YP Symposium 2024: Dubuque’s Leading Personal & Professional Development Experience
 
The Dubuque Area Chamber’s Young Professionals Symposium is a half-day, conference-style experience designed to provide area young professionals with tools to accelerate their careers and access out-of-the-box development. This dynamic event will feature the opportunity to connect with industry leaders and peers, gain insights from experts, and amass actionable takeaways covering essential skills like leadership, networking, and productivity.
 
Whether it be professional or personal, we strive to present attendees with information and connections to help them thrive in both the Dubuque community and today's competitive workforce. This conference is a must-attend for anyone focused on professional growth and personal success.

The YP Dubuque Symposium 2024 will be held on Wed., November 20th from 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM.
 
AGENDA
11:30 AM - NOON | Registration and Lunch buffet
Noon - 12:10 PM | Welcome
12:10 - 1:00 PM | Opening keynote | Chris Lee, Executive Director, Des Moines County Conservation | "Take this Job and...Love it! An Ecologist's Guide to Loving Your Work" | What happens when we apply the principles of ecological management to our workplaces? Conservation leader and workplace culture consultant Chris Lee has found it to be a recipe for creating thriving organizations. In this inspiring and motivating story-filled keynote, Chris Lee looks into our evolutionary history to reveal what’s increasingly absent from our workplaces and careers, and it’s not what society tells us we’re missing.
1:00 - 1:10 PM | Share information for Breakout 1 sessions
1:10 - 1:20 PM | Break
1:20 - 2:10 PM | Breakout 1

• 1A) Chris Lee, Executive Director, Des Moines County Conservation | "Take this Job and Love It!" Continuation from the opening keynote.

• 1B) Professional Panel, Sherri Keating, DuTrac Community Credit Union, Kathy Buhr, Q Casino + Resort, Wes Hartig, MedOne Pharmacy Benefit Solutions, and Mike Pudlo, Cottingham & Butler | "Empower Your Career: Tools for Growth and Advancement"

• 2A) Kait Tysver, Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, Kait Tysver Consulting | "Productivity and Engagement From a Place of Strength" | Identifying and utilizing your strengths is key to your engagement and productivity! Your natural patterns indicate the kind of environment that you need in order to do what you do best every day, shine in your role and love your job! Join us as we discuss how strengths-based leadership can lead to more engagement and productivity for both you and your team!

• 2B) Rising Star Panel: Kyle Kass, Honkamp, Sam Wooden, RSH Legal, Brandon Lynch, Dubuque Bank & Trust, Lauren Czeshinski, Cottingham & Butler, and Callie Mescher FitzGerald, Centrally Rooted | "Words of Wisdom and Tips from Dubuque's Rising Stars"

3:10 – 3:20 PM | Break
3:20 - 3:30 PM | Meghan Hackett award presentation
3:30 – 4:30 PM | Closing keynote | Shawn K. Woods, President, Shawn K. Woods & Associates | "The Four Stages of Fire"
4:30 – 5:00 PM | Giveaways and Final announcements
5:00 PM | Adjourn

Please join us from 5 - 7 PM in the Riverboat Lounge for an After Hours event. Huge thank you to our beverage sponsor for the evening, Barton Wealth Management!
 
Young Professionals Dubuque is a program of the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce.