Jan­u­ary 2026 Com­mu­ni­ty Conversation:

Sto­ry­telling Is the Bridge

Decem­ber 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Conversation:

Look­ing Back at 2025: A Year of Growth, Con­nec­tion, and Momen­tum with ASUG Collective

Sep­tem­ber 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Conversation:

Effec­tive Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Pub­lic Speak­ing: Influ­ence, Inspire, and Inform with Confidence

June 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Conversation:

Ele­vat­ing Your EQ: Build Emo­tion­al Intel­li­gence for Per­son­al and Pro­fes­sion­al Success

Jan­u­ary 2026 Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion- Handout:

Sto­ry­telling is the Bridge

Sep­tem­ber 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion- Cheat Sheet:

Fear­less Pre­sen­ta­tion Skills Cheat Sheet

Sep­tem­ber 2025: Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion- Slide Deck:

Effec­tive Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Pub­lic Speak­ing: Influ­ence, Inspire, and Inform with Confidence

June 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion- Key Takeaways:

EQ + PQ Lead­er­ship Takeaways

June 2025 Com­mu­ni­ty Con­ver­sa­tion– Slide Deck:

Yush Sztalkop­er had a won­der­ful pre­sen­ta­tion on EQ & PQ.

Har­ness­ing AI to Build Your Roadmap:

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence offers pow­er­ful tools to sim­pli­fy goal set­ting, skill assess­ment, and progress track­ing for per­son­al growth.

Build­ing Your Per­son­al Brand:

Your per­son­al brand is a unique blend of val­ues, skills, and per­son­al­i­ty traits that shape how you present your­self and how oth­ers per­ceive you. Per­son­al Brands are ever evolving.

Jan­u­ary Slide Deck: Sto­ry­telling Is the Bridge

Talk­ing to Strangers:

What We Should Know About Peo­ple We Don’t Know. Mal­colm Glad­well, host of the pod­cast Revi­sion­ist His­to­ry and author of the #1 New York Times best­seller Out­liers, offers a pow­er­ful exam­i­na­tion of our inter­ac­tions with strangers — and why they often go wrong.

The Lost Art of Connecting:

The Gath­er, Ask, Do Method for Build­ing Mean­ing­ful Busi­ness Rela­tion­ships by Susan McPherson

The5am Club:

Own Your Morn­ing, Ele­vate Your Life. Based on a rev­o­lu­tion­ary morn­ing rou­tine that has helped Robin Shar­ma’s clients max­i­mize their pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, acti­vate their best health and bul­let­proof their seren­i­ty in this age of over­whelm­ing complexity.

The Gift of Fear:

Sur­vival Sig­nals That Pro­tect Us From Vio­lence. In this ground­break­ing book, Gavin de Beck­er unlocks the puz­zle of human vio­lence and shows that, like every crea­ture on earth, we can pre­dict dan­ger — and get out of its way.

Nev­er Split the Difference:

Every­thing we’ve pre­vi­ous­ly been taught about nego­ti­a­tion is wrong: you are not ratio­nal; there is no such thing as ​“fair”; com­pro­mise is the worst thing you can do; the real art of nego­ti­a­tion lies in mas­ter­ing the intri­ca­cies of No, not Yes.

Start With Why:

How Great Lead­ers Inspire Every­one to Take Action. In this book, Simon shows that the lead­ers who’ve had the great­est influ­ence in the world all think, act, and com­mu­ni­cate the same way — and it’s the oppo­site of what every­one else does.

The Art of Connecting:

This help­ful resource reveals five core prin­ci­ples and presents spe­cif­ic strate­gies for over­com­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion bar­ri­ers and con­nect­ing effec­tive­ly with any­one, regard­less of pro­fes­sion­al, gen­er­a­tional, eth­nic, cul­tur­al, or oth­er differences.

BRAG!:

The Art of Toot­ing Your Own Horn with­out Blow­ing It. The renowned com­mu­ni­ca­tion expert’s sub­tle but effec­tive plan for sell­ing your best asset — your­self — with­out turn­ing off those you’re try­ing to impress.

Think Again:

The Pow­er of Know­ing What You Don’t Know. Intel­li­gence is usu­al­ly seen as the abil­i­ty to think and learn, but in a rapid­ly chang­ing world, there’s anoth­er set of cog­ni­tive skills that might mat­ter more: the abil­i­ty to rethink and unlearn.

Qui­et:

In Qui­et, Susan Cain argues that we dra­mat­i­cal­ly under­val­ue intro­verts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extro­vert Ide­al through­out the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry and explores how deeply it has come to per­me­ate our culture.

Dar­ing Greatly:

In a world where ​“nev­er enough” dom­i­nates and feel­ing afraid has become sec­ond nature, vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty is sub­ver­sive. Uncom­fort­able. It’s even a lit­tle dan­ger­ous at times. Dar­ing Great­ly is a prac­tice and a pow­er­ful vision for let­ting our­selves be seen.

Atom­ic Habits:

James Clear, one of the world’s lead­ing experts on habit for­ma­tion, reveals prac­ti­cal strate­gies that will teach you exact­ly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and mas­ter the tiny behav­iors that lead to remark­able results.

Ele­vate Your Career:

The Ele­vate Your Career pod­cast aims to empow­er indi­vid­u­als across var­i­ous career stages. This show explores the career jour­neys of fas­ci­nat­ing pro­fes­sion­als, shar­ing insights and tools for career advancement.

A Bit of Optimism:

Join me as I talk with peo­ple that inspire me about love, life, lead­er­ship, and sil­ver lin­ings. The hope is that we all leave with some­thing I think we need these days… A Bit of Opti­mism. ‑Simon Sinek

The Hap­pi­ness Lab with Dr. Lau­rie Santos:

Based on the psy­chol­o­gy course she teach­es at Yale, The Hap­pi­ness Lab with Dr. Lau­rie San­tos will take you through the lat­est sci­en­tif­ic research and share some sur­pris­ing and inspir­ing sto­ries that will change the way you think about happiness.

Unlock­ing Us:

A research pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, Dr. Brené Brown, has spent the past two decades study­ing courage, vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, shame, and empathy.

12 Tips to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile:

In today’s dig­i­tal era, main­tain­ing a strong LinkedIn pro­file is essen­tial, par­tic­u­lar­ly for peo­ple who want to progress in tech­nol­o­gy and become thought leaders.

How to Build Your Per­son­al Brand at Work:

Build­ing a per­son­al brand is a real invest­ment and can be tricky when you’re giv­ing your­self ful­ly to your job. It’s even more dif­fi­cult for young pro­fes­sion­als, who may have less expe­ri­ence to build from. So, how do you get started?

How to Make Great Conversation:

What are the most com­mon con­ver­sa­tion mis­takes? How do you make con­ver­sa­tion effort­less? Can you mas­ter con­ver­sa­tion? Learn the answer to these ques­tions and more in our ulti­mate guide.

What Are the Best Med­i­ta­tion Practices:

Mind­ful breath­ing and med­i­ta­tion tech­niques, includ­ing guid­ed visu­al­iza­tion, grat­i­tude, and lov­ing-kind­ness prac­tices, offer women in tech lead­er­ship tools for stress man­age­ment, focus, and team cohesion.