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Denver, CO

We are excited to announce that InteraWorks CEO Laurie Oswald has been nominated for the prestigious 2022 ATHENA Award in Nashville, Tennessee. Now in its 32^nd year, the annual award celebrates women who demonstrate excellence, creativity and initiative in their profession, contribute to their community, and unselfish assistance to women and women’s issues.

“I am incredibly honored to be nominated alongside so many amazing women, all of whom are changing the landscape for professional women at all levels,” said Oswald, a first-time nominee. “I look around me and am both humbled and inspired by the other nominees. The impact we’ve made individually and collectively continues to create more support, resources, and opportunities for women to rise and lead. It makes me hopeful and excited about the future.”

Previous ATHENA Award winners include Middle Tennessee luminaries Mendy Mazzo, corporate senior vice president of national business development at Skanska USA, Kee Bryant-McCormick, an attorney with Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC, Katherine Brown, Director of Communications for the Tennessee Community Engaged Alliance Against COVID-19 (TNCEAL), Nancy Corley, attorney with Corley Henard Lyle Langford PLC, Linda Peek Schacht, founding director of Lipscomb University’s Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership, and DarKenya W. Waller, JD, MBA, Executive Director at Legal Aid Society of Middle TN and the Cumberlands.

Named for the mythological Greek goddess of the same name. Athena represents attributes including wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, strength, strategy, and skill. Her spirit lives on in women who use their vision and persistence daily to excel, while reaching out to open doors and blaze new trails for others to follow.

Each year, during Women’s History Month in March, Nashville joins more than 500 communities throughout the United States, Canada, China, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Bermuda, Greece, India, and the United Kingdom in honoring exceptional women leaders who inspire others to achieve excellence in their own professional and personal lives.

Under the auspices of Cable, Tennessee’s premier leadership organization for women’s professional advancement, this year’s ATHENA Award ceremony will be held March 31^st in Nashville. In addition, the ceremony includes the ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award and Scholarship. The scholarship was created in 2011 to highlight emerging women leaders between the ages of 25-40 who demonstrate excellence in their profession and improve the quality of life for others in the community while serving as role models for other young women both personally and professionally.

The 32nd Annual Nashville ATHENA Award and Scholarship Program will be held on Thursday, March 31, 2022.

Learn more about the Athena Awards here: https://nashvillecable.org/advocacy/athena/

Contact:

Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Relationship Lead
cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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About InteraWorks: InteraWorks is a global learning company on a mission to elevate the human experience at work. Specializing in professional development and performance enablement, they offer top-rated learning programs including Effective Edge, Best Year Yet, and the Essentials series. Their integrated learning framework and online tools generate immediate and sustainable breakthroughs in performance. Through decades of working at all levels in enterprise companies across many industries, they’ve built a reputation for helping people and organizations harness their focus, mindset, talent and energy to produce results that matter most. www.interaworks.com

Denver, CO

Global learning and development company InteraWorks continues to expand with the recent acquisition of Denver-based McGhee Productivity Solutions. The addition moves InteraWorks and its mission forward on multiple fronts as the company continues to redefine learning and development in the workplace.

McGhee Productivity Solutions is a longtime industry leader helping enterprise companies create cultures of productivity through coaching, training, and change management programs. Their blended-learning portfolio provides professionals with skills and systems to execute at higher levels and increase well-being along the way. They are well known around the world for their Take Back Your Life! productivity programs and thought leadership as well as planning and accountability programs for teams, executive coaching and more.

“Our businesses share a commitment to helping organizations and the people in them generate more of the results they want in business and in life,” said InteraWorks CEO Laurie Oswald. “InteraWorks is now more well-positioned than ever to help companies who value their human capital most of all to develop, engage, and empower the leaders of tomorrow.” InteraWorks Managing Partner Anne McGhee-Stinson shared, “Our collective portfolios are meant to be together particularly to serve our clients and the challenges they face at this time.” Laurie added, “The combined company will reflect an expansion of capacity, content, technology, ideas, geographic coverage, and terrific additions to our talented team. We expect to be operating as one company by mid-year 2022 with integration activities already underway.”

For more information on McGhee Productivity Solutions, please visit www.mcgheepro.com.

Contact:
Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Relationship Lead
cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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About InteraWorks: InteraWorks is a global learning company on a mission to elevate the human experience at work. Specializing in professional development and performance enablement, they offer top-rated learning programs including Effective Edge, Best Year Yet, and the Essentials series. Their integrated learning framework and online tools generate immediate and sustainable breakthroughs in performance. Through decades of working at all levels in enterprise companies across many industries, they’ve built a reputation for helping people and organizations harness their focus, mindset, talent and energy to produce results that matter most. www.interaworks.com

Denver, CO

InteraWorks is proud to be represented by both CEO Laurie Oswald and Director of Practice Anne McGhee-Stinson at THE LEADERSHIP Development Day conference in Denver, CO on February 3^rd, 2022.

Started by Aden Leadership founder and coach Greg Aden, the event brings together leaders from across verticals to share approaches, insights, and strategies for effective leadership in business and beyond. The event notice makes clear that its producers hand-selected speakers and leaders who represent the best of us, can guide us into better futures, and whose stories are important to share as a way to inspire others to be better leaders.

A two-time presenter, Oswald will join a panel on Women in Leadership that includes Emily Robinson (COO FirstBank), Dr. Janell Allen-Davis (President and CEO Craig Hospital), and Tami Fischer (CEO/Executive Director at Metro West Housing Solutions). McGhee-Stinson will co-present with her brother Doug McGhee (Realm.Men) on Wisdom and Courage: Own Who You Are.

“This is a great opportunity for people who are committed to more meaningful servant leadership to come together and build community, as well as share ideas and insights,” said Oswald. “We’re thrilled to be included in the stellar company of so many others who are leaning into a holistic approach to leadership – one that can change the experience of people in the workforce.”

The event will include both live-onsite and remote options for attendance. Use the code Interaworks for a 10% discount on registration.

For more information of THE LEADERSHIP Development Day conference:
https://adenleadership.com/leadership-development-day

For more on Laurie Oswald
https://interaworks.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/laurie-oswald.pdf

For more on Anne McGhee-Stinson
https://www.interaworks.com/about-us/team/anne-mcghee-stinson/

Contact:
Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Relationship Lead
cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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About InteraWorks: InteraWorks is a global learning company on a mission to elevate the human experience at work. Specializing in professional development and performance enablement, they offer top-rated learning programs including Effective Edge, Best Year Yet, and the Essentials series. Their integrated learning framework and online tools generate immediate and sustainable breakthroughs in performance. Through decades of working at all levels in enterprise companies across many industries, they’ve built a reputation for helping people and organizations harness their focus, mindset, talent and energy to produce results that matter most. www.interaworks.com

Denver, CO

The new Solutions@Work program from InteraWorks provides the next step in the evolution of conflict resolution. Part of InteraWorks’ Essentials suite of programs, Solutions@Work keeps its focus on the many variables that come into play for teams, including levels of diversity in background, experiences, points of view, approaches to communication, and overall communications skills. The result is a strong effective path to reframing conflict and keeping team members (and their projects) moving forward in alignment.

With the current crisis in the field of conflict resolution demanding new approaches that are sustainable and pragmatic, Solutions@Work moves beyond arbitration and mediation, avoiding the lingering hostilities and resentments that can continue to cause problems for the teams and their ability to create the results they want.

“This program has an amazing engagement factor that starts right out of the gate with participants quickly jumping in to actively participate, share, and converse in ways I have never before experienced in a conflict resolution scenario,” said Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Partner Lead at InteraWorks. “Combining mindset and behaviors, as we do throughout our portfolio, Solutions@Work helps create a powerful shift away from triggers, habits, and emotions to a new way of looking at things together. It removes the negative charge of personal agendas and fears around scarcity to help people step back and see with new eyes.”

Initial pilots have received top-tier reviews and the program is now being rolled out to businesses and organizations globally.

To learn more about Solutions@Work, contact us:
info@interaworks.com

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Denver, CO

InteraWorks is delighted to welcome Jennifer Wilmoth to its global learning and development team as Relationship Lead and Facilitator. In addition to her grounding in neuroscience-based leadership, Jennifer brings expertise and insight from her 20-year career coaching and facilitating leaders and teams in enterprise companies to excel and thrive through up-leveling productivity, performance, inclusion, and balance.

“It is a gift to witness what the impact of awareness, combined with skills and tools, provides people,” said Wilmoth. ”Hearing feedback that our programs: ‘Made me a better leader’, ‘Contributed to my success”, and ‘Improved my marriage” brings me joy and drives me to continue this work. I’m excited to be joining a dynamic organization that has the same passion and dedication to delivering successes inside and outside the workplace as I do.”

Along with program delivery and client development skills, Wilmoth also brings her creative bona fides as a curriculum and program designer and business leader. “InteraWorks embraces creativity and forward thinking,” said CEO Laurie Oswald. “Jennifer is a perfect fit for our culture in terms of entrepreneurship, values and shared leadership. We are so excited to have someone of her talent level and commitment bringing her energy and talent to our mission. This past year has brought forth challenges for most organizations.  InteraWorks has an even greater opportunity now to ensure that people are at the center of the Future@Work and that they bring their full potential to what matters most to them every day,” said Laurie.

Wilmoth’s recent focus has been Diversity, Equality, & Inclusion as Founder and Executive Coach at Ignite Solutions. Previously, she was a longtime team member and leader at Denver-based McGhee Productivity Solutions.  Jennifer is relocating to Nashville, TN where she will no doubt quickly add value to one of the fastest-growing business communities in the country.

For more on Jennifer Wilmoth:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilmothjennifer/

Contact:
Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Relationship Lead
cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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Denver, CO

InteraWorks has launched its new EDGE for Teams, a new program specifically designed to move into the future of work with a strong combination of mindset, strategy, and the tools provided in the Microsoft Teams platform. More than a tutorial, EDGE for Teams breaks out of the constraints of the past, embracing new realities and challenges in the workforce, as well as the new approaches to help teams succeed in ways that were not previously possible.

“The future of work includes hybrid work environments, a fluid workforce, and networked collaborations. The systems, tools and structures organizations use have to accommodate this new reality,” said Anne McGhee Stinson, Director of Practice at InteraWorks. “We’re helping teams move away from an outdated, compartmentalized, model and into the possibilities represented by an integrated open-source experience that provides an operating model of transparency and collaboration.”

“We can’t create new results using the same mindset and tools that we’ve been using for years. We’re supporting the future of teaming and the new possibilities that will change the way teams work,” said Laurie Oswald, InteraWorks CEO. “We’re especially excited to continue bringing new training and development opportunities to clients who are ready for more and better results, including the utilization of the Microsoft Teams tool.”

As with all InteraWorks programs, EDGE for Teams will be offered live remotely, in hybrid settings, and onsite as it is safe to do so.

Contact Cathey Stamps for more information about EDGE for Teams

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Denver, CO

This year’s annual THE LEADERSHIP Development Day 2021 conference roster will feature  InteraWorks’ Thomas Ramsey. His presentation of Clear Mind/Excited Heart lays out the way to achieve extraordinary leadership and the impactful results will follow.

When asked by event organizer Greg Aden, Ramsey stated his primary reason for participation centered around a sense of purpose – and the opportunity to address the need for leaders to be clear about and aligned on purpose if they want to be inspiring and effective in leadership roles. It’s something was especially on his mind as he completed his own planning for the year.

“I was just blown away by the timing if it, I was blown away by the purpose [of the conference], and blown away by the opportunity to have a platform to share,” said Ramsey. “Because if we can share, we can grow.”

Ramsey has plenty of experience to share based on his work across a wide variety of industries and audiences, from manufacturing and education to healthcare, transportation, and beyond. His work has uniquely qualified him to speak on leadership that is universally applicable and inspiring.

THE LEADERSHIP Development Day 2021 is dedicated to development for leaders, entrepreneurs, and parents. The event will be held online on February 4^th.

 

For more information on Thomas Ramsey:
https://www.interaworks.com/about-us/team/thomas-ramsey/

To learn more about THE LEADERSHIP Day 2021
https://www.alignable.com/denver-co/aden-leadership/the-leadership-development-day-feb-2021

Contact:
Cathey Stamps, Marketing and Relationship Lead
cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

 

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Denver, CO

We are honored to announce that InteraWorks has been certified for a second year with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). This certification is a highly sought-after and prestigious designation awarded after a meticulous process of interviews, business review, and site inspection to determine qualification.

Our organization shares WBENC’s belief that diversity promotes innovation, opens doors, and creates partnerships that fuel the economy. Through InteraWorks and our Best Year Yet Foundation, we will continue our work to support businesses, organizations, and nonprofits through supporting the people who power them through providing tools, systems, and other resources to help them succeed with focus and balance.

About WBENC 

Founded in 1997, WBENC is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women. The company currently has 14 regional partner organizations and over 300 corporate members.

Click here to learn more about WBENC

Learn more about InteraWorks and their work with women’s initiatives.

Contact: cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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A popular InteraWorks webinar is now being made available in the India Standard Time zone. 3 Simple Tools our Fortune 500 Clients use to Achieve What Matters Most combines interactive learning with webinar information. Including both mindset and skills learning, attendees will leave with tools and strategies they can put to immediate use in their own businesses.

For more information and to register, click the link below:
https://www.interaworks.com/three-simple-tools-webinar-india/

Denver, CO

Collaborating to bring their unique views and expertise to the current challenges of police training in an rapidly changing world, siblings Anne McGhee-Stinson of InteraWorks and Lt. Sam McGhee of the Aurora Police Department, Colorado, have co-authored the feature article in the May issue of Police Chief Magazine.

Entitled Employing Neuroscience to Strengthen Public Safety Effectiveness, the article focuses on the unprecedented transformation being experienced by law enforcement in an increasingly complex world and the new demands on preparedness training and support needed to meet the challenges.

The role of neuroscience and resiliency training is more critical than ever in creating and maintaining a balanced, healthier, and more effective police force. Traditional law enforcement training is steeped in habitual practice and behaviors. While beneficial for many situations, it may inhibit an officer’s ability to respond effectively to morphing threats. The authors explore ways that new findings in neuroscience can be implemented in training to improve performance, well-being, and resiliency for police officers, including paths to better adaptation in high stress, split-second decision-making scenarios.

Anne and Sam recently co-presented on this very topic at topic at the Homeland Security Education Summit, discussing the implications and advantages of addressing the way in which law enforcement officers are trained to better equip them with skills that enable them to adapt to mutating threatening environments.

“We must look to the science of our times and equip professionals with the tools they need to cope with the challenges facing our communities, organizations and institutions,” said McGhee-Stinson. “We can do better and we urgently need to wake up to that fact.”

Click here to read the article

About Anne McGhee-Stinson 
Anne McGhee-Stinson is Managing Partner and Director of Practice for InteraWorks. She has more than 25 years of experience in neurolinguistics-based leadership coaching, learning development, productivity, and performance consulting.

Recognized for her expertise in helping organizations address the key issues leading to stress induced burn-out and overwhelm, Anne currently serves on the steering committee of the Information Overload Research Group (IORG). Her international experience includes serving as Regional Director for Learning and Development programs in Europe and Far East Asia. For many years she also facilitated a staff development program at the United States Air Force Academy

About Lt. Sam McGhee 

As a lieutenant with the Aurora, Colorado Police Department, Sam McGhee has served for over 39 years with experience at all levels of law enforcement. He is currently assigned as the commanding officer of the Professional Standards Section and routinely serves as the acting Compliance and Professional Standards Division Chief. He has served as deputy executive director of the Colorado Information Analysis Center (CIAC); Colorado’s homeland security fusion center and as a Fellow at the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group, (ITACG), located at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in Washington, D.C.

Lt. McGhee is a member of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, the Committee on Homeland Security for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and a current and past contributing writer for The Police Chief and Homeland Security Today magazines respectively. In addition, he travels the country briefing first responders on the Century 16 Theater shooting in Aurora, CO, has presented the Department of Homeland Security’s Active Shooter Preparedness Workshop, and has guest lectured at the Naval Postgraduate School, the FBI Academy, and the CIA’s Sherman Kent School. Lt. McGhee is an adjunct faculty member for Penn State University’s School of Public Affairs, Homeland Security Program, and Colorado Technical University’s College of Security Studies.

Contact: cathey.stamps@interaworks.com

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