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• Career Portfolio Workshop: 7 week, 4-part interactive workshop series

  • Start
    October 07, 2025
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  • End
    November 18, 2025
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  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    13

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  In this interactive workshop series, you'll create a portfolio that effectively highlights your skills and achievements. Whether you’re updating an existing portfolio or starting from scratch, this workshop will provide insights and practical tips to help you stand out in your field. 

  We’ll cover the essentials of creating a career portfolio, from choosing a suitable format to effectively presenting your work. 

  
  

  Outcomes

  In this 7-week, 4-part interactive workshop series, you'll create a portfolio that presents at least one current work sample that effectively highlights your relevant skills and achievements.

  Where are you Starting From?

  • If you do not currently have a career portfolio, you will create a best draft of a shareable portfolio using Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides.
  • If you currently have a career portfolio, you will gain insights and practical tips to improve and update your portfolio and explore formats to present your portfolio.

  You’ll receive peer feedback and guidance in every workshop, and by the end of the program, you'll have experience presenting your best draft.

  What to Expect in Each Session:

  Week 1: Collaborative Workshop #1 (10/7)

  Select 1-3 current work samples to present in a portfolio related to your current and/or target job

  Week 2: Collaborative Workshop #2 (10/14)

  Compare examples of portfolios and draft write-ups for your work samples

  Week 3: Individual work time and office hours

  Create a first draft of your portfolio and attend an optional Office Hours session for work time or guidance

  Week 4: Collaborative Workshop #3 (10/28)

  Present your first draft, receive peer feedback, and create a plan to improve your first draft and write-ups

  Weeks 5 and 6: Individual work time and 1:1 sessions with the facilitator

  Implement your plans to improve your first draft, explore how you want to present your portfolio, and 1:1 check-ins with the facilitator for feedback

  Week 7: Collaborative Workshop #4 (11/18)

  Present the best draft of your portfolio and create a plan to improve your best draft for use in professional settings

  Program Requirements

  To make the most of this experience, all participants are asked to:

  • Attend all collaborative workshop sessions and complete the requested work in between (1-2 hours a week)
  • Actively participate in Slack discussions and program surveys
  • Reach out to the portfolio program team if challenges arise during the process

  
  
  You’ll receive peer feedback and guidance in every session, and by the end of the workshop, you'll refine your portfolio and get it close to publishing.

  
  

  Kerry Hollenberry is a learning experience designer with a background in secondary education. She feels fulfilled in opportunities to connect with others and tailor the learning experiences. Kerry has achieved one of her career goals after creating her professional portfolio and facilitating the first portfolio workshop for ATD Puget Sound.

  
  

  
  

  ATD Capabilities: Career & Leadership Development, Communication

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Partnership Program with Authors 365: The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever with Michael Bungay Stanier

  • When
    October 16, 2025
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    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Virtual

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  The best leaders don’t have all the answers—they ask better questions.

  But in fast-paced workplaces, the pressure to jump in, solve problems, and give advice is real—and it’s sabotaging our best intentions.

  In this live author event, best selling leadership thinker Michael Bungay Stanier (author of The Coaching Habit) shares practical tools from his provocative follow-up book The Advice Trap. You’ll learn how to resist the reflex to advise and instead embrace a more transformational way of leading—one grounded in humility, trust, and curiosity.

  With humor, candor, and radical simplicity, MBS will help you unlearn advice-giving as your default and replace it with a mindset that unlocks potential in others—and yourself.

  Practical Tools and Strategies You’ll Gain:

  • A framework for identifying and taming your inner “Advice Monster”
  • Core habits that support a more coach-like leadership style
  • Key questions that disrupt unproductive dynamics and foster insight
  • Skills to hold space for learning instead of rushing to solutions
  • Techniques for creating more agile, self-reliant teams

  Ideal Participants for This Conversation:

  • Leaders at every level who want to shift from directive to developmental leadership
  • Coaches, mentors, and people managers striving to empower others
  • Professionals ready to break the cycle of burnout and micromanagement
  • Culture-shapers looking to drive real behavior change across teams

  You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need to stay curious. Join us.

  
  

  
  About the Author:

  Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency. His book The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with nearly a million copies sold and thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon. In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year, has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014 and was a Rhodes Scholar.

  Michael founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations transform from advice-driven to curiosity-led. (Learn more at BoxOfCrayons.com.)

  Michael is a compelling speaker and facilitator, combining practicality, humour, and an unprecedented degree of engagement with the audience. He’s spoken on stages and screens around the world in front of crowds ranging from ten to ten thousand. His TEDx talk has been watch by hundreds of thousands of people. (Learn more at MBS.works.)

  Balancing out these moments of success, he was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident” … was sued by one of his Law School professors for defamation … and his first published piece of writing was a Harlequin Romance-esque story involving a misdelivered letter … and called The Male Delivery.

  Connect with Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbungaystanier/

  Important note:  Once you have indicated interest with ATDps, the actual registration link is included in your confirmation and your reminder emails.  You will be registering via the Authors365 site to get access to the webinar.

  ATD Capabilities: Career & Leadership Development, Collaboration & Leadership

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