WORK is a pop-up conference exploring creative and entrepreneurial approaches to work.
• SETTING PRIORITIES and saying hello •
ONE BIG ZOOM ROOM
10:00 AM TO 10:30 AM CT
A digital group gathering led by the bbatx team to start the day and meet everyone in the Zoom room.
• WORKSHOP ONE: CULTIVATING CREATIVITY IN YOUR LIFE AND WORK •
ONE BIG ZOOM ROOM
10:30 TO 11:30 AM CT
A live, interactive workshop with Stephanie Felix, founder of Storied and the Senior Manager of Learning, Inclusion and Diversity at Glassdoor. In this session, you will:
Take the best practices of an incubator to foster creativity
Bring projects and ideas to the session, even if they are in fledgling stage
Identify long term thought/accountability partners
Share ideas with an audience for questions, feedback, constructive criticism, positive affirmation - a safe space to build on a creative foundation
Engage in design thinking
Stephanie Felix honors her Afro-Taíno heritage with every step she takes. She spent her childhood on the shores of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands before moving to Miami for college. She moved to attend Columbia University graduate school studying Organizational Psychology and she spent 10 magical years in New York City dream chasing. She recently pursued her cowgirl aspirations by moving to Austin, Texas. The love of her life is STORIED, an intersectional space to share the stories of women. She is a storyteller, strategist, creative and expert in cultural intelligence and community building.
• EXAMINING YOUR VALUES IN THE WORKPLACE •
one big zoom room
11:30 AM TO 12:30 PM CT
In this session, educators Pamela Benson-Owens and Briona Jenkins will discuss actionable, realistic next steps for pursuing conversations and change in the workplace around equity and anti-racism.
This is Part Two of a conversation they held with us in 2020, exploring personal and community approaches to anti-racism. You can watch that workshop for free here.
Pamela Benson Owens is the President and CEO of Edge of Your Seat Consulting, Inc and is currently serving as the Acting Executive Director of Six Square. For 23+ years Pam has owned Edge of Your Seat Consulting, a unique consulting firm that is dedicated to assisting for-profit, nonprofit, and faith-based entities. The major focus of Edge of Your Seat Consulting, Inc., is to provide methodologies that help manage perceptions and narratives about complex and challenging issues with courage and strategic passion. Pam feels she is most effective when she partners with organizations from the inside out in order to streamline the hierarchical needs, create infrastructure, coach teams, shift organizational cultures and, of most importance, help leaders become more effective.
Given the title, “The love child of Oprah, Beyonce, and Michelle Obama,” Briona Jenkins is a public speaker, activist for the LGBTQIA+, female, and people of color communities, and has years of experience using her platform to evoke change.
Bri has over eight years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She has worked for a variety of organizations where she was able to serve adults and children with developmental disabilities, single adults and families experiencing homelessness, and was in development and community engagement at an organization that serves LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults. She currently runs her own business, Briona Jenkins Consulting, and works as the Director of Development for Austin Justice Coalition.
• A COMMUNITY LUNCH BREAK •
BREAKOUT ZOOM ROOMS
12:30 PM to 1:00 PM CT
We’ll take a minute to Zoom out for lunch. You can step away, or stay online with us for some networking break outs, based on our How To Network Like A Human Being guide.
• Launching a skincare brand in a pandemic •
ONE BIG ZOOM ROOM
1:00 TO 2:00 PM CT
Led by Troupe Beauty founders Chelsie Rose Kern and Jillian Ouellette, this session will look at how the two founders have adapted their brand and business model after a launch in June 2020. They’ll share how they center financial self-care and social impact, challenge beauty industry norms and what it took to bring in more than $35,000 in revenue during their first six months, without outside investment.
