The One Thing You Wish You Knew Sooner

What if one simple realization could transform the way you lead, communicate, and connect with others?

Register now to join Oleg Lougheed for a virtual session.

Session Overview

In this 60-minute session, we'll explore the one thing that can transform the way we live and connect with others: understanding the impact we have on those around us. Whether in personal relationships, work environments, or casual encounters, the effect of our words, actions, and presence is far greater than we often realize. Through reflection, storytelling, and practical insights, this presentation will encourage you to recognize your unique influence and show you how embracing this awareness can lead to deeper connections, better decisions, and a more intentional life.

Session Learning Objectives:

• Increase Self-Awareness of Personal Impact: Understand the profound influence your words, actions, and presence have on others in various contexts (personal, work, and casual settings), and learn how to recognize these impacts in real-time interactions.
•  Enhance Communication and Relationship-Building Skills: Develop strategies for using your influence intentionally to foster deeper connections, improve communication, and create more positive and productive interactions with others.
•  Apply Emotional Intelligence for Better Decision-Making: Learn how to leverage emotional intelligence to make more intentional decisions, both personally and professionally, that lead to stronger relationships and more effective leadership.

About the Presenter

Oleg Lougheed is a nationally recognized speaker and the founder of Moments Worth Remembering, who has turned some of his life's hardest moments into lessons and gifts to learn from. Inspired by John Kralik’s, "365 Thank Yous", he transformed a childhood marked by loss and separation into a mission to help others heal and see the good in every experience. Guided by gratitude, Oleg inspires audiences to forgive, connect, and appreciate the people who shape their lives. Whether through a heartfelt note, a genuine conversation, or an act of kindness, he continues to remind others that no matter how hard life gets, there’s always something to be grateful for. His work has been featured on TED, FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS stations across the country. Learn more about Oleg at https://www.momentsworthremembering.com/ or LinkedIn.

Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be issued if the cancellation request is made on or before 5 calendar days before the scheduled program. Please email events@tdmaine.org with your inquiries.

Designing for Impact: Leveraging Manager Partnerships to Make Learning Stick

Register now to join Allegra Robinsonfor a virtual session.

Session Overview

Many learning programs rely on managers to reinforce key behaviors, but few are intentionally designed with manager involvement in mind. The result? Strong training experiences that struggle to translate into sustained behavior change.

This session explores how to move beyond reliance and toward intentional design by leveraging manager partnership as a core driver of learning impact. Using a real-world onboarding transformation as a case example, participants will be introduced to a practical framework for aligning leaders, enabling managers with simple and actionable tools, and reinforcing learning in the flow of work.

Attendees will leave with clear strategies to design programs that fit the realities of the workplace, helping turn insight into everyday behavior and driving measurable impact across their organizations.

Many organizations recognize that manager involvement is critical to learning success, but most programs are not intentionally designed to support manager behavior in a way that is realistic and sustainable. The result is familiar: training creates strong initial engagement, but that momentum quickly fades when it comes time to apply learning on the job.

This session connects directly to the theme of turning insight into impact by focusing on what actually drives behavior change after the training ends. It challenges the idea that manager involvement is a buy-in problem and reframes it as a design opportunity.

Grounded in a real-world onboarding transformation, this session shares how manager partnership can be built into the structure of a program through clear alignment, simple and actionable expectations, and consistent reinforcement over time. Rather than asking more of managers, participants will explore how to design for the way managers already work.

About the Presenter

Allegra Robinson is a Learning & Development Specialist in the financial services industry who helps leaders build psychologically safe environments that enable team growth. She designs practical, human-centered learning experiences that drive real behavior change by leveraging creativity, play, business strategy, and structure in problem solving. With a background in hospitality leadership, Allegra brings a frontline perspective to corporate training: she prioritizes simplicity, relevance, and application in fast-paced environments. At Northern Bank, she leads onboarding and development initiatives focused on leader enablement, psychological safety, and learning embedded in everyday work. Allegra is passionate about bridging the gap between learning design and real-world execution by creating programs that not only engage learners, but meaningfully change how work gets done.

Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be issued if the cancellation request is made on or before 5 calendar days before the scheduled program. Please email events@tdmaine.org with your inquiries.

From Reflection to Outcomes: Increasing Self Awareness with the Johari Window

How do we translate self-awareness from an abstract concept into a skill people can actually build and apply effectively?

Register now to join Rachel Briggs for a virtual session.

Session Overview

Most leaders believe they understand themselves. However, leaders often operate with an incomplete and inaccurate understanding of themselves, and this gap has real consequences for team performance, morale, and retention. While self-awareness is frequently treated as abstract or intangible, it is both teachable and measurable. We need structured, practical methods for developing it. We do not have full access to how we are perceived by others, nor do we naturally surface all relevant information about ourselves. As a result, improving self-awareness requires intentional tools and processes—not just reflection. The Johari Window offers a powerful and flexible framework for doing this work. This interactive workshop leverages the Johari Window as a practical framework for building self-awareness through direct application. Participants will not only use the model to examine and expand their own self-awareness, but also analyze how it can be intentionally designed into learning experiences across a variety of learning and organizational contexts.

This session directly responds to the theme From Insight to Impact by addressing a persistent challenge in talent development: translating self-awareness into meaningful behavior change and measurable team outcomes. While self-awareness is widely recognized as a core component of emotional intelligence, it is often treated as abstract, difficult to develop, and disconnected from performance. This session reframes self-awareness as a concrete, teachable skill that can be intentionally developed and applied to improve communication, feedback systems, and team effectiveness.

Using the Johari Window as a central framework, participants will explore how gaps in feedback and self-disclosure—particularly within the “Blind” and “Hidden” quadrants—can negatively impact trust, decision-making, and collaboration. This topic is highly relevant to talent and learning development professionals, particularly in the context of current priorities such as coaching and feedback systems, leadership development, and behavior change. The session also aligns with growing emphasis in the field on designing learning experiences that go beyond awareness to drive application and measurable impact. Participants will not only engage with the Johari Window as a personal development tool, but also examine how it can be used as a flexible instructional design framework across a range of learning contexts, including leadership programs to team-based interventions.

Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies they can immediately apply, including methods for diagnosing communication breakdowns, facilitating more effective feedback exchanges, and designing learning experiences that build self-awareness in structured and measurable ways. These applications support improved team performance, increased engagement, and stronger alignment across individuals and teams. The session is grounded in established research on interpersonal communication, feedback, and group dynamics, including the foundational work of Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. It is further informed by contemporary research on emotional intelligence, psychological safety, and team development, all of which highlight the critical role of self-awareness and open information exchange in driving effective leadership and organizational performance.

About the Presenter

Rachel Briggs, Ph.D., is a seasoned Learning and Development leader with over 15 years of experience designing and managing impactful training programs across diverse industries. A skilled facilitator, instructional designer, and program manager, she brings expertise in emotional intelligence, adult learning, and strategic communication. Rachel has led high-visibility onboarding, e-learning, and professional development initiatives in both corporate and academic settings. She is also a published author and editor with a strong record of collaborative leadership. Rachel holds advanced degrees in Communication and Diversity Education and excels in using data-driven strategies to foster workforce engagement in remote and hybrid environments.

Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be issued if the cancellation request is made on or before 5 calendar days before the scheduled program. Please email events@tdmaine.org with your inquiries.