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Focused on team development and helping you grow the leaders in your organization.

Vickie Maris is passionate about helping your team members grow. When she facilitates sessions with your team, she brings her experiences as a master facilitator and a marketing communications professional, in both industry and higher education, to the conversation. Vickie is also a learning experience designer and idea coach for organizations moving through change. 

Facilitator for your next staff retreat or off-site

When you partner with Vickie for your next staff retreat or team development event, she is available to help you with the planning and/or can serve as a facilitator of your session. Vickie Maris is an Authorized Partner – Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors.

If you would like to incorporate the insightful assessments in the DiSC Profile series and/or the team development activities of either “Everything DiSC®” or “The Five Behaviors® of a Cohesive Team,” she can order those materials for you and lead the assessments for your group. You can also enroll through Vickie’s account, in the facilitator certification offered by Wiley to become a facilitator of Everything DiSC Workplace or The Five Behaviors. 

To add variety in your next team development experience, please consider one of these unique leadership workshops available.

From an animal’s perspective …
Leadership lessons from horses and llamas translated to business around the topics of team dynamics and role selection

From a musician’s perspective …
Watch Vickie’s bandmates in an up-close and personal setting to increase awareness of how leaders interact with team members when standard forms of communication are not available. This is an experiential learning activity for your team that fits well in a retreat or conference setting. (Your team has the option to be “on stage with the band.” but it is not a requirement.) Guests are not asked to play an instrument or sing. 

Note: For links to original music by Vickie Maris in digital music directories such as Spotify, Pandora and YouTube, please visit https://vickiemarismusic.com

At conferences, Vickie speaks in a variety of topic areas including: adding daily silence to your routine for increased mindfulness, self-awareness, productivity and decreased stress; self-awareness of behavior styles (DiSC Profile) as a first step towards implementing change; leading your team through disruption; preparing your organization for your customers increasing uses of the voice interface; and on subjects such as building robust LinkedIn profiles. To see a description of module topics that are available for your next team development session: everythingdisc.com/vickiemaris   or   fivebehaviors.com/vickiemaris

An extra set of hands for program development

In recent months, Vickie’s clients have included: IDEA Center at Innovation Park at the University of Notre Dame; and Indiana University Kelley School of Business Executive Education as the team develops its portfolio of leadership programs that are open to individual or group enrollments. 

Short courses include: Frontline Leadership (aka Supervisory Development) and Developing the Effective Technical Leader (aka Engineering Leadership). These programs run in the Spring and Fall of the year. They are also conducted as custom offerings at company locations, but the following sessions are open to the public for enrollment via the website of Indiana University: 

Pete DeLisle is teaching in the program, Developing the Effective Technical Leader – Sept. 17-18, 2024, Indianapolis, IN. (Dates for Spring 2025 are April 8-9, 2025.)

Gar Trusley and Paul Slaggert are teaching in Frontline Leadership – Sept. 25-26, 2024, Indianapolis, IN.

Agile Digital Business Podcast

You’re invited to catch updates about programs, interviews with instructors and facilitators, and concepts I’m exploring in team development as you subscribe and listen to Agile Digital Business podcast. My guests have been chatting with me recently about listening to the customer and making business pivots to meet the customer in their place of need.