Payment for 2023-12 Finding, Feeling and Fueling Your Purpose - Non-Members

Topic: Finding, Feeling and Fueling Your Purpose

Purpose and passion fuels performance, retention, and many other things. Yet most team members struggle to connect the dots on seeing their purpose in action. The impact they make. How the work they do truly matters to the team, organization, client and other key stakeholders.
As a leader and individual contributor, how do you help people see the difference they make? How do you recognize them in ways that matter? In this session, we’ll share specific ways our top leaders achieve this that are easy to implement on any team!

Erica Woods: Director, IT Contractor Programs and Philanthropy, Apex Systems

Erica oversees programs, resources, and other initiatives that support Apexs’ 20,000+ Contractor Community. Erica also leads corporate philanthropy and STEM efforts, and assists Apexs’ 4 Cs (candidates/job seekers, contractors, client managers, and communities) with a variety of coaching. She has 15+ years of experience in the IT staffing and solutions world and an MBA from Loyola University. She is a Professional Development Author for Apex, the MSSQLTips.com online technical community, and has presented Job Seeker, Career Development/Growth, Hiring Tips and Employee Engagement sessions for associations, groups, and conferences. Lastly, Erica is the Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Baltimore and Tampa Tech4Good groups, which bring together technical folks looking for skills-based volunteering opportunities with nonprofits in need of technology help/guidance.

Anna Brunner: Director, Consulting Services

Anna manages Apex Consulting Services engagements focused primarily within the Healthcare sector. She manages activities and resources in support of highly visible, large-scale technology projects. Anna collaborates with our clients to lead the delivery of IT and non-IT initiatives, process improvement, cost management, increase productivity, and improve overall project performance.  She partners with our clients to create a tight alignment between business goals and the systems/tools needed to support them. For the 9 years prior to joining Consulting Services, Anna had been managing and developing our team of Recruiters and Account Managers in the Portland, OR market.