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George Okantey

George Okantey

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Name: 
George Okantey
Location: 
Indianapolis
Birthdate: 
Mon, 1959-10-12
About Me: 

An activator who takes pride in making things happen by turning thoughts into action. Tend to do this by taking psychological ownership of what I am committed to, and place a high value on honesty and loyalty.  Work at Purdue University Extension as an Economic and Community Development Educator and Principal at—Got Performance Solutions, LLC. President, Indiana Leadership Association. BA, in Organizational Communications and Masters in Public Affairs. A Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP). Married with two adult children.

Interests: 

Reading, traveling and facilitating group processes and designing learning systems

Education: 
MPA, Public Affairs; CPLP, Learning & Performance

Contact

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gmok96@gmail.com
Skype: 
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Yahoo: 
gmok96@yahoo.com

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Gender: 
Male
Occupation: 
Learning and Development Educator
Ethnicity: 
African-American

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Affiliations

Organization Affiliations: 
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), Purdue Extension, Indiana Leadership Association (ILA), National Association of Community Economic Development Professionals (NACDEP).

Service

Workplace Learning and Performance Consultant, Individual and Group Coaching, Cultural Intelligence Training, Conflict Management, Crucial Conversations Training, Managing Difficult Conversations Workshops, Team Learning and Development

About George Okantey

An activator who takes pride in making things happen by turning thoughts into action. Tend to do this by taking psychological ownership of what I am committed to, and place a high value on honesty and loyalty.  Work at Purdue University Extension as an Economic and Community Development Educator and Principal at—Got Performance Solutions, LLC. President, Indiana Leadership Association. BA, in Organizational Communications and Masters in Public Affairs. A Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP). Married with two adult children.

 

Reading, traveling and facilitating group processes and designing learning systems

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Posts by this user

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Register for July 15 Conference 1 11/01/2011 - 10:40
Call For Workshops--2012 Servant Leadership Conference 09/28/2011 - 11:43
2012 Servant Leadership Conference--Call For Workshops 09/28/2011 - 11:30
Call For Workshops--2012 Servant Leadership Conference 09/28/2011 - 11:26
ILA Board of Directors Retreat 05/29/2011 - 11:18
Applications Available for “Stronger Economies Together” Initiative 04/01/2011 - 09:30
2012 Servant Leadership Conference--Call For Workshops 03/28/2011 - 10:57
Change Anything Book Tour 02/15/2011 - 17:37
2011 Board Chair Summit 12/21/2010 - 15:13
Indiana Leadership Association Annual Leadership Conference 12/20/2010 - 12:31
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George Okantey's Blog

Applications Available for “Stronger Economies Together” Initiative

Submitted by George Okantey on Fri, 2011-04-01 09:30
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USDA Rural Development, in conjunction with the Purdue Cooperative Extension, and other state and local partners, has released details of a initiative called “Stronger Economies Together” (SET), which is designed to help regional teams develop new approaches to strengthen and enhance regional economic development activities.

Change Anything Book Tour

Submitted by George Okantey on Tue, 2011-02-15 17:37
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The authors of Crucial Conversations and Influencer, are coming to Indianapolis June 15, to promote their new book-- Change Anything.  This new science of personal success shows effective ways to dramatically improve results in any area of your life.  The book explains three breakthrough principles that will help you change any personal challenge that you face.  This event is at the new JW Marriott, Indianapolis. Space is limited so remember to register for this Indiana Leadership Association sponsored event.

2011 Board Chair Summit

Submitted by George Okantey on Tue, 2010-12-21 15:13
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The core constituencies and clients of nonprofit organizations in our community can be better served if the organizations are led effectively. The boards that direct these organizations are faced with many challenges, including financial management, planning, fund development, measuring results and issues of accountability. In addition, these boards are often afflicted with member apathy, ineffective meetings, lack of focus and other related challenges.

Life After Recession: Local Government Finance Update

Submitted by George Okantey on Mon, 2010-05-10 13:22
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The recovery from recession is probably underway, but it may be some time before it improves the prospects for the state and local government budgets in Indiana.  Property tax bills went out on time in 85 counties, the best performance since 2002.  That means we have new information about the effects of the March 2008 tax reform on taxpayers and local governments.  May 4 will see more than a dozen tax and capital project referenda.  And we're facing a Constitutional referendum on the tax caps in November.

Central Indiana Board Chair Summit

Submitted by George Okantey on Tue, 2009-12-22 11:13
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The core constituencies and clients of nonprofit organizations in our community can be better served if the organizations are led effectively. The Boards that direct these organizations are faced with many challenges, including financial management, planning, fund development, measuring results, and issues of accountability. In addition, these boards are often afflicted with member apathy, ineffective meetings, lack of focus, and many other concerns.

Appreciative Inquiry Training Opportunity

Submitted by George Okantey on Mon, 2009-11-30 12:28
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The Appreciative Inquiry (AI) perspective is based on the insight that individuals and organizations get superior results from appreciating strengths, assets, and high point experiences instead of focusing on weaknesses and problems. Based on the work of Cooperrider and Srivastva at Case Western Reserve in the 1980's, AI has quickly grown to become one of the most powerful concepts in organizational and individual change. 

Seminar on Emotional Intelligence

Submitted by George Okantey on Thu, 2009-10-29 10:11
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Emotional Intelligence builds strong teams, families and communities.

Doug makes complicated technology issues simple

Submitted by George Okantey on Sat, 2009-08-29 00:43
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Douglas Karr, President and CEO of DK New Media was the guest speaker at Indiana Leadership Association Conference—Leadership ’09. Doug is a blogging, media development consultant. He consults on Online Marketing, Social Media and Corporate Blogging Strategies. He is the Vice President of Blogging Evangelism for Compendium Blogware. Doug designed, co-founded and implemented Smaller Indiana, a Ning Social networking application. Smaller Indiana is the most popular social network in Indiana for business leaders and professionals.

Social Media is focus of ILA colloquium

Submitted by George Okantey on Fri, 2009-08-28 09:02
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The notion of informal learning is changing given the widespread use of technologies to learn, connect and communicate. In today’s world most learning is done by asking other people how to do things using social networks and other technologies. The opportunity for leadership organizations is—how can we use social networks to harness knowledge within communities and create structures to support this increasingly informal way of learning and connecting.

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