Story Time to Spark Your Growth, Journey, and Resilience

Panel/Authors: Nicole Faust Cohen, Megan Miller

Moderator: Ricki Lang

The WICT Network: Greater Philadelphia is excited to be hosting a FREE fireside chat to spark your growth and resilience.  The chat will be moderated by Ricki Lang with authors Nicole Faust 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! You will have an opportunity to speak with the authors, win one of their books, network, and enjoy light bites and refreshments.

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)

Ricki Lang is Vice President leading Comcast Business Product Development & Delivery in the Technology, Product and Customer Experience (TPX) organization of Comcast Cable. TPX is centered on collaboration amongst business units and technology teams to drive the execution of both strategic and tactical goals. In this role, she is focused on exceptional strategic product development to enable her stakeholders, engineers, and product partners provide the most optimal experience with the Comcast Business products from sales through assurance. As a leader, Ricki is known for championing a culture of allyship, coaching and advocacy to assist in personal and career growth. Through her career Ricki has focused on being an innovative strategic enabler, top notch communicator, facilitator to cultivate talent, and a change agent for digital transformation. She is passionate about bringing diverse perspectives together for pragmatic solution design and executing on the pathway to market. She is an executive sponsor for the diversity, equity and inclusion team at Comcast continues to be a catalyst to hire, develop and retain top talent representing our customer base. Ricki currently lives in the Greater Philadelphia Region with her fiancé and 2 teenage children. She loves to cook, bake, travel, user her Peloton, and is working on her pickleball skills.

Hear more info about the event from Ricki and Nicole!