I'll be there July 9-11 (+ before and after), presenting many seminars. If you've been thinking about working with me, RollerCon is a great way to attend some of my most requested and new seminars. All attendees (any pass type) can attend these seminars - no pre-registration needed!
Here are the seminars I'll be presenting. I'll update this page when the seminars are scheduled so you'll know when and where to find me.
Coaching for future growth
We’ll explore strategies for setting your learners up for success, communicating effectively, delivering useful feedback, working with mixed-ability groups, and more. These skills and practices will be useful for coaches, captains, and any leader seeking to maximize their impact.
Hot Book Reports - Great ideas from Great Books
This seminar features a summary of the key ideas from some hot books to read to make you a better skater, captain, coach, and leader in your league (and beyond). Fill your brain with brilliant ideas from excellent books like Mindset, Difficult Conversations, 10 to 25, and more. No pre-reading required!
Foundations of a thriving, easy-to-manage league
This seminar outlines how to set your league up for success by implementing thoughtful revisions to your mission/vision, values, code of conduct, and disciplinary process. We’ll discuss transitioning to a community-building, repair-based accountability model, where conflict management is shared among all league members, rather than being the responsibility of a few leaders or a single committee. We’ll cover a process to make the league easy to run with less drama (and with lower potential for big, destructive conflicts). If you are concerned about how your league will retain great leaders, grow, and thrive for the next 1-20 years, come to this seminar!
Conflict management skills for everyone
Learn to effectively respond to conflicts and almost-conflicts without damaging relationships or stirring things up unnecessarily. We’ll go over a step-by-step tool for having a productive conflict conversation that focuses on moving things forward and peaceful resolutions. This workshop will also give you time to practice the skills so you’re ready to go the next time you sense a brewing conflict.
No More Grievances at your League - it’s possible!
What if your league no longer had a grievance process, and instead, there was a self-sustaining culture of dealing with interpersonal conflict in a way that made the league community stronger? (Without dumping every conflict on a committee or the board to fix!) This seminar will cover how to shift your current not-fun (questionably effective) grievance or disciplinary procedures into something that centers the behavior of league members and holds everyone accountable for their actions without being policed or punished by league leadership. Learn how at this seminar.
Code of Conduct Workshop
Bring your code of conduct for an audit to see if there are sneaky (or obvious) parts that are fueling interpersonal conflict, decreasing buy-in, or making it harder to retain excellent people at your league. I’ve seen how a code of conduct can support thriving leagues or lead to toxic behavior and attitudes. This workshop will be a deep dive into decoding misdirected pieces to avoid and highlighting positive aspects to include in a code of conduct. Let’s break the cycle of a code of conduct being a list of rules outlining things no one must ever do. Then maybe someone does something very similar to breaking a rule, but it wasn’t on the list, so…everyone avoids dealing with it for a long time while everyone picks sides, and drama ensues. Instead, let’s envision a code of conduct that is unique to your league, easier to manage, and builds a stronger community. Even if you don’t have easy access to your code of conduct during the seminar, come get useful ideas for when you get home.
Understand and Flex your Leadership Strengths
We’ll explore productive ways to use your leadership strengths, especially while working with folks who do not share your style, so you can more easily navigate that relationship and get things done. You probably already have a person in your life who is difficult to work with - this workshop will give you a nuanced perspective on working with them in a way that doesn’t feel like selling out. This activity and reflection session is for the leadership curious, new, or seasoned leaders.
League and Leadership Q&A
Bring all your wild, weird, and wonderful league and/or leadership questions to this session, where Iggy will facilitate finding answers, sourcing resources, and building connections so you can move through your challenges with more ease and confidence. The topics we cover will be generated by the people in the room during the session. I could imagine talking about things like: rebranding, working with folks who have been around the league since the dawn of time, sharing leadership, updating bylaws, working with big personalities, cultivating more officials, conflict response, how to get local sponsors, marketing ideas, hosting a tournament, building a fanbase, and more! What we cover is up to you!
I'll also be offering a (very) few private coaching sessions to talk with individuals or small groups about leadership and conflict-related things.
I'd love to work with your league and lead a seminar or facilitate the creation of a new conflict management process that prioritizes repair and justice over investigation and punishment.
In the meantime... Join the power-with rewire meet-up.
This free monthly online meet-up is designed to connect and support people doing the work of shifting their organizational culture away from the toxic power-over dynamic to more community-building power-with systems so that everyone can thrive.
Join the conversation - you'll leave feeling refreshed and excited to make the world a better place.