Dan Farkas

“Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick 2.” In the modern hiring climate, it feels more like “Pick 1 and hope it works.” How can agency leaders and owners balance their talent and sanity? In the words of Anu Lall, “Build a healthy relationship with the most advanced technology app on the planet – Our own breath.” Find Your Talent Flow will enable agency leaders and owners to pause and reflect on staffing shortcomings. Using a 5,000 year-old practice as a guide, the session will use best practices from yoga to revisit successful recruitment, training, and retention approaches. Attendees will discover how to grow a culture of learning that can grow tomorrow’s agency leaders through existing staff. The session will then identify key themes that help keep talent on your employment mat and away from potential competitors or corporate gigs. Let's build a stronger, better, newer way to grow your business, one breath and movement at a time.

Strategic communication is a necessity for any non-profit to survive. It also tends to fall on the back burner when a problem pops up or calendar gets full.     It doesn’t have to be this way.   Dan Farkas has earned national recognition working with groups that have budgets of $0.00. Shoestring Media will help attendees learn how to use existing resources to help with event creation, media relations, social media management with little to no budget. Shoestring Media will also review ways to create efficiency so the plan won’t fall behind the next time a diversion arises.   By the end of the session, attendees will be able to:   * Understand the COPE model and how it streamlines communication   * Find ways to create months worth of content in a single day   * Collaborate with like-minded people to ease the communication workload   * Develop relationships with journalists and influencers to get your message out to the right people.

Human storytelling should drive strategic communication. Zoom, virtual events, and COVID confusion can fray that connection. This can hire dire consequences for brands. It can also open the door to tremendous connections with people you could never have previously reached. How do you get the coin to fall on the right side of your foundation’s future? Be a boss. Born to Run with a Human Touch will use famous songs from one of music’s great storytellers to empower attendees to find humanity and connect it with existing and prospective groups. The session will also help attendees find existing resources to make the journey align with event creation, media relations, social media management, and internal communication.