Event Details
Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
United Way of Palm Beach County
477 S Rosemary Ave., Suite 230
West Palm Beach, 33401 FL
West Palm Beach, 33401 FL
Join Emerging Leaders Society for its first professional development event of the year featuring leadership trainer and strengths educator Jen Kapela! Start off 2020 learning about your leadership style and how to work effectively with others. This event is complimentary for ELS members and $25 for non-members. Breakfast provided.
About the speaker: Jen Kapela has dedicated her entire career to helping others learn, lead, and live happy, successful lives.
She is the President and Founder of Kapela Leadership Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in leadership training and organizational effectiveness. Through Kapela Leadership Solutions, Jen works with companies on leadership training and employee engagement, coaching and consulting, strategic planning, and new employee training and orientation curriculum design.
Jen is also the CEO of Adventures in Voluntourism, which she founded to provide the opportunity for others to travel and engage in learning experiences that will inspire them to make the world a better place. Having always followed her wanderlust, Jen found that her best adventures were the ones that allowed her to give back to the community or the environment in a positive way. And now sheÕs offering the same opportunity to the rest of the world.
Jen holds a Doctorate in Organizational Leadership and is a certified MBTI (Myers-Briggs) practitioner and strengths educator, and has been quoted as an expert in Forbes, Fast Company, Mashable, Monster, Business News Daily, WomenÕs Daily, and more.
Along with her passion for leadership development, Jen is also passionate about community involvement and is very active in the South Florida community. She is a founding program co-chair and past executive committee member of Emerge Broward, a program of the Leadership Broward Foundation, and a founding steering committee member and past steering committee co-chair of the Ghost Light Society, a young patronsÕ group supporting the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. She is a previous Co-Chair of the Women Leading Broward program and previous Chair of Youth Leadership Broward Class XXIX. She has also volunteered in various capacities with many other organizations. Jen was recognized as a 2010 Leadership Broward Foundation Fun Lunch Honoree for her service to the organization and the community and a 2014 Lifestyle Media Group Up and Comer Finalist for her dedication and leadership to her occupation and community.
Currently, Jen is a Board Member with the PACE Center for Girls Broward and past co-chair of their Partners4PACE membership group and serves as a Guardian ad Litem. Jen is a graduate of Leadership Broward Class XXX and a past member of the Leadership Broward Foundation Board of Directors.
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