Tuesday
Meeting Sessions
NOTE - This page lists our scheduled speakers for the following 3 Quarterly Programs:
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PowerTalk Zoom Lunch Hour - Meeting Agenda
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PowerTalk Dinner Program - Meeting Agenda
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Please scroll down to view all speakers scheduled for these Tuesday Meeting Sessions!
Meet the PowerTalk Lunch-Time Zoom Speakers
Meeting Theme: Refresh, Renew, Rejuvenate!
Meeting Quote: "April showers bring May flowers."
Meeting Program Emcee
Vitalia Bryn-Pundyk, M.ED/DTM/DPP
Vitalia Bryn-Pundyk is an award-winning international speaker, #1 best selling international author, success strategist, and small business speakers’ coach. She is a human relations subject matter expert who delivers programs that result in leadership development, improved communication, increased sales, and organizational growth.
In addition to offering her own powerful on-site presentations for small businesses and corporations, she invites you to participate in her unique content-rich, interactive, high value networking and professional development learning experience as a Power Pal Member of the PowerTalk Power Club!
10-15 minute max. Keynote Speaker
Diane Windingland, DTM/SPP
Speech Title: Help - I need to Write a Speech Fast!​
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Description: This Keynote is the beginning of a longer workshop (maybe for the fall conference). Yes, you can write an engaging speech in just 5 minutes! Discover a straightforward, step-by-step approach that turns your thoughts into a speech in a flash!
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Create an audience-focused tie-in for your speech.
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Learn a 5 step process to create a speech quickly.
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Wean yourself from excessive notes.
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​Brief Bio: Diane Windingland, owner of Virtual Speech Coach, was originally trained as an engineer, but since 2011, has been speaking, coaching, and writing on communication skills, and has published 10 books. Diane lives with her husband in Spring, TX. and dedicates much of her spare time to Toastmasters International.
15-30 minute max. Mini-Wkshp Presenter
Lindsey Durr
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Meet the PowerTalk Dinner Program Speakers
Educational - Entertaining - Engaging!
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Meeting Program Emcee
Crystal Anderson
Brief Bio: Crystal Anderson has an 18+ year career as an IT Business Analyst and 2 years as an IT Project Manager. Over the years, she has taken note that a team that understands the plan and timeline has the best chance of delivering results on time. She has learned how to communicate a complicated plan in a variety of simple formats, because each team works and communicates differently.
4-6 minute max. Ice Breaker
Latha Lakshamanan
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Brief Bio: Latha comes from a background of Internal Audit and Risk Advisory. She sees trends and patterns within conversations. She loves helping impactful leaders connect dots within their organization so they can support the growth of their people, processes, and performance.
5-7 minute max. Bonus Speaker
Chris Ciccone, SPP
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​Brief Bio: Christine A Ciccone is a wife, mother, and grandmother, and lives in East Bethel, MN. She loves God, family, sewing, reading, baking, and being an Independent Distributor for Reliv International, a nutritional supplement company. She believes helping people is a journey of the heart. Public speaking is also now part of her journey.
10-15 minute max. Keynote
Jacqueline Fiore
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Brief Bio: Jacqueline Fiore is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with 9 years of experience building high-performing teams and driving sustainable business growth both in internal and external settings. She has spent her time in this field focused on employee engagement, performance management, and organizational effectiveness. Jacqueline's broad-based expertise includes strategic planning, coaching, succession planning, and productivity management and improvement. In addition, Jacqueline is a decorated Army veteran and former executive board director. She is dedicated to building effective relationships and providing support to her clients and business partners.
15-30 minute max. Mini-Wkshp
Jane Schuette, M.A/DTM/GPP
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Brief Bio: Jane is an award-winning speaker and author. Her passion is to help you navigate from fear to joy, from tasks gone wrong to positive connections. Throughout a lifetime of research, she has collected the most effective practices and tools designed to educate, energize, and inspire you to build brilliance and create joy.
30-45 minute max. Locknote
Michael Carlton, DTM/SPP
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Brief Bio: When people say your resume should only be one page, Michael says he's glad he's not job hunting. With a plethora of career experience, he is certainly a 2- pager. Michael spent 24 years in the Auto Repair Industry as a mechanic, auto body technician, and a manager for a number of businesses in the Twin Cities area. He transitioned into the insurance industry 9 years ago as an agent and spent a few years in the men's formalwear business. Michael is also a member of Toastmasters International and has held all District Leadership roles including District Director in 2020-2021. Michael currently is a Commercial Lines Account Manager for an independent Insurance Agency.
Meet the PowerTalk Pizza Panel Program Presenters!
Program Format includes 3 keynotes or mini-workshops followed by a Panel Discussion that includes a Q & A session with our workshop presenters.
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Note: No specific meeting theme and no formal evaluations at this event. - Just come enjoy the informal business and social networking, and hear the variety of subject matter expertise presentations, as well as participate with us in the emcee-led audience-participatory discussions.
Crystal Anderson
Meeting Program Emcee
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Brief Bio:
Crystal Anderson has an 18+ year career as an IT Business Analyst and 2 years as an IT Project Manager. Over the years, she has taken note that a team that understands the plan and timeline has the best chance of delivering results on time. She has learned how to communicate a complicated plan in a variety of simple formats, because each team works and communicates differently.
Jane Schuette, M.A/DTM/GPP
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Jane is an award-winning speaker and author. Her passion is to help you navigate from fear to joy, from tasks gone wrong to positive connections. Throughout a lifetime of research, she has collected the most effective practices and tools designed to educate, energize, and inspire you to build brilliance and create joy.​
Leah Skurdal
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Improvising Through Change!
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Rapid change causes many people mental, emotional, and physical stress. We have the tools within to launch a new way of navigating uncertainty. We can adopt an improvisational jazz living approach to life through body-emotion-mind-spirit awareness and respond to change with agility, innovation, and curiosity.
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Anchor core values around which you can pivot during change;
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Strengthen body awareness to feel more grounded when life throws you challenges;
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Reconnect to innate, creative wisdom for clarity, decision-making and resilience.
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Leah Skurdal, event leader and workshop presenter, guides professionals to nurture a resilient body-mind, improve their relationships, and respond to change with agility. She is author of Seeking Serenity: How to Find Your Inner Calm and Joy and is co-author in the #1 Amazon Best-selling Wellness Universe book series.
Latha Lakshmanan
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Latha comes from a background of Internal Audit and Risk Advisory. She sees trends and patterns within conversations. She loves helping impactful leaders connect dots within their organization so they can support the growth of their people, processes, and performance.​