Who will be this year’s Positively Powerful Women? One may be your nominee.

Jan 7, 2016 | 2014 PPWA, Business, collaboration, conference, Diversity & Inclusion, global, leadership, positively powerful woman, PPW Awards, relationships, transformation, Women

2014 PPW Group PhotoAs you think back on our her-story, what women have been “A Positively Powerful Woman”? If there were a special award for this, with social media available to share her story, her organization, the nonprofits she supports and the commitments that motivate her; plus a gala recognizing her leadership as part of a transformational program, who would you nominate? We want to know. Answer the questions below. And thank you!

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Our Positively Powerful Woman Awards shine a light on women who are making a difference and the causes that matter to them. Attendance at the Awards program is open to the general public – women, men and families. For 8 years, this program has provided inspiration, motivation, empowerment and connections to build businesses and professional careers and skills to be a transformational leader anywhere in the world. We shine a light on our honorees in PR, print, websites and social media to empower all people to live their dreams. And we’ve won an award as one the Best Events for Women from Stevie International.

We all make a difference. The question is what kind of difference do we chose to make?

Please answer the three questions below in our comments section. We want to know what you think and who inspires you by her example. And again, thank you.

  1. What makes a woman positively powerful?
  2. Who do you nominate to be an honoree at the 2016 Positively Powerful Woman Awards?
  3. What about them fits this definition for you?

If you want to know about our past recipients, see the photos and videos and learn more about our programs, click here. 

Message from Joel Martin, PhD, Triad West Inc. & Founder:

The experience I want people to leave with at the end of every Positively Powerful Woman Program is that because they attended, their lives will never be the same but better, that they are closer to living their dreams than ever before, and they could as easily be on the stage as any of our recipients with the tools, access and resources that my team and I provide. Our intention is to “fire them up” so that they take action on the vision they have for what matters to them. That’s also my intention in every presentation I produce, speech I give or training I deliver.2016 FB PPWA Photo

 

2016 Positively Powerful Woman Awards Sponsors

Southwest Airlines
SRP
ABC 15
ASU
A Joyous Event
diamond strategies
cox communications
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Treating Students Like Customers: An Enormous Challenge to our Education System

Treating Students Like Customers: An Enormous Challenge to our Education System

Feb 4, 2015 | Diversity & Inclusion, leadership

Treating Students like Customers

treating students like customerssI believe that education is behind the times in the United States in part because the standards for what constitutes a “good education” is embedded in a set of archaic principles from the last century, e.g., the big R’s. New ideas or concepts like CSS (Customer Self Serving) and ZMOT (Zero Moment of Truth) have had an impact on how many companies market and interact with their customers. With a few exceptions (higher education models like Udemy, Edx and Coursera) interactions with students – the educational institution’s customers – have been top down. Treating students like customers is a research and marketing mainstay for corporations who consult young people often about their products and services. Movies, music, video games, clothing, computers, smartphones, sports and athletic accessories industries are going after this young market for their ideas. These same demographics are often ignored when it comes to what it is that they want in an education. Instead the decisions are left up to their parents and school administrators. We live in a marketing-oriented world. All of our institutions must perform according to a need and/or problem to be solved. How best to know what the needs are for students? Do what marketers do…ask them. Treat them like the ultimate customers that they are.

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A Disruptive Technology: Ideas

Students like Customers - Imagination + New Ideas = ChangeOur young people are tasked continually with managing their own future from the days of “and what do you want to be when you grow up?’ to the end game when they discover no matter how much they tried to project into their great unknown,  they didn’t learn what they needed to learn in order to have a successful life – a whole life – let alone what their purpose might be. Ideally, their education should have given them the opportunity to decide what tools they would need early on in their lives; tools that could fuel their imagination, that would take them to concepts and places that fire up their ability to dream and big.

Any generations’ students/youth have different ideas about the world than their parents and teachers had. For today’s students we are an older gen, so we are guessing that what resonates with them are diversity, technology, win win, big data and transparency. That they are concerned about equality, rights (animal, human and the planet) different cultures and happiness. They understand that data is better at telling us what happened then it is in predicting the future and therefore they are not overwhelmed by the past when it is time to be creative about future. Perhaps…if they were asked they might say something entirely different to the educational institutions they learn in today. Assuming that is where “quantum leap educations” are occurring.

Imagination + New Ideas = Change

 

 

 

As we begin to think about next year, let’s add giving “hope, encouragement and praise” to all of our children

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