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Showing posts with label Stephanie Parson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephanie Parson. Show all posts
Stephanie reported to the Walt Disney chief information officer when the 2002 national BDPA conference was hosted at Walt Disney World in Orlando. She served on the national BDPA board of directors in 2003-2005 as both an outside director and vice president (strategy & planning). She was founder of the BDPA Rocky Mountain chapter. She started her own company (Crowned Grace) in 2005. Her company provides leadership development training to managers and executives around the world. She gave great insights in a number of areas to our iRadio audience.
The host of BDPA iRadio Show is Franne McNeal. The show is sponsored by the BDPA Education and Technology Foundation. This particular video clip was put together by BETF volunteersMichele Ortmann and Nicholas Scott.
BDPA Education and Technology Foundation (BETF) is very proud to be the creator of the BDPA iRadio Show. Our Internet Radio Show has been up and running for over five months with over 60 guests. You can listen to the archive version of the show using the widget shown in the right-hand sidebar of this blog. In any case, we encourage you to listen to the show which aired on Tuesday, November 22, 2011.
Terris Poole - Lead Designer, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) - Terris Poole was a member of the 2000 and 2001 HSCC teams trained by BDPA Cincinnati chapter. His team in traveled to Washington DC where they earned the silver medal at the 2000 National HSCC Championships. Terris had a talent for graphic design while he was in high school. He followed his dreams during post-secondary studies at Pratt Institute. He is currently the Lead Designer for a major branding effort (ZAG Brand Invention) at BBH. Terris is moving from the ‘classroom to the boardroom’ and it will be great to hear how his experiences with BDPA may have influenced his college or career choices.
Dr. Parson
Dr. Stephanie Parson- President, Crowned Grace - Stephanie reported to the Walt Disney CIO when the 2002 national BDPA conference was hosted at Walt Disney World in Orlando. She served on the national BDPA board of directors in 2003-2005 as both in outside director and vice president (strategy & planning). She was founder of the BDPA Rocky Mountain chapter. She started her own company (Crowned Grace) in 2005. Her company provides leadership development training to managers and executives around the world. She can give great insights in a number of areas to our iRadio audience.
There will be great discussions between our guests and Franne McNeal on the show. What questions would you like to ask these guests?
One of the great friends of BDPA over the years is Dr. Stephanie Parson. She was a charter member of the BDPA Rocky Mountain chapter when it was founded in April 1989. It is also worth noting that today is Stephanie's birthday!
I met Stephanie when she was an executive at Walt Disney World. She was a key player in the successful 2002 national BDPA conference held in Orlando. Stephanie helped us land Roger Berry, WDW Chief Information Officer as the keynote speaker for the Awards Gala that year.
Stephanie served in national leadership positions with BDPA from 2002 through 2005 as both one of our Outside Directors and as VP-Strategy & Planning. Her place in the BDPA Hall of Fame is based on the intense passion that she brings to vision and strategic planning for our organization. She taught us how to create a shared 3-year stategic direction and base on current year budgets on a detailed 1-year business plan. We still use that methodology in our strategic planning today.
On a professional level, she left WDW and started her own company ... Crowned Grace. She is very active with an organization of chief executive officers known as CEO Space. In fact, her involvement in CEO Space resulted in recent opportunity for her to become part of an investment opportunity in Costa Rica. Here is what she had to say about her visit to South America:
"Wow!
4 hour drive from the airport to our cabins!
1 hour drive each day to the plantations
3 hour walk on 1 plantation (only able to see ~1/4th of this plantation)
3 hour horseback ride on another plantation (able to see ~1/8th of this plantation) My horse knew that it had been years since I had been on a horse
2 hours down (and up again) 500 steps to get to the waterfall
2 hour hike in the rain forest (rained for about 1.5 hours --- HEAVY RAIN!)
Saw an active volcano Saw monkey's, creatures with long tails, beautiful birds, dogs, flowers and so much more Met wonderful people!
Created LONG TERM Strategic Alliances
Wet...Covered in Mud...Covered with Ant Bites...Broken fingernails...Broken toenails...don't even get me started on my hair :->
WOULDN'T TRADE THE EXPERIENCE FOR THE WORLD!!!
Who knew that wood was a profitable venture??? Who knew that replanting the rain forest would be such a profitable experience???"
You can see Stephanie and her partners in this 4-minute video from Costa Rica. Hmmm, I need to get that sista a BDPA Foundation T-Shirt that she can be wearing for her next YouTube video (smile).
Do any of our BETF-Blog Readers remember working with Stephanie? Care to share your rememberances with us?
