2025 Learning Opportunities

Join us in 2025

 Join humanworks8 all year long for interactive workshops that address opportunities for elevating organizational culture. 

Each workshop engages participants in reflection, learning and action, leaving leaders with sustainable people practices to carry into the future, along with tools and takeaways to implement the next day. 

We’re grateful for our partnership with the North Shore and Wisconsin LGBT Chambers of Commerce to make these sessions possible, and to all site hosts for welcoming us. Partnerships are noted in session descriptions.

2025 Learning Sessions

January 30: Creating a Culture of Belonging

January 30 | 9:00-11:00am | Virtual via Zoom

How can we create habits that lead to cultural belonging and a renewed sense of mattering? What “bubbles” can we burst that lead to new perspectives and openness? Let’s strengthen the engagement of your workforce, whether through one Employee Resource Group or an organization-wide movement on mattering. This workshop will include storytelling of personal experiences and use of unique images to build one’s confidence and empowerment in the workplace. Expect tools and tactics that will jumpstart efforts and provide direction for employees of all levels to have an impact on belonging and mattering across their organization.

In partnership with the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

February 26: Authoring Your Personal Core Values

February 26 | 9:30-11:00am | Milwaukee

Everyone has core values, but few people ever write them down or share them with others. When captured and applied, core values provide clarity, energy and aliveness to individuals and entire businesses. They are a powerful differentiator that attract and connect individuals and organizations to each other. Explore the value and power of authoring personal core values and the importance of organizational core values in leadership roles. Develop values language you can use to distinguish yourself, make decisions and build confidence whether you’re a firmly established leader, just beginning a leadership journey or anywhere in between. Strengthen your ability to align individual and organizational core values resulting in better hiring decisions, more meaningful employee relationships, clearer vision and stronger decision making.

In partnership with the North Shore Chamber of Commerce.

April 8: Authoring Your Personal Core Values

April 8 | 9:00-11:00am | Madison

Everyone has core values, but few people ever write them down or share them with others. When captured and applied, core values provide clarity, energy and aliveness to individuals and entire businesses. They are a powerful differentiator that attract and connect individuals and organizations to each other. Explore the value and power of authoring personal core values and the importance of organizational core values in leadership roles. Develop values language you can use to distinguish yourself, make decisions and build confidence whether you’re a firmly established leader, just beginning a leadership journey or anywhere in between. Strengthen your ability to align individual and organizational core values resulting in better hiring decisions, more meaningful employee relationships, clearer vision and stronger decision making.

In partnership with the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

May 28: The Missing Piece: Understanding People & Productivity with Conation

May 28 | 9:30-11:00am | Milwaukee

There’s something missing from the productivity conversation in our workplaces, and it has to do with how we understand one another. We tend to see people in terms of their cognitive traits (their knowledge and experience) as well as their affective qualities (their emotions and beliefs) … but that only accounts for two parts of a person’s mind. There’s another way to understand people and it’s completely separate from how we think or what we feel – there’s a third part of our minds. This session will introduce attendees to Kathy Kolbe’s research on the conative part of the mind, the innate drive within all of us to take action and solve problems in our own unique way. This session will illustrate the importance of conation in understanding people and productivity and answer the question, “Why do people need to be free to do things their way?” (And what happens when they are not?) Explore the implications of understanding all three parts of the mind, and how that understanding can be used by managers and employees to reduce stress and burnout, strengthen relationships and foster greater productivity in the workplace.

In partnership with the North Shore Chamber of Commerce.

June 11: The Missing Piece: Understanding People & Productivity with Conation

June 11 | 9:00-11:00am | Fox Valley

There’s something missing from the productivity conversation in our workplaces, and it has to do with how we understand one another. We tend to see people in terms of their cognitive traits (their knowledge and experience) as well as their affective qualities (their emotions and beliefs) … but that only accounts for two parts of a person’s mind. There’s another way to understand people and it’s completely separate from how we think or what we feel – there’s a third part of our minds. This session will introduce attendees to Kathy Kolbe’s research on the conative part of the mind, the innate drive within all of us to take action and solve problems in our own unique way. This session will illustrate the importance of conation in understanding people and productivity and answer the question, “Why do people need to be free to do things their way?” (And what happens when they are not?) Explore the implications of understanding all three parts of the mind, and how that understanding can be used by managers and employees to reduce stress and burnout, strengthen relationships and foster greater productivity in the workplace.

In partnership with the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

August 26: The Gift of Critical Feedback

August 26 | 9:30-11:00am | Milwaukee

Do you see critical feedback at a “gift?” Giving and receiving feedback is an essential capability for people-leaders and team members alike, but it’s also one of the most challenging interpersonal skills to develop. In this “train-the-trainer-style” workshop, participants will explore practical tactics for effectively giving “the gift” of critical feedback as well as how to receive feedback from others with gratitude, empathy and confidence.

In partnership with the North Shore Chamber of Commerce.

Register here.

September 9: The Gift of Critical Feedback

September 9 | 9:00-11:00am | Madison

Do you see critical feedback at a “gift?” Giving and receiving feedback is an essential capability for people-leaders and team members alike, but it’s also one of the most challenging interpersonal skills to develop. In this “train-the-trainer-style” workshop, participants will explore practical tactics for effectively giving “the gift” of critical feedback as well as how to receive feedback from others with gratitude, empathy and confidence.

In partnership with the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Register here.

October 28: Creating a Culture of Belonging

October 28 | 9:30-11:00am | Milwaukee

How can we create habits that lead to cultural belonging and a renewed sense of mattering? What “bubbles” can we burst that lead to new perspectives and openness? Let’s strengthen the engagement of your workforce, whether through one Employee Resource Group or an organization-wide movement on mattering. This workshop will include storytelling of personal experiences and use of unique images to build one’s confidence and empowerment in the workplace. Expect tools and tactics that will jumpstart efforts and provide direction for employees of all levels to have an impact on belonging and mattering across their organization.

In partnership with the North Shore Chamber of Commerce.

Register here.

November 19: Building a Gratitude Practice

November 19 | 9:00-11:00am | Milwaukee

Take a moment to meaningfully pause. Learn and discover the value in building a gratitude practice as we share 10 gratitude principles that can change your life and form a foundation for your future outlook. humanworks8 will lead participants through gratitude activities, and participants will leave with a new perspective as well as immediate actions to take with them as they set the foundation for their active gratitude practice.

In partnership with the WI LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

Register here.

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Registration is open for all upcoming sessions. Click on the session date and name above to access registration link.