Learn strategies for improving your active listening and ability to learn more effectively from your interactions.
Event Details
Active listening is often cited as a critical leadership skill but we don't always know how practice and improve. How can we commit to being more present, picking up cues from verbal and nonverbal communication, and asking the right questions?
Join us for a panel discussion with experts from different backgrounds (journalism, crisis negotiation, and the arts) sharing their insights and strategies for improving your active listening and ability to learn more effectively from your interactions.
5:30 - 6:00 pm Registration
6:00 - 7:30 pm Panel Discussion and Q&A
7:30 - 8:30 pm Networking Reception
Speaker Profiles
George Wu (Moderator)
John P. and Lillian A. Gould Professor of Behavioral Science and Faculty Director of the Harry L. Davis, Chicago Booth
Steve Edwards (Speaker)
Executive Director, University of Chicago Institute of Politics
Before joining the University of Chicago Institute of Politics in October 2012, Edwards spent nearly 14 years at WBEZ, Chicago's NPR member station, where he served in both on-air and managerial roles, as host of the acclaimed daily shows The Afternoon Shift, and Eight Forty-Eight and as the station's director of content development and acting program director. His work has appeared on the BBC, Bloomberg News, PBS and on numerous public radio stations around the United States.
Beth Kreppein (Speaker)
Special Agent, FBI
Special Agent Kreppein was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in St. Joseph County, Indiana before she was accepted to the FBI Academy. After graduating from the FBI Academy in 2004, Special Agent Kreppein was assigned to the Chicago Division's Joint Task Force on Gangs investigating violent street gangs in the Chicagoland area. She joined the Chicago Division Crisis Negotiation Team in 2006 and became the Crisis Negotiation Coordinator in 2011. In February of 2016, Special Agent Kreppein was named the Chicago Division's Crisis Management Coordinator in addition to maintaining her position as the Crisis Negotiation Coordinator. She is also a Physical Fitness Advisor and trained Legal Advisor for the FBI.
John Michael Schert (Speaker)
Visiting Artist and Social Entrepreneur, Chicago Booth
In his role at Booth, Schert mentors students and works with faculty to explore the creative process, as practiced by artists, and how this asset can be of relevance and value to multiple sectors. Schert began his career as a dancer with American Ballet Theatre and Alonzo King LINES Ballet after attending high school at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2004 he cofounded Trey McIntyre Project (TMP), serving as the company's executive director, and a dancer, for nine years. Under his leadership, TMP's groundbreaking engagement and creative placemaking methods were recognized and was profiled in The New York Times and byPBS NewsHour.
Questions
Susan Popa
Director, Harry L. Davis Center for Leadership
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