Previously Recorded Events
Check out any of our past webinars below!
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How Your Expectations Shape Your Performance, Resilience, and Results
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Likeable Badass: The Science of Winning Power, Respect, and Influence with Alison Fragale, PhD *Spark60 Event *
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How to Manage the Business of Being Sick: Advocacy and Support Strategies for Women
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Fly! How to Reclaim Your Financial Future
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How to Lead with Heart in the Age of AI
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How to Navigate Disruptive Change
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How to Supercharge Your Executive Presence
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How to Brand Yourself for Success
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Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding
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How Food, Mood, and Mindfulness Transform Wellbeing
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How to Enhance Workplace Culture, Relationships, and Retention
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AI and the Expansion of Human Potential
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Neurodivergence and Burnout: Why Being Wired Differently Increases Risk, and What You Can Do About It
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Move. Think. Rest.: Redefining Productivity & Our Relationship with Time with Dr. Natalie Nixon PhD Wednesday, November 12th 2025 at 11:00 AM CST |
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How to Be Bird Friendly: A Discussion of Human Lifestyle Choices That Affect the Lives of Birds Friday, November 7th 2025 at 12:00 PM CST |
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Demystifying AI Agents: A Beginner's Guide for Every Professional
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Thursday, October 16th 2025 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Unlock Your Potential: How Self-Awareness Can Transform Your Life and Work
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Deep Listening: Transform How You Connect, Lead, and Learn
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Your Hidden Genius: The New Science of Career Guidance
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Thursday, September 25th 2025 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Getting Unstuck: How to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
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How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee
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The World Is Your Office: Unlocking the True Power of Work From Anywhere
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Stop Networking, Start Thriving: Building Career-Propelling Circles of Collaboration
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Enhancing Managerial Skills and Promoting Neurodiversity in the Workplace
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How to Level Up Your Well-Being: The 7 Traits of Emotional Fitness
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The Advantages of Rejection: Career Strategy for Professional Development
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Mastering Your Job Move: Strategic Insights for Career Progress
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Unstoppable Entrepreneurs: Redefining Success Beyond Silicon Valley
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Why Are We Here: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants
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Human-Centered Leadership: Cultivating a High-Performing and Innovative Workplace
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How to Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)
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Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior
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Becoming Conflict Resilient: Embracing Conflict for Stronger Relationships
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Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact with Liz Wiseman
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Unlocking Personality: Enhancing Leadership and Team Dynamics Through Psychology
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Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge
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Debunking Startup Myths: A Blueprint to Entrepreneurial Success
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Nature or Nurture: Unraveling the Origins of Introverted Personalities
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When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women–And How to Succeed in Spite of It
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Lead Well: 5 Mindsets to Engage, Retain, and Inspire Your Team
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Revolutionizing Fairness: A New Paradigm for DEI in the Workplace
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Healing from Within: Transforming Self-Talk Through Attachment and Reparenting Strategies
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How to Dismantle Doubt
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Mastering the Art of Closure: Why We Want It, How to Get It, and When to Walk Away
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Get to the Point: Communicate More By Saying Less
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AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
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IRA Rollover Gift Info Session
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The Enneagram & Discovering Your Authentic Self
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Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully
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How to Discover the Conscious Leader in You
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How to Get People to Choose What You're Selling Using the Power of Instinct
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The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier
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Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life
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How to Sell More Art (Without Being Insta-Famous)
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Author Talk with Lily Zheng of DEI Deconstructed Tuesday, October 1st 2024 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Accelerate Your Reinvention with a New Networking Mindset
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Strategies for Leading Through Inevitable Setbacks
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Turning Anxiety Into a Blessing: How to Use Anxiety to Thrive
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8 Ways to Increase Self-Confidence in Your Career and Life
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Find Your True Self in a Noisy World
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Data-Driven DEI: A Blueprint to Achieving Lasting Impact with Your DEI Initiatives
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3 Keys To Healthy Boundaries: Say No, Speak Up For Yourself, and Confidently Express What You Want
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Unscripted: How to Communicate and Connect using the Improv Approach
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“No” Problem: Strategies to Stop Saying Yes at Work When You Want to Say No
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Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking
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Artificial Intelligence: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - What Is Government’s Role?
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters
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Unmanaging: The New Proven Managerial Mindset That Boosts Innovation, Collaboration, Productivity, and Culture
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Your Untapped Power: Using Your Story to Inspire Transformation
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Beyond the Grind: Reclaiming Joy and Harmony in Your Career and Life
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Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence
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How to Kickstart Fearless Feedback
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How to Dream Big and Make the Hard Work of Starting a Business Worth It
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How to Achieve a Career You Love While Staying True to Yourself
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When They Win, You Win - Being a Great Manager is Simpler Than You Think
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How (Exactly) to Win the Advocacy of Strangers and Accelerate Your Career
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Become the Bravest You: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe
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The Power of Conscious Connection: Four Habits to Transform How You Live & Lead
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How to Create Your Own Career: Career Mashup–the Career of the Future
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New Year, New View: Setting Goals that Set You Up for Success
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How to Bring Who You Are and What You Do Into Alignment
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ADHD - How it Manifests and Effective Steps to Address It
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From Stuck to Soaring: How to Successfully Change Your Career
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How To Close Your Power and Confidence Gaps and Reach Your Highest Potential
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LGBTQ+ Etiquette and Common Bloopers: What You Need to Know to Be an Ally
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Why We Need to Create a Culture of Connection in a World of Disconnection
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How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot
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The Pivot Playbook: 10 Steps to a Successful Career Change
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Don't Leave a Mess: How to Disaster-Proof Your Family Legacy
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How to Establish Your Personal Brand to Drive Success
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How Working Mothers Can Thrive–And Not Just Survive
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The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems–and What to Do About It
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How to Gracefully Lead Through Change and Crisis
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MoneyZen: The Secret to Beating the "Never Enough" Mindset
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Skills: The Common Denominator
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How To Become A Citizen Scientist--And Why It Is Necessary For Finding Cures for Diseases
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What to Say When You Need to Have Difficult Conversations
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Your Retirement: Dream or Disaster? How to Avoid the Hidden Traps in Retirement Planning Advice
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How to Talk About Race (and Other Hard Things)
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Transforming Mental Health Stigma Into Mental Wellness Superpowers
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The Umbrella Effect: A Family-Level Approach to a Calmer, Happier, and More Connected Household
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Cashless Society with Dr. Orhan Erdem, Associate Professor of Finance Monday, May 1st 2023 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
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Leading Through Anxious Times: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower
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Monday, April 10th 2023 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry
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How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
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Change Your Life by Changing How You Think About Selling (Even if You Don't Think You're a Salesperson)
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Myth & Politics in Cuba with Dr. Yoandy Cabrera, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Classics Monday, February 27th 2023 at 12:00 PM CST |
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Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World
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Take a Creativity Leap and Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
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How to Find More Courage at Work: 3 Mindset Shifts to Take More Risks
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How to Elevate Your Communication Style and Be Your Best Even Under Stress
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How to Be Ambitious (For Yourself and the World)
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How to Build a Second Brain and Take Advantage of What Modern Digital Tools Can Offer
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Power Personal Growth By Understanding Your Enneagram Type
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Using the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Become a Better Leader
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How can Finance create a good society? The case of EBRD with Gursu Keles
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Sex and Gender Inclusivity in the Classroom: Perspectives from Science and the Humanities with Dr. Emily Webb and Dr. Kristin Ravel
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Age-Proof Your Brain: How to Boost Your Memory and Lower Your Risk for Dementia
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RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE: Nuclear and Energy Threats Beyond Europe
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How to Market Yourself in a LinkedIn World
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How to Work With Anyone (Even Difficult People)
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Ecuador: Impact, Serve, and Study Abroad with Julie Griffith, Dr. Amy Martin, and Dr. Kelly Monson
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Getting Beyond the Noise: A Non-Meditator’s Guide to the Power of Silence
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Beyond the Binary: Best Practices for Gender Diversity in the Classroom with Dr. Michelle Sandhoff
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Travel as a Political Act with Rick Steves
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Employee Engagement with Corporate Based Health and Wellness Programs: A Multisite, Multivariate Regression Analysis with Clay Duffy, MBA, Visiting Lecturer of General Business
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Stop Outdated Behaviors: A New Strategy to Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise
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Ancestral Maya Pilgrimage at the Sacred Pools of Cara Blanca, Belize
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Leading In Disruptive Times: How to Drive Change Through Ongoing Disruption
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What Can You Personally Do To Be an Inclusive Leader?
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The Loneliness Crisis and The Power of Human Connection
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How to Level Up Your Life, Your Career and Your Business: Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
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Feeding the Elephant in the Room: How and Why We Avoid Difficult Conversations
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How to Manage Uncertainty and Create Meaning From the Inside Out
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How to Add Meaning to Your Money and Create a Life of Purpose
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Do You Need More Time: Powerful Tactics to Make Time Your Superpower
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Free Time: Move Beyond Boredom, Bottlenecks, and Burnout to Do More of Your Best Work
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Slow Down to Get Ahead: Implementing Mindfulness into Your Career
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Ten Proven Principles to Successfully Scale Your Business
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Reconsidering Work, Life, and Meaning During the Great Resignation
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How to Develop Radical Adaptability in the New World of Work
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Prep, Push, Pivot: How to Overcome Obstacles and Accelerate Your Career
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Spring 2022 Brown Bag Series Presents: “Integrating Primary Sources Across the Curriculum.” Monday, April 18th 2022 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Virtual Town Hall, Czar Putin's War on Ukraine:Impact on the World
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Lunch and Learn with the Leaders of Stericycle, Inc.
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How to Advocate for Your Ideas, Your Business, and Your Bank Account
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Monday, April 4th 2022 at 12:10 PM CDT |
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The Awesome Human Project: How to Struggle Less and Thrive More in Work and Life
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Spring 2022 Brown Bag Series presents: “Dismantling Ableism in Higher Education, Part II.” Monday, March 21st 2022 at 3:00 PM CDT |
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Forum Presentation: Visiting Phi Beta Kappa Scholar Dr. Edward L. Ayers; Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South 1790-2020
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Know Your Niche: Six Steps to Defining the Career of Your Dreams
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Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company
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Monday, February 28th 2022 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Monday, February 21st 2022 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger and Multiply Your Impact
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Listen Like You Mean It: How to Be a Better Listener from the Boardroom to the Dinner Table
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Monday, February 7th 2022 at 3:00 PM CST |
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How to Make An Empowered Ask to Achieve Success, Fulfillment and Peace of Mind
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Love as a Business Strategy: Resilience, Belonging & Success
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Our Emotional Attachment to Stuff: Decluttering Strategies that Make It Easy to Let Go
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How to Make 2022 Your Best Year Yet: Enrich Your Life Personally, Professionally and Financially
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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Research Like a Pro: Discovering Your Family’s History in 30 Minutes a Day
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, "Give me a Break: Creating a Kinesthetic Classroom Climate" Monday, November 22nd 2021 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Crypto 101: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Geniuses, and Scoundrels
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, "Dismantling Academic Ableism" Monday, November 15th 2021 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking To Be a Better Communicator and Leader
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, "Jane Addams at Rockford Female Seminary: A Catalyst for Change Monday, November 8th 2021 at 12:00 PM CST |
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How to Love Speaking in Public, Even if you Hate it Now
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, "Acknowledging First Peoples and Traditional Land" Monday, November 1st 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Monday, October 25th 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT |
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Monday, October 18th 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Finding Your Key to Happiness
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Level Up Your Parenting: Using Parental Pressure for Children’s Success Instead of Disaster
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How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, "Maps and the Geography of the Holocaust" Monday, September 27th 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT |
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Get Known, Get Connected, Get Ahead: Personal Connections for Professional Results
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Fall 2021 Brown Bag Presentation, The Rhetoric Sequence and First-Year Writing at RU Monday, September 20th 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
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Leading From Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams Friday, August 27th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Getting Things Done: An Interview With the World’s Leading Expert on Stress Free Productivity
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Thursday, July 29th 2021 at 2:00 PM CDT |
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Career Agility And The Virtual Job Search Tuesday, July 20th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others Wednesday, July 14th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides Tuesday, June 15th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life Wednesday, June 9th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Tuesday, May 18th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Going Beyond Work-Life Balance Wednesday, May 12th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work Thursday, May 6th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Virtual May Day Tea Celebration with Archivist, Joanna Mladic `13, MLIS, MSc Saturday, May 1st 2021 at 2:00 PM CDT |
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Spring 2021 Brown Bag Series Presentation , “How to Manage Our Retirement Funds” Monday, April 26th 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace Wednesday, April 21st 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, April 19th 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT |
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Workparent: The Secrets to Successful, Confident Working Parenthood in 2021 and Beyond Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, April 12th 2021 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Humanocracy: Resilient Organization, Great Jobs, Zero Bureaucracy Wednesday, April 7th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Poetry Reading with Rockford Poet Laureate Christine Swanberg`79 Thursday, April 1st 2021 at 2:00 PM CDT |
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Exit Rich: How to Build a Sustainable, Scalable, and Sellable Business Wednesday, March 31st 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Wednesday, March 24th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, March 22nd 2021 at 3:00 PM CDT |
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The Unspoken Rules: The Secret to Starting Your Career Off Right Tuesday, March 16th 2021 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Living Lively: The Seven Points of Power to Nourish Our Potential Thursday, March 11th 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Spring 2021 Brown Bag Series Presentation, “Eat This, Not That: Making Better Nutritional Choices.” Monday, March 8th 2021 at 12:00 PM CST |
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Gardening in Small Spaces: How to Grow Vegetables in Your Backyard Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Cooking Meals for Two with Rockford University & Sodexo Executive Chef Bryan Young Saturday, February 27th 2021 at 2:00 PM CST |
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Raising Thrivers: Parenting Tips & Tools to Help Kids Thrive in An Uncertain World Wednesday, February 24th 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Monday, February 22nd 2021 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Unconscious Bias at Work: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Belongs Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Spring 2021 Brown Bag Series Presentation “Jane Addams’ Education at Rockford Female Seminary” Monday, February 8th 2021 at 3:00 PM CST |
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Digital Flourishing: Strategies for Fostering Wellness in an Era of Remote Work Wednesday, January 27th 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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The Empathy Edge: Why Compassion Fuels Leadership Success and How to Build Your Empathy Muscle Thursday, January 21st 2021 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing and Start Speaking Up Wednesday, December 16th 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Bridging the Multigenerational Work Gap Tuesday, December 8th 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 at 6:00 PM CST |
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Validation: The Most Powerful Communication Skill You Were Never Taught Tuesday, December 1st 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Monday, November 23rd 2020 at 12:00 PM CST |
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Cooking Thanksgiving Family Favorites with Rockford University & Sodexo Executive Chef Bryan Young Saturday, November 21st 2020 at 2:00 PM CST |
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A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order Thursday, November 19th 2020 at 9:00 AM CST |
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How to Take Great Photos With Your Smartphone Wednesday, November 18th 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Thursday, November 12th 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Monday, November 9th 2020 at 12:00 PM CST |
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force w/ Eliot Cohen Thursday, November 5th 2020 at 9:00 AM CST |
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The Innovation Delusion: Has Our Obsession With the New Disrupted the Work that Matters Most Wednesday, November 4th 2020 at 11:00 AM CST |
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Monday, November 2nd 2020 at 12:00 PM CST |
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Monday, October 26th 2020 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Thursday, October 22nd 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Developing a Challenge Mindset to Reshape Your Skills, Your Work, and Your Identity Tuesday, October 20th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, October 19th 2020 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Wednesday, October 14th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, October 12th 2020 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Making it Personal: The Power of Storytelling for Building Inclusive Environments Thursday, October 8th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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Human Rights and US Foreign Policy Thursday, October 8th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Media Influence on US Foreign Policy Tuesday, October 6th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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US Foreign Policy from a Foreign Perspective Thursday, October 1st 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Personal Branding: Embrace Your Authentic Self to Stand Out and Thrive Tuesday, September 29th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT |
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The State Department and The Politics of Foreign and Trade Policy Tuesday, September 29th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, September 28th 2020 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy and US-Asia Business Climate Thursday, September 24th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Trade and Trade Sanctions as Tools of US Foreign Policy and Upcoming Challenges in US Trade Tuesday, September 22nd 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Constitutional Issues and Crises in Foreign Policy Thursday, September 17th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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The Intelligence Community and Foreign Policy and US-EU business climate Tuesday, September 15th 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT |
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Monday, September 14th 2020 at 12:00 PM CDT |
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How To Get Clarity and Get Ahead In Your Career Tuesday, August 11th 2020 at 11:00 AM CDT |
