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Join us for a virtual fireside chat with Coonoor Behal, Founder and CEO of Mindhatch and Author of “I Quit: The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up,” which will be published by New Degree Press in April 2021. We’ll discuss the intersection of design thinking and the power of decisive quitting. Coonoor will share some key she’s learned from researching her book about quitting jobs, relationships, habits, aspirations, identities, and places and how this passion project connects to her career in innovation.

In addition to hearing some engaging stories from Coonoor’s interviews highlighted in the book, we’ll explore some key themes like:
• Risk taking, shame, and stigma about quitting
• Perfectionism and social pressures about quitting
• When quitting is perceived as a failure vs a triumph
• Making big decisions and the ability to act in the absence of complete information
• How quitting, or not quitting, reflects our own personal and cultural values
• The power of quitting to open new possibilities

By attending this event, you’ll also get early access to the Quitting Inventory tool Coonoor was inspired to create while writing her book.

𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚:

5:00 - 5:10 PM: Welcome and Kickoff with Lauren from Navicet
5:10 - 5:50 PM: Fireside Chat with Coonoor Behal
5:50 – 6:10 PM: Open Q&A
6:10 - 6:30 PM: Networking in small breakout rooms
6:30 PM: Thank you and closing remarks

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥:

Coonoor Behal is the Founder & CEO of Mindhatch (www.mindhatchllc.com) a Seattle-based company that specializes in getting companies and organizations better results with creativity. Coonoor and Mindhatch...

• Help you solve complex business problems and design products, services, and experiences your customers love using our Design Thinking expertise.
• Help your staff stay engaged and do their work better through our Organizational Improv™ training programs.
• Help you come to strategic decisions and embrace organizational change and innovation using our Innovation Facilitation methodologies.
• Build your team’s connection and overall performance through Diversity & Inclusion‎ experiences that help cultivate a culture that values all voices and maximizes the potential of every employee.

Coonoor has lectured on improvisational leadership at George Washington University School of Business, received the prestigious GovLab Public Sector Innovation Fellowship while she was an innovation consultant at Deloitte, and was named a StartingBloc Fellow in 2010. She is on the Board of Advisors for the Tombolo Institute at Bellevue College’s Design Thinking Program, and on the Board of Directors of Street Entrepreneurs. She will be teaching Design Thinking at the School of Visual Concepts starting in 2021. Coonoor has served clients all over the country, including Starbucks, Capital One, YWCA, and SAP Concur. She is a huge fan of professional tennis, improv comedy, and her Bernese Mountain Dog, Nikka. Her book, "I Quit! The Life-Affirming Joy of Giving Up" will be published by New Degree Press in April 2021 and is available for pre-sale now.

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Please RSVP to this event as (virtual) space will be limited. If you can no longer make the event please update your RSVP status so that someone else can attend in your place.

Thanks to our sponsor Navicet www.navicet.com

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