June Monthly Meeting
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Join NAWBO Columbus for our June Monthly Meeting as we celebrate authors! Join us to hear from a variety of authors as they share their journey and area of expertise. Authors will share what inspired them to write and how their books help women business owners. Attendees will hear from all authors and have the chance to interact with them at exhibit tables. Authors will have a limited amount of books for purchase, attendees are encouraged to purchase books ahead of the event using the links below.
Authors Include:
- Teresa Harlow, Combative to Collaborative: The Co-parenting Code
- S.R.D. Harris, Future Miss President, Teddy Only Wants Spaghetti, Gracie's Grace, Bella Loves Her Umbrella, Paige Plans It All & more.
- Karen Hough, The Improvisation Edge, Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever, Go With It
- Shara Hutchinson, Barefoot in the Boardroom: Every Leader's Guide to Navigating Change
- Mary Jenkins, Destined to Overcome!
- Christina Renzelli, Creating Calm: How Understanding the Brain Can Transform Stressful Situations into Peaceful Connections for Educators and Parents
- Dr. Karen Townsend, It All Started When I Stopped Using Lotion: One Woman's Journey From Chaos to Calm
- Regan Walsh, Heart Boss
See below for key takeaways and learn more about our authors.
Meet our Authors:
Teresa Harlow, Combative to Collaborative: The Co-parenting Code
Key Takeaways:
- Take ownership of your role: Conflict always involves more than one person. When you face conflict with another person, start by looking at yourself and taking personal responsibility for your role in the conflict. This will shift your perspective from being a victim to solving the problem.
- Live by the Golden Rule: You’ll never regret how you treated someone else. Treat others the way you want to be treated—not how you feel they deserve to be treated.
- Don’t ever give up on a difficult relationship: Your happiness is worth it and every relationship can be improved given the right motivation, timing, and opportunity.
About Teresa:
Teresa Harlow is a professional speaker, bestselling author, co-parenting coach, and mediator. She has spent over thirty years working in top American companies helping teams and individuals transform conflict into collaboration and collaboration into results.
She further developed her coaching and conflict resolution skills as a divorced parent, stepparent, and private coach helping people to unleash their potential and achieve the results they desire. Now Teresa shares her talents for collaboration and problem solving through her speeches, coaching, mediation, and bestselling book, Combative to Collaborative: The Co-parenting Code.
A professional member of the National Speakers Association, Teresa also writes for several business and family-centric publications, and is a frequent media guest on TV, Radio, and podcasts.
You can learn more and purchase Combative to Collaborative: The Co-parenting Code HERE.
S.R.D. Harris, Future Miss President, Teddy Only Wants Spaghetti, Gracie's Grace, Bella Loves Her Umbrella, Paige Plans It All, Ted Never Wants to Go to Bed, and James Plays Too Many Games
About S.R.D. Harris:
Author S.R.D. Harris has always been a reading fanatic! Ever since she was featured in two children’s books as a young child and volunteered at her Local Library, she has dreamed of becoming a Published Author. Through hard work and determination, she achieved that dream when she wrote and published her first book, "Future Miss President".Harris currently has 7 Children’s books published and 2 more in production.
She is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Her mission is to write and publish High-Quality, Uplifting and Empowering Diverse Children’s Books that will inspire a love of reading in all children! She has been featured on PBS/WOSU’s Broad & High TV Show and in many publications to date.Harris and her husband have 3 daughters, and a rescued puppy named Gracie. Their youngest daughter, Camryn, is her Co-Author and collaborates on all of her books. Her 4th Book Gracie’s Grace,” is in partnership with CHA Animal Shelter, to benefit their mission to help homeless dogs and cats find loving homes.
When they are not reading, writing, cooking or traveling, they enjoy volunteering and giving back. They have currently donated hundreds of their books to students all over Ohio, and Harris enthusiastically volunteers with Reading 365/The American Literacy Corporation. She believes all children can love reading if they connect with the right books for them.
You can follow her on her website srdharrisbooks.com and on major social media channels. Her books are sold internationally and available in local libraries and bookstores.
You can learn more and purchase S.R.D.'s books HERE.
Karen Hough, The Improvisation Edge, Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever, and Go With It
Key Takeaways:
- Why Write?
- Working with a Publisher & Editor
- Elevating your message
About Karen: Karen Hough is the Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, www.ImprovEdge.com, and has been using improvisation as a catalyst for business training and consulting since 1998. ImprovEdge won the silver International Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year 2012, and Karen was recognized in 2016 as an Inspiring Woman by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever and won the WBENC Pitch Pivot Award in 2020 in the first virtual competition of its kind. Karen is also the #1 Amazon Bestselling author in category and 800CEORead Top 25 Business Books for “The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work” published by Berrett-Koehler, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, Inc magazine and Investor’s Business Daily. Her second book, “Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever: Break the Rules, Make Mistakes and Win Them Over” published by BK in 2014 won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award. Karen’s third book on using improvisation to drive innovation, “Go with It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change” was published in 2017 by the Association for Talent Development.
Click HERE to read Karen's full bio.
You can learn more and purchase Karen's books HERE.
Shara Hutchinson, Barefoot in the Boardroom: Every Leader's Guide to Navigating Change
Key Takeaways:
Strategies for effectively managing change, including communicating change, mitigating resistance, and creating tailored change management plans to keep employees engaged and customers happy during transformation.
About Shara:
Shara Hutchinson is the Founder and Chief Change Strategist at Xposeyour, a TEDx Speaker, and author of Barefoot in the Boardroom: Every Leader's Guide to Navigating Change. She is a technology-oriented executive and customer success professional with a proven track record of developing and implementing operational strategies that creatively enhance the customer experience while supporting key business initiatives. Shara serves on several boards and loves making an impact in the community. A fun fact about her is that she ghostwrites speeches for celebrities, CEOs, and other leaders. When Shara is not working, she spends time making memories with her husband and son.
You can learn more and purchase Barefoot in the Boardroom: Every Leader's Guide to Navigating Change HERE
Key Takeaways:
- A guide to help with life challenges
- Attendees mindset will shift.
- Attendees will be empowered to use their voice.
About Mary:
Mary Jenkins is a Veteran, Author, Inspirational Speaker and 2x Breast Cancer survivor who, while in active treatment turned her pain into purpose!
She did this when she founded Cancer Option Collaborative (previously known as Christians Overcoming Cancer) an organization that provides awareness to the community and emotional support and financial assistance to active treatment cancer patients nationally.
She has overcome some incredible life experiences, including being married, a mother of three sons and a widow by the age of 25.
Her conviction, courage, determination, faith and strength fuel her passion to encourage and inspire others which led to her writing "Destined to Overcome!" A book of daily declarations to win at life.
She is mother to three sons, Edwin (Candice), Joseph, and Jerry and grandmother to two grandsons, Jude and Ethan.
You can learn more and purchase Destined to Overcome! HERE.
Christina Renzelli, Creating Calm: How Understanding the Brain Can Transform Stressful Situations into Peaceful Connections for Educators and Parents
Key Takeaways:
- Writing a book is a great way for women business owners to tell their story
- The book writing process can be easy and transformational.
- Everyone has at least one book inside them to share, especially entrepreneurs.
About Christina:
Christina Renzelli is an author, podcaster and business and life coach at Richly Successful Solopreneur. She loves helping women entrepreneurs develop better business relationships, sell in an authentic way, and scale their businesses beyond the time for money model. She helps her clients learn to listen to their intuition so they can create their best life and business.
You can learn more and purchase Creating Calm: How Understanding the Brain Can Transform Stressful Situations into Peaceful Connections for Educators and Parents HERE.
Dr. Karen Townsend, It All Started When I Stopped Using Lotion: One Woman's Journey From Chaos to Calm
Key Takeaways:
- A process to determine one's LBQ (Life Balance Quotient)
- Strategies to set boundaries: both personally and professionally
- Three steps to (unapologetically) make self-care a priority
About Karen:
Karen M.R. Townsend, Ph.D. is president of KTownsend Consulting an award-winning organizational development consulting firm offering expertise in leadership development, 21st century diversity and personal excellence. Dr. Karen is also founder of About My Sisters—an organization “on a mission to empower one million women and girls!” Since 1993, she has hosted the nationally recognized Sister to Sister conference which is one of the longest-running women’s events in the United States. Dr. Karen has shared her message of women’s empowerment in the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and in Johannesburg, South Africa. A highlight of her career was being selected as one of sixteen people invited by Oprah Winfrey to participate in the Live the Life You Want! masterclass where she had the opportunity to share with a worldwide audience—why self-care is so very important.
Dr. Karen is the author of the best-selling book It All Started When I Stopped Using Lotion: One Woman’s Journey From Chaos to Calm, which was inspired by her own quest to find life balance. “The Lotion Book” encourages women to “Take their TiME! (Time for ME!) and is currently being used by organizations across the globe to support the professional development and career advancement of high potential women leaders.
You can learn more and purchase It All Started When I Stopped Using Lotion: One Woman's Journey From Chaos to Calm HERE
Key Takeaways:
How to trust your gut, shed your shoulds, ask for what you need.
About Regan:
Regan Walsh is an NYU certified executive coach and human development expert with a focus on helping people who are over-programmed and underwhelmed to reclaim their lives, both personally and professionally. She contributes to Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and has been featured in Fast Company, NBC.com, Today, and Real Simple.
Regan has supported thousands of people through executive coaching, and she is regularly asked to give keynotes, facilitate workshops, and speak on panels for Fortune 500 companies. She has done so for clients like Freddie Mac, Nike, Intuit, and Whole Foods.
Heart Boss, her debut memoir, was published in March 2021.
Regan is located in Columbus, Ohio, and leads a network of women in business from all over the world.
You can learn more and purchase Heart Boss HERE
Registration closes Friday, May 26th at noon.
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Monthly Meeting Agenda
- 11-11:30am- Networking & Exhibiting
- 11:30-12:30pm- Programming & Author Introductions
- 12:30-1pm- Book Signing & Exhibiting
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