Capability, Adaptability, Visibility: How to Move Ahead in Your Organization and in Your Life

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How competent are you? How do you handle change? How do you market yourself and handle the politics within an organization? A great deal has been written, analyzed and discussed about these topics. There are countless books on these topics and many clichéd approaches to developing these and other related "abilities."

Today's program will scratch the surface and examine the underlying issues that can help all of us...wherever we are in our careers or in our personal lives. For the same principles apply to each of these areas and may help us truly move ahead personally as well as professionally: focus, responsibility, planning.

If we understand and accept the importance of these aspects of leading a life that matters, then we will have achieved success – for we will have come to understand what success means for each of us and what we must do to achieve it.

This program will consist of a lecture, break-out meetings with exercises and case studies for discussion on these topics.

Materials are taken from the workbook appended to Marie Kisiel's latest book, A Working Life: An Integrative Approach to Managing Your Career and Achieving Your Personal Goals.

Marie Kisiel, PhD, is Executive Director of Carrus Educational Resources.

Professor Emerita of Humanities at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses; and designed and directed Partners in Corporate Education, The Master of Arts in Training and Development Program, The Management Institute, and the Discovery Workshop for Women.

She has taught courses in research and writing, critical thinking, creativity in the workplace, human resources and career planning, management, consulting and communication skills, literature, public administration, sociology and psychology at Duquesne University, Northern Illinois University, Mallinckrodt-Loyola University, Canisius College, and Benedictine University.

Career counselor and consultant to the federal government, major corporations and retiring business executives; she is a certified Myers-Briggs trainer, an experienced expert witness on vocational issues and has lectured extensively on topics of women in the workforce, career changing, job search strategies and management skills.

A firm advocate of lifelong learning and living a life of purpose, she has served on commissions and advisory boards of higher education, served as consultant to Glamour Magazine and The Wall Street Journal, co-hosted the Women in Non-traditional Roles radio talk show, and was guest columnist on careers for the Chicago Tribune.

Her educational background includes study in the humanities, sociology and psychology. She earned a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Arts from Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Education from Duquesne University. She has also studied and completed research at Carnegie-Mellon University, The University of Florence in Italy, The Shakespeare Institute in England, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of: The American Association of University Women, Women in the Arts, American Board of Vocational Experts, Women in Management, Friends of the Library, Winfield United for a Better Community.

Her publications include: Velvet Voice: A Literary Portrait of Elinor Wylie; Design for Change; How to Get a Job as a Paralegal; Presentation Skills for Professionals; Learning to Learn; Strategies in Adult Learning; A Working Life: An Integrative Approach to Managing Your Career and Achieving Your Personal Goals. Her articles have appeared in The National Business Employment Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Today's Women in Chicago.

Marie has been named Outstanding Teacher of the Year, American Philosophical Society Penrose Scholar, Member of the Illinois Project on Adult Learning; received awards from the federal government and private industry, received the Women of the Year Award in the I. Magnin Lecture Series and has been listed in the Who's Who of American Women.

Her newest role is Publisher of a community newspaper, The Winfield Post.