PROFESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT: SHEILA KEATOR

Sheila Keator

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Soon, another door opened. A friend of Sheila’s husband said she had the skills to be a good stockbroker. She answered another ad in a newspaper for a broker, and in that interview, she was asked if she thought she could make cold calls. Sheila simply placed a roll of dimes on the desk — and got the job. Sheila remembers that her boss was laughed at for hiring a 43-year-old mother of eight to be a broker, but she kept her head down and worked hard. Slowly but surely, she built her clients and eventually her own wealth management firm, which is now managed by her sons. She says she was successful because she was tenacious and resourceful. “Nobody handed me anything,” she said. “I just had a chance, and an opportunity.” Looking at her financial success now, it’s hard to imagine a time when Sheila struggled to pay the bills — but she says there were times when she couldn't buy groceries and had to beg people at town hall to turn her water back on. She said she was “worried sick” — but didn’t let those concerns drag her down. Instead, they propelled her forward. She took stock of the lessons and skills she learned from failure and thought of how they could lead to success. “I knew what my goal was, and just put my head down.” To anyone going through a tough time or a moment of “failure,” she has some specific advice: “Don't quit. Just get through the day,” she said. “Set small goals and keep them within reach. Otherwise, everything will seem insurmountable. You can get through today.”

David Bell, DLE ’10-’15, ’17 True bliss! David Bell, Global Business Manager for Wipro Digital and Community Connection Correspondent, married Nataly Torrijos Peña, General Manager at Global Marine Transportation, in her homeland country of Colombia in June.

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(Slowly) Finding My Ikigai By Olivia Schneider

In January of this year, I saw an email notification on my phone from the marketing manager at the Colorado Outward Bound School (COBS), an outdoor education company that aims to “change lives through challenge and discovery” — it’s a motto I’ve experienced firsthand. The manager was offering me the media intern position at their base in Moab, UT for this summer. I burst into tears of happiness and gratitude.

I’ve never been good at planning — mostly because I never knew what I should be planning for. During my freshman year of college, I was completely overwhelmed by how many people seemed like they knew what their lives and careers would be like in five years and then in ten years.

Now three years out from my undergraduate degree, I’m slowly starting to organize my interests and priorities to form plans for my career. I’m learning how I can feel satisfied while making money and how to live intentionally. It’s only now that I feel like I’m starting to grasp a hint of my “ikigai,” a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being.”

My first “real” job after college was not quite what I expected, and after five months I realized I needed to leave. After giving my two-week notice, I sat down at my computer knowing I wanted to experience something different. After a quick Google search, I discovered Outward Bound and enrolled in a dogsledding and cross-country skiing course located in Ely, MN. It was to start in a month. Inevitably, the month passed and soon I found myself in freezing temperatures, dropping to -30° at night with wind chill, sleeping next to strangers from all over the world (the farthest had travelled from London) under nothing but tarps held up by trucker’s hitch knots we

MY REASON FOR BEING

I first discovered “ikigai,” a Japanese concept meaning “a reason for being”,

thanks to a sign hanging in the office bathroom.

Olivia Schneider

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learned to tie the day we arrived on base. It was physically and mentally demanding — not always fun — but so impactful that it changed the trajectory of my life.

After the course, I realized I wanted to write. After a while I got a position as a reporter with a local newspaper, and I really enjoyed it. The position allotted me a lot of freedom and allowed me to gain professional writing experience and connected me with leaders and members of my community. But after less than six months, the publisher shut down the newspaper. I figured it was a good time to check out a new city, and I moved to Philadelphia, living with my good friend who I’d met on my Outward Bound course.

While in Philly, I was about to head into work (work being a wine bar and restaurant down the street from my apartment) when I saw I had received that email containing an offer for the COBS media internship. I was so overwhelmed with happiness and I knew moving to Utah would be something unique, but I felt in my gut that it was right, even if I had to miss my sister’s college graduation, even if I had to miss the family trip to London to visit my youngest sister studying abroad.

Making these sacrifices in pursuit of my ikigai, to me, is worth it.

The professional work environment is unlike anything I’ve experienced, where everyone is actively sharing their goals and assets with one another and making each other better, like iron sharpening iron.

Two weeks ago, I was floating on a raft along the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon photographing the second raft in our fleet, full of new instructors and field interns, about to drop into the rapids my internship supervisor and I had just run. A week before that I was backpacking in the La Sal Mountains with the field interns for the conclusion of our training. I realize how lucky I am. My position is primarily office-based, but I do get to visit

courses and meet students and by sharing their stories, I get to promote an organization I really believe in and prompt others to take a leap of faith into the wilderness.

My goal this summer is to document the student experience and attempt to capture the magic that happens on COBS courses and share it with the rest of the world. I felt that magic in Minnesota and I’m so excited to use what I know about design, marketing, photography, and writing to communicate the necessity of sharing the outside with others. For me, this need will never cease to exist.

New instructors and field interns for the Colorado Outward Bound School become familiar with Cataract

Canyon before guiding students down the river.

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Provocative responses to questions that Community Connection asked

Jonathan Meldrum (left), DLE ’10 and counselor at NorthPoint Recovery, Boise, ID, shared his experiences learning from a failure, as asked by Correspondent Danielle Waugh. His responses are below.

Have you ever experienced a “big failure” at work? What happened and what did you learn from it? I would reference an incident from my career in law enforcement. When I was first starting out, I was eager and would often want to be a part of the “action.” This would often cause me to miss crucial details in my day-to-day work. One time, my eagerness caused me to miss an important detail that could have resulted in someone getting hurt. Luckily, I had a good team that caught my mistake, but I was reprimanded pretty heavily. I had a supervisor that told me after I was reprimanded, “you don’t always have to know everything and be a part of everything. Something else will come around again and seem just as important and this did.” That really stuck with me that I didn’t always need to rush my work but take time and make sure that my assignment was done correctly and if someone needed me then they would ask for my help.

Did this experience change how you process information? Did it impact your attitude now? Definitely. I am much slower with how I approach any situation. I make sure I always weigh the options and lean on my team for assistance if I need to. I feel much wiser when it comes to my career and have been able to assist people coming into my field based off my mistakes.

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Failure is Essential for Personal Fitness By Tuan Nguyen For many, the word failure is extremely negative. It is scary and to be avoided at all costs. For the most successful individuals, in all aspects of life, failure is an invaluable learning tool and to be embraced! It is never a good feeling to fail and to fail hard. But the lessons and insight to come as a result, if we take them, are absolutely essential in helping us to learn and grow! The first step is to recognize that nobody becomes an expert overnight. When we compare ourselves to those who have already perfected a skill, and then are not able to perform at an advanced level right out of the gate, we give up! Remember that every advanced athlete has been practicing and perfecting their skills for years, often over the course of their lifetime, and being fit does not require being an advanced athlete! Recognize that you are a beginner and start slow. Everyone learns differently and grasps concepts at different paces. Be comfortable and don’t be shy to ask a million questions so that you set yourself up for success to SUCCEED! I also find reaching out to other participants can connect you with people who share common goals and that can be a great support system. Through my own experiences, I find failure has taught me a lot about patience! But that’s another story! Lol

TIPS FOR HEALTHY LIVING

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Liz Watts (Ferree), DLE ’09-’10, ’17 and Anne McCarthy, DLE ’10-’12, ’14-’15 A friendship inspired and cemented by the Dulye Leadership Experience. That’s what Liz Ferree and Anne McCarthy share.

Liz (photo, right), Events Coordinator at Mission to the World, recently married Daniel Watts, Consultant for Deloitte, at Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University! The two met in 2009 while studying at Syracuse. Liz had just participated in the DLE retreat, was ecstatic about her experience and actively recruiting participants for the 2010. Anne was one of her recruits and both became longtime DLE champions.

Liz lives in Atlanta. Anne works in San Francisco as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Splunk. Their bond of friendship has stayed strong and vibrant through many years and cross-country career moves.

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3 Tips I Learned in Buying Our First Dream Home

Liz Smithers, DLE ’11-17, Business Operations Coordinator over the Northeast and Texas Regions with The North Highland Company, recently took the plunge and purchased a home in suburban Philadelphia with her husband, Erik. A life-changing experience, Liz shares her key learnings and advice.

By Liz Smithers Tip #1: Know what you will and will not compromise on This will drive where you look for a home and enable you to make decisions quickly when the market is hot. Of course, things will pop up and change throughout the process but having that initial foundation will make it easier for you to determine what you will actually be OK living with or without in the moment. There will be so many beautiful homes to see, so you don’t want to get caught up in the weeds every single time and potentially lose out on a great opportunity. Erik and I ran into this a few times. The most significant decision was on whether we wanted a single-family home or not. We lived in an area where single-family homes were few and far in-between and expensive. “Not being sure” took up a lot of our time and put us in a few questionable positions. So much so, that we put offers on two houses, that in retrospect, we

really would not have been happy with. If we had sat down and thought about how important a single-family home was to us, we would not have wasted time and energy on other places that we really didn’t want. It also let us know that we were willing to move and explore new areas, because it became something we would not compromise on and we had to reconsider our budget. Tip #2: Know the market you are buying in and the impact on your budget We bought in a seller’s market. The interest rate was on the rise every day and multiple offers were being made on every home we looked at. We had to stay competitive — negotiation was minimal, there was no seller’s assist, and offers were at asking price and above. Consider this when putting your budget together. Seller’s assist can range from around $6-$10K, depending on where you are looking. That can significantly impact your down payment plan. Don’t get caught up in the drama of the interest rate — it matters, but probably not as much as you think to let it drive you to put an offer on something that has not met the criteria you establish from Tip #1. There were a few instances where we pulled up to a property on the first day of the scheduled open house, only to find a note taped to the door saying the property was under contract. That, along with a climbing rate and multiple buyers, can really start to build the pressure and push you to make the wrong decisions. As I mentioned, we got caught in the trap and submitted some offers that, thankfully, fell through in the end. Ultimately, we found our dream house and ended up submitting an offer over

HOUSE-HUNTING SKILLS

Liz Smithers and her husband Erik’s new home

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asking price that beat out two other competitors. The stakes were high and stressful, but we made sure to crunch the numbers and put ourselves in a good position despite the increase.

Tip #3: Get some of these tools to help you succeed Apps such as Redfin (highly recommended) and mortgage amortization calculators will help you establish your budget as well as gain insight into what makes up your monthly mortgage payment. For example, we learned that mortgage insurance and taxes can have a significant impact on your monthly payment — we did not even know what mortgage insurance was! (Side note: make sure you look this up!) The process of buying your first home can be so emotional and exciting that you can very easily bite off more than you can chew in the future. The best piece of advice is to begin the process with a strong and realistic understanding of what you are not only capable, but comfortable with paying at closing, monthly, and over the entire course of your mortgage. Simply put, the

numbers and the dream of the perfect house exist in two different worlds and you must be the bridge between them at all times. These tools, when used effectively, make this possible. The apps all update and provide information at their own speed, so find the one you’re most comfortable and impressed with and learn to use it. This will offer a great base level of knowledge to assist you in this journey and make it manageable and comfortable — you can own it!

From left to right: Josh Matukonis, mortgage specialist with Annie Mac;

Liz Smithers; Liz’s husband, Erik; and Terry Upshur, realtor now with ReMax.

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3 Tips to Prepare for an Effective Performance Review By Courtney Rosser While timelines vary between jobs and industries, everyone knows when that specific time of year rolls around for performance reviews. There is an added sense of tension in the office and questioning of the state of the business in relation to how big of a potential raise one could expect. Many people start preparing for performance reviews about a week before they have them — but what they might not understand is that preparing for an effective performance review is something that starts immediately following your last one. Having regular touch points to talk about your goals and performance throughout the year can keep you and your manager on the same page and help you reflect on key roles you’ve played and accomplishments you’ve reached. While I might be relatively new to the business industry, I’ve dedicated a lot of time to understanding how to have an effective performance review. Below I’ve included some of my key learnings:

Tip #1: Prepare, prepare and then do some more preparing. When going into my first review out of college — I was vastly unprepared. Sure, I knew what I wrote in my own performance evaluation, but when my manager started to ask me more in-depth questions about my “roses and thorns” for the year, I felt frozen. Take time before your review to hammer out your top achievements and formulate your case as to why you think you’re ready for the next step of your career.

Tip #2: Keep notable work throughout the year. It’s time to dig up all those compliments you received via email on a job-well-done and add them into your review preparations. (Pro tip: have a separate folder to file these into throughout the year so it saves you time in the future). While having a portfolio of work and examples of your writing is important for my industry, it definitely wouldn’t hurt to have a detailed list of what you worked on and whether you executed on your project, too.

Tip #3: Do your research. Utilizing your connections within your office can be helpful when preparing for a review. Talking to people about their experiences and approaches as informational interviews can help you gather intel for when your review time comes. This is also a good time to ask any questions you may have about the state of the business and how raises work as you move through the ranks at your company. How did I fare in using these tips? My preparedness allowed for smooth and positive feedback from my manager and colleagues that fed into my review. By having talking points and coming prepared with evidence that I executed well on my projects throughout the year, I was able to connect with my boss and receive an off-cycle promotion.

CAREER SKILLS

Courtney Rosser

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Prepare for your next review and showcase your talent. Take the opportunity to assess your worth and demonstrate it to your boss. Make it undeniable that you’re ready for the next challenge. Courtney Rosser, DLE ’15, is a Public Relations Professional at Biosector 2.

Jean Stephann Dubois, DLE ’12 Stephann visited his hometown in Haiti, to guest speak during the government-launched incubator summit, EMO-Haiti. Stephann interacted with professionals around the world, discussing Haitian-Youth based empowerment in the areas of education and technology, financial literacy, science and inclusion. Stephann is humbled by the experience, received Haitian presidential recognition, and is excited to announce the launch of Alpha Haiti’s EdTechSummit that will take place on July 5th at the Central Bank of Haiti’s Convention Center. Congratulations on your involvement, Stephann!

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News to Share? Have you started a new position, traveled an amazing trip, read a great book, accomplished a personal first or volunteered for a memorable cause? Tell us so and we will share the news in Community Connection. Contact Alison Grimes.

Stephanie Kranz, DLE ’12 Stephanie (lower right side of photo) currently works in Newark, NJ as a calculus teacher at St. Benedict's Preparatory School. St. Benedict's is very unique: the school pushes student leadership and has a four-term school year from July to June. The fourth term is called Spring Phase where all of the freshman train to hike 55 miles of the Appalachian Trail, and all of the upperclassmen are placed in other project courses. This was Stephanie’s first year teaching a project on her own called “Jack of All Trades, Master of None” where she exposed the students to as many different experiences and skills as possible in the time they had together. One of the students' favorite trips was visiting Good Morning America which was arranged through a ’Cuse connection! The students were in the studio audience, got a great amount of screen time, and met some celebrities. Stephanie reflects, “The DLE taught me about the importance of building networks and strong relationships, and my Spring Phase course would not have been possible without it!” Well done, Stephanie! Keep inspiring the next generation!

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Elizabeth Odunaiya, DLE ’15 Elizabeth recently completed her Master’s of Public Health from Emory University in Atlanta, GA and will be relocating to the Silver Spring, MD area. Elizabeth is spending time with her boyfriend in Danbury, CT before beginning work in July at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services in Bethesda, MD as a Health Insurance Specialist through the Presidential Management Fellowship program. In her new role, Elizabeth will develop, interpret and implement health care financing policy affecting the disbursement of billions of dollars each year. Among other responsibilities, Elizabeth will analyze Medicare and Medicaid policies, identify trends in health care utilization, study the private health insurance industry, and participate in inspections and program evaluations. Away from the job, Elizabeth plans to volunteer to help address maternal and infant mortality among African American women and children, and also apply her expertise in the violence and injury prevention field. She also loves kickboxing. If you’re in the Bethesda, MD area, reach out to her. Congratulations, Elizabeth!

Elizabeth is admiring the beautiful and incomparable landscape in Iceland following

graduation of her Master’s program. She’s enjoyed her travels in Iceland

but is ready to transition into her new role.

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Whitney Mercer, DLE ’12-’13 After six years with GE Aviation in Cincinnati, OH, Whitney has made the career move to Eaton Corporation as Leadership Communications Manager in Cleveland, OH. She admits that she is equal parts excited, thankful, nervous, happy, anxious, scared and joyful about this career change! About two years ago, Whitney and her husband, Gary, made the decision to relocate to Cleveland from Cincinnati to be near family. Since then, they’ve been very focused on finding the RIGHT roles. Whitney shares advice, “It's important to be picky and take your time finding the right job, but it can be very time consuming and challenging ... and all the more challenging if you are a dual-career couple looking for TWO perfect-fit jobs in a new city. Well, we think we have found the right

roles! We are excited about our new jobs, our new home and our new city. We are also nervous about leaving behind a life we loved and starting over in a new city. Two things have helped us get through this sometimes-scary time! We remind ourselves that 1. We are going to live near family, and family is everything to us, and 2. An age-old (but true!) cliché ... Nothing ventured, nothing gained!” Another insight from Whitney about her transition: “Through this process, I was reminded of the incredible power of networking. When I first started looking for a new job in Cleveland, I looked at job boards and postings and went through more formal channels. After a few interviews, I realized I wasn't finding the right opportunities for me. So, I changed gears and focused on networking, rather than applying for jobs. I had countless informational interviews with leaders in communications and other fields in Cleveland, not necessarily tied to an open role or opportunity. Through the process, I built a strong network and made my career goals clear to everyone I met. And it paid off!” “I was able to connect with the team at my new company. I had phone calls and in-person informational interviews with various Eaton leaders over the course of several months, all without an open role to discuss. One day, I was contacted by Eaton about a new role that was the perfect fit for me, and I applied! I firmly believe that this opportunity would not have been available to me without the network I built in Cleveland.”

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HOT RESOURCES FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Book of the Month Failing Up:

How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and

Never Stop Learning By Leslie Odom, Jr.

Quote of the Month “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage

to continue that counts.”

- Winston Churchill

Photo courtesy Creative Commons

Articles of the Month 4 Reasons Why Failure Can

Lead to Spectacular Success From SmartBrief.

The Best Career Advice

from This Year’s Graduation Speeches

Listen. Don't act like an MBA. And don't move to D.C.

From the Washington Post. Submitted by Matthew Keator, longtime DLE faculty member.

5 Ways to Project Confidence

in Front of an Audience From Harvard Business

Review.

Podcasts of the Month Ask Better Questions

The how and why to asking great questions.

From Harvard Business Review.

Bad Bosses

What to do when your boss is a jerk, a workaholic, or simply incompetent. From Harvard Business

Review.

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THANK YOU! DLE COMMUNITY CONNECTION VOLUNTEER TEAM

Charles Lerner, DLE ’14 and ’17, founder, Philanthropic Broker, and Tao Group Engagement Coordinator

Tuan Nguyen, DLE Faculty ’17, Fitness Director at Berkshire West Athletic Club Olivia Schneider, DLE ’17, Freelance Writer, Media Intern at the Colorado Outward Bound School Danielle Waugh, DLE ’10, Maine Bureau Reporter at NBC Universal

David Bell, DLE ’10 -’15, ’17, Global Business Manager for Wipro Digital Jenna Bieri, DLE ’10, Digital Marketing Manager at National Pork Board Alison Grimes, DLE ’11 and ’17, Digital Search Coordinator at Aspen Dental Management, Inc.

Michelle Green, DLE Strategic Marketing and Communications Specialist

Linda Dulye, President & Founder of Dulye & Co. and the Dulye Leadership Experience