Registration is open and breakfast is served!

Breakfast includes scrambled eggs with cherry tomatoes and spinach, brioche french toast, hash browns and bacon. Coffee, tea and juice will be available along with oatmeal, blueberries and almonds.

Project Helping Founder, Justin Kruger, will open Kynd Summit and start our day.

How to Foster Thriving Community One Team, One Community, One Experience

Organizations have had to navigate the unprecedented environment and find innovative solutions to challenges across many operations, including employee wellbeing and connection. Leaders are looking for new applications to recognize and assist their working populations’ mental, physical, and social wellbeing challenges. So, what are the keys to not just surviving but truly thriving? How can we each become the best version of ourselves? Through stories, science, and research, you will learn the secrets to increasing happiness and thriving as an individual and community.

Creating Purpose in your Organization

Studies have shown that employees are looking for purpose and meaning in their work, but few are psychologically connected to their jobs.  According to Gallup, 32% of all U.S. employees are engaged and the numbers are steadily declining.  Organizations are aligning their HR strategies with corporate social responsibility to create purpose and meaning for their employees.  A focus on CSR and volunteerism is foundational to performance and engagement in the workplace.  Come and learn the benefits to creating purpose in your organization, increasing engagement and impacting employee well being!

Lunch is served. Let’s network!

Lunch includes southwest salad options, posole verde with chicken, beef machaca enchiladas, achiote roasted chicken, and vegan mexican rice, beans and calabacitas.

Design Thinking for Volunteering

Design is everywhere– from websites to buildings to smartphones. The mindsets and processes behind them are now being applied to everything from retail experience to healthcare to education. But what about volunteer engagement and the non-profit sector more broadly? It is time to add to our toolbox in this area so we can adapt and improve to meet the challenges of an ever-changing industry in an ever-changing world.

Design thinking is a practice that uses a host of creative tools and approaches to identify and solve problems for the benefit of users. It is about improving products, processes, and services. It is collaborative. It is human-centered. It is creative. It focuses on action. And it has enormous potential to transform volunteer engagement.

We all want volunteer engagement to be unique and add value – for our volunteers, staff, and our organization’s clients and mission. In a way, each group is a “user” of volunteer services. By applying design thinking, we can open new possibilities for these users, resulting in a better experience for staff and volunteers. Today is about putting yourself in the volunteer’s shoes – what is it like when they look for an opportunity? What are they experiencing on their first day of volunteering? How might we make it better?

By exploring what is possible, looking at the whole system, and digging into our challenges, we can take volunteering to a new level. We will pull together the team and follow these critical stages for a design-thinking approach:

Check back to see what Justin Kruger and the panel will be talking about in their discussion.

Project Helping Founder, Justin Kruger, will close Kynd Summit.

What to do during the break:

• Join us in a Kynd Kit Build
• Enjoy the grounds of the Inverness Hilton
• Visit the Spa at the Inverness Hilton
• Try the bars at the Hilton Inverness
• Freshen up before Happy Hour

Join us in a Happy Hour and Dinner! The networking continues.

Stop by the Mac & Cheese bar and choose from 3 different dishes. Build your own sliders with angus beef patties, fried chicken, and grilled mushroom. 

As demand for services rises and the availability of providers declines, accessing quality mental health care has never been more different. So what is the solution? Matt Vogl uses his personal journey of managing his mental illness and his suicide attempt to highlight the deficiencies in our mental health system and how solutions that do not rely on a massive workforce expansion are critical to ensuring that mental wellness is within reach for everybody.  Technology, peer support, kindness and volunteerism may represent the future of mental health by making care more affordable, efficient and personalized, while freeing up professionals to care for those most in need of their services.  Obstacles abound but if we overcome them, the future of mental health will be bright.  

Our Spotlight Award is presented followed by our live auction. 

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