Podcasts about youth frontiers

PK Kriha is an employee benefits consultant with Marsh McLennan Agency. She works with employers to guide them on their total reward strategy, which means all of their group employee benefits, health insurance, dental life, disability, and everything in between. PK joins us today to share her expertise in well-being and wellness programs.PK shares the knowledge she has learned from her 20-year career journey. From how to say No gracefully, to work-life integration, and many more gems.Talking Points: {02:34} Why PK loves to lift up other women.{04:40} Building relationships with new clients{10:30} Part-time work and full-time mom{15:10} Principles that lead to consistency. {18:10} How to say “no” gracefully{22:50} Overcoming imposter syndrome.{34:20} How to bring people together successfully.PK Kriha Bio:PK Kriha is an employee benefits consultant with Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA). She provides advice on health and welfare plans, wellbeing/wellness programs to a diverse base of corporate clients. She helps corporate leaders understand the full scope, implications and cost of various employee benefits strategies and potential plan design changes, not just the immediate line item expense. Along with her team, she also helps solve business challenges by deploying strategies that create better health care consumers and keeps employers current on regulatory issues, including those related to health care reform legislation. PK has a natural ability to make strong business connections, network with talented individuals, and match people to cultures. These talents and more have earned her a reputation of integrity and as a professional resource extending beyond employee benefits. PK joined RJF in 2002, where she quickly became a partner. Acquired by MMA in 2011, she continues to provide leadership in multiple areas within MMA. PK was honored with the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal's 2020 Women In Business Award and also Employee Benefit Adviser's Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising for 2017. She has also been recognized for her extensive knowledge, customer service philosophy, and her involvement in leadership development and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives at MMA.She is involved in several community organizations including Giving WoMN, Benilde St. Margaret's School, the College of St. Benedict, Youth Frontiers, Family Enhancement Center, and Banyan, and she sits on the board of trustees for Washburn Center for Children. PK has two children and resides in St. Louis Park.Resources and Links:Website: https://www.marshmma.com/us/home.htmlBook Mentioned: The 20-min networking meetingLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pkkrihaConnect with Tom FinnLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/therealtomfinn/Instagram: https://instagram.com/therealtomfinnYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@therealtomfinnTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealtomfinnTwitter: https://twitter.com/therealtomfinn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtomfinnPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/therealtomfinn

This is the second part of a two-part episode with Joe Cavanaugh.   On part 1, we explored some of the character and mental health issues that kids are having today and how well-intented parents are often contributing to the problem.  On this episode, we discuss framework that parents can use to help improve the outcomes for their children.   Joe likes to explain his concepts in "3's".  You'll learn the three things that Joe teaches parents to utilize to help kids with their stability and mental health. 

On this episode, we welcome back Joe Cavanaugh to the podcast.   For 35 years, Youth Frontiers has been teaching character to teenage kids.   Over the last handful of years, their programs have expanded to different audiences.   Most recently, they have developed a Parent Academy.   The focus is to give parents the tools to add stability for their children in an increasingly unstable world.  We unpack the character and mental health issues that kids are dealing with today.   Further, we explore how well-intended parents are often contributing to the problem.  

PK, Chad, and I have a nice chat about collaboration in the workplace including effective strategies/tools for collaboration, differences in how men and women approach collaboration, and how technology has been instrumental in this area during the pandemic.  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PK Kriha is Sr. Vice President of Employee Health & Benefits with Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA). She provides advice on health and welfare plans, wellbeing/wellness programs to a diverse base of corporate clients. She helps corporate leaders understand the full scope, implications and cost of various employee benefits strategies and potential plan design changes, not just the immediate line item expense.   Along with her team, she also helps solve business challenges by deploying strategies that create better health care consumers and keeps employers current on regulatory issues, including those related to health care reform legislation. PK has a natural ability to make strong business connections, network with talented individuals, and match people to cultures. These talents and more have earned her a reputation of integrity and as a professional resource extending beyond employee benefits. PK joined RJF in 2002, where she quickly became a partner. Acquired by MMA in 2011, she continues to provide leadership in multiple areas within MMA.  PK was honored with the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal's 2020 Women In Business Award and also Employee Benefit Adviser's Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising for 2017. She has also been recognized for her extensive knowledge, customer service philosophy and her involvement in leadership development and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives at MMA.  She is involved in several community organizations including Giving WoMN, Benilde St. Margaret's School, the College of St. Benedict, Youth Frontiers, Family Enhancement Center, Banyan and more. PK has two children and resides in St. Louis Park. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more information about the Harvard Business Review article we discussed, "In Collaborative Work Cultures, Women Carry More of the Weight", please visit: https://hbr.org/2018/07/in-collaborative-work-cultures-women-carry-more-of-the-weight --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beyondsmalltalk/message

How do we align incentives so that organizations aggressively move us towards better societal outcomes in ways that our political class is unable or unwilling to do? How do we create and live into the potential of strengthening our communities from a place of “want to” rather than “need to”? Those are the questions that Nate Garvis has successfully answered for leaders in a wide spectrum of sectors over the past decades. As president of Naked Civics, LLC and author of Naked Civics: Strep Away the Politics to Build a Better World, Nate has constructed new pathways by furthering the framing of corporate social responsibility. His work transforms the landscape by tackling the dynamic and sometimes volatile world of social change with a distinct combination of strategies that combine elements of design thinking, entrepreneurial value creation, influencing methods, and market positioning for premium brand differentiation. Nate is also a co-founder of Studio/E and its propriety method of Exploratory Leadership, which has helped thousands of leaders and hundreds of organizations successfully operate in a global marketplace where accelerating change is outstripping the traditional strategies of prediction, planning, and managerial operations. As a founding Senior Fellow at the Lewis Institute Social Innovation Lab at Babson College, Nate has worked with countless business leaders, academics, and students in the pursuit of marrying value creation with community-based values. He has served on a number of academic, business, and non-profit boards including Allina Health, the Public Affairs Council, the College of Arts and Science at the University of St. Thomas, and Youth Frontiers. Prior to the creation of Naked Civics and Studio/E, Nate was Target Corporation's vice president of government affairs and senior civic officer where he stewarded that brand in the local, state, national, and international arenas. He has a degree in history from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from the University of Oregon. Nate's passion and purpose are to help leaders and organizations become active instruments in the creation of the common good and ensure that they get rewarded for their efforts. Harnessing the power of enterprise with the promise of designs that create prosperity beyond mere profit has been his aim. Creating new pathways where none existed before has been his method. Don't forget to check out my book that inspired this podcast series, The Caring Economy: How to Win With Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toby-usnik/support

Join us as we visit with Joe Cavanaugh & Kim Boyll from Youth Frontiers as well as Skip Hanlon, Principal at Ackerman Elementary to discuss the amazing Youth Frontiers program! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mpsfoundation/message

We live in an age of increasing online connection, but at the same time we are seeing ever-growing social isolation. Join us this week as we chat to Jamie from the Youth Frontiers mentoring program and Byron from Headspace Newcastle. They explore the importance of talking about mental health & wellbeing, how building real-world social connections can have a massive positive impact, and how local groups and organisations are working to create a more inclusive, equitable community.  This is a Newcastle Libraries REAL production. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Ray Pastore #13 - Interview with Van Dempsey, Ph.D., Dean of the Watson College of Education, UNCW Van O. Dempsey III, Ph.D., is the dean of the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Watson College of Education. In his previous role at FSU, Dempsey oversaw the assessment of learning and academic programs, and the evaluation of strategic initiatives and organizational effectiveness. Prior to this role, Dempsey served as the Dean of the School of Education, Health and Human Performance at FSU. His accomplishments include leading the state in the implementation of new standards for teaching practice; securing over $1,250,000 in external funding; and collaborating with forty professional development schools and six school districts. Prior to FSU, Dempsey was a faculty member as West Virginia University and also served as the Director of the Benedum Collaborative, which was nationally recognized for its teacher education program and school-university partnerships. Dempsey has served in several state and national leadership positions. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Professional Development Schools; served on the Executive Committee of the National Network for Education Renewal and the WV Commission for Professional Teaching Standards, serving as chair for three years. He currently serves on the WV Board of Education's Higher Education High Quality Educator Stakeholder Committee. Dempsey is the recipient of a National Academy of Sciences Board on Children, Families and Youth “Frontiers of Research on Children, Youth and Families” national award and has published numerous articles and chapters. Dempsey holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Foundations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also received his Master of Arts in Teaching in Social Studies Education and his Bachelor of Arts in Education from UNC at Chapel Hill. Prior to working in higher education, Dempsey was a high school social studies teacher in Fayetteville, NC and Pittsboro, NC. Source of profile: https://uncw.edu/news/2015/05/uncw-names-van-o.-dempsey-iii-dean-of-the-watson-college-of-education.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rayme-pastore/support

Cam chats with Joe Cavanaugh, Founder and CEO of Youth Frontiers, a non-profit with a mission to provide schools with experiences that inspire character, civility and community. The discussion revolves around how his organization – an organization that’s relied heavily on in-person events – has had to pivot in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Infinite by | e s c p | escp-music.bandcamp.com Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Joe Cavanaugh of Youth Frontiers shares how they equip young people with strong character and courage in challenging times. And our anxious thoughts don't have to keep us up at night: Pastor Rob Morgan shares ways to defeat worry with God's word, from his book Worry Less, Live More.

Host Craig Pratt sits down with Joe Cavanaugh, the founder and CEO of Youth Frontiers. Joe started this nonprofit organization 32 years ago. It has since evolved into one of the most successful organizations serving youth in the Midwest. 

Joe describes the origins of his company, Youth Frontiers.  In addition, he explains the some of issues plaguing parents and children today and what his organization is doing to positively influence kids and our communities.      

This Moved Me helps purpose-driven changemakers speak with confidence, clarity, and authenticity so they can create talks that move the world. This interview contains bonus material where Sally discusses: How she learned to be a speaker and coach. What she got wrong about coaching. Her personal mantra as a coach. How feedback can be a gift. You can find the full interview here: https://tonyloyd.com/239 Social Entrepreneurship Resources: Find the full interview with Sally Koering Zimney here: https://tonyloyd.com/239 This Moved Me: http://www.thismovedme.com Sally’s TEDx talk on being an Un-Speaker: https://youtu.be/BJLA2GeRtOc This Moved Me on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/thismovedme This Moved Me Talk Club on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ThisMovedMeTalkClub This Moved Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thismovedme This Moved Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thismovedme This Moved Me podcast: http://www.thismovedme.com/podcast Youth Frontiers: https://www.youthfrontiers.org Book: Crazy Good Advice: 10 Lessons Learned from 150 Leading Social Entrepreneurs: https://tonyloyd.com/book  

Nearly twenty years ago, I was a theater major at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University here in Minnesota. There I met some truly incredible people - one of whom I am sharing with you today! John Sandahl is a speaker, life coach, facilitator, and international ultimate frisbee player. John and I have worked together at Youth Frontiers for the past decade or so - and in that time I've coached John, and learned from him. I've watched John become a speaker, right before my eyes. And a good one at that. He brings his wisdom and guidance - and playfulness! - to all those he speaks to and works with. So, I was so excited to bring him on the show and talk about developing mastery.

  John Noltner - photographer, writer, speaker - “curator of stories” - has shared all of these forms in his latest passion project, “A Peace of My Mind” - a project that shares people’s stories about their connection to the idea of "peace.” It is beautiful, thought-provoking, challenging, inspiring…I got to see John speak at an event for Youth Frontiers (which we’ll talk about a bit on this episode), where he shared part of his exhibit, and his approach with an audience is to be the channel through which he shares other people’s wisdom; which gave John the confidence to share it.

 Rita Boersma is a writer, speaking coach, performer, improvisor, playwright, speaker… ETC.! Her work as a speaker and coach at Youth Frontiers over the past decade - along with her work as an improvisor at HUGE Theater and ComedySportz - has helped her define and own the idea of “story truth,” believing - like Tim O’Brien - that it’s even more important than “happening truth.”