Jill Nowacki is a sought-after speaker who engages audience with topics that leave them inspired and energized about the work they do. She motivates leaders with ideas to better engage their teams and take steps to build more inclusive workplaces. Contact us for a customized session that will engage your audience or choose from one of the options below.
DEI: It’s More Than Meets the Eye
This session provides a foundational understanding of what Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is; covers nine dimensions to consider in the workplace; and leaves participants with ideas for how to take personal action to create a more inclusive workplace.
Best Practices in Board Effectiveness (Breakout or Keynote)
The most effective boards spend 80% of their time looking forward and 20% looking back, but many organizations flip these numbers in execution doing a lot more reviewing than strategizing. This session provides tools and insights to help credit union boards achieve greater success through intentional actions in regular board meetings, strategic planning, and volunteer recruitment and development. Click here to book a speaker
Setting a Different Table: Expand Your Talent Pool to Win the War for Talent (Keynote)
As an increasing number of prospective employees choose entrepreneurialism or freelancing in the gig economy, credit unions must reinvent their relationship to recruiting, retaining, and promoting talent. This session will help leaders understand how to build organizations—from the teller line through the Board of Directors– that attract a wider talent pool, full of people with unique strengths, backgrounds, and skillsets.
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Balanced Teams are Better Teams (Keynote)
Talking about gender and race at work can be uncomfortable. There is uncertainty about the depth of challenges, the effectiveness of solutions, and the right amount of proactivity, but diverse organizations advance innovative thinking and drive better bottom line results. This session breaks down this intimidating topic into 10 Tiny Conversations about gender balance, the blatant and hidden issues surrounding gender at work, and why it is all of our business as credit union executives to address this area.
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Defining Your Why (Workshop Style Session)
Credit unions are mission-driven financial institutions, organized for the benefit of their members. Regulatory burden, pressure to make earnings, and a fiercely competitive landscape can bog leaders down and take attention away from this core purpose. This inspiring session will energize participants, helping them reconnect with the reasons they give their time and talents to the credit union, and refocusing on the credit union’s role in serving its members and community.
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Defining Your Path to Success
Wherever you may be in your career—as you consider how to build for your future or how to leave your organization better than you found it—being intentional is critical to success. By understanding the core values that drive you, developing a personal mission statement built off those values, and developing a network of advisors who can keep you on track, you are certain to find fulfillment in your career today and throughout your leadership journey. This workshop-style session will guide you through the key steps necessary to move you forward, leaving you with tangible takeaways that you can put to use immediately in defining your own path forward or growing next generation leaders at your credit union.
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Fast Track to Leadership (An Emerging Leader Breakout Session)
As emerging leaders navigate career paths, it can be difficult to know exactly what steps to take. Using lessons from leaders inside and outside the credit union system, this session will share insights to help you move forward in your career with lessons like:
- Integrating personal values in career planning,
- When to stay and when to go,
- Taking charge of your own growth,
- Building mentoring relationships that matter.
Attendees will leave the session ready to create their own action plans for personal growth, whether that involves pursuing a promotion or fulfilling greater potential in a current role.
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