UW and Wyoming SBDC Network to Host CHANGE Webinar April 29

Small-business owners can learn to prepare for the uncertainty of change and how to turn it into opportunity Monday, April 29.

Marché Pleshette will lead a Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network webinar titled “CHANGE: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity” from 10 a.m.-noon. To register, go here. The registration fee is $15. The first 15 registrants will receive a copy of Pleshette’s book, “CHANGE: How to Turn Uncertainty Into Opportunity.”

The Wyoming SBDC Network offers business expertise to help Wyoming residents think about, launch, grow, reinvent or exit their business. The Wyoming SBDC Network is hosted by the University of Wyoming with state funds from the Wyoming Business Council and funded, in part, through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

The training opportunity is part of the Wyoming SBDC Network’s Portable Assistance Program. The program supports the economic recovery of Wyoming as it experiences ongoing boom and bust impacts in the energy industry.

The webinar will give entrepreneurs and small-business owners tips and strategies to deal with change no matter how or where it happens. The webinar will highlight how to build individual confidence through a predictable pattern of change; successfully lead people through the human side of change; optimize change management processes to achieve desired results; and turn the uncertainty of change into opportunity.

Pleshette, a skilled leadership coach, has been a FranklinCovey consultant since 2008. As a keynote speaker and facilitator, her work focuses on effective communication, leadership, professional change and transitions, employee engagement and retention, and the organizational value of human capital.

She has been the subject matter expert for “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” and serves on FranklinCovey’s coaching team, which ensures the quality of its world-class consultants. Before coming to FranklinCovey, Pleshette worked as a manager of employee retention for a major health system in Atlanta.

Pleshette received her bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a journalism focus from the University of West Georgia. She is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching, located in Santa Barbara, Calif.

For more information, call Maureen Johnson, marketing, communication and database manager for the Wyoming SBDC Network, at (307) 343-0925 or email mjohn125@uwyo.edu.