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| Communication |
Developing Emotional Intelligence Competencies for Leading a Diverse Workforce (1 unit)
MGMT X443.2
Emotional intelligence competencies are increasingly critical for leaders and professionals in today’s organizations. Given that knowledge and relationships serve as the currency of the new economy, professionals and those who serve in leadership roles (team leads, project managers, directors, executives, etc.) must develop the necessary skills and behaviors to manage themselves and the stakeholder relationships that drive success in complex organizations. This course provides participants an invaluable opportunity to rigorously assess their EQ competencies via an assessment tool that has been validated across industry sectors. Course participants will (a) learn key EQ concepts and principles, (b) deepen their understanding of the business case for EQ and its impact on performance outcomes across levels (personal, team, and organizational), (c) comprehensively assess their current EQ competencies via a professionally validated tool, (d) complete a series of experiential exercises to further develop key EQ competencies, and (e) create a development plan for enhancing selected EQ competencies that align with their job challenges for 2018. Participants will learn about the critical intersection of EQ competencies and diversity as they collectively impact the effectiveness of leaders and their work teams. The first half of the course focuses on the critical EQ skills associated with effective self-management and introspection, which centers on improving self-awareness and self-regulation of emotions. The second part of the course addresses key interpersonal EQ skills and behaviors, which include the ability to empathize with others, inspire and motivate others, and positively influence others via strong communication and change management skills.
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Effective Business Writing for Workplace Professionals (1 unit)
MGMT X422.3
Your ability to write effectively is one of your most powerful tools in the business environment. This class will help you organize your thoughts clearly so your ideas can be better understood by your specific audience.
You’ll discover the three primary types of business messages: positive, routine, and persuasive, as well as identify best practices for creating each type of message. Your writing will improve as you learn how to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, choose correct graphic tools, eliminate clutter, and recognize strong business writing.
You’ll also learn to spot and correct the most common business writing pitfalls as you gain valuable experience drafting, writing, and revising your own business writing messages. Finally, you’ll learn the latest trends in contemporary business writing.
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How to Communicate Effectively at Work (1 unit)
MGMT X422.2
Frequently cited research conducted by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Institute concludes 85% of job success comes from having well-developed interpersonal skills while only 15% of job success comes from technical skills and knowledge.
It’s a fact: your ability to interact effectively with customers, clients, colleagues, managers, and other stakeholders is essential to your career success and sustainability. In this course, using the Everything DiSC Workplace assessment as a framework, you’ll discover and capitalize on your unique behavioral strengths. You’ll better understand what motivates you and how you can better understand others. You’ll learn the four basic behavior styles and how to communicate effectively with each style. Finally, you’ll explore the three basic interpersonal styles—aggression, assertive, and passive—and learn practical interpersonal problem-solving strategies.
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Presentation Skills (1 unit)
MGMT X422.6
Based on the tools that actors use to bring text and stories to life, participants will learn techniques to craft dynamic and compelling presentations. Proven effective, these tools are a valuable asset in meetings, conferences, and keynote speeches. The course will cover how to overcome nerves, organize content, and connect with an audience. You will learn how to effectively communicate through body language and vocal techniques. Through individual and group exercises, you will create active presentations and connect with your audience.
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Accounting and Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1.5 units)
MGMT X407.21
In this course gain a better understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have improved general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, financial statements, transaction analysis, and cash flows. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.
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Business Applications of Excel (1 unit)
MGMT X422.8
Get more out of Microsoft Excel 2016: more productivity and better answers for greater success. This intermediate-level course brings together all the intensely useful knowledge you need: insights, techniques, tips, and shortcuts. You will learn to use Excel to successfully tackle financial forecasting, mortgage analysis, purchase order calculations, pro forma financials, capital budgeting and the effects of different economic scenarios on earnings.
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Finance for the Non-Financial Manager (1 unit)
MGMT X422.5
Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a better understanding of finance and accounting concepts to better understand financial statements and how company decisions impact them. Upon completion of this course, you will have improved general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the financial impact of decisions in and out of your area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis, budgeting, and cash flows. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.
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Business Applications of Excel: 2 (1 unit)
MGMT X422.11
Whether Excel is a daily part of your business or just occasionally used for a quick spreadsheet project, users often find themselves spending hours trying to answer the question, “I know there’s a way to do this in Excel, but how?” Become a more efficient Excel user and learn the most powerful features that the program has to offer in this one-day, advanced course. Highly interactive and hands-on, you will spend the entire time using Excel while an expert trainer walks you through demonstrations and exercises.
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Business Applications of Excel: 3 (1 unit)
MGMT X422.12
Whether Excel is a daily part of your business or just occasionally used for a quick spreadsheet project, users often find themselves spending hours trying to answer the question, “I know there’s a way to do this in Excel, but how?” Become a more efficient Excel user and learn the most powerful features that the program has to offer in this one-day, advanced course. Highly interactive and hands-on, you will spend the entire time using Excel while an expert trainer walks you through demonstrations and exercises.
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Business Applications of Excel: 4 (1 unit)
MGMT X422.13
Whether Excel is a daily part of your business or just occasionally used for a quick spreadsheet project, users often find themselves spending hours trying to answer the question, “I know there’s a way to do this in Excel, but how?” Become a more efficient Excel user and learn the most powerful features that the program has to offer in this one-day, advanced course. Highly interactive and hands-on, you will spend the entire time using Excel while an expert trainer walks you through demonstrations and exercises.
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| Leadership and Management |
Building a Culture of Collaboration (1 unit)
MGMT X422.4
Connect better with your team. Learn to build and sustain collaborative relationships by getting consistent, stellar results despite changing roles, goals, accountabilities, new structures, or even new team members.
Understand why we and others behave the way we do by completing the Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI). The SDI helps provide a base for understanding who we are and what motivates us; providing the same insights into others.
This powerful tool is great for all levels of an organization and provides critical insights to enable leaders and team members to better understand how to influence people who think, behave and communicate differently.
An electronic link to complete the SDI assessment will be e-mailed to participants up to one week prior to the course beginning. Detailed assessment results will be provided at the course meeting.
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Foundations of Leadership (1 unit)
MGMT X497.43
Leadership is the process of influencing others in order to achieve organizational goals and bottom line results. Leaders today face many challenges including globalization, coping with rapid change, increased complexity, technological advancements and virtual teams. Yet leaders still need to effectively manage employees, inspire others, and shape organizational culture. This course focuses on the components of successful leadership, which includes both theoretical approaches and practical skills. Students will examine styles of leadership, approaches to leadership, and sources of power. Participants will also determine how to create vision, achieve organizational goals, manage conflict, and promote diversity.
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Managing Organizational Change (1 unit)
MGMT X497.65
Leaders face many challenges when faced with planning, introducing, and implementing organizational change whether it is a simpler change (introducing new technology, change in work processes) or more complex (new leadership, new organizational structure, merger). Employees typically resist change due to the uncertainty and fear that surrounds the potential impact on their jobs and roles in the organization. How, when, and who the change is communicated to has a major impact on whether employees will resist or support the change and whether the change succeeds or fails. This course will focus on best communication practices during both planned and unplanned organizational change, change strategies, and successfully leading an organization through change.
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Developing Your Organization’s Talent Management Capabilities (1 unit)
MGMT X443.3
Across industries, sectors, and organization sizes, recent industry trends and robust research findings provide compelling evidence for the strong impact of talent development and succession planning practices on business performance outcomes. Despite the strong business case for developing talent management practices, an alarming majority of organizations across industries have failed to develop internal capabilities for the inevitable succession of executive talent. Undeniably, the costs of neglecting to prepare for transitions in executive roles are incredibly high, as research estimates that poor or non-existent succession planning cost public companies $112 billion in market value. To effectively prepare for the unprecedented departure of leadership talent while aligning people development practices in an uncertain business environment, organizations across industries must develop talent management capabilities—the talent management and succession planning practices that enhance bench strength in critical leadership positions, ensure smooth transitions in executive roles, and cultivate leadership talent across the organization. Growing research indicates that organizations across industries are now reaping the benefits of proactively investing in the development of talent management capabilities.
Drawing on robust research findings, including national benchmarking surveys, case studies of exemplary organizations, and consulting engagements, this course presents a series of evidence-based strategies for developing talent and sustaining leadership continuity. As part of the course, you will have an opportunity to evaluate your organization’s talent management capabilities via a nationally-validated assessment tool, and craft a development plan that leverages both strengths and development opportunities. The evidence-based talent management strategies and practices addressed in this course include talent review practices, high-potential leadership assessment and
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Management, Leadership and Teambuilding in the Project Environment (1 unit)
MGMT X474.94
Research suggests that in order to make sense of the complexity of modern organizations, those who aspire to leadership must first seek to understand themselves. In this course, you will administer a variety of self-analysis instruments to understand and reflect on your own leadership preferences and behavioral tendencies. This course is a gateway into understanding what it takes to be an effective leader and assessing where you are now relative to those skills and that knowledge.
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Managing Diversity in the Workplace (1 unit)
MGMT X472.10
This seminar exposes students to the personal and organizational implications of increasing workforce diversity. The seminar aims to: (1) explore the complex dynamics of ethnic, racial, gender and other diversity issues in organizations as seen from the vantage point of social science and organizational studies and (2) examine the managerial implications of increasing cultural diversity in organizations. In accomplishing the former, the current state of theory, research, and application is explored in several thematic areas, including: (1) the nature or character of diversity in organizations, and (2) the dynamics of ethnic, racial, gender and other diversity in organizations. In pursuit of the latter, the seminar examines the orientations to diversity adopted by organizations, the correlates of these approaches, and the possibilities for organizational change. Throughout the exploration of these issues, the emphasis will be on developing greater understanding of issues, problems, and opportunities posed by greater cultural diversity within the United States workforce.
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Effective Time Management (1 unit)
MGMT X422.10
Everyday you’re faced with the same challenge: too much to do and not enough time to do it. Managing your time actually means managing yourself including your priorities, your day, and your ongoing interruptions. You have your own individual work style and this style influences how you manage your time and tasks. This workshop identifies your time management profile, targets your strengths, and identifies areas of improvement.
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Developing Emotional Intelligence Competencies for Leading a Diverse Workforce (1 unit)
MGMT X443.2
Emotional intelligence competencies are increasingly critical for leaders and professionals in today’s organizations. Given that knowledge and relationships serve as the currency of the new economy, professionals and those who serve in leadership roles (team leads, project managers, directors, executives, etc.) must develop the necessary skills and behaviors to manage themselves and the stakeholder relationships that drive success in complex organizations. This course provides participants an invaluable opportunity to rigorously assess their EQ competencies via an assessment tool that has been validated across industry sectors. Course participants will (a) learn key EQ concepts and principles, (b) deepen their understanding of the business case for EQ and its impact on performance outcomes across levels (personal, team, and organizational), (c) comprehensively assess their current EQ competencies via a professionally validated tool, (d) complete a series of experiential exercises to further develop key EQ competencies, and (e) create a development plan for enhancing selected EQ competencies that align with their job challenges for 2018. Participants will learn about the critical intersection of EQ competencies and diversity as they collectively impact the effectiveness of leaders and their work teams. The first half of the course focuses on the critical EQ skills associated with effective self-management and introspection, which centers on improving self-awareness and self-regulation of emotions. The second part of the course addresses key interpersonal EQ skills and behaviors, which include the ability to empathize with others, inspire and motivate others, and positively influence others via strong communication and change management skills.
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Developing Your Authentic Leadership Profile & Impact (2 units)
MGMT X426.36
This leadership development program is designed for front-line and mid-level leaders, including team leaders, managers, and directors, who are seeking to accelerate their careers and advance to executive roles. This two-day program, Developing Your Authentic Leadership Profile & Impact, is designed to develop leadership competencies and skills across three levels: Leading Self, Leading Others & Teams, and Leading the Organization. The specific topics that will be examined throughout the course include identifying personal values and leadership principles, authentic leadership principles and practices, leader emotional intelligence, and performance feedback and coaching. In order to gain deep insights and feedback across each level of executive influence, participants will complete a 360-degree leadership assessment at the launch of the course. Validated via industry research and benchmarking data from over 10,000 participants, the 360 Leadership Assessment will provide participants with a set of priorities for further leadership development across four sets of executive competencies: Driving Business Results, Engaging Stakeholders & Teams, Leading Organizational Change, and Leading Self. Participants will learn a validated framework and a series of development tools for better understanding their personal leadership style and values, the leadership challenges and opportunities in their leadership role, and how to maximize their impact on others and their organization.
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Project Management Tool Box (1.5 units)
MGMT X442.34
This project management boot camp will examine the basics of putting together a well-defined, planned, and executed project. The goal is to deliver on time and on budget while meeting customer expectations. Learn the basic components of project management and the project life cycle: project definition; practical and collaborative methods for creating a successful project charter or initiation document; building and managing a project team; perform risk analysis; and project closure. Explore how to develop and lead high performance teams. If you have never managed a project before, this class will give you an introduction and provide tools that you can use for your next project.
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Applied Lean Six Sigma (1.5 units)
MGMT X410.60
Lean and Six Sigma and are process improvement methodologies. Lean reduces process waste and Six Sigma reduces process variation within a process. Combining the two, arms the user with a variety of tools that enable them to make significant improvements within their work processes. Participants in this course will learn and then practice how to apply basic Lean and Six Sigma tools to processes in their workplace. This program, combined with organizational support, will produce quantifiable benefits within the term of the program. The benefits typically are in the form of cycle time reduction, quality improvement, and ultimately lower costs.
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Introduction to Project Management: Principles and Practices (1 unit)
MGMT X442.33
Project management has been proven to be the most effective method of delivering products or services within cost, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive and hands-on course gives you the skills to ensure your projects are completed on time and on budget. You will gain a strong working knowledge of the basics of project management and be able to immediately use that knowledge to effectively manage work projects. At the end of the course you will be able to identify and manage a project from inception to completion.
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Project Procurement (1 unit)
MGMT X405.2
Procurement management has become a vital project management skill, as organizations increasingly outsource all but their core competencies. In this course, students will gain an understanding of the significance of procurement management in the modern project management environment, and the role and duties of the procurement manager on a project team. In addition, students will learn how to conduct make vs. buy analysis, develop evaluation criteria, select vendors and progress through contract changes and the close out process.
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Project Risk (1 unit)
MGMT X405.3
Effective risk management is critical to project and organizational success. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of project risk management principles, processes, tools and techniques to allow participants to gain a better understanding of its application in day-to-day project management activities and set the groundwork for establishment of this success.
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Project Monitoring & Control (1 unit)
MGMT X405.4
This course demonstrates the essential project monitoring and control techniques necessary for a project manager. The course covers what project managers must know about the organization of a project just prior to execution, which includes the definition and use of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Responsibility Matrix (RAM). The course also will introduce the project manager to scheduling basics and introduce fundamental scheduling metrics used for monitoring and control. The course concludes with monitoring and control metric display and reporting options.
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Agile Project Management (1 unit)
MGMT X405.5
This course begins with an overview of agile and lean methodologies and techniques. We will look at how you can apply these techniques outside of just the software world. In addition, we will look at how to integrate processes from Traditional Project Management (TPM).
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Project Leadership (1 unit)
MGMT X405.6
The success of projects is dependent not only upon the project management process itself, but also upon the people in the process and how effectively they work together and communicate with and influence clients, stakeholders, and each other. This course focuses on the project manager's role as both manager and leader, with particular emphasis on the competencies and skills associated with effective project leadership and what is required to develop and maintain a high-performance project team.
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Supply Chain Management (1 unit)
MGMT X403.6
Supply Chain has become big news over the last few years. You hear about it when natural disasters strike or when your favorite products become unavailable or when popular brands are accused of mistreatment in their supply chain. So, what exactly is this supply chain and how does it affect me?
This program will take you through the major components of the supply chain including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Supplier Selection, Logistics and Risk Management.
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Putting the Bio in Biotech (1 unit)
I&C SCI X430.03
This course is designed to introduce basic cellular biology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology and pharmacology concepts to a non-scientific audience. Students will explore the structure and life of a cell, multi-cellular life and development, genetic engineering and molecular therapies. The course will help students understand these concepts and how they apply to work done in the field of biotechnology.
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This is How You Soar!
MISC 910.1
Situations in life can be stressful and debilitating. Anxiety and worry can be daily experiences. How do you rise above the muck and yuck of your life to experience peace, ease, happiness and fulfillment - no matter what is going on around you?
In this interactive and inspiring workshop, you'll, explore what keeps you anchored where you DON'T want to be, get clear on the keys to soaring in every aspect of your life, and create your action plan to overcome obstacles with courage and confidence.
Instructor: Valerie Sheppard describes herself as a "recovering corporate executive on radical sabbatical." In addition to having a successful 30+ year career in marketing, including running a portfolio of brands worth close to $1 billion dollars, she’s also a catastrophic-stroke survivor, inspirational keynote speaker, university lecturer, and CEO of The Heart of Living Vibrantly, Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery. Valerie uses the principles and practices in her multi award-winning, #1 best-seller, Living Happy to Be ME!© as the centerpiece of her transformational practice, which is helping young people and adults, executives and entrepreneurs experience more happiness, success and fulfillment.
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Sleep and Health Across the Lifespan
MISC 910.2
Sleep is a fundamental pillar of health. Individuals that age well tend to sleep well, and disturbed sleep and is often concurrent with a variety of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, medical conditions, and health problems, including those that put individuals at risk for dementia such as diabetes and depression. Maintaining healthy sleep habits is critical for physical and mental health and wellbeing throughout life. This course will give a broad overview of sleep across the human lifespan, as well as a survey of evidence indicating sleep plays a critical role in maintaining both the health of the brain and the health of peripheral organs in the body. Participants will learn about their own sleep habits and how these habits align with the general recommendations from experts in sleep medicine. Instructor: Dr. Bryce Mander is an Assistant Professor at UC, Irvine in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at Northwestern University and then completed his postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley. His current research focus considers the role of sleep in cognitive aging.
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The Power of Lifestyle: An Overview
MISC 910.4
This course will provide an overview of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, and how to make and sustain behavioral change. From stress management and resilience, the quality of your relaxation, food and exercise to social support, this workshop will guide participants to understand what changes may be helpful to them and how to integrate them into their busy lives.
INSTRUCTOR: Alisa Eisenberg, MFT, created The RENEW Program, the first web-based wellness program to be federally funded in a long-term clinical trial. Clinically significant results include: slowed rate of growth of Coronary Calcium with reversal in some cases, Reversed Fatty Liver, Decreased Visceral Fat, Lowered Cholesterol, Decreased Type A Behavior traits, Increased Global Health Habits, Increased Exercise habits, Decreased Depression and Anxiety, Improved Perception of Stress, Decreased pessimism, Increased Social Support, better sleep, higher levels of happiness. She has lectured at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, UC Irvine Medical School and the School of Public Health, and has been a regular guest on Sirius Radio addressing issues of stress management (Sex, Chocolate & other Creative Solutions to Stress), creativity, health and wellness. She has authored many publications, and was invited to present her research at the 2016 and 2017 World Congress of Cardiology. For more information go to www.TheRENEWprogram.net.
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Mindfulness
MISC 911
Mindfulness. It’s pretty straightforward. To be present. Seems trivial, but often, our thoughts about the past or worries about the future rob us of the present. In this workshop, you will learn what mindfulness is, the evidence-based benefits of this practice, its effects on the brain, including changes in structure and connectivity, and practical tools for bringing more awareness into your day. We will also practice a series of mindful exercises, including guided meditation, breathing exercises, and aromatherapy. Instructor: Mitra Hooshmand, PhD is a Public Speaker, Director, and Entrepreneur. Ms. Hooshmand earned her PhD in Neurobiology from UC Irvine and conducted extensive research there for over a decade in the area of spinal cord injury to find a treatment for paralysis. She currently serves as the Director of Scientific Programs at Americans for Cures, a non-profit organization with the mission to educate and raise public awareness about the potential of stem cells to treat diseases. She also teaches Human Stem Cells & Medicine at UCLA.
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The Science of Weight Management
MISC 911.2
Weight loss and weight gain continue to be a multi-billion dollar industry every year, yet people are more confused about why they lose or gain weight more than ever before. What if we could understand the biology of the human body and how our weight is managed? Explore with Jason Tate, biologist and Functional Medicine Health Coach, the science of weight management as he shares not only how we gain and lose weight in healthy "weighs" but, why we gain and lose weight. Learn how to make changes immediately to begin your journey towards the healthiest you've ever been as he guides you through the psychology, anatomy, physiology, and history of human health and weight management. Instructor: Jason Tate is a 13-year veteran in secondary education with a B.S. in Biology and numerous training and certificates in the fields of Nutrition, Education, Mind-Body Medicine, and Health Coaching. Jason has been engaged in public speaking for 15 years and primarily focuses on topics involving wellness education and the body. Mr. Tate is the Founder of the Human Health Initiative, dedicated to improving the lives of billions and eradicating the pandemic of chronic diseases.
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