Evening TLA Meeting 2/10

Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest speakers in the strategy, information
TLA Meeting - EVENING – Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 Acxiom's Downers Grove office 3333 Finley Road – see directions below
AGENDA:
6:30pm – 7:00pm Check-in / Casual networking7:00pm – 8:00pm Structured networking – two table rounds
8:00pm – 8:10pm Announcements
8:10am – 8:55pm Guest Speaker: Dayle Beyer, 8:55pm – 9:00pm Adjourn promptly
Speaker Bio: Dayle Beyer, PMP, CBAP, ACC President, Inspire Excellence CoachingFor over 20 years, Dayle Beyer has used a unique blend of project management and business analysis tools and techniques to co-actively coach people and organizations in how to manage projects better, deal with business and personal obstacles and develop solutions for bottom-line results.
Dayle’s diverse experience emanates from real-world experience in marketing communications, organizational development, business analysis, business development, process improvement, project & program management, strategic alliance development and supply chain management for commercial and non-profit organizations such as Motorola and the Girl Scouts.
Dayle is also an active member of the Project Management Institute Chicagoland, the Chicagoland Coach Federation, the Chicago Chapter of International Institute of Business Analysis and part of the “Dream Team” of coaches for the Act2Reinvent project.
Dayle received her MBA from Roosevelt University, and her BA in Psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP), certified from the Project Management Institute; an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) from the International Coach Federation; and a Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) from the International Institute of Business Analysis. To round out her experience and skills, and to better understand all of her clients' needs, Dayle has also served as adjunct faculty at Roosevelt University and Capella University.
A few sample presentations Dayle has been asked to been a repeating speaker one are; What Excellent Leaders Know and Do, Best Practices in Project Management, Fast Forward Your Life in 2010 and others.
Partial Client List: Acatel-Lucent Allstate, Amgen, Inc., ASTD chapters, Business & Decisions Capella University, Click Commerce, Deloitte Touche, EPPM, Ernst &Young, IIBATM chapters, IDEN, ING, KPMG, Kurt Salmon Associates, Libya Oil, Motorola, Nextel, Nokia, Omron Electronics, PMI® chapters, Price Waterhouse Coopers, SAVVIS, S.I.T.A, Thompson/NetG, Wells Fargo
Presentation Titled: “How to Fast Forward Your Career in 2010”Presentation Abstract: We all yearn for more. Have you ever said...? "If only I could… -Increase my income" -Minimize my stress" -Get that job” -Do more of what I really want to do”
In this interactive session, a certified Project Management Professional and Co-Active Coach will help you understand how knowing more about who you are and what's holding you back can support your movement forward in your career, your relationships and in your life. This session will allow you to sample a unique blend of project management and coaching tools and techniques that can provide you with what you need to fast forward your career and life in 2010.
Learning Objectives:
-Understand ancient archetypal behaviors and how you can use them to excel in your career
-Sample a unique blend of tools from Project Management and Coaching to initiate your 2010 plan.
-Understand the process for developing a quick and simple plan to achieve your goals
-Uncover what could get in your way to achieving your goals and learn crucial tools to help you do it anyway
-Create action items for executing your plan----------------------------------------
Technology Leaders Association (TLA) was established to help senior level IT executives develop and manage their careers. As part of this effort, we hold monthly meetings to network, share ideas, and learn from featured guest
speakers in the career management field.
Where: Acxiom's Downers Grove office 3333 Finley Road – see directions below
Cost: No charge

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
TLA member and Acxiom Leader John Costanza for hosting us this month.
TLA members & Co-Facilitators; Mark Cummuta, George Moraetes & David Krull for organizing the TLA evening events.

As a special facilities note, all TLA members must be escorted throughout the Acxiom facility. Please do not leave the meeting area without an escort. This is a high security facility.

For reservations, (1) Please sign up online on the TLA website (www.techleaders.net) under ‘Events’ – or, if you don’t have access to the website, (2) Please reply to Patrick.Moroney@gmail.com with your name and telephone number.

Reservations must be made before 5pm on Tuesday, November 10th with the first 80 reservations accepted. No walk-ins please.

For location information: Contact Jim Anfield at jdanfield@illinoisalumni.org.

DIRECTIONS:
Acxiom is located near the intersection of I-355 and I-88 in Downers Grove. Get off the Butterfield Road exit of I-355 and go east to Finley Road. Go south on Finley Road for about a half-mile and Acxiom is located on the east side of Finley. Go to the main entrance of the eight-story building for check-in. Do not go to the other four-story Acxiom building. Parking is available just west of the eight-story building in the parking lot.

STRUCTURED NETWORKING:
Structured networking is a technique used at most major executive transition groups. It is meant to be a powerful method of generating ideas that might help each of our searches.
During this process, we will quickly brainstorm potential job lead ideas, gain networking contacts at desired companies, and generate advice from the members by sharing our backgrounds as well as our career objectives.
It is designed to generate ideas, but given the time constraints, not get into immediate detailed discussions. You should plan on following up with anybody who may have had an interesting idea or a good contact.
Please bring business cards, handbills (career overview) or resumes (plain paper is fine) to pass around if you have them. Figure on about 20 copies of the resumes/handbills and 50 business cards.
We will run our networking, dividing the room into small tables of a maximum of 6 people and doing 2 table rotations before our speaker begins. At each rotation, you will have 90 seconds for your pitch and about 90 seconds for Q&A.
SPEND NO MORE THAN 1/3 -summarizing your past (this is not the time to rehash your resume), -what you are looking for and -what we can do to help (such as target contacts) or ask for advice on an issue.