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WORKSHOPS.

 

 

Henna Inam

Naureen Meraj

Henna Inam is the CEO of Transformational Leadership Inc. a company focused on helping organizations grow their pipeline of female talent.  Clients are Fortune 500 companies including Google, UPS, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), The Coca-Cola Company, J&J, Cox Communications, and Novartis. More info is available at www.transformleaders.tv.

 

Henna’s experience in C-level roles such as Chief Marketing Officer for a $2 billion global business and Region President with over $5oo million

In her corporate career, Henna ran organizations as large as 600 people, including R&D and plant operations. She also has significant global experience, having lived/worked in seven countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.  She is a frequent speaker globally on women’s leadership and a blogger for Forbes. She has appeared on Fox Business and has been quoted in Fortune/CNN/Money online.

 

Henna is committed to several non-profits. She is on the Board of Counselors for Carter Center, the Board of the International Women’s Forum of Georgia, and the organizer of TEDxWomen in Atlanta. Henna got her MBA from the Wharton School and participated in the Executive Education program at the Harvard Business School.

Naureen Meraj is the Senior Global Director for Gamification and Employee Engagement at NTT DATA, Inc, a subsidiary of the 6th largest IT Services Company in the world. She created the Gamification practice in an effort to improve learning, collaboration, sales, customer loyalty and employee productivity across NTT Data's blue-chip client base through the use of game mechanics and immersive game-like experiences. Her team's pioneering work in Gamification has been recognized by InformationWeek as one of the 500 best innovations for 2012 and 2013. Naureen advises corporate leaders around the world on using Gamification to improve their business, and her insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. In addition, Naureen also developed and leads the employee engagement practice, which helps maximize the benefits of an engaged workforce, both for NTT Data and its clients. Meraj graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from University of Washington and a M.Ed. from University of Massachusetts, Boston School of Education and Human Development.

CEO at Transformational Leadership, Inc.

Senior Global Director for Gamification and Employee Engagement at NTT DATA, Inc.

 

Asking Powerfully For What You Want

 

As organizations move toward more matrix structures, leaders need to increasingly learn how to influence across the organization – across functions, geographies, and hierarchies. We need to get our goals accomplished through others over whom we have no direct authority. During this workshop, leaders work through a specific influencing goal they have chosen and learn a five-step process to accomplish their goal. They identify and overcome personal limiting beliefs, learn five different influencing styles, and practice influencing with another participant. They walk out with a specific action plan tailored for their influencing situation as well as a model that they can apply to influence others in the future.

Human-Centered Design Approach to Achieving Innovative Solutions

 

Organizational heads can learn a lot from the way designers generate new concepts and innovations to determine and solve problems. Successful designers often find new ideas in the most unexpected or seemingly ordinary places. Unfortunately businesses, like people, can get fixed in their ways. Sometimes relying on conventional processes of working and solving problems not only inhibits innovation - but can lead to a lack of engagement from both employees and customers alike, resulting in an upsurge of unnecessary costs and decline in efficiency, productivity and loyalty.

 

Participants in this workshop will be given a provocative and fun design challenge. They will learn to use design-thinking principles combined with the appropriate game mechanics to cultivate innovative solutions and solve challenges that potential leaders face in today’s world. This approach will bring forth the deeper human process that inspires the abilities we all have, but get overlooked by more traditional problem-solving tactics. Whether it is for your business or for challenges closer to home, this strategy will give you a new found perspective on ways to achieve your goals.

 

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