LEADERSHIP LESSONS LEARNED FROM LIVESTOCK
A workshop and keynote presentation by Vickie J. Maris
BIO
Learn from Vickie in this fun and interesting workshop as she shares ideas and tools for teamwork that stem from her unique perspective. Her varied career paths in farm owning and animal training to higher education, corporate America and business owner Teach Inspire connect / Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors, provides her with a unique combination of perspectives to bring to the table.
She consults in team development and communications and customer relationship strategy. She is an experienced digital marketer in the executive education space. With a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification and a strong focus in project management, you will often find her viewing projects through those lenses. Her career spans over 30 years in industry and higher education.
During her 20+ years at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame, she was a two-time award winner in the College of Engineering (Purdue) where she formed and led the team that was responsible for the development and launch of online certification courses for business professionals in Lean Six Sigma and Project Management.
You can hire Vickie to speak on team development and leadership; lessons from llamas translated to business and on the tech subject of preparing your online content for discoverability in voice search (how your content is found in voice search when a customer asks questions of a smart speaker or digital voice assistant).
In her previous work as a learning experience designer, she has given talks on online course design on multiple occasions at the OLC Accelerate Conference and the Conference on Professional, Management and Executive Development.
She has been a keynote speaker with her Leadership Lessons Learned From Livestock presentation during the state-wide training conference held at the Governor’s Center for Management Development at the University of Texas – Austin.
Vickie has served on the board of the Conference on Management, Executive and Professional Development (CMED). She is a Certified Master Trainer of Zenger-Miller Facilitation Skills. In this role, she has trained other facilitators at Purdue University.
In 2021, she was accepted as an Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors (Wiley brands) and is now also a certified trainer Everything DiSC. You can order your assessments, such as Everything DiSC Workplace or Everything DiSC Productive Conflict, through Vickie or you can hire her to facilitate your next session around these subjects (and other subjects in the Wiley portfolio).
Vickie is a professional animal handler and trainer and has shown animals since her youth. She and her husband, Scott, run a hobby-size farm in Indiana in the USA where they live with her Connemara, a small herd of llamas, a few show rabbits, and their cat, KittyBigs (a once-feral cat now turned house cat).
She has trained several of her lamas for performance and packing, and they have been recognized in the Top 10 in the nation in the International Lama Registry Universal Awards Program.
Her late Connemara pony stallion, also trained by Vickie, was honored in 2002 with the An Tostal Hall of Fame Trophy by the American Connemara Pony Society for Outstanding Performance.
Vickie earned a B.S. degree in agricultural communications and an M.S. Ed in learning design and technology from Purdue. In addition to the certifications earned through Wiley that have already been mentioned, she holds a Certificate in Digital Marketing - University of Notre Dame.
Come away from this session with ideas for:
- Nurturing healthy team environments
- Recognizing and valuing the diversity of roles and skill sets of team members
- Getting your team unstuck and back on a productive path
- Capitalizing on the variety of assets brought to the table by the varied generations in the workforce today
- Recognizing and rewarding your teams
BIO
Learn from Vickie in this fun and interesting workshop as she shares ideas and tools for teamwork that stem from her unique perspective. Her varied career paths in farm owning and animal training to higher education, corporate America and business owner Teach Inspire connect / Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors, provides her with a unique combination of perspectives to bring to the table.
She consults in team development and communications and customer relationship strategy. She is an experienced digital marketer in the executive education space. With a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification and a strong focus in project management, you will often find her viewing projects through those lenses. Her career spans over 30 years in industry and higher education.
During her 20+ years at Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame, she was a two-time award winner in the College of Engineering (Purdue) where she formed and led the team that was responsible for the development and launch of online certification courses for business professionals in Lean Six Sigma and Project Management.
You can hire Vickie to speak on team development and leadership; lessons from llamas translated to business and on the tech subject of preparing your online content for discoverability in voice search (how your content is found in voice search when a customer asks questions of a smart speaker or digital voice assistant).
In her previous work as a learning experience designer, she has given talks on online course design on multiple occasions at the OLC Accelerate Conference and the Conference on Professional, Management and Executive Development.
She has been a keynote speaker with her Leadership Lessons Learned From Livestock presentation during the state-wide training conference held at the Governor’s Center for Management Development at the University of Texas – Austin.
Vickie has served on the board of the Conference on Management, Executive and Professional Development (CMED). She is a Certified Master Trainer of Zenger-Miller Facilitation Skills. In this role, she has trained other facilitators at Purdue University.
In 2021, she was accepted as an Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors (Wiley brands) and is now also a certified trainer Everything DiSC. You can order your assessments, such as Everything DiSC Workplace or Everything DiSC Productive Conflict, through Vickie or you can hire her to facilitate your next session around these subjects (and other subjects in the Wiley portfolio).
Vickie is a professional animal handler and trainer and has shown animals since her youth. She and her husband, Scott, run a hobby-size farm in Indiana in the USA where they live with her Connemara, a small herd of llamas, a few show rabbits, and their cat, KittyBigs (a once-feral cat now turned house cat).
She has trained several of her lamas for performance and packing, and they have been recognized in the Top 10 in the nation in the International Lama Registry Universal Awards Program.
Her late Connemara pony stallion, also trained by Vickie, was honored in 2002 with the An Tostal Hall of Fame Trophy by the American Connemara Pony Society for Outstanding Performance.
Vickie earned a B.S. degree in agricultural communications and an M.S. Ed in learning design and technology from Purdue. In addition to the certifications earned through Wiley that have already been mentioned, she holds a Certificate in Digital Marketing - University of Notre Dame.
Come away from this session with ideas for:
- Nurturing healthy team environments
- Recognizing and valuing the diversity of roles and skill sets of team members
- Getting your team unstuck and back on a productive path
- Capitalizing on the variety of assets brought to the table by the varied generations in the workforce today
- Recognizing and rewarding your teams
