I wanted to pass on a warm invitation to our monthly Living in Community Salon with the CoreCommons, happening again this Thursday night and growing fast in popularity.

We have a very special speaker this month - Dr. Genie Z. Laborde from "Influencing With Integrity, who will be presenting on the subject of "Empowering Communities & Companies".

We all need meaning and purpose in our lives. And while we all acknowledge that business needs to make profits, conscious businesses focus on their purpose beyond profit. By doing so, conscious businesses connect and align their employees, customers, investors and suppliers to this larger sense of meaning and purpose.

Developed and delivered with companies across America over the past 25 years, Dr. Genie Z. Laborde's 'Influencing with Integrity' seminars (based on her best-selling book by the same name) provide the essential communications tools and skills for conscious business - for team building, leadership, conflict resolution, negotiation and customer service enhancement.

Join Genie in this exclusive workshop as she introduces you to a new set of skills that enable you to influence others in ways that invigorate business relationships based on mutual agreement and trust.

Genie Z. Laborde is the author of several books, including: Influencing with Integrity: “Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation” (151,000 sold); the follow-up book, “Fine Tune Your Brain: When Everything’s Going Right and What To Do When It Isn’t,” the workbook “90 Days to Communication Excellence,” and the pending “Serendipity in the Workplace.” “Influencing with Integrity” has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Polish. Her latest is Influencing with Integrity on the Internet, which is both an eBook and hard cover in print, and the updated “Influence with Integrity” eBook, premiering April 5th at the ConsciousCapitalism.org conference.

She has produced the video training films and courses, “Influencing Skills,” “TeleSkills,” “Managing Meetings with PEGASUS,” and “Paradigm Changes in Business” (co-produced with Florida Power and Light). The videos and trainings have been purchased by Fortune 500 Companies and educational institutions including Hewlett-Packard, Chase Manhattan Bank, IBM, Rochester Institute of Technology, Continental Airlines, and Eastman Kodak. Her videos, books and course materials are also available in Spanish.

Dr. Laborde holds a Ph.D. in Confluent Education from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Confluent Education, based on Gestalt psychology, is the study of the affective and cognitive domains in learning. Her program was funded by a Ford Foundation Grant for Innovative Education. Dr. Laborde received her Master’s degree from Tulane University and her Bachelor’s from Louisiana State University. She is listed in Who’s Who in the West . She was formerly on the MBA faculty at John F. Kennedy University and the University of California Santa Cruz extension, and has taught courses at Vanderbilt University, Stanford University and University of California Santa Barbara. She is also an artist and has sold approximately fifty paintings across the last ten years.

Build Communities - Better! COREcommons is a curated online environment providing best practices and technology solutions for those seeking to advance their community intelligence... This hub showcases the range of practitioners who specialize in planning, building and engaging the communities of tomorrow. http://COREcommons.com/

Living Mandala designs, facilitates, and produces courses, workshops, and events that support personal, ecological and socially regenerative practices. The mission of Living Mandala is to serve, empower and promote holistic educators and organizations in order to increase awareness of their work, to create educational programs, and to catalyze project activities that implement ecologically and socially regenerative practices of human beings living in greater harmony with each other and their environment. http://livingmandala.com/

The Venture Greenhouse of Dominican University is a pioneering, early-stage business incubator providing an intensive acceleration process for companies that have the potential for significant environmental and social benefits. The Venture Greenhouse is a growth accelerator for budding social and environmental entrepreneurs, a learning laboratory for the University’s business students, and a community resource for innovators, investors, sustainability advocates and new ventures. http://venturegreenhouse.org/

Volunteers: We need a handful of volunteers to support set-up, registration and tear down. Please contact brad@bradnye.com if you are interested in helping in exchange for admission.