Story Time to Spark Your Growth, Journey, and Resilience

Panel/Authors: Nicole Faust Cohen, Megan Miller

Moderator: Ricki Lang

Fireside chat moderated by Ricki with authors Nicole Cohen and Megan Miller who have written books that will empower, enlighten, encourage, and innovate your life. Come see these thought leaders and hear their stories. We are more alike than we are different!

Nicole Faust Cohen is an experienced business leader and lifelong student and practitioner of the performing arts. She also has training and experience in both scripted performances, as well as the dynamic world of improvisational comedy.

Ms. Cohen is a managing director at a global consulting company. Spending time with dozens of companies, she has seen both incredible collaborations, as well as those stifled by professionals who seemed to have forgotten that the journey towards greatness is as important as the greatness itself. Equally important, the journey may affect how great the outcomes can be.

Ms. Cohen was named a Luminary by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, which recognizes individuals who have made a significant impact on the healthcare industry, serve as a role model, actively mentor others, exhibit dedication to the industry, and consistently demonstrate exceptional leadership.

Outside her industry work, Ms. Cohen creates and leads workshops on the topic of bringing the rules of improvisational comedy to the workplace, for the purpose of creating the most collaborative and innovative work environment possible. In those sessions, themes and topics are addressed based on the needs of the group or team but examples explored include but are not limited to:

· Leading with a growth mindset

· Building professional relationships to optimize collaboration and innovation

· Becoming the best workplace where we bring the best out of ourselves and others

Ms. Cohen graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and a Theme in Fine Arts/Theatre. It was in college where she became exposed to improvisational comedy, cast in an improv group called Titanic Players alongside a mighty cast of hilarious actors, who performed regularly.

Today, Ms. Cohen is an International Best Selling Author with Improv at Work: What the Business World Can Learn from Improvisational Comedy. In addition to leading workshops with global leadership teams, she has also spoken on podcasts, radio programming, Northwestern Alumni Association webcast series and at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women.

Nicole Faust Cohen: Improv at Work (Purchase HERE)

Megan Miller is an International Best-Selling Author, TEDx Speaker, Founder of the Intentional Living Method & host of Attention to Intention podcast.

Megan is on a mission to deliver the words that she needed for so long in her own journey. Exhaustion is not a status symbol & busyness is not a badge of honor. Through the Intentional Living Method built on connection, community and real-life conversations, mask down & human first, Megan shares science backed microsteps to guide audiences on how to start living, not just existing.

Website: megan-miller.com

Megan Miller: Voices of the 21st Century (Purchase HERE)

You will have an opportunity to speak with the authors, win one of their books, network, and enjoy snacks and beverages.