Jeff Harry | Penelope Burk

 


Meet Jeff Harry – Global Play Expert

Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work.  Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Upworthy, Huffpost, Shondaland, Wired, NPR, NatGeo, & Forbes. 

Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.  Over the past 15 years of facilitation and speaking, Jeff’s main goal has been to help work suck less by assisting leaders in building a playground workplace atmosphere that motivates their staff to do their most vibrant work.

 

Rediscovering Your Flow Through Play

We often measure our self-worth through our achievements and external results. Many people define success as accomplishing a specific goal or purpose while overlooking how they got there. Fulfillment and happiness exist when you can let go of the results, follow your curiosity, and enjoy the ride.

Research shows that the more we play, the more open we are to the countless possibilities in front of us. In this interactive workshop, you will identify your play values, engage in brainstorming sessions to help find your play, and discover actionable ways to get into flow.

  • Learn about the science behind flow/play and how this affects productivity & focus
  • Practice positive psychology techniques that help connect your work to your purpose
  • Identify your play values and how they can be utilized to tap into your zone of genius


Meet Penelope Burk – Best-Selling Author on "Donor-Centered Fundraising"

Penelope Burk understands donors and what they want more deeply than just about anyone in fundraising. In the last twenty years, she and her innovative firm, Cygnus Applied Research, Inc., have conducted surveys and research studies with more than a quarter-million donors. She has reached back into their lives to find out about the first time they gave, what motivates their philanthropy now, what their greatest and most frustrating experiences in giving are, and what their dreams are for their philanthropic future.

Penelope Burk’s career in the not-for-profit sector began in communications and market research in the arts in the early 1970’s and later expanded into fundraising and senior management for prominent human services organizations. She founded Burk & Associates Ltd. in 1990 and Cygnus Applied Research, Inc. in 2003.

  

Let Donors Be Kids Again, Too

In her session, “Let Donors Be Kids Again, Too,” Penelope explains why it’s so important to let donors be kids again. Backed by research evidence and stories from donors themselves, Penelope unfolds a compelling case for bringing donors off the bench and onto the field. From reshaping communications for a game that is much tougher and faster-paced today to mapping a new donor recognition playbook, Penelope proves how not-for-profits make more money when they put supporters in the middle of the action, not just cheering from the sidelines. “After all,” Penelope warns, “It’s their ball and if you don’t let donors be kids again too, they might just take it back and go home.”