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What if:

• a personnel shift at your organization puts you into a leadership role you don’t feel prepared for?
• your boss tells you that you seem aloof and unapproachable in client meetings?
• you suddenly face a parenting challenge and are unsure how to meet it?

To address these diverse issues, you must improve your soft skills. But improving these skills isn’t as easy as it may seem.

Ross Professor Sue Ashford can help!

In her timely book, The Power of Flexing, Professor Ashford introduces “Flexing”, a technique that individuals, teams, and entire organizations can use to learn, grow, and develop their skills and knowledge for every new project, work assignment, and problem.

Sue will join us to discuss her book and share insight on how Flexing puts the power in your hands to grow personally whenever you are confronted with a new obstacle.

Professor Ashford holds the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professorship and is the former chair of the Management and Organizations group at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Her academic work has been published in all the top journals in her field and she has been recognized with two lifetime achievement awards for her scholarship from the Academy of Management.

Thank you to our host, Portal Innovations! Portal Innovations is a venture development engine that invests crafted capital to fuel seed stage life sciences companies with new Office+Lab space in Fulton Market.