JPA International, Inc., offers a vast array of services, ranging from one-on-one career coaching to conference keynote speeches, and even multi-day training seminars. We are committed to helping you find the perfect service and topic to meet your individual, organizational, or business needs.
A Keynote speech is given before or after a meal and usually lasts 45-60 minutes. A General Session is not delivered at mealtime, all attendees are present, and typically lasts 1-2 hours. Topics listed here can also be tailored to Seminars and Break-Out Sessions. The following is a selection of topics.
Training, Seminars & Break-Out Sessions
Break-Out Sessions: While all attendees are present for a conference keynote, participants will only attend those break-out sessions that meet with their needs and interests. A conference can offer anywhere from 2 to 200 break-out sessions. They are usually 1-2 hours in length and are more technical or skills-based in nature.
Seminars are also called workshops and are usually a half day to five or more days in length. They can be continuous or spread out over several weeks or months. Seminars are designed to teach in-depth skill sets.
Facilitating Boards & Executive Teams
Executive and Board development and facilitation are different from training or consulting. JPA has worked extensively with senior management, audit committees, board members, both one-on-one and/or with the entire senior management team at a number of organizations. At times, work with management (including CEO’s) is part of a larger training or consulting contract, which also includes various assessments. Executive development usually includes coaching, but it ranges from personal development for senior managers to facilitating greater collaboration, strategic planning and self-evaluation of results achieved with the senior management team.
Consulting & Coaching
JPA International, Inc. has been acting as a consultant to corporations and associations on the "people" side of numerous industries and professions worldwide for over twenty-five years.
Joan Pastor, JPA’s President, adamantly believes that it takes a person extremely skilled in both industrial/organizational as well as clinical psychology issues to be able to detect all the subtleties underlying people's strengths and challenge areas, and their interaction with an organization's unique culture and issues.
She has worked alongside executives in financial, market growth, acquisition, ethical issues and endeavors and she understands perfectly both the for-profit and non-profit worlds. Executives have retained her over and over again as a consultant, coach, advisor and sounding board for many different endeavors.
Please note that many Keynote speeches can be combined effectively with Seminar topics for coaching purposes.