This growth workshop offers a rare opportunity to step back from the day‑to‑day, reflect on where you are in your career, and intentionally chart where you want to go. Join fellow participants and talent development professionals for a collaborative, energizing session focused on your personal career strategy. You will leverage a comprehensive career planning framework to develop clarity and build the steps for your success. Bring your ideas, your career aspirations, and your curiosity—and walk away with a personalized growth roadmap to accelerate your development and an action plan to move confidently toward your goals.
The Growth Blueprint workshop will be led by Michele Monte and Kevin Kowalick from Offshoot Professional Development. Don't miss this amazing opportunity to grow and network!
Agenda: 5:15 – 8:00 pm
5:15 – 6:10 pm: Registration / Light Meal / Networking
6:10 – 7:45 pm: Welcome / Discussion / Facilitated Activities
7:45 – 8:00 pm: Next steps / Wrap / Close
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Speaker Bios:
Michele Monte
With over 20 years in the corporate world in media production and Comcast, Michele Monte has navigated the complexities of executive leadership - managing high-stakes client relationships, navigating corporate politics, and leading through economic shifts. She has experienced the highs, the challenges, and the pivotal learning moments that come with growing a career to the executive level. But through it all, her greatest passion has been coaching and developing PEOPLE.
Michele believes that mindset shifts are the catalyst for growth. She blends deep corporate expertise with formal coaching credentials and PROSCI Change Practitioner certification, leveraging the ADKAR model on many of her coaching engagements.
Michele partners with professionals and businesses to foster personal growth, enable the pivot from transactional to strategic and help build a winning mindset to drive business results.
Kevin Kowalick
Kevin Kowalick brings over 20 years of experience at NYC ad agencies, Comcast, and TransUnion in corporate strategy, operations, sales & marketing, technology, learning & development, and academia. He understands what it takes to lead, grow, and thrive in high-stakes, fast-moving environments giving him a holistic, real-world lens he brings to every interaction.
As an ICF-certified leadership coach and professor of organizational leadership at Temple University, Kevin specializes in helping leaders navigate change, build confidence, grow in their careers, and drive meaningful results.
Kevin's leadership development work is about unlocking potential. Whether someone is stepping into a bigger role, navigating political or technological complexity & change, learning new skills, or simply feeling stuck, his work centers on goals and growth. The result is a focused space to reflect, reset, and accelerate. Clients walk away not just with solutions, but with stronger skills, sharper awareness, and real momentum.