Community Event:
Creativity and Storytelling for Aspiring, New and Seasoned Career Coaches
Presenter: Jim Ognibene, M.Ed.
Location: Virtual (a Zoom link will be sent a few days before the event)
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
Each client has a story; of course they do. We all have a story! Our life from the day we were born to this very moment is the story of our life. How is your story unfolding? Are you and your inner circle creating your world or is it heavily influenced by external elements. What happens when you bring the “story” template to your career coaching clients? For some clients, framing their life as a story resonates and can add clarity and insight helping define what is next for them.
Creativity as a competency has moved the center stage in the workplace in the last decade. We will take a deep dive into what it means “to create”, in both a personal and professional context. Are we creating our own story? Is your client creating their own story? How do we set the stage for making sure we are creating our own life (and not someone elses)? When we understand how to personally “move” in creative spaces, we can model that for our clients.
Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor at the University of Chicago, led a multi-year study at the lives of 91 successful women and men on creativity. His research gives us a close and intimate look at what makes people creative in his 1996 book entitled: Creativity – the flow and psychology of discover and invention. Facilitator will share some of the authors findings and how it can empower our work with clients.
This online workshop will provide insight and actionable steps for helping you help your client see the unique path they have been on and how “moving to create” and telling their own story can help them build a rich, dynamic, fulfilling life.
About Jim:
Jim is a Group Learning Catalyst, Keynote Speaker, Career Coach and Consultant. Jim’s passion is helping both individuals and organizations set and reach personal and professional goals. As a freelance consultant, he helps develop managers and employees in non-profit organizations such as human services and city and state government. As a career coach, he primarily serves those seeking to transition to a new line of work. 90% of his clients are between the ages of 25-45. His five session, Career Exploration Intensive, is designed to help clients with very focused and intentional self-discovery aiding the path towards the best fit career.
Jim has been deeply immersed in the field of Organizational and Talent Development full time for almost three decades. He and his team have designed leadership development, teambuilding, agile management and customer service programs while Jim has personally delivered over 1,400 workshops over a 28-year period. He has grown tremendously through giving and receiving many one on one coaching and mentoring sessions. During his last full-time employment, he and his team designed and directed an eight-month Emerging Leader Program empowering high potential employees to develop new skills and competencies as the next generation of leaders. Jim also served as project manager and facilitator of workplace engagement interventions to build cohesion during periods of hyper organizational change.
Jim has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing from George Mason University, Virginia and a Master of Education in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His own professional development includes the following certifications, conferences and training programs: Facilitating Career Development Certificate Program, National Career Development Association Certified Career Transition Coach (CCTC), Career Thought Leaders, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualifying Program; Learning and Leadership Conference, Human Capital Institute; Appreciative Inquiry: Social Constructionism Conference, TAOS Institute; Project Management: Skills for Success, Learning Tree; Organizational Design and Analysis, Linkage; Exploring Leadership Conference, Training Officers Consortium; Consultraining: Trainer as Internal Consultant, American Management Association.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Training Advisory Council, a board envisioning the future of training and development for the ninety-five state agencies in the Administration and Finance Secretariat. Jim is an avid photographer enhanced by his coursework at the New England School of Photography in Boston. He is chair of the Social Outreach Committee at the First Church in Salem and regularly serves as a volunteer in the kitchen at Lifebridge and assists with food distribution on Saturday mornings at the Salem Pantry.
