Odete Pinho & The Informational Interview

photo by: Gabrielle Attias, Gr. 10

 “Informational Interviews Skills Workshop”

What will be covered?

In this workshop, Odete will share her experiences and will lead participants through several practical role-playing exercises, so that they too will enjoy and be skilled in conducting effective informational interviews. This workshop is designed to be practical and participatory. Exercises will include strategically identifying which organizations and who you should interview, requesting and conducting the information interview, the questions to ask during the meeting, following up with contacts, and pursuing ‘leads’ to achieve your professional career goals.

Learn how to prepare for and set up informational interviews

Prepare informational interview questions and understand how to conduct an information interview

Practice informational interview techniques

Develop effective follow-up skills

Facilitated by Odete Pinho

Community Planning Consultant, Agora Planning

Odete has been a mentor with the YWCA mentorship programs since 2008. Professionally, Odete is a land use planner, who has worked with leading Vancouver-based sustainability planning firms. She acquired these positions by conducting over 100 informational interviews over the course of a five month period in 2008. Currently, Odete is a Community Planning Consultant with her own firm, Agora Planning.

Drew Dudley & Everyday Leadership

Drew Dudley

Drew Dudley, Nuance Leadership Inc.

Drew Dudley

Our guest today is the Founder & Chief Catalyst of Nuance Leadership Inc., which helps organizations around the world increase their leadership capacity.  His clients have included some of the world’s most dynamic companies and organizations, including Dreamworks Animation, JP Morgan Chase, and over 75 colleges and universities.

Prior to founding Nuance, he spent 8 years as the Director of one of Canada’s largest leadership development programs at the University of Toronto, and served as National Chair of Shinerama, which mobilized 35,000 volunteers to raise a million dollars annually to support the work of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

Drew has spoken to over 250,000 people on 5 continents, been featured on The Huffington Post, Radio America, Forbes.com, and TED.com, where his “TED talk” has been voted “one of the 15 most inspirational TED talks of all time” with millions of views around the web.

His friends will tell you that he would be significantly more impressive if he didn’t have an embarrassingly large stuffed penguin collection for a grown man.

Ladies and Gentlemen............................please welcome Drew Dudley!

https://www.ted.com/speakers/drew_dudley

http://drewdudley.com/

By the way....the presentation that Drew did at LFAS was not the one he usually gives to high school students. He gave a similar speech to the one he does for "Corporate" clients (as in the one he would normally bill $15,000 for) because he thought you were all advanced enough to handle it. How lucky are we?!!! This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and as a thank you, I expect you all to do your BEST WORK when you create your responses. Here are some ideas on what you could do:

1. Write Drew a personal "thank you" letter (make sure it's legible!)
2. Type 3 paragraphs:  What?/So what?/Now what?
3. Create a poem or a song
4. Visual Response using collage, text, and/or drawing

~Ms. Echols will be colour copying all your responses and turning them into a book that we will send to Drew as a big "Thank You!"