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Effective leadership requires skills rooted in self-awareness and learned through experience. Understanding experiential learning styles can facilitate a leader’s growth and development, as well as their ability to coach other individuals and teams to achieve higher performance and increase work satisfaction. Based on a century of research and more than 4,000 studies of experiential learning, Kay Peterson and David Kolb have developed a fresh, systematic approach to understanding learning styles—our own and others’—and how our dominant style influences how we approach all kinds of everyday challenges at work and at home. Their book, How You Learn Is How You Live, (2017, Berrett-Koehler Publishers) provides the foundation for this interactive session. You’ll gain insight into your unique learning style and take away practical ideas on how to apply this deeper level of understanding to better guide and coach the people you lead.

Discussion facilitator: 

Barbara Leary is Founder of an independent consultancy (http://www.barbaraleary.com) that helps leaders build support and momentum for strategic initiatives, improve employee engagement and productivity, and align their organizations around a shared vision and priorities. Through more than 25 years in change leadership and corporate communication, she has worked with some of the best-known brands in the world in the energy, technology, life sciences, and hospitality sectors. Leary has a Master of Science degree in Positive Organizational Development and Change from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. In serving her clients, she draws on a variety of change methodologies, including Prosci, in which she is certified, and on her training as an executive coach.  

Please join us for this lively discussion. You are welcome to extend an invitation to interested colleagues.  No fee is charged for attending.  However, registration is required on-line, at least 24 hours in advance, via the Dulles SHRM web site (www.dullesshrm.org) -- Chapter Discussion Groups. If you have questions, contact Laurie Smith at 703-362-8082 or lauriesmith717@gmail.com. Participation may be limited to the first 25 people who sign up.