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Our free GMAT strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Join us live via Zoom as Ryan Hook, MBA, CFP® discusses the value of earning (or obtaining) your CFP designation to create new opportunities with your current clients and prospects as well as help advance your own career. Ryan serves as a Private Wealth Manager at Creative Planning, Inc., the #1 ranked Independent Wealth Management Firm according to Forbes, Barron's and CNBC, and is an instructor at UCI DCE's Personal Financial Planning Certificate Program.

Is your Board a help or a hindrance? Do you spend more time managing around your Board than engaging them in ways that are meaningful and helpful? Does your Board know its purpose? Do you feel micromanaged by your Board? Do you feel abandoned by your Board? Are you strategically building your Board with people specifically targeted according to a well-considered and developed philosophy, or are you just employing the “I know a guy” strategy? Boards are the single most important entity in nonprofit organizations. Great Boards make great organizations. Too few organizations know how to effectively build, engage, sustain and manage great Boards. Please join UCI Division of Continuing Education in welcoming Tim Shaw, former CEO of the Irvine Public Schools Foundation, Vice President with Orange County United Way and Executive Director of the Orange County Homeless Issues Task Force (and current President of Tim Shaw & Associates), and learn: How to develop your customized Board Purpose Statement, how to develop a Board engagement and recruitment philosophy, how to recruit busy people (even the same people everyone else wants on their Board!), how to develop simple systems of accountability and assessment of Board effectiveness, how to naturally create Board leadership succession plans, how to organize your Board committees for maximum support and impact. whether “give or get” policies are right for your Board, how to maximize Board fundraising participation, how to draft, approve and fulfill Board member agreements and commitments, and how to avoid micromanagement of staff and ensure the Board and staff are in their proper roles.

The concepts of Design or Systems Thinking identify the critical elements necessary to create a workable and practical solution to key problems in any organization. The methodology can be used for developing new products, services or solving difficult problems. The goal of people centered design thinking is to find a solution that is technically feasible, desirable to potential customers and has the ability to generate revenue (We call that the sweet spot) We utilize the 5 step IDEO/Google model of Design Sprints to bring the basic concept to life and demonstrate to potential customers and get feedback and make the necessary adjustments and improvement to deliver a potentially profitable product or service to market. Marty Wartenberg, M.B.A., P.E., has spent over 40 years managing companies and projects in the areas of aerospace, software, commercial product development, oil field instrumentation, and pharmaceutical R&D. He has worked with many companies setting up project offices and coaching high technology project teams. His projects have been featured in the PMNet as examples of the application of basic and advanced project management techniques in high technology rapid development type projects. Marty has received a Distinguished Instructor Award from UCI and had been selected by the McDonald Douglas Corporation (Now Boeing) as a major contributor during the C-17 training program. He has taught project management in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and South America. He received his formal Project Management, Systems Engineering and Government Procurement training at the Defense Systems Management College (Now DAU) at Fort Belvoir VA.

Join UCI Division of Continuing Education live via Zoom as Mountasser Kadrie, Ph.D., discusses how artificial intelligence (AI), in varying forms and degrees, and has begun to appear in a wide spectrum of technologies. From the phones we use to communicate to the supply chains that bring goods to market. It is transforming the way we interact, consume information, and obtain goods and services. The real healthcare benefit in the future will likely be the synergies obtained by combining the power of AI-related technologies across the entire patient journey. Also discussed is how AI is helping healthcare to support and sustain a better patient journey and experience. The webinar includes pre-registration advisement for individuals interested in UCI Division of Continuing Education’s fully online Healthcare Analytics Certificate Program. To learn more, visit https://ce.uci.edu/areas/healthcare/healthcare_analytics/

Now is the time to embrace remote work by employing a Remote First organizational strategy. Join us live via Zoom as Mark Atkinson describes the Remote First model, which an organization may use in order to leverage remote work in the most effective and efficient ways. Considerations include mission, staffing, policy, technology, and other best practices.

Mark Atkinson, MBA, Ed.D, is an innovative educator and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience whose service includes extension and continuing education, small business development, graduate studies, online education, and a variety of other academic and administrative programs at public and private universities. Dr. Atkinson is a specialist in online education infrastructure, teaching and design, who has created institutional strategy, policy, personnel & technology infrastructure for online learning, instructional design teams, undergraduate and graduate online courses and programs, faculty training, state authorization and regulatory compliance, enrollment management teams, and online-student support. He earned a Certificate of Executive Leadership from Cornell University.

Our free GRE strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Our free GMAT strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Our free LSAT strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Most businesses are launched because the founders see the "light" or the "opportunity" to serve the needs of their clients more effectively and efficiently. But what happens when the risks involved in the external business environment, such as a downturn in the economy, natural disasters, or pandemics like COVID-19, outshine the "light" or the "opportunities" while you are conducting business? In this webinar, Ibrahim Firat from Firat Education helps navigate the "Ying-Yang" theory in business and explores various strategic and tactical steps to identify and tackle opportunities during high risk times, such as business downturn. This webinar includes pre-registration advisement for individuals interested in UCI Division of Continuing Education’s fully online Independent Educational Consultant Certificate Program.

Our free GRE strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Our free GRE strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.

Our free GRE strategy workshop offers you an introduction to the exam and provides valuable tips and tricks for studying. The workshop focuses on test mechanics, including test administration and scoring, and provide you with ideas about preparing for the exam, either on your own or through a prep course like ours.