In today’s fast-paced world, disconnection, burnout, and disengagement can feel like overwhelming challenges for all types of leaders striving to inspire their groups. But what if the key to unlocking your team’s potential lies in discovering your own superpower?
Join us for this inspiring and empowering session where you’ll discover how to transform disconnection into collaboration and purpose. By combining the ancient advice of “know yourself” along with a new approach “Mapping Ourselves" you will learn practical strategies for building stronger connections. Through real-world stories, you’ll see how to leverage your team’s collective wisdom to foster trust, ignite engagement, and create groups and teams that work together like a dream.
This session isn’t just about leading; it’s about becoming the connection superhero your group needs to thrive. Whether you’re a volunteer, manager, or government leader, you’ll walk away equipped to break down barriers, inspire action, and lead with authenticity and purpose.
Speakers
Rajiv Mehta, Founder and CEO of nonprofit Atlas of Care
Rajiv Mehta is focused on nurturing connection and belonging in families, organizations and communities. Over the past twenty years he has been a leader in a movement to develop new methods for anyone to clearly see their own day-to-day life and its impact on physical, emotional and social wellbeing. Rajiv has also developed experiences of group self-exploration that allow people to know each other and build a foundation of trust and respect. He has worked with varied communities including business execs, health professionals, military commanders, and students.
Rajiv has served on the boards and advisory panels of several nonprofit and government organizations, including Family Caregiver Alliance, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AARP, and academic research programs.
Earlier, he studied aerospace engineering at Princeton and Stanford and business at Columbia, conducted research at NASA, and lead innovation efforts at Apple, Adobe, and other tech companies.
Heather Keam, Consulting Director, Asset-Based Community Development
Heather is the consulting Director of Asset-based Community Development and Belonging at Tamarack Institute. She has a passion for the power of people and believes that people and communities are the solutions to local problems. She believes that in building a sense of community belonging people feel connected to their community, and their place within it and get involved in decision-making. She also believes that municipalities need to shift the way they show up in community from doing “for” to supporting communities to do themselves.