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  • Are you a business leader seeking to inspire by connecting and aligning with your stakeholders?
  • Are you a senior executive trying to deal with multiple stressors and still be a high performer?
  • Are you a decision maker in people development with an intent to cultivate a sense of happiness and unified meaning that permeates the workplace?

You are invited to experience Search Inside Yourself (SIY), the leadership program that introduces practical tools for focus, self-awareness and resilience.

Backed by world experts in neuroscience, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, Search Inside Yourself has already changed thousands of lives in over 100 cities around the world.

Born at Google in 2007 with unprecedented popularity among Google employees, this leadership program has spread to Ford, SAP, LinkedIn, American Express, Roche and other global corporations.

The SIY program in English was conducted in China for the first time in December 2016 in Shanghai followed by more workshops in 2017. There have been close to 200 attendees from companies and associations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), YUM!, Tod’s Luxury, ADIDAS, Shanghai Centre, Dow, National Football League (NFL), Harley-Davidson, Shanghai American School, China Business News Daily, Jiemian Media, Didi Chuxing, McCain Foods, American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai, Australian Chamber of Commerce, and Smart Shanghai.

Given the stellar response from the attendees of previous SIY workshops in Shanghai, Octave is excited to bring SIY to Shanghai on Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12. Two Search Inside Yourself practitioners with stellar corporate backgrounds will be presenting.

Session Outline

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • SIY teaches emotional intelligence skills that lead to sustained peak performance, strong collaboration and effective leadership.
  • Learn mindfulness and attention training to increase your self-awareness, which can be applied to a wide variety of situations to respond thoughtfully, rather than react defensively.
  • Develop your empathy to communicate more effectively.
  • Increase your resilience and bounce back from setbacks with a growth-oriented mindset. 
  • Create head space to unleash creativity and innovative thinking.
  • Putting all of these traits into practice creates a positive emotional and mental state which is the foundation of strong and inspiring leadership presence.
  • Over two days in person and four weeks of virtual follow-up, the SIY program is focused on equipping you with a set of practical skills to take back to your workplace and apply immediately.
Who should attend?
  • Leaders that seek to inspire by connecting and aligning with their stakeholders
  • Senior executives dealing with multiple stressors and still be high performers
  • Human resource decision makers that seek to cultivate a sense of happiness and unified meaning that permeates the workplace 

Agenda

  • DAY 1

  • DAY 2

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Morning Session
Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence & Self Awareness
- Introduction
- Mindfulness
- Neuroscience
- Emotional Intelligence
- Self-Awareness
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Afternoon Session
Self Regulation & Motivation
- Emotional Regulation
- Self Regulation
- Understanding Triggers
- Alignment
Please note that lunch is not included. Enough time will be allocated during lunch break for attendees to have lunch in nearby restaurants of their choice. 

Speakers

  • Linda Curtis

    Linda Curtis

    Linda has held senior positions at U.S. Bancorp, the Harris bank of Chicago and led an award-winning business development team at Visa. Linda has consulted with hundreds of private and corporate clients such as MASTERCARD, NASDAQ OMX, ORACLE, WALGREENS and YAHOO.

    Linda attended DePaul University, where she studied organizational development and did post-graduate work at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Education, the American Management Association and Visa’s Bankcard Management School. She is a graduate of the Integral Coaching Program at New Ventures West.

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  • Peter Weng

    Peter Weng

    Peter is the Chief Business Officer (CBO), Head of Global Expansion at the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. Peter is an experienced high-tech executive who is passionate about exploring how mindfulness can affect individual and social change. As a director at Google and Dell, he led sales, marketing, and operations organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia with five years of China experience in sales/marketing/business development. His work on mindfulness and meditation programs has spanned various settings including corporations and prisons.
    Peter serves on the board of Insight Santa Cruz and is also involved in work supporting wildlife conservation and sustainable transportation. Peter has an MBA from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA and Bachelor of Science, Agricultural & Biological Engineering from Cornell University.

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Testimonials

SIY program in English was conducted in China for the first time in December 2016 in Shanghai. There were 80 attendees from companies and associations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), YUM!, Dow, National Football League (NFL), Harley-Davidson, American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai, Shanghai American School, China Business News Daily, Jiemian Media and Didi Chuxing.  
 
I would encourage any executive that is in a leadership role to consider enrolling in Search Inside Yourself as the benefits are truly transformational. Search Inside Yourself allowed me to harness the juncture between the 3 disciplines of Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness and Neuroscience. The practitioners are truly world class and they guided us through some life learning exercises that I still continue to practice to this date. Given my impactful experience, I look forward to being as much as a community member of Search Inside Yourself in China.  
 
Alex Font, 2017-2018 President, Shanghai Chapter of Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO)
 
As an educator, I am always on the look-out for tools and techniques to help equip our students to be more successful. I especially liked the way Search Inside Yourself  blended mindfulness with emotional intelligence training to help us not just learn a new skills but also to become better at observing ourselves. It also provided a wonderful pause in our busy schedules—something we all need. 

Lastly, the workshop leaders were down to earth, sharing their own stories and realizations which enabled them to develop an authentic connection with the audience.
 
Shaun McElroy , Counselor, Shanghai American School (SAS), Puxi 

Tickets

A prepayment is required when choosing 'Members only price' or 'Standard Price'.

“会员票价”及“标准票价”要求您在提交注册信息后即刻完成在线预付，若您希望在活动现场支付门票，请选择“现场票价”。
Regular Ticket
Standard Price RMB 8,000
Early Bird Ticket

(Until April 18, 2018)

Registration

  • All registrations shall be made online before the session. For full-day sessions, payment also shall be made before the session.
  • For half-day sessions, AmCham Shanghai members are eligible to attend free of charge with Training Credit*; AmCham Shanghai members without Training Credit are eligible to attend at “Member Rate”; Employees who work at AmCham Shanghai member companies are eligible to attend at "Employee Rate".
  • For full-day sessions, AmCham Shanghai members are eligible to attend at “Member Rate”; Employees who work at AmCham Shanghai member companies are eligible to attend at “Employee Rate”; Non-members are eligible to attend at “Non-Member Rate”.
  • Limited spaces are available and attendance will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Members please bring your membership card and non-members bring your business card upon check-in at the training session.
Walk-in and Cancellation Policy
  • This session requires confirmation of attendance in advance. If you attend this session without prior registration, you will be charged an RMB50 "walk-in" fee as member and RMB100 as employee.
  • Cancellation: If you need to cancel your registration for a half-day session, please notify Ivette Corominas at (86 21) 6279 7119 ext. 5671 or email ivette.corominas@amcham-shanghai.org no less than 24 hours in advance. If you need to cancel your registration for a full-day session, please notify Ivette Corominas at least two weeks prior to the session for a full refund. Cancellation made within two weeks before the session will not be refundable.
  • To ensure that you have a seat, please come to the session on time. Open seats will be released to other guests 15 minutes after the session starts.