Upcoming Events

Sustainability Management: From Awareness to Business Promises

In 2020, the United Nations declared the Decade of Action (2020-2030) and urged all sectors of society, including businesses and academia, to partner together to end poverty, reduce inequality, and address the climate emergency through the achievement of 17 development goals by the year 2030.

Sustainability Management examines how corporations deliver value to people, planet, and profit while creating and sustaining a competitive advantage.

We discussed Sustainable Business, with special guest, Dr. Hung-bin Ding, Chair of the Department of Management and International Business at Loyola’s Sellinger School of Business.

Building Racial Equity in Your Business

As racial inequities continue to impact the country and the world, Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) Strategist Danielle Marshall and Executive Coach Wendy Moomaw, will host a six-week workshop series through the Conscious Collaboratory. This workshop series, “Building Racial Equity into your Business” is an opportunity for business leaders to explore what racial equity is, discover how it differs from diversity and inclusion, and over time, learn how to infuse the work of racial equity into their organizations. Each week, participants will build upon what they learned, discover shifts that can be made by viewing their decision-making processes through an equity lens, and apply those practices to embed racial equity into their organizations.

For more information, visit the Conscious Collaboratory website.

Visit the Conscious Collaboratory Facebook page, for any updates, to ask questions and to share the event with others.

Conscious Cocktails: Nourishing Office Culture in a Virtual World

The pandemic has greatly affected carefully crafted corporate cultures and remote workers and business owners have been challenged when it comes to maintaining or improving company culture.

By understanding the shifts that have naturally taken place, we’ll discuss how employers and employees can easily shift expectations. Learn how a renewed focus improves both company and team culture as well as customer experience. Hear firsthand how an award-winning large employer has worked to strengthen and maintain a positive culture that doesn’t depend on people meeting face-to-face every day.  

Let’s Talk About Racial Equity in Your Business

C3MD is a strategic partner on another talk about racial equity offered by the Conscious Collaboratory. What does it mean to “center race equity?” With so many businesses and organizations talking and posting about the importance of racial equity recently, what does it mean to actually live it? To move the needle to the center? What are you doing within your organization? How can you move beyond conversation into action?

Join Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) Strategist and Founder of Culture Principles Danielle Marshall, CDP and Executive Coach & Founder of the Conscious Collaboratory Wendy Moomaw, ICF PCC Coach, as they discuss how we can start, continue and advance the conversation around centering racial equity.

Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland (C3MD) and 1776, an inclusive incubator for startups disrupting entrenched industries, are strategic partners for this webinar. Tracy Turner, 1776 Campus Director for the Greencourt Innovation Center and C3MD board member, will introduce the session. 

Conscious Coffee: A Virtual Event

We are so excited to host our first VIRTUAL CONSCIOUS COFFEE on September 1st. Each Conscious Coffee will feature a hot topic or special guest, and we are delighted to have Challenging Racism Executive Director Alicia Jones joining us for this event. The hour is sure to fly by as we talk about Race, Representation, Redlining, and more!

Conscious Cocktails: A Virtual Networking Event

Whether you are a “large” small business who’s working remotely, or a solopreneur, we’re all getting a real sense of what it’s like to be socially isolated. And while we’re also maybe tiring of the virtual meetings, we’d like to invite you to something a little bit different. C3MD’s Conscious Cocktails Happy Hour is back. It’s close enough to the end of the day to pour a cocktail or grab some tea. If you’re able, we encourage you to go outside if your device allows it, or at least switch rooms for a change of pace! We want to check in with our conscious business community to share “news and needs.”

Thanks to our Conscious Cocktails Virtual Happy Hour Sponsor: The Wendy Slaughter Team of Elevate Real Estate Brokerage.

Startup Grind Fireside Chat on Using Data to Power Meaningful Impact at Scale

A Conscious Capitalism Fireside Chat with Catherine Griffin, founder and CEO of Impact.able Analytics and Managing Director of GoodCompany Ventures

Join us for a highly educational virtual fireside chat and webinar with Catherine Griffin, found and CEO of Impact.able Analytics and Managing Director of GoodCompany Ventures, a social entrepreneurship incubator/accelerator in Philadelphia. She is a powerful force in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, building organizations, and companies that are addressing our biggest global problems.

Got a Business? Make it Conscious. A C3MD 5-Part Workshop Series

As the business and global landscapes shift, what strategies and opportunities are entrepreneurs finding to navigate the waters? Conscious Capitalism is a way of thinking about capitalism and business that better reflects where we are in the human journey, the state of our world today, and the innate potential of business to make a positive impact on the world. What can we learn about the Conscious Capitalism model as we continue to shift.

Explore the foundational principles of Conscious Capitalism in C3MD’s five-part workshop series. Each week, one of C3MD’s leadership team members will focus on a pillar of Conscious Capitalism and share how courageous businesses are evaluating risk and creating value.

Starting a business? Building a business? Shifting what you do in business? Make a conscious decision to make it Conscious. And join us for the series.

1776 is a strategic partner for C3MD’s 5-Part Workshop Series: “Got a Business? Make it Conscious.” 1776, a network of entrepreneurial incubators, that exists to help entrepreneurs succeed and reach maximum potential, hopes these workshops will bring a sense of connectivity and engagement. 1776 has a vast resource of mentors and virtual programs to help entrepreneurs work remotely and safely. Thank you, 1776!

Rehumanizing the Workplace Panel

Join the Conscious Capitalism Twin Cities Community virtually on Tuesday, March 24 to celebrate and launch Rehumanizing the Workplace. We are honoring social distancing while practicing conscious convening by changing our quarterly in-person event to a virtual gathering as we launch the new book, “Rehumanizing the Workplace” by Dr. Rosie Ward and Dr. Jon Robison. Rosie will set the stage for how the principles in the book are even more relevant with our global pandemic and will interview a panel of 7 incredible humanistic leaders about how they’re adapting and leading in these uncertain times.

Startup Grind Fireside Chat on Conscious Capitalism

A Conscious Capitalism Fireside Chat with C3MD Executive Director Wendy Moomaw and members of the Conscious Collaboratory

Conscious capitalism…What is it and why does it matter? How can startup businesses both thrive and focus on elevating society, partners, investors, customers, employees, and the environment? Join us as we explore the concept with Wendy Moomaw, CEO of Wendy Moomaw, founder of the Conscious Collaboratory, and Executive Director of Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland.

Join Startup Grind and C3MD for this great event.

**Note: C3MD members can attend for 50% off. When you renew your membership, or join via the website, a 50% registration code will automatically be sent to you.

Ignite Afterglow

Inspired by Ignite? Join C3MD for Ignite Afterglow at the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship on December 5^th. Come network, share your thoughts about the event, learn about Conscious Capitalism, and perhaps, begin developing your own Ignite Talk!

Registration includes soft drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

Ignite Howard County #5

5 minutes, 20 slides, 1 passion. What would you say?

Ignite Howard County is a high-energy evening where the community comes together to share their passions!

Presenting on a subject of their choice, 12+ speakers have exactly 5 minutes (and 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds) to teach us something, enlighten us or simply inspire. The goal is to create collisions of conversations & collaborations between people in our artistic, entrepreneurial, creative, technical and innovative communities.

Interested in presenting at Ignite Howard County? Visit the Be A Speaker page to submit your application, the deadline for applications is midnight on September 10th, 2019.

Zen Leader Retreat

Looking to create a positive impact as a leader? Interested in integrating your mind and body together to explore greater experiences? Come attend the Zen Leader Retreat led by C3MD member, Dr. Ginny Whitelaw, the author of The Zen Leader and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership.

Dr. Ginny Whitelaw is a Zen master in the Chozen-ji line of Rinzai Zen, and a recognized expert in leadership development. Author of 4 books, she has 25 years of experience developing global leaders. Formerly the Deputy Manager for integrating NASA’s International Space Station, she holds a Ph.D. in biophysics, as well as a 5thdegree black belt in Aikido. Learn how to be a force for positive change and discover a path to purpose and awakening. You’ll discover new ways to face challenges, learn practices for better decision making and stronger influencing, and different modes of leadership for different scenarios. No previous meditation or physical training is required! Download the PDF to learn more.

What’s Your Story? From Ideation to Story Development & Delivery

Join us on Tuesday, August 20th from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the Oneness Center as we move from ideation to story development. Trainer and facilitator Jennifer Hlavka will be leading the session, where we will discuss elements of high impact storytelling including story sequence, arc, and use of images to convey tone. Together we will share our stories and enhance our confidence, not only for the Ignite event but also for our everyday lives. If nothing else, joining us will give you space and time to consider – what is the story you’re telling? And are you living the story you want to tell? You can prepare by engaging in the challenge our May participants were given: commit to jotting down one story, as short as two to three sentences, each day (concept credit – Matthew Dicks’ “Homework for Life”).

This is an evening of networking and opportunities to learn about Conscious Capitalism Central Maryland Chapter (C3MD) and creating your powerful story. Whether you are new to C3MD or longtime practitioner, you are welcome!

Conscious Cocktails: A Networking Event

It’s almost summer and we’re celebrating 2019’s halfway mark. Come join C3MD for cocktail hour on June 13th in beautiful Old Ellicott City. Insight180 is hosting — we’ll be outside in the garden courtyard — and looking forward to networking, catching up, and sharing with you upcoming plans for Ignite Howard County (#6!) in October. Register today and bring a friend!

Ideation: Planting the Seeds of Your Story

Join us for an evening of networking and opportunities to learn about Conscious Capitalism Central Maryland Chapter (C3MD) and creating your powerful story. Whether you are new to C3MD or longtime practitioner, you are welcome!

We all have a story to tell and our community thrives when we share those stories with one another.

C3MD is once again organizing Ignite Howard County, a high-energy, community building event that brings together speakers from many backgrounds. 10-12 speakers have exactly 5 minutes (and 20 slides auto-advancing every 15 seconds) on the topic of their choice, to teach us something, enlighten us or simply inspire.

Join us on May 16th at The Oneness Center’s Hall in Ellicott City from 5 – 7 p.m. as we talk about ideation, high-impact storytelling and developing your story seeds.

Scaling Leadership “Book Club”

Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland follows up the exclusive webinar with Scaling Leadership authors Bob Anderson and William Adams in February with a morning book club discussion. Grab your copy and plan to have a great discussion over coffee.

Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers!

Conscious Leadership Webinar and Networking

Join the Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland (C3MD) for the Scaling Leadership Book Launch webinar plus networking/discussion at the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship (MCE). Or, view this exclusive presentation in the comfort of your home or office.

This is an exclusive webinar featuring Founder & Chair Bob Anderson and CEO William Adams of The Leadership Circle and Full Circle Group, about their new book: Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from these conscious leadership pace setters!

This event is free if you register for the webinar only; if you’d like to join us at the MCE for the webinar, happy hour and group discussion, C3MD members are free, and all others pay $20. Become a member today! Your registration includes beverages and hors d’oeuvres.

BONUS: Anyone who comes in person will be entered to win a copy of Scaling Leadership book by Bob Anderson and Bill Adams!

The Power of Conscious Business

Join us for an evening of networking and opportunities to learn about Conscious Capitalism with the Conscious Capitalism Chapter of Central Maryland (C3MD). If you are new to C3MD or a practicing proponent of Conscious Capitalism, you are welcome!

Conscious businesses have conscious leaders who are driven by service to the company’s purpose, all the people the business touches and the planet we all share together. Conscious businesses have trusting, authentic, innovative and caring cultures that make working there a source of both personal growth and professional fulfillment. Come join us as we use the power of story and continue to deepen the ecosystem of authentic stories that define our conscious businesses and that will connect our stakeholders to our purpose, our culture and our leadership.

Registration includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

Ignite Afterglow

Inspired by Ignite? Join C3MD for Ignite Afterglow at the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship on December 3^rd. Come network, share your thoughts about the event, learn about Conscious Capitalism, and perhaps, begin developing your own Ignite Talk!

Registration includes drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

C3MD is a purpose-driven business community that promotes the power of capitalism to create positive change, do good, and elevate humanity. We inspire and equip individuals and organizations to embrace and implement conscious business principles through collaboration, educational programs, practical tools, and strategic partnerships.

Ignite Howard County #4

Ignite Howard County is a high-energy evening where the community comes together to share their passions! The goal is to create collisions of conversations & collaborations between people in our artistic, entrepreneurial, creative, technical and innovative communities. Speakers will teach us something, enlighten us or simply inspire.

We are pleased to have selected our speakers for Ignite Howard County #4:

Rev. Brian Akers – Hidden in the Shadow of Mental Illness
Jeffrey Antkowiak – The Night I Found A Dead Man
Wendy Baird – The Storm Before the Calm
Anisa Cott – Let’s Talk About Race.
Thomas Grobicki – Why I Lost 110 lbs.
Allison Jessing – School is Out. Global Learning is In.
Rachel Lajoie – Almost an Astronaut’s Wife: Dreams, Vulnerability and Living a Life You Love
Lori Lilly – Saving the World with Charcoal and Plants
Sheela Reddy – Civil Assertion – A Cure for Relationship Violence
Elizabeth Richardson – Wake Up!
Greg Schuckman – Becoming Your Own Superhero
Arti Varanasi – From Idea to Impact: Curiosity in Action

C3MD is a purpose-driven business community that promotes the power of capitalism to create positive change, do good, and elevate humanity. We inspire and equip individuals and organizations to embrace and implement conscious business principles through collaboration, educational programs, practical tools, and strategic partnerships.

Conscious Capitalism’s Planning Meeting

We are looking forward to hosting a planning meeting on June 11 at the Maryland Center for Entreprenuership. Our goal is to solidify the events and meetings for Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland for the next year. It will be a working meeting to gather the ideas and to create an execution plan for that generate the most interest. Then we will evaluate these plans and choose what we will do for next year.

While this event is free, we do ask that you register here and bring a small snack to share!

C3MD is a purpose-driven business community that promotes the power of capitalism to create positive change, do good, and elevate humanity. We inspire and equip individuals and organizations to embrace and implement conscious business principles through collaboration, educational programs, practical tools, and strategic partnerships.

We hope you will join us! Please register below!

Conscious Cocktails, featuring Sobar

Presented by Beth Sandbower Harbinson
The founder of Sobar – party with a purpose

Close to 20% of the adult population in the U.S. is in recovery from alcoholism or addiction or taking medications where drinking is contraindicated. And yet, there are few alternatives to alcohol that cater to those in recovery, designated drivers or those who choose to live alcohol-free. It was when she was behind the scenes at a VIP Bar for a concert that Beth conceived of Sobar. Why not celebrate sobriety and offer innovative, sophisticated, even healthy non-alcoholic beverages at parties, festivals, sporting events and concerts? Sobar is hoping to do just that: Kick-ass party – no booze!^TM

Beth has committed to local efforts focused on reducing the stigma associated with alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness and providing greater access to treatment resources. Come network with us, meet Beth and sample some of her creations. We’ll be outside in the backyard of insight180 – weather permitting – just up Merryman Street.

Conscious Leadership: Great Leaders Love First

Presented by Kelly Hurley
President of 1 of the ONE, LLC.

This month’s speaker is Kelly Hurley, a 16+ year C-level business executive. In addition to her business experience, Kelly is a certified strengths-based workplace facilitator, focusing on conscious business. For C3MD’s April meeting, Kelly will be discussing conscious leadership attributes, strengths, the inner work of a great leader and more.

The Power of Creating a Conscious Culture & Why It Matters

Presented by Julie Reisler
The founder and CEO of Empowered Living, LLC, a Life Design and Personal Development company.

March’s meeting is all about culture. The Power of Creating a Conscious Culture & Why it Matters, featuring Julie Reisler. The impact of adding consciousness to company culture pays dividends in overall employee engagement, attention, productivity, innovation, creativity, happiness, and success. We will look at various ways to add consciousness through mindfulness practices, giving opportunities and appreciative inquiry. This month’s “Converge” will be highly interactive.

Julie Reisler is the founder and CEO of Empowered Living, LLC, a Life Design and Personal Development company. Julie has a master’s degree in health & wellness coaching, is the author of “Get a Ph.D. in YOU,” is on the faculty at Georgetown University in their coaching program, is a speaker and host of the podcast, The You-est You. Julie’s aim is to help elevate consciousness in all areas of her business and life.

Please register below. We’ll see you there!

#Choose2BKind: Building Community Through the Exchange of Empathy

Presented by Allison Jessing
Events and Seminars Manager at Howard County Library System

This month’s speaker is Allison Jessing, the Events and Seminars Manager at Howard County Library System. She will be discussing HCLS’ Choose Civility initiative and the ongoing campaign to build community through open dialogue and the exchange of empathy. She will also talk about HCLS’ experience of producing successful collaborative community events such as the Human Library and The Longest Table.

Presenter Allison Jessing joined Howard County Library System as the Events and Seminars Manager in 2015. Previously, Allison was an interpretive educator at the Smithsonian Institution for nine years where she developed collections-inspired engagement and education opportunities.

Please register below. We’ll see you there!

Meet Dog Tag, Inc., where Higher Purpose is Baked into their Business

Presented by Meghan Ogilvie
CEO of Dog Tag Inc. and Presidential Scholar

This month’s speaker is Meghan Ogilvie, CEO of Dog Tag Inc. , an organization whose purpose and business model embraces conscious business principles, helps build a bridge to bring business employment and a productive civilian life for returning veterans with disabilities and caregivers that have served our country so well, through a small business venture, Dog Tag Bakery. Dog Tag, Inc. was recently featured in Times Square on New Years Eve and you can get an inside peek into how they are #bakingadifference here.

Presenter Meghan Ogilvie is the CEO of Dog Tag, Inc., and is focused on scaling Dog Tag Inc., a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. that empowers veterans with service-connected disabilities, military spouses, and caregivers through a five-month Fellowship Program that fosters the entrepreneurial mindset within a small business, Dog Tag Bakery.

UMBC’s Brew Event: Mindfulness

C3MD joins forces this month with UMBC Training Centers for “BREW,” where they believe that the learning is the work – but it should also be fun. Their bi-weekly BREW features:

• Great coffee or good beer.
• Quick-hit presentation about something fascinating.
• A chance to chat and build your community.

This month’s topic, just in time for the holidays, is Mindfulness. Explore strategies that increase emotional intelligence. Many top-performing CEOs and Senior Executives have found meditation to be key to resilience, creative thinking, and focus. Pause, reflect, breathe – and embrace mindfulness and meditation to promote a stronger mind-body connection, boost creative thinking, and reduce stress.

Presenter Julie Reisler supports organizations to cultivate employees with successful mindsets, encourage intentional leadership, apply mindfulness in the workplace, and explore strategies that increase emotional intelligence.

The Leadership Circle: What Goes Around Comes Around>

Presented by Wendy Moomaw
Executive and Leadership Coach, Facilitator and Speaker; Executive Director, Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland.

Join Conscious Capitalism of Central Maryland as we explore the pillar of Conscious Leadership.

Is your leadership effective in these times of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity? How can leaders increase their own complexity? The outer game of leadership is focused on processes such as the effective allocation of resources: people, time and money. In addition, the Leadership Circle has done research that has identified competencies that are strongly correlated with effective leadership. Learn what is possible when you shift the inner game of leadership. Discover the tool that can help you uncover what drives the leader, how they define themselves, what is important to them and what they believe.

“When we experience the world as “too complex” we are not just experiencing the complexity of the world. We are experiencing a mismatch between the world’s complexity and our own at this moment…There are only two logical ways to mend this mismatch – reduce the world’s complexity or increase our own.”
– Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Minds at Work

Wendy Moomaw is a software engineer and business leader, an embodied athlete, an adventurer, and a community-igniter. Wendy coaches leaders and their teams by integrating tools across the coaching and facilitation spectrum including emotional intelligence, team coaching and facilitation modalities, somatic sensing, and the interplay of energy dynamics. She is certified as an ICF ACC Coach and in the Leadership Circle Profile and Culture Survey, Hogan Assessments, and the Team Dialogue Indicator. She earned her Leadership Coaching and Facilitation Certificates from Georgetown University, her MBA/MS Finance from the Smith Business School at the University of Maryland and her BSCIS in Software Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Harnessing Stakeholder Power for Business Profitability and Sustainability

An interactive session on Stakeholder Orientation with Onyemaechi Nweke, DrPH.
“Stakeholder Orientation, another pillar of Conscious Capitalism, is essential to how conscious businesses operate. This interactive session will briefly explore the concept, examine the range of stakeholders pertinent to business success, discuss its benefits, and highlight strategies for leveraging stakeholder power.”

Purposeful Pints

Purposeful Pints is an opportunity for us to come together to share how we’re each bringing Conscious Capitalism into our work and dive into some of the main Pillars of the Conscious Capitalism philosophy!

Come join the conversation!

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