Striving for SustainabilityUniversity Career WomenAugust 3, 2012 Professional Development Conference

Kamala GreenExecutive Director, ASU’s Office of Equity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion: Sustaining Equality in the Workplace

What is ASU’s commitment to building a workforce as diverse as the community we serve? What is your commitment to ensuring compliance with AA/EEO regulations and legislation? We all hold the key to ASU’s success in hiring, training, and retaining staff. Learn to diversify and include your team equally in hiring, training— giving a voice to all members of the ASU community.

Kimber LanningFounder and Executive Director, Local First Arizona

Economic Sustainability: Where Do We Gofrom Here?

The word sustainability is most often usedin the context of the environment; however, economic sustainability is of equal importance and urgency. Learn to think in new ways about growing community wealth as job creation and a healthy economy. Most importantly, we will discuss the importance of local entrepreneurship and prosperity for our communities and future generations.

Jehnifer Niklas &Alana Levine ASU Global Institute of Sustainability

Your Guide to Office Sustainability and Campus Recycling

Do you want to improve your green office mojo? Are you unsure about what can be recycled and what is trash? Worry no more! Green office guru Jehnifer Niklas and recyc-ling maven Alana Levine will guide you in getting a grip on sustainable office practices,from purchasing the greenest products to prudent energy use and responsible waste disposal.

Korah HoffmanCounselor, ASU Employee Assistance Office

Personal Sustainability

Would you like to take your life from“surviving” to “thriving”? Personal sustainability is crucial for leading a happy, healthy, well-balanced life. Learn to im-prove the five essential elements of personalwellbeing: career wellbeing, social wellbeing, financial wellbeing, physical wellbeing, and community wellbeing. Learn how each of these elements influences your daily life, in and outside the office.

Duane RoenVice Provost and Founding Coordinator, ASU’s Project for Writing and Recording Family History

Sustaining Your Family’s History: Tips for Beginners

Have you thought about tracing your family’s history but don’t know where to begin? Learn about some readily-available resources, tools and strategies for getting started researching your roots. This workshop is designed for those who have little or no experience in researching family history.

LauRha FrankfortQi Gong Instructor, Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center/Scottsdale Healthcare and Cardiac Rehab Center

Sustaining Your Life Force

Increase your energy, improve your mood, change your health! Learn the Basic Eight Series of Medican Qi Gong exercises. Use breath, intent and movement to stimulate each yin/yang pair of organs as special muscle regions massage the body’s energy lines and stimulate Qi Flow. This promotes oxygen, blood, and lymph flow and in turn promotes health. These exercises are for all ages and all health/physical levels.

Janet EllisLife Coach and Owner, In Her Peace LLC

Sustainable Success: Creating a Simply Beautiful Life

What does living successfully mean to you? Learn to build a beautifully sustainable lifeby identifying and living by the principles of your personal values and defining what success means to YOU. Learn about key energy andresource drains that keep you stuck as well as new ways to build and sustain those resources. Learn to reallocate your time, money and even your thoughts and words so you can emerge each morning with a fresh outlook and positive perspective.

Lynn GenetChiropractor and Co-owner, American Chiropractic

Stay Fit While You Sit: Thera-Bands

Exercise is something you must work at every day to develop, tone and strengthen your muscles. It is a habit that will gener-ously improve your health. Thera-Bands allow you to strengthen your extremities as you strengthen your core, using elasticity as resistance rather than gravity. They allow you to do multiple exercises in one position so offer a great way to “stay fit while you sit.”

Chaz TurnerMaster Instructor, Turner Martial Arts

Sustain Your Safety withSelf-Defense Awareness

This session is designed to teach women defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault by using easy, proven self-defense tactics. We begin with awareness, prevention and risk reduction and avoidance, progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. This system of realistic defense provides women with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance.

Karen GridleyFormer Scientist and “The Excuse Removal” Expert

Sustain Your Sanity: Get Out of Your Own Way

Does stress overtake your sanity on occasion? or continually? Learn some practical tools to shatter stress before it shatters you. Create a shift from a stressed life to one driven by continuous progress and empowerment. An engaging and enlightening session for people committed to replacing unfavorable outcomes with beneficial practices in life and work.

Karen WinkelmanSpiritual Teacher and Owner, The Life Crafting Guide

Careers by the Numbers: Applying Numerology as You Create a Sustainable, Fulfilling Career

Explore the insights numerology can offer as you pursue a life path that fits with your personality and innate talents and gifts. When you’re doing what you love and are good at, and are mindful of lessons you’re working on—such as boundaries, speaking up, being acknowledged, being a leader—you can create a more rewarding, sustainable career.

Leila TurnerMD, Naturopathic Specialists

Sustainable Energy … All Life Long

This session addresses the intricate relation-ships between thyroid, steroid hormones, and female health. Common symptoms of fatigue, weight gain, digestive issues, and irregular or symptomatic menses are all connected. By using subjective and objective assessment of endocrine status, individualized treatment plans can be developed. We’ll discuss the use of nutrition, herbs, glandulars, hormones and other naturopathic therapies.

Ann WilliamsonAuthor, Life Coach, CEO, My Joy Enterprise

My Personal Sustainability Plan

At work, we often hear about sustainability plans that have environmental, economic and social attributes. But rarely do we take the time to envision what the benefits would be if we developed a sustainability plan for our own lives. This presentation will share tools for developing a personal sustainability plan.