FALL 2020
Upcoming Lectures:
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Building a Cool Future
November 12, 2020 6:30pm - 8:00 pm As our climate changes in the next 30 years, Southwest Floridians will experience warmer temperatures, rising sea levels, stronger hurricanes and more extreme precipitation patterns. Our communities’ vulnerability and future quality of life will be largely dependent the design and retrofit of our built environment at various scales. Dr. Puszkin-Chevlin, an urban planner, presents an overview of the specific climate impacts anticipated in our region, who will be most impacted, and what architects, urban designers and planners need to consider when designing for a hotter and wetter future in SWFL. Beyond adaptation, she challenges architects to reconsider design standards that better accommodate and encourage a new trend toward sustainable living. Click HERE to register
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Past Lectures:
Defeating Unconscious Bias
Via the Neuroscience of Emotional and Social Intelligence for Architects
Via the Neuroscience of Emotional and Social Intelligence for Architects
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PRESENTER BIO:
An internationally-renowned thought leader known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies. A best-selling author, he wrote The Blind spots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger, 2020), Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019), and Resilience: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic (Changemakers Books, 2020). He has over 550 articles and 450 interviews in Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, CBS News, Time, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, and elsewhere. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting, coaching, and speaking and training as the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and over 15 years in academia as a behavioral economist and cognitive neuroscientist. |
October 15, 2020 BRIEF DESCRIPTION: In this engaging, interactive, and entertaining presentation, you as an architect will dramatically improve your skills in addressing unconscious bias in yourself and in others in your team and organization. Cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience and behavioral economics shows that we all suffer from subtle and unconscious dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases, which cause us to make bad decisions in evaluating people. By refining your emotional intelligence, which refers to skills in understanding and managing your emotions, you will gain awareness of when your feelings are likely to lead you into these mental blind spots and prevent yourself from falling into them. You will also raise your abilities in social intelligence, the strategic capacity to evaluate and influence other people’s emotions and relationships. Social intelligence skills – including cultivating valuable relationships, engaging stakeholders, empathetic listening, curious questioning, improving teamwork, mediating and resolving conflicts, reframing, exhibiting leadership presence, and motivating others – will enable you to help those in your team and organization to notice unconscious cognitive biases and avoid them. Pioneering diversity leaders at the forefront of innovation are increasingly integrating emotional and social intelligence-based strategies into their efforts to help themselves and others address unconscious bias. This presentation will offer you case studies and best practices from these innovative leaders, combined with groundbreaking research in emotional and social intelligence, to give you the most critical skills and take-aways that you need to help yourself and others defeat unconscious bias. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: - Identify situations where unconscious bias is likely to lead you astray in evaluating others - Boost your emotional intelligence abilities to empower you to perceive and avoid unconscious biases - Refine your social intelligence skills to help others notice their unconscious biases and avoid them - Discover how innovative diversity leaders use emotional and social intelligence abilities to defeat unconscious bias - Adapt emotional and social intelligence-informed strategies on addressing unconscious bias from these leaders into your own context - Empower others in your team and organization to defeat unconscious bias through emotional and social intelligence skills |