Meeting or Email: Speaking Human and Developing Teams to Get Work Done in a Virtual World

Join us for a lively, interactive discussion on how to use communication tools and methods to your advantage to bring people together to get work done. How much of your time has been wasted in meetings for the sake of meetings with minimal results and greater chaos? Is your email inbox overflowing with endless threads of tangled “reply alls” and forwards? In today’s virtual, fast-paced business world, there are endless ways to communicate. How you select which ones and when you apply them effectively across different teams and scenarios is essential. This session will inspire you with practical, inclusive ways to improve the effectiveness of your internal communication and may serve as a mental health check-up for your entire company.

Dana Kaluzny (she/her) wants people to enjoy coming together for beer and work that matters. She the Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Endswell Beer and provides business consulting for anyone running a business with someone they care about. After 15 years of experience working in for-profit and not-for-profit, founding two small businesses (including a brewery with her partner in life and love), all while raising two boys, she knows how to juggle personal and professional. She supports businesses with a founder-first approach focused on the two areas that make or break both relationships and businesses - systems and communication. She is a founding partner of the Safe Bars P.A.C.T. Initiative.

With over 2 decades of experience in the food and beverage industry, Julie Rhodes is an authority on beverage sales, digital marketing, leadership, and distributor partnership management. She is the owner of Not Your Hobby Marketing Solutions, an educational services, and strategic business consulting company built specifically for growing craft beverage brands, where she teaches small to medium-sized beverage alcohol companies how to work smarter, not harder, in order to achieve long term growth. In addition to being an educator and strategic advisor, she is also a business writer, public speaker, is Cicerone Certified, a national committee chair and local chapter leader within Pink Boots Society, and a mentor for the Brewers Association and on the BA DEI Marketing & Communications Subcommittee, the North American Guild of Beer Writers, the American Cider Association, Women of the Vine & Spirits and multiple state brewery guilds. When not working, you can find her spending time with her husband and two boys in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado or on the couch watching sci-fi movies.

Join us in-person for CBP Connects | Half workshop, half networking

Milwaukee, WI | June 19-21, 2023

Grab your spot now at https://cbpconnects-milwaukee.eventbrite.com/