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Yes Y Can: Training America's Largest Generation to be Effective Workplace Leaders
By 2016, Generation Y (or Millennials), the generation born between 1978-2000, will be the largest generation in the workplace. Millennials have been branded spoiled, entitled, disengaged, lazy, and whiny. Training and management solutions often emphasize more oversight, stricter rules, and re-shaping behaviors. The prevailing message is that Millennials lack a handful of necessary abilities and values that through a little effort, usually in the form of more parent-like authority and supervision, can be fixed. In this 1.5 hour interactive workshop led by ASTD-Las Vegas Vice President of Community Affairs Coach Alexia Vernon, explore how to meet emerging leaders where they are and take them where they need to be. Discover how to harness Millennials’ strengths and partner with them to minimize areas for growth so that our next generation of leaders do not repeat the social, economic, and environmental mistakes they have just lived through. Learn proven strategies for empowering Millennials to speak effectively across communication contexts, dance between long and short-term thinking, give and receive action-oriented feedback, create cultures of intrapreneurship and innovation, and act from a place of integrity.

About Alexia Vernon, ACC
Alexia Vernon is the Owner of Catalyst for Action, a coaching and training company that empowers emerging and evolving leaders to build careers and companies that achieve the 3 S’s: Success, Sustainability, and a positive Social Impact. With 10-years experience as a Millennial leader and “catalyst” for other emerging leaders, Alexia is widely praised as a speaker, coach, and trainer for her ability to grow Millennials into effective leaders, as well as those who lead, train, manage, employ, and educate her generation. She also designs a range of programs for savvy careerists looking to stand out in today’s competitive marketplace. As an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified coach and experienced theatre educator and performer, Alexia specializes in delivering experiential, participant-centered coaching programs in such areas as sustainable leadership, intergenerational collaboration, diversity, effective communication, presentation and training skills, and work-life balance for organizations, universities, schools, community associations, conferences, small businesses, and membership organizations. Alexia has been featured in a range of media such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, BusinessWeek.com, Diversity Executive, Become a Career Coach, MainStreet.com, CollegeRecruiter.com, and Gradspot.com.  Alexia has a career column with Greenspun Media Group's Recruiting Nevada and is the President-Elect of the Nevada Professional Coaches Association (NPCA). To learn more about Alexia Vernon and Catalyst for Action, visit http://www.catalystforaction.org.

*Please note new start time:  Networking/coffee/juice/breakfast items begin at 8:30 am.