Let\'s Talk EI: Mastering Work/Life Balance

Is work/life balance possible? Yes, when you get real about what your goals are, the amount of time you
have to accomplish those goals and make choices that reflect what you want out of life. Author Kathy McDonald explains.

Let\'s Talk EI: Emotional Business

Author Ravi Rao believes If you get the Emotions Right, you Get the Business Right.

Let\'s Talk EI: Emotional Intelligence in our Schools

Guest Ada Ward-Timmons discusses how achieving success brings some unique challenges for many college students. Research has determined
that the manner in which many college students address such challenges may be directly related to their
emotional intelligence quotient (EIQ) or emotional quotient (EQ) as defined in Goleman’s Emotional
Intelligence.

Let\'s Talk EI: EI as a Tool For Business

Pat Baxter is the Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness at BI-LO/Winn-Dixie. She will describe how her company, with over 60,000 team members, is bringing
EI to its leaders and teams as a tool for leading people and for bringing its five Operating Principles to
life for its team members.

Kathy McDonald

Published author of “Creating Your Life Collage: Strategies for Solving the Work/Life
Dilemma” (Three Rivers Press); Has appeared on CBS News “The Early Show”, Fox News, WGN Chicago
Has led workshops at Accenture, The City of Chicago Department of Revenue, Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Xerox Corp., Working
Mother Magazine’s Work/Life Balance Congress Kathy is a work/life balance expert and iPEC certified
professional coach, dedicated to helping people get a life.In a prior life Kathy was a marketer at Kraft Foods and Ameritech (now AT&T). Kathy holds an MBA from
Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and is the co-author of CREATING
YOUR LIFE COLLAGE: STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING THE WORK/LIFE DILEMMA (Three Rivers Press). A dog
lover, avid gardener, mother of two children and happily married for 18 years, Kathy brings compassion
and an action-orientation to every coaching/workshop engagement.

Kathy\'s Website

Ravi Rao

Dr. Ravi Rao is an expert in emotional neuroscience and enabling organizational / operational
transformation.
He assists multinational teams to “get on the same page now” through a mix of training, facilitation,
operational consulting, and mediation. His approach is based on enhancing the capabilities of the
amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and parietal areas of the brain.

Dr. Rao\'s Website

Ada Ward-Timmons

Ada Ward-Timmons has 30 years’ experience in public and private school education. She has a dual
bachelor’s in elementary education/emotional disturbance and a master’s in Educational Leadership.
Ada serves as an adjunct instructor of psychology at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, Florida. She
is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership, where her dissertation topic is effectiveness of college
remediation. She resides in St. Petersburg with her husband. They have two daughters and four
grandchildren.

Ada\'s website

Patricia Baxter

Pat Baxter is the Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness at BI-LO/Winn-Dixie. She is a seasoned,
bilingual HR executive who has been a functional leader in global companies such as Sykes Enterprises,
Inc., UNISYS, Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, Citigroup and The Prudential and worked with clients
in telecommunications, retail, and IT. Most recently, Pat served as Director, Leadership Development at
Right Management, based in Philadelphia, and an Associate of Right Florida/Caribbean based in Tampa.
She holds a B.S., M.S., and post graduate certification, all in educational leadership. Pat is a doctoral
candidate in Organizational Leadership at Argosy University. Her dissertation is on conflict and
emotional intelligence.