Topic: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect and Membership Promotion Night

Date / Time: March 15th, 2022 - 4:30-8:00 pm, Dinner - 5:30pm, Presentation - 6:15pm

Location: Hotel Blackfoot and Webinar

Webinar Link provided with registration to view presentation remotely.

Presentation Synopsis:

Talk is easy! Learn how to really connect when you communicate and avoid misunderstandings, missed opportunities, conflict, and lack of teamwork.

Anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful connection. Success is related to your ability to connect. I will share some principles and Practices to develop the crucial skill of connecting.

The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. It’s no secret! Connecting is a skill you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and family relationships.

Presented by: Karine Leblanc

Karine Leblanc is a sales engineer and human skills expert. She works with busy consulting engineers with their HVAC design projects by supporting them with various system ideas and energy-efficient equipment solutions.

Not your typical engineer™, Karine Leblanc is passionate about working with technical professionals like engineers improve their human skills so they can be more productive, happier, and highly motivated. Like you, Karine has been exposed to the good and the bad of leadership over the last two decades. She uses her experience to teach and impact her peers by speaking as a distinguished lecturer for ASHRAE all over the world. Karine values real-life stories and conversational connections with her audience making everyone feel like they matter.

Karine has served on the ASHRAE Society Board of Directors, (a 57,000-member trade association) from 2014-2017 and became the first female Region X Director Regional Chair since 1959. She is now serving as the President of the National Speaker Association Los Angeles Chapter. She has received the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award and was awarded an honorary medal as part of the 50th anniversary of the University of Quebec for her exceptional contribution to the university.

She is a certified John Maxwell coach, trainer, and speaker, a certified behavioral analysis consultant, and an eSpeakers certified virtual presenter.