ANDRE YOUNG                                  

Speaker, Author, Leadership Trainer, & Founder of You Evolving Now, LLC       

Andre Young is a Professional Speaker, Author, Leadership Trainer, and Founder of You Evolving Now, LLC. He worked as a Mental Health Therapist for 19 years, played sports at every level from high school to professional, has been an employee, a business owner, and self-employed, and has written 5 books focused on enhancing Leadership & Work/Life Harmony. As Founder of You Evolving Now it's his mission to enhance Leadership and Work/Life Harmony for organizations, leaders, employees, and teams with his high-energy, interactive, culture-impacting leadership training programs and speaking engagements; allowing a professional and personal evolution!

Keynote - Evolve Your Leadership in 3!

This high-energy, interactive, culture-changing training is focused on Management and Employees enhancing Leadership Skills, Personal Leadership, Work Culture, and Work/Life Harmony for themselves, their team, and the organization.

• 5 Points of Your Day – Everyone has 24 hours in a day… Leaders use theirs differently! Learn the 5 points to live the life of your dreams, professionally and personally!
• The 5 Types of Employees – Learn the 5 types and what each Type needs from you most right now!
• The Leader’s 3 – Learn the 3 Building Blocks of Your Leadership; providing a GPS to “SUCCESS” and making your “Yes’s” powerful and your “No’s” meaningful!

Workshop - The Leader's Toolbox: 3 More Tools to Help Lead, Prioritize and Prepare Your Team

The workshop is a complement to Evolve Your Leadership in 3! The framework for this session involves:

• A Leader’s Meetings – Learn the 3 Meetings all Leaders must have…and have well: The Reveal, the 1-on-1, and The Reverse Shadow.
• Activity Time – Meetings are erratic and may lack traction without your Leader’s 3 guiding the way. Attendees will work in teams to construct their Vision & Vision Factors, Expectations, & Rules.
• A Leader’s Priority Quadrant – Most companies begin to struggle when EVERYTHING becomes a High Priority/Handle Now. The other Quadrants matter! Learn what goes into them and how to delegate like a Leader.
• Activity Time – Attendees will work in Teams to construct their own Priority Quadrant to take back and implement in their respective business/organization.
• A Leader’s Succession – Learn how to move on like a Leader; enhancing your Leadership, empowering your successor, and protecting your company culture.

RACHEL SEDERBERG,   Ph.D.                                

Labor Economist and Director of Research for Professional Services at Lightcast       

Dr. Rachel Sederberg is the Director of Research for the Professional Services Team at Lightcast, where she explores the impact of emerging technologies on the labor market, including AI, green jobs, data privacy, automation, and disruptive skills. In her role, she advises leading companies on talent strategy, skills-based hiring, and related issues. 

An accomplished author, researcher, and speaker, Dr. Sederberg specializes in the intersection of emerging technologies and the labor market, with a particular focus on green jobs, automation, and future workforce trends. Her insights have been featured in major media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, Axios, NPR’s On Point, CNBC, USA Today, INC, Wired, Fortune, Barron’s, and The Business Journals.

Alongside her work at Lightcast, Dr. Sederberg continues to contribute to the field of labor economics through academic research on emerging technologies. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, such as Economics Letters, The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and the Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Dr. Sederberg earned her Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Stonehill College. Before joining Lightcast in 2020, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College during the 2019-2020 academic year. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member in Economics at Stonehill College.

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