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• A Winding Journey to Financial Independence and Retiring Early (FIRE)

  • When
    Thursday, June 02, 2022
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    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD
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  A Winding Journey to Financial Independence and Retiring Early (FIRE)
  

  Event Description: 

  Erin Genz is a physicist, STEM volunteer (science, technology, engineering, math), mother, hockey player, skier, and real estate investor.  Her journey to financial independence has not been straightforward but she retired from engineering before the age of 40 and now spends her time helping to educate others about STEM and personal finance.  Join us for an exploration of what the FIRE path can look like as well as tips and tools for your own journey!

  Facilitator: Erin Genz

  
  

  Erin Genz retired from her engineering management role in January 2022, before the age of 40. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Purdue University and her college years were not spent thinking about money. She was too busy playing clarinet in the Purdue All-American Marching Band.

  During her almost 20 years in ballistic missile defense, Erin worked for a variety of government contractors and invested in her 401(k) and Roth IRA because “it's what you do when you get a grown-up job”. She didn't really start her financial journey until she bought a house in 2006. That house would become her first rental property and led to an exploration of financial independence and retiring early (FIRE). Throughout her career, Erin held a variety of engineering roles (sensor subject matter expert, systems and requirements engineer, product lead, end-user trainer, and engineering manager). She has analytical experience in statistical modeling and tactical systems and built radars, defense networks, and system models all over the world.

  Erin now uses her technical and management skills to help others find their path in engineering, management, and personal finance. When not volunteering, she plays hockey, skis, gardens, hikes, and raises her three boys with her husband in Colorado Springs, CO. She is a native Coloradan and can't seem to move away from the mountains for long before coming right back!

  When:
  Thursday, June 2, 2022
  5:00pm - 6:00pm
  

  Where:
  TBD

  
  

  Registration:
  Members $0 (included in membership)

  Partner Chapter Members $0 (Members of Facilitator's Chapter will receive a registration code) 

  Non-Chapter Members $15 

  Refund Policy: refunds will be issued up to 5 days before an event, meeting, or webinar. We are unable to issue refunds later than that date.

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• Winning an ATD BEST Award

  • When
    Thursday, September 01, 2022
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    5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD
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  Winning an ATD BEST Award

  
  

  Event Description: 

  John has led Hitachi Vantara to 7 consecutive ATD BEST Awards. This session will review the ATD BEST Application and strategies for winning ATD BEST Award. 

  About BEST Awards

  The BEST Awards recognize organizations that demonstrate enterprise-wide success as a result of employee talent development. We are looking for organizations that get it: They use talent development as a strategic business tool to get results.

  Established in 2003, the BEST Awards Winners' Circle includes small and large private, public, and not-for-profit organizations from around the world.

  Award winners must demonstrate that they are excellent in many aspects of talent development:

  • Talent development has an enterprise-wide role: involved in the executive team, creating solutions to business issues, and setting organizational strategy.
  • Learning has value in the organization's culture: learning opportunities for employees, C-level involvement, learning for growth of the organization, and innovation.
  • Learning links to individual and organizational performance: alignment with the business, efficiency, measurement of the effectiveness of learning, and success with non-training solutions for business needs.
  • Investment is made in talent development and performance initiatives.

  Award winners show that they are:
  Building talent
  Enterprise wide and
  Strategically driving a
  Talent development culture that delivers results.

  The application for 2023 recognition will open in August 2022.

  
  

  Facilitator:

  John Kostek

  
  

  John is a Product Manager for Hitachi Vantara. Previously, he was a research associate in a joint position between the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience at Rutgers Medical School and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

  John’s evidence-based training programs have won praise from Chief Learning Officer, Brandon Hall Group, and the Association for Talent Development and his work has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Gambling Studies, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Computers in Human Behavior, Handbook of personality at work, Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology and TD Magazine.

  When:
  Thursday, Sep 1, 2021
  5:00PM - 6:00PM

  Where:
  TBD

  Registration:
  Members $0 (included in membership)
  Non Chapter Members $15 

  Refund Policy: refunds will be issued up to 5 days before an event, meeting, or webinar. We are unable to issue refunds later than that date.

  
  

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