3-5 p.m.
Annual Business Meeting: Celebrating 30 Years of Leadership
President Theresa Zimmerman and the ASHRM board of directors invite you to ASHRM’s Annual Business Meeting & Recognition Event.
Join the celebration of our 30th year of establishing the profession’s leadership role in healthcare. The business meeting highlights accomplishments and applauds volunteers for contributing to our success in 2010. We also welcome President-elect Michelle Hoppes and incoming board members.
The business meeting segues into our dynamic opening keynote …
Victoria LaBalme
Opening Keynote: Crazy, Busy, Nuts: Getting off the Conveyor Belt of Life
Do you wake up stressed just thinking about your day? Does the week feel like a nonstop “conveyor belt” packed with commitments?
Victoria LaBalme draws from her background as a popular film and theater actor to share practical tools for managing the chaos that pervades the healthcare profession. In one high-energy hour, learn how your innate senses of creativity, innovation, authenticity and humor can take your business communication abilities into a new realm – one with positive lasting impact.
9:15-10:15 a.m.
Leanne Kaiser Carlson
Keynote: Breaking Boundaries
What can we do differently now to make the world a better place in the next 30 years?
Weaving great ideas into a compelling multifaceted presentation driven by teaching tales, provocative images and music, healthcare futurist Leanne Kaiser Carlson explores new ways to nurture innovation.
“While the edges of this world are visible in trends and probabilities, the center of futures work is what we can create or shift – our possible and preferable futures,” she asserts.
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Gretchen Rubin
Closing Keynote: The Happiness Project
Everybody can draw up a “happiness project,” an approach to changing your life. Gretchen Rubin is doing that with remarkable success.
She is the best-selling author of The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
, her personal account of one year spent testing every known principle about how to be happy.
Her compelling story can inspire us to embrace the pleasure in our lives and remind us how important it is to have fun.