AGENDA
10.30 AM
11:00AM
12:00PM
12.30PM
13:30PM
14:30PM
Doors and registration
Keynote: Philippe Bailleur
​Teams as building blocks for agile organisations.
Ichrak Marques
​The E-Team
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Zsuzsanna Corridori
Pathways
Lunch Break​
Break out sessions - Officer roles
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President - Karel Reynders​
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VP Education – Marie Dubost
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VP Membership – Mitsuru Nakamura
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VP PR – Helena Ruiz Fabra
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Treasurer – Valentina Caima
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Secretary & SAA – Laetitia Mampaka
Power Break​
Toastmasters International
D59 Division B
Club Officers Training
June 23, 2019 10:30 AM
Lunch Break​
14:30PM
14:30PM
14:30PM
14:45PM
15.45PM
Power Break​
17.00PM
Closing Ceremony
AGENDA
10.30AM
Doors and registration
11:00AM
Keynote: Philippe Bailleur
​Teams as building blocks for agile organisations.
12:00PM
Ichrak Marques
​The E-Team
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Zsuzsanna Corridori
Refreshing Pathways news
12.30PM
Lunch Break​
13:30PM
Break out sessions
Officer roles
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President - Karel Reynders​ - PURPLE
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VP Education – Marie Dubost - ORANGE
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VP Membership – Mitsuru Nakamura - YELLOW RED
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VP PR – Helena Ruiz Fabra - GREEN
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Treasurer – Valentina Caimi - BLUE
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Secretary & SAA – Laetitia Mampaka -
14:30PM
14:30PM
14:30PM
Power Break​
14:45PM
Parallel workshop sessions
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Effective meetings - Angelika Hild - ORANGE
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Going beyond and above, Toastmasters opportunities outside your club - Helena Ruiz Fabra - GREEN
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Speaker to trainer- Valbona Zefi - PURPLE
15.45PM
Power Break​
16.00PM
Parallel workshop sessions
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Easyspeak for Club Officers - Zsuzsanna Corridori - GREEN
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Discover your leadership style - Carsten Wendt - PURPLE
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Charismatic Communication - Michaël Van Damme - ORANGE
17.00PM
Closing Ceremony
17.15PM
End
SPEAKERS
Philippe Bailleur
Philippe Bailleur has been trained as an officer in the Belgian airforce. He started his career - in 1996 - as a Personnel Manager on an operational airforce base. After some years he entered the field of training and coaching and left the army. While working with a broad range of companies, he was confronted with their challenges and exactly this drove him to do research and develop new approaches. Now, more than 15 years later, he has developed several training tracks, written several books and developed a laser-sharp survey to support the development of teams. During his keynote, he will share insights that have been ripening for almost a decade ...
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It sounds easy, empowering teams by inviting them to become more self-regulated but in practice, it doesn't seem to be that simple. To support the development of teams, you need to understand what is happening under the waterline and that's exactly what will be shared during this keynote.
Ichrak Marques
Ichrak Marques was simply the right person at the right place when she became the president of Toastmasters’ Club Lille, a club that was on sleep for over 3 months with only 3 inactive members.
Ichrak will share with us her experience on creating and managing energy within a sleeping club, that turned from 3 inactive members into 11 members in less than 5 months and growing!
Her ingredient: the team – do you think it’s enough?
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Philippe Bailleur
Philippe Bailleur has been trained as an officer in the Belgian airforce. He started his career - in 1996 - as a Personnel Manager on an operational airforce base. After some years he entered the field of training and coaching and left the army. While working with a broad range of companies, he was confronted with their challenges and exactly this drove him to do research and develop new approaches. Now, more than 15 years later, he has developed several training tracks, written several books and developed a laser-sharp survey to support the development of teams. During his keynote, he will share insights that have been ripening for almost a decade ...
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It sounds easy, empowering teams by inviting them to become more self-regulated but in practice, it doesn't seem to be that simple. To support the development of teams, you need to understand what is happening under the waterline and that's exactly what will be shared during this keynote.
Michaël Van Damme
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Michaël Van Damme is an experimental psychologist who researched creativity and innovation in groups in context of his PhD at Ghent University.
He founded The Forge, a Ghent University spin-off that translates and applies evidence-based knowledge to the real world. Michaël is also an experienced improv player, stand up comedian and public speaker. He coached all kinds of profiles onto the stage from TEDx speakers to scientists to CEO's.
He’s passionate about bringing evidence-based knowledge, business and comedy together like how to become a more charismatic speaker!
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Zsuzsanna Corridori
Zsuzsanna Corridori, DTM is a marketing manager by day and Toastmaster by night. She is a member of 4 clubs and has been serving on 4 club committees., District 59 Champion in Italian humorous speech and she has coached speakers of TEDxUCLouvain.
Continuing her work as Pathways Guide, this year she fills the role of Pathways Coordinator for Division B. In that role she can bring us refreshing Pathways news. After 1 year and 3 months, how are we transitioning to Pathways?
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She will also lead the workshop "Easy speak for club officers" today. If you know how to use Easyspeak, it will make meeting management effortless. How to assign speaking slots based on participation history? How to add a new venue, guest speakers or new members? How to set up agenda templates or modify them? Highly recommended for VP Education and useful for President and VP Membership. But everyone is welcome to ask questions!
Carsten Wendt
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Thanks to all that Toastmasters keeps teaching him, Carsten has made his passion his job: he trains public speaking in companies, non-profits, universities and technology institutes.
He also writes about rhetoric and writing at www.carstenwendt.com
The adaptable leader: Flex your style
This workshop is a game!
Building on on the DISC-communication styles, playing it will help you
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gain higher awareness of your communication and leadership style.
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identify the communication styles of those around you.
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adapt to those styles - because that’s what a leader needs to do.
Let’s play.
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Angelika Hild
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A Toastmaster since 2012, Angelika has served as President at her home club Blackforest Toastmasters, as well as as an Area Director of Area B3. Especially as a president, she led many meetings with the club committee and understood how to manage them in an effective manner, ensuring clear outcomes. In her workshop, Angelika will talk about meeting planning, conducting a meeting (including opening and conclusion) and meeting evaluation. Workshop participants will get involved during two practical excercises.
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Mitsuru Nakamura
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Mit Nakamura has spent 4 years in Osaka Toastmasters Club in Japan experiencing VP PR and VP Membership. Since he moved to Belgium in 2016, he has been a member of the Brussels Toastmasters Club and served as Treasure in 2017-2018 and VP Membership in 2018-2019.
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Valbona Zefi
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Valbona is the outgoing Division B Director. She joined Toastmasters in 2013 and since then has been actively involved in different leadership roles such as Vice President of Education, Club President, Area & Division Director. During these years she has expanded enormously her communication & leadership skills and she really enjoys being part of the Toastmasters community.
She believes, that Toastmasters are great potential Trainers and for this she wants to introduce the Speaker to Trainer program which can help members to move from a Speaker to an effective Trainer. During this workshop, participants will learn how to run the "Speaker to Trainer" program as well as the adult learning principles to keep in mind for any training session. Through hands on exercises, participants will experiment innovative ways of dealing with unexpected situations during a session and how to keep it within the purpose, until the end.
Marie Dubost
Marie Dubost is a non profit manager by day and Toastmaster by night. She is a member of 4 clubs, serves as VP Education of her home Club, the Brussels Toastmasters Club, and PR assistant for Division B. She believes that coaching and mentoring programmes are key ingredients for a successful and sustainable club. She also enjoys long walks on the beach at sunset.
Karel Reynders
Karel is the outgoing president of the Toastmasters Fonske Leuven club, a healthy club with almost 50 members. He claims no credit for this, but is simply happy that this club has allowed him to serve them for a year as their president. A few months before being elected as president, Karel embarked on a journey in which he visited 11 clubs and 3 area contests. This taught him two lessons. The first is that there is not one way to do things and that there shouldn't be. Everyone works in their own way and needs to carve out their own path, because another path won't work for them. The second is that he wanted to do his part to make his own club better, to learn from what he had seen in other clubs and apply those lessons to his own.
Valentina Caimi
Valentina joined Toastmasters on 1 May 2014. She is CC, CL and ALB. She is close to becoming ACB. She works as Team Leader and Project Manager of service contracts to the European Commission. In 2018 she set up her own consultancy, LinkinEurope, offering services in the frame of European affairs, project management and event organisation.
She has been a Toastmaster officer covering the following roles:
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She was appointed as Area Director B3, starting from July 2019
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From 1 July 2018, President of Aperitivo Club no. 5116931
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From December 2017, VP Education of Aperitivo Club no. 5116931
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From chartering date (August 2017), Treasurer of Aperitivo Club no. 5116931
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From 1 July 2016, Treasurer of Berlaymont Club no. 962411
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From 1 July 2015, VP Membership of Berlaymont Club no. 962411
Laetitia Mampaka
Laetitia joined the S.H.A.P.E. Toastmasters Club in 2016. S.H.A.P.E. is an English-speaking club in Mons on N.A.T.O.
She became the youngest President of her home club in 2017 (21) and is now area director. She won several contest in French at the area, division and district level (district champion French speech in 2017; Division B champion French humorous speech in fall 2017 / double division winner in French speech for 2017).
When she is not busy studying for her MA in international and public law, she is doing standup comedy. Laetitia credits Toastmasters for helping her discover that she could be funny.
About Toastmasters, she says “It is the only place where my love for talking is an advantage – I’ve been told all my life I talk too much so at least now I know how to speak.
Helena Ruiz Fabra
Helena is a Systems Thinker, EU Project and Process Manager, Trainer- Coach and a Communications Strategist. She has a track-record of creating and implementing successful social media and change management strategies. Among her passions, academic and professional expertise are Knowledge Management, Leadership for the 21st century, Social Responsibility, Technologies, Science Advice and Collective Intelligence.
Currently, she serves as Public Relations Manager for District 59- The Toastmasters Coordination for Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Monaco. She joined Toastmasters in 2012 as a way to overcome a suddenly developed social phobia...and not only had she managed to do so but in that journey, she found out her voice and the joy to be surrounded by Toastmasters.