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Joel Bennett

With over 25 years of people development experience, Joel builds improved organizational capacity by providing consulting, customized training, and coaching services to growth-focused businesses. In addition, his expertise in leadership and organizational development, performance management, and change management allows him to assist leaders in tackling challenging employee and team issues. Joel works with clients in a variety of industries but takes pride in being one of the few firms in the Midwest which specializes in developing leaders in blue-collar environments like manufacturing, construction, and field service.

Topic Areas

  • Behavior Change, Change Management, DISC, Leadership, Motivators, Success Habits

Megan Hammes

Megan Hammes, MS, MCHES is the Owner of Hammes Homestead and Consulting based out of Kalona, Iowa. Megan is primarily focused on providing Mental Health First Aid Training to leadership teams and work groups, in addition to a suicide prevention training called Question, Persuade, Refer. Megan will customize workshops to certain industry types with a focus on culture of wellbeing, resilience, and self-care. With a 20+ year career in employee/worksite health and well-being, Megan is driven to make a difference by normalizing conversations around mental health.

Topic Areas

  • Mental Health, Stress Management, Wellness/Wellbeing

Mollie Frideres Smith

Mollie Frideres-Smith has over 25 years of experience in Human Resources working in professional and leadership positions. She works with organizations to empower their teams and outfit them with the tools they need to succeed.

Topic Areas

  • Clifton Strengths, Compliance, DISC, Leadership, Performance Management, Respectful Work Environment, SHRM Recertification, Strategic Planning, Success Habits, Talent Acquisition

Steve Ott

Steve Ott helps leaders and managers transform their workplaces, employees, and themselves through leadership development, coaching, and consulting. Steve has spent the last 12 years working in both the non-profit and private sectors designing and refining a leadership development processes that helps people move from totally lost as a leader to feeling confident and capable.

Topic Areas

  • Behavior Change, Leadership

Barb Ranck

Barb Ranck is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach and Trainer, with a 25+ year career supporting leaders and individuals in corporate environments of all sizes. Barb is dedicated to educating and coaching motivated individuals to apply self-awareness, empathy, and strengths in a way that maximizes their personal and professional potential. Barb works with both leaders and individuals who are driven, responsible, and competent, but aren’t getting the outcomes they really want. Barb’s clients are looking for tools and support to find a way forward that is right for them. Through her own personal journey of self-discovery and maximizing professional and personal energy, Barb has now made it her life’s mission to help others achieve better outcomes within their current circumstances.

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  • Communication, DISC, Enneagram, Self-Awareness, Strengths, Stress Management, Values

Erik Van Roekel

Erik Van Roekel has over 30 years of experience in manufacturing operations, organizational design, and supply chain, with a focus on continuous improvement in work processes. Known for consistently delivering breakthrough supply chain results and building organizational capability, Eric has helped organization not only thrive and exceed their goals but sustain their improvements over time. Eric’s most satisfying work is enabling and encouraging others to deliver results that they never thought possible through training, coaching, and collaboration.

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  • Manufacturing Excellence, Organizational Capability, Supply Chain

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The Proactive Leader

With so much landing on a leader’s plate, it is no wonder that some feel overwhelmed and unable to dig out. In this session, we will discuss how to prioritize our to-do lists through the lens of urgency and importance and explore which tasks should maintain our attention and which should be scrapped entirely.

Leading Change

Leaders must steward the change process, but facilitating change can be challenging, especially at an organization level. In this session, we will explore the organizational ideas or beliefs that may be blocking change, how to view them in a different light, and discuss ways the group can be more open and supportive to change on a daily basis.

Staying Cool Under Fire

Leadership can be challenging, especially when team dynamics or stress create uncomfortable situations. In this session, participants will learn how to leverage their emotional intelligence to deal with and de-escalate emotionally charged situations.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EQ) facilitates our capacity for resilience, motivation, empathy, reasoning, stress management, communication, and ability to read and navigate conflicts. Participants will utilize the EIQ2 assessment to unpack their own strengths and opportunities in this area, examine each facet of emotional awareness and management, and understand how to further improve their own emotional intelligence.

Delegation & Empowerment

Delegating projects and tasks to team members is an important part of a leader’s role, but it’s often challenging to do so in a way that gains ownership and delivers results. Participants will learn a proven process of effective delegation and how to become an empowering leader that encourages their team to rise to higher levels of ownership.

How Can We Help?

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Coaching Hours Bank

A block of shared hours for individual coaching of participants on their own leadership challenges. Each coaching session would utilize a 1-hour slot which would be deducted from the block of total coaching hours. These sessions would be done via video or audio conference at times convenient to the participant. Typical packages include 5, 10, and 20-hour blocks (depending on program length and focus).

Office Hours Session

A standing 60-minute slot for session participants to work through leadership questions, brainstorm action plans, and receive personalized coaching. These sessions would be done via video or audio conference and are provided multiple times throughout the program.

Positive Leadership

According to Gallup, 65% of employees did not receive any form of recognition for their work in the last year. Additionally, those who use their strengths daily are six times more likely to be engaged at work, 8% more productive, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs. How should this impact how we lead? In this session, participants will examine the importance of appreciation and recognition to motivate and engage their teams, as well as how to use strength-based coaching for team development.

Generations in the Workplace

Organizations may employ up to 5 generations in the workplace, but often their leaders struggle to understand how to tailor the way they communicate, engage, develop, and empower each group effectively. In this session, we will examine the faulty assumptions we make about each generation and focus on the common drivers that motivate them all.

Hiring for Success

In today’s tough labor market, sometimes just finding candidates is a challenge. But how do you make sure they have the skills and talents they need to be successful in the role? Participants will learn how to develop a profile for the roles for which they are hiring and develop interview questions that match candidate strengths to their needs.

Building Trust

Developing and maintaining the trust of your team is imperative to strong team dynamics, engagement, and business performance. Participants will learn how their leadership and interactions with team member can impact trust both positively and negatively.

Influence & Accountability

Moving beyond telling people what to do is critical to the success of any leader. Using practical tools and their own real-life situations each participant will learn how to get their team to take on bigger challenges and get more done.

Coaching for Success

Leaders that improve the performance of the team around them are arguably the most valuable assets in successful companies. However, many informal leaders feel powerless to impact their team’s performance. In this session participants will learn simple practices to drive improvement in their work teams.

Understanding and Improving Performance

Getting a clear understanding of what drives performance and the primary causes of underperformance is essential for any coach. In this section, participants will be equipped with the foundation to resolve the root causes of underperformance.

Training Basics

Coaching and training team members is an integral part of a leader's role. Through an understanding of adult learning methodology and real-world practice participants will build their skills on how to effectively train others.

Setting Clear Expectations

A critical element of leading is centered on establishing clear expectations in a way that creates clarity and alignment for a team. In this session participants will learn to translate ambiguity into expectations that can be used daily.

Understanding Behavioral Styles

Participants will each receive an in-depth behavioral style assessment and discover how the ways they work and lead impacts others. Through application of the DiSC, each person will have an opportunity to better understand the people they work with and how to adapt their communication to lead more effectively.