Born with a crayon in one hand and a camera in the other, Cindy Seip has never ventured far from her creative instincts. Through the years, her creative side took hairpin turns but always finished with a checkered flag.
As an “A+” student in art, it was her 12th-grade art teacher, Mr. Popovitch, that set her on a professional course in design, introducing her to the Ft. Lauderdale Art Institute. There, she would earn her degree in Advertising Design.
She began her career at the Miami Herald Tropic Magazine and later started her own design + underwater portrait photography business. Over the years, Seip has amassed an impressive client list with some high-profile names like Sony, Nasdaq, Ericsson, Blue Cross Blue Shield, AvMed, Miami International Book Fair, Breakthrough Miami, and many more. Her accolades reflect her keen eye for design.
Seip resides in sunny Miami with her husband, Miami Herald Photojournalist, Al Diaz, two great kids, and a cute Wheaten Terrier named Amanda Bubbles.
“This recording represents my learning on my own path to self-discovery,” says Dr. Celia Im of her first CD, Piano Improvisations for Visualization. A classical pianist who has a PhD in music and has taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins Univesity and George Mason University. “I offer this CD to help others discover the potential they hold inside.” $20: Order here.
Washington Examiner, October 13, 2008 — Alice Waagen, PhD, president of Workforce Learning, was featured today in “Entry Level Careers,” a regular column by Washington Examiner reporter Heather Huhman about why Gen Y is experiencing more difficulty transitioning from the classroom to the workplace than previous generations. Waagen helped with tips on how to make the transition seamless.
In this second CD by Dr. Celia Im, listeners go to a deeper level of understanding. “My goal is to use my music to help people let go of what holds them back so they can tap into their creative genius,” says Celia, a classical pianist who has a PhD in music and has taught at teh Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins Univesity and George Mason University.
In addition to her CDs, Celia has developed a series of personal consultations or coaching sessions that teaches clients to calm the mind and emotions to allow for a deep connection within the body. “This is the key to opening up and finding what truly makes you happy and effective in your life,” Celia says. $20: Buy it here.
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Herndon VA, October 1, 2008 — Leadership development expert Alice Waagen, PhD, will be a featured speaker at the Women Entrepreneurs’ Expo in Springfield, VA on Oct. 24, and will present a workshop on “Managing Growth: Knowing when and how to hire help.”
“Like many business owners, I’ve been faced with the challenge of wanting to increase revenue—but not knowing exactly how I’d pay for the additional help needed to grow my company,” explains Waagen, owner of Workforce Learning, LLC. “Rather than pull anyone on as an employee, I have contracted with nearly a dozen professionals who help me with sales and development, PR and marketing, tech support, and finance and legal issues. Their work has freed me to up to do what I do best — conduct intensive workshops that provide managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment.” WASHINGTON EXAMINER, Sept. 26, 2008 — Do you know what your references will say? In a Sept. 26 Washington Examiner article reporter Heather Huhman interviewed author and HR expert Sharon Armstrong about how to best handle the opportunity.
PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS JOURNAL, September 19, 2008 — Kim and Edgar Alvarez are featured on the front page of the business section of today’s Philly Business Journal. “As business plans go, it’s perhaps not the most sophisticated, but it sure is straightforward,” Stone writes. “Kim and Edgar Alvarez have a catering business to run, they’ve got a retail shop to manage, and they have ambitions for growth. Their strategy: Make the best food they can.”
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Writing / Concept: Hope Katz Gibbs
Since founding this leadership development company in 1997, Alice Waagen, PhD has been providing managers and C-level executives with the skills and knowledge they need to build a more productive work environment.
Her website, launched in the fall of 2008, brings a fresh look to the great work Alice does for dozens of Fortune 500 firms and the nation’s leading nonprofit organizations.
A Note from Alice Waagen, PhD
Newsletter: Workforce Learning
September-October 2008
Like many business owners, I’ve been faced with the challenge of wanting to increase revenue—but not knowing exactly how I’d pay for the additional help needed to grow my company. Fortunately, I took the advice I give to others in the article below, “Know when — and how — to hire the right staff.”
You’ll learn how Reston Limousine owner Kristina Bouweiri (pictured right) manages growth at her $15 million company. As for myself, rather than pull anyone on as an employee, I have contracted with nearly a dozen professionals who help me with sales and development, PR and marketing, tech support, and finance and legal issues. I also have a virtual assistant, Susan Devereaux, who makes my life so much easier.
In fact, my director of communications Hope Katz Gibbs and web developer Max Kukoy, helped me develop a new website, which I launched this month — www.workforcelearning.com. I am excited and proud to be able to present all of my articles, announce my speaking engagements, and provide access to past newsletters on this beautiful site.
In this newsletter you’ll meet:
• My colleague Bob Corlett, president of Staffing Advisors, who faced a similar dilemma a few years ago—and not only opted to increase his full-time employee roster, but developed the Results-Based Hiring Process® — a product that helped him gain control over every aspect of the staffing service. As a result, he is fully staffed and better prepared to help his clients achieve their goals. (See the Q&A in our “Ask and Expert” section.)
• Book review: The Essential HR Handbook by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell.
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Editorial Direction: Lisa Resnick
Writer: Theresa Sotto
Design: The Kirwan Company
Client: The Kennedy Center
“Blues, blues, blues, blues, what you mean to me?”
By Jerome Hairston
Based on a book by Walter Dean Myers
Illustrated by Christopher Myers
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Designer: Carla Badaracco
Client: The Kennedy Center
Did you know that wind is simply air in motion? A strong wind convinces us of its power. A soft breeze soothes us on a hot day. The wind knows no boundaries. It sweeps through cities and villages, across oceans, and over deserts. Like the wind, stories travel across all lands and all time, sharing, teaching, and comforting us with words of wisdom and history.
In Walking the Winds: Arabian Tales, you will experience the colorful stories, costumes, music, and dancing of an ancient Arab world, a world steeped in adventure and mystery. In this story-theater style presentation, a storyteller will introduce you to seven different stories, each brought to life by actors who perform them.
As our storyteller says, “Come ride the winds, travel in your dreams, in this magical world of yesterday and today.”
Let the journey begin.
Writer and Creative Director: Lisa Resnick
Designer: Michael Warchol
Client: The Kennedy Center
“Once I was a queen. Now I’m your slave. Once blessed with children. Now I’m old with none.”
The Kennedy Center and Royal Shakespeare Company present
Euripides’ HECUBA
In a new translation by Tony Harrison
Laurence Boswell, Director
Es Devlin, Designer
Welcome to Cuesheet, a performance guide published by the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This Cuesheet is designed to help you enjoy the Royal Shakespeare Company’s performance of Euripides’ Hecuba.
Copywriter: Lisa Resnick
Client: TLC, Discovery Networks
Publication: People
FAMILY WRECK ROOM
See what happens when the whole family gets into the act. It’s the show you know and love with a few new faces and a whole new generation of renovation.
Sundays 7 & 11 p.m. starting July 6
TRADING SPACES — family
Copywriter: Lisa Resnick
Client: TLC, Discovery Networks
Publication: Newsweek
CHARIOT RACE 2002
The Original Action Hero
Join four modern day competitors as TLC recreates the mother of all drag races.
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Client: TLC, Discovery.com
Life is unpredictable, unrehearsed and yes, unscripted.
TLC is your lifeline — programming that is fun, smart, informative and innovative — an entertaining link to real people and real experiences. We engage emotions through our bold stories. We celebrate ingenuity with our challenges. We capture curiosity. That’s why TLC is one of the hottest networks on television!
You know who’s watching us? You are. We currently reach almost 95 million homes in primetime. And check this out: Overall, TLC ranks 2nd (behind sister network Discovery) for overall quality among television and media brands.
And best of all, we continue to dominate daytime as the #1 network in the delivery and concentration of upscale Women 18-34 and Women 18-49.
So read on. Preview a few things in life that are certain. That our programming entertains and enlightens. That our audience is faithful. That our reach is on the rise.
TLC. One unscripted day at a time.
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Client: Showtime Networks
Showcasing the best and brightest in Hollywood today, Showtime captures the spirit of unqualified originality. From original movies to cutting-edge comedy, exciting series and documentaries, Showtime delivers high-profile, star-powered entertainment for audiences in the U.S. and abroad.
It’s programming with immediate audience appeal. And here’s your opportunity to share this originality.
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Client: Showtime Networks
When it’s time for quality programming for the whole family, it’s time for Showtime!
Showtime agrees with parents who say there should be a time and place for quality family television and we’ve made a commitment to bring our subscribers the best in the category.
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Client: A&E Network
The news. We watch it. Read it. Hear it. Is it credible? Or hype? Journalism or show biz? The news today is largely 10-second soundbites, outrageous headlines and shock jocks in search of a large lucrative listening audience.
But who’s to blame?
Writer: Lisa Resnick
Client: A&E Network
Time. Every time we turn on the television we are faced with a choice. In fact, many choices. And soon there’ll be hundreds more. And yet, when time is so valuable and choices many, A&E’s viewership grew an incredible 24 percent last year. Why?
Quality. When it comes to quality original programming, A&E is the clear choice.
Advertisers, affiliates and critics alike have measured our performance and pronounced our success. They know that A&E will engage and entertain them. And just recently, our ongoing commitment to quality entertainment was recognized when the cable industry honored us with more CableAce Awards than another basic network.
Welcome to this preview of the programming that lies ahead. You’ll find that A&E is time well spent.
WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR, August 15, 2008 — “One of the hardest things I’ve ever done as a business owner was to fire someone,” begins reporter Aliza Sherman for an article posted on WomenEntrepreneur.com. She interviewed HR expert Sharon Armstrong, author of The Essential HR Handbook, about how to soften the blow.
ESCAPE FROM CORPORATE AMERICA, August 2008 — Social Technologies’ futurist Andy Hines is featured in Escape from Corporate America, a new book by a reformed corporate ladder-climber, Pam Skillings who writes: “If your corporate career is leaving you stressed out, burned out, or just plain bummed out … You don’t have to choose between paying the bills and enjoying a fulfilling career.”
Skillings found a compatriot in futurist Andy Hines, who offered advice in chapter seven: “Swim in a Smaller Pond.”
FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE, August 2008 — An article was published in the August issue of Foreign Policy magazine by Social Technologies’ Josh Calders. “We were pleased to see our Speed of Change Index covered in the new issue of Foreign Policy,” says Calder, who wrote:
How swiftly or slowly life changes in particular countries is the subject of the Speed of Change Index, which measures changes in urbanization, literacy, GDP per capita, civil liberties, and access to a telephone, TV, and the Internet in countries during the last 15 years…. The index reveals where citizens’ needs are rapidly changing, new markets are opening, and the risk of instability runs high.
The magazine’s graphic shows selected countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia, but the index actually includes nearly every country on Earth, with the exception of some microstates.
The Futurist magazine, July 2008 — Hot off the presses is the July-August issue of The Futurist magazine, featuring the first in a two-part article by Social Technologies’ futurist Andy Hines.
Entitled “Consumer Trends in Three Different ‘Worlds,” it is the first in a two-part series in which Hines looks at the big trends in demography, money, and consumerism that will shape the world in the next decade.
A Note from Alice Waagen, PhD
Newsletter: Workforce Learning
Summer 2008
If you were making a pizza for dinner, but left off the sauce and cheese, you’d serve a bland lump of dough for famiily and friends. The same thing happens when you provide a leadership development program without the essential ingredients: Time, variety, and a personal touch.
Consider this scenario: A 300-employee Virginia-based data analysis company that served the transportation industry for more than two decades hit a speed bump in 2005. Its legacy computer system groaned under the weight of decades of patched code and costly outages were having a toll on customer service. Although the systems were rocky the employee-base was rock-solid. Most employees were incredibly loyal to the company with the average length of service topping more than 15 years. But the new corporate leaders brought in to upgrade technology platforms had misgivings about the managerial abilities of this legacy staff. Other articles include:
• How to Create Powerful Conversations That Get Results: An interview with leadership development expert Alice Waagen and executive coach Suzi Pomerantz
• Books for Leaders: The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success
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CBS EARLY SHOW, July 3, 2008 — Featured today on the CBS Early Show was a spot on the study Social Technologies’ conducted this spring for Spike TV on The Future of American Men. At a man-friendly bar called the Black Sheep Pub and Restaurant in Philadelphia, anchor Maggie Rodriguez talked to five men earlier in the week who each represented one of the personas outlined in the study. Then, from the plaza of the GM building in New York City, she introduced the piece saying: “Let’s talk about men.”
HOW’D YOU SCORE THAT GIG?, July 2008 — “When I was writing this book, countless people asked me which job I thought was the coolest,” explains author Alexandra Levit in her new book, How’d You Score That Gig? In this “Guide to the Coolest Jobs, and How To Get Them,” she referred to the job of a futurist, and interviewed Social Technologies’ Josh Calder about his career.
COLUMNIST MILDRED CULP, June 29, 2008 — “You’re about to be playing in an entirely new ballgame if you’ve been marketing exclusively to baby boomers – unless you have a timeless product or service,” writes syndicated columnist Mildred Culp in a June 29 article, “Expand Your Marketing from Boomers to Gen Y.” She interviewed futurist Andy Hines of Social Technologies about the possibilities.
THE MIAMI HERALD, May 24, 2008 — “Technology has changed the way families stay in touch, profoundly influencing not only how often we communicate, but also what we share with each other,” writes Miami Herald reporter Ana Veciana-Suarez in a May 24 article. “But does more mean better?” she asks.
TELEVISIONWEEK, May 11, 2008 — “Television today is in a state of flux,” writes TelevisionWeek correspondent Allison J. Waldman in the May 11 issue of the magazine. “New technologies, multiple platforms, decreasing audience share for the major networks, emerging digital interactivity—how will the industry adapt to the changes and make them television viable and thriving in the decade ahead?”
BUSINESSWEEK, May 8, 2008 — In a May 8 BusinessWeek article entitled “The Slump: It’s a Guy Thing,” Social Technologies’ Andy Hines was interviewed by reporter Peter Coy about the fact that women and men are “operating in two different economies.” Is it true?
A Note from Alice Waagen, PhD
Newsletter: Workforce Learning
Spring 2008
One of the most frequently asked questions I am asked by managers is: How can I provide professional development for my staff when my organization won’t fund or support the idea? What a good question, for this is indeed a dilemma. Fortunately, one of the most overlooked ways to provide staff development is by encouraging your staff to volunteer.
In this newsletter, we focus on helping in the non-profit arena—an industry that is near and dear to my heart. Other articles include:
• Is Your Company Driving Away Talent? Try these 25 Creative Way to Reverse the Trend
• Books for Leaders: Forces For Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
• Join me: The Emerging Leader Institute (ELITE)
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ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE, May 2008 — Is your company ready for the nanotech boom? For an article entitled “Small Wonders” that appears in the May issue of Entrepreneur magazine, reporter Andrea Cooper talked to Social Technologies’ Peter von Stackelberg about a brief he wrote on the future of nanomaterials.
WASHINGTONIAN MAGAZINE, February 2008 — Hot off the presses is the February 2008 issue of Washingtonian magazine featuring an article about Social Technologies’ founder Tom Conger by the magazine’s managing editor, Ellen Ryan.
She interviewed Conger about the changes we’re are likely to see in the coming years. He shared some thoughts on how his children will live as adults in 10 or 15 years, what robots will do for the average home, and how valued-based buying decisions will affect what is sold at grocery stores.
THE WASHINGTON POST EXPRESS, Dec. 14, 2007 — Your friends seem to have everything, or are steering clear of accumulating more “stuff,” so what do you buy them this holiday season? In a December 14 article for The Washington Post Express, reporter Kris Coronado suggested Washingtonians tap into a new trend of buying experiential gifts. For insight into the trend, Coronado turned to Social Technologies’ Director of Programs Chris Carbone.
NEW YORK TIMES, December 13, 2007 — In an article that ran in the Dec. 13 issue of the New York Times, “You won’t find me in my office, I’m working,” reporter Lisa Belkin talked about the growing trend of “white space,” the place where workers go to think, write, and be creative. She spoke with Futurist Andy Hines about the topic.
March 15, 2007, Washington, DC — “There has perhaps never been a time in human history when strategic foresight is more needed,” says futurist Andy Hines in the introduction to his new book, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, February 2007).
Precious little guidance is available for executives, analysts, and educators seeking the best way to plan and prepare for the future. That is why Hines and co-editor Peter Bishop put together the 231-page paperback, which distills the expertise of 36 world-renowned futurists into an easily scannable guidebook.
What is strategic foresight?
MSNBC, November 26, 2007 — Social Technologies Futurist Gio Van Remortel was recently featured on MSNBC.com in the article: For Gen X, Time To Grow Up And Get A Broker. “They’re not a saving generation — they’re spenders,” said Gio Van Remortel began.
CBS EARLY SHOW, Nov. 13, 2007 — Social Technologies’ Director of Consulting, Andy Hines, appeared yesterday morning on The Early Show (CBS) to discuss our recent seven-month study for MTV Research, “The Future of Happiness: What makes 12 to 24-year-olds happy?” Following are his thoughts on the research, and the findings.
WASHINGTON WOMAN, December 2007 — In placed article by Hope Katz Gibbs, the president and founder Great Handmade Gifts, described the challenges and thrill of starting a new business. Entitled, “Gifts to grow on,” she likens forming her online art / sales company to having a child.
“The idea for Great Handmade Gifts came to me shortly after my husband Mike and I had moved our family from Old Town, Alexandria to western Fairfax County in the summer of 2000,” she recalls. “We came in search of good schools and a house big enough to hold our two children and our two businesses (I have been a freelance writer since 1993, Mike has been a freelance illustrator since 1980). We got all that plus three community pools, two tennis courts, tons of tall trees and lots of nice neighbors. By Christmas I was miserable. I missed the energy and excitement of being near a city. I missed being able to plop my kids in the stroller and walk to a nearby coffee shop or bike down to the river. I wanted to go home. Only, I was home.”
MODERN BRIDE, June 1, 2007 — “Lately, guest gifts seem to fall into one of two hot categories: something completely personalized, or something to eat,” writes Modern Bride reporter Ann Cochran. “You’ll find great options for both approaches at a Virginia-based Web site, greathandmadegifts.com.”
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Washington, DC, March 15, 2007 — “There has perhaps never been a time in human history when strategic foresight is more needed,” says futurist Andy Hines in the introduction to his new book, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, February 2007).
Precious little guidance is available for executives, analysts, and educators seeking the best way to plan and prepare for the future. That is why Hines and co-editor Peter Bishop put together the 231-page paperback, which distills the expertise of 36 world-renowned futurists into an easily scannable guidebook.
What is strategic foresight? Because the future is not predetermined or predictable, future outcomes can be influenced by our choices in the present, Hines and Bishop explain—and that is where strategic foresight comes into play.
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