mPower Lunch: Own the Room

When:  May 23, 2023 from 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM (ET)
Associated with  mPower

Join us for a networking lunch at MBA's Secondary and Capital Markets Conference and Expo, followed by a powerful speaker who coaches us to stop being looked over, talked over and having our ideas taken over. Learn to own the room by using your voice in a way that makes people want to listen. Guest speaker Dethra Giles offers tips to find your voice, mature your voice, love your voice, raise your voice and have a lasting voice.

Featured Speaker: Dethra Giles, 
International Consultant, Best-Selling Author & CEO, ExecuPrep

Dethra Giles is a four-time TEDx speaker, ranked a Top 100 HR Influencers by Engagedly Inc, selected as HR Gazette’s HRchat Pod Top 22 most influential experts in HR, and is a host of the Happily Ever Employed podcast. As the CEO of ExecuPrep, she leads an international Performance Optimization Consulting firm specializing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her methods and impact have earned her the title “University tested, and industry approved.” Her unique blend of advanced education and industry experience provides her the needed expertise to impact executives and high potential teams. Her clients have included Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy, Kaiser Permanente, The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Army Corp of Engineers, and the Salvation Army. Dethra takes her education and years of experience and turns them into results-driven actions for her clients. According to her, every organization can have optimum performance; her job is to make what is present work in a way it had not worked before and provide coaching, training, and structure to fill in the gaps. By optimizing employee performance, organization structure, and leadership Dethra makes magic happen within organizations. She is a top-rated speaker for National SHRM (Society of Human Resources Managers) and an expert at delivering presentations that help build accountable teams and increase productivity. She holds a BA in English and Spanish from Mercer University, an MBA, and a Masters of Science in Conflict Management. She has served as adjunct faculty at the Federal Executive Institute, Georgia State University, Mercer University, and as a faculty member for Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses and the Tory Burch Foundation. According to Dethra, her job is to deliver results to her clients by developing actionable strategies, optimizing performance, and eliminating distractions.

mPower Lunch Sponsored By: ICE Mortgage Technology

Location

New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
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Contact

Amanda Lodato
(202) 5572700
alodato@mba.org