ANA Holiday Cheer - Fun ways to Stay Connected at work (while at home)

Marketing departments are often tasked with organizing employee engagement events. We know it’s October, but holiday event planning gets earlier each year. Join us for a dynamic discussion with two employee engagement experts who will not only share proven best practices but also give you actionable, hands-on ideas on how to bring people in your company together during the holidays.

Hear from:

• Jacque Patterson, EVP and Employee Engagement Practice Lead, August Jackson
• As leader of the agency’s Employee Engagement practice, Jacque helps clients navigate major organizational change and enhance the employee experience. With experience in both consulting and internal talent roles, she’s worked with organizations from a variety of industries, including technology, insurance, health care, financial services, manufacturing, construction and education. The companies she’s called home before AJ include PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jack Morton, Omnicom and Slalom. She has a keen interest in understanding how people think, behave and change in the workplace and spends a lot of her free time reading and listening to podcasts by some of her favorite thinkers like Adam Grant, Brene Brown, Edgar Schein and Dan Pink. When asked why AJ is the right workplace for her, she said, “Smart people who don’t take themselves too seriously. And amazing clients who bring us interesting challenges and like to collaborate together in solving them. It’s the perfect fit for me.”

• Allie Keller, Sr. Director of Operations, improve it!
• Allie is an improviser, writer, director, and improv coach who has studied at Northwestern University, The Second City Conservatory, iO Training Center, Annoyance Training Center, UCB New York, and Green Shirt Studio. She has produced and directed a variety of comedy shows on stages across the country, most notably "Will You Accept This Rose: An Improvised Parody of The Bachelor,“ where she was introduced to improve it! Founder Erin Diehl. She has over ten years of experience in corporate training development and design and is an active member of the improve it! team as the Sr. Director of Operations. Her work with clients such as United Airlines, Groupon, Deloitte, Exelon, Motorola Solutions, Walgreens, and The Obama Foundation has earned her nominations for the Chicago Innovations Awards for five consecutive years and speaking engagements with the Chicago Auto Show and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce in 2020.