Kevin Pokorny
Kevin Pokorny has been the owner of Pokorny Consulting since 1991. He is a master trainer, a business coach, a professional facilitator, and public speaker. He has formed long-term business relationships for more than 25 years in connecting, collaborating, and creating solutions for clients. Kevin has worked collaboratively with a broad range of organizations in Iowa and throughout the United States.
Kevin is a business coach for leaders and small business owners. He is a skilled facilitator
utilizing a number of group facilitation processes including SWOT analysis, mind mapping, the World Café conversation process, and DiSC® Behavioral assessments. His training expertise includes being a compassionate presence in the workplace, managing change and transition, cultivating emotional intelligence, building effective teams, minimizing unconscious bias, preventing discriminatory harassment in the workplace, and integrating mindfulness practices into leadership styles and organizations.
He has a background in civil rights law and honed his knowledge and expertise serving at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission as an investigator, mediator, and training officer and at the Iowa Department of Personnel as a training officer. Kevin has facilitated sexual harassment prevention training to thousands of employees across the country. He has served as moderator for a number of public discussion groups on race relations and white privilege. In addition, Kevin has worked with several attorneys in preparing cases for trial, served as an expert witness in a harassment and disability discrimination trial in federal court, and has been called upon to provide training as a result of pre-trial settlements.
Kevin is a past President of the Des Moines West Side Chamber of Commerce and is actively involved with the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Kevin has been recognized twice by the Des Moines West Side Chamber as their 2016 Ambassador of the Year and the 2012 Business of the Year.
Kevin has a B.A. degree from Drake University. He is an active writer with extensive blogs on subjects of leadership, harassment, mindfulness, compassion, and team development. He is a frequent Letter to the Editor contributor with The Des Moines Register having close to 100 letters printed. He has been featured as a Guest Opinion writer in The Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Business Record. Kevin is an active member of the International Coaching Federation, Iowa Chapter, which is committed to developing the profession of coaches.
Kevin Pokorny has been the owner of Pokorny Consulting since 1991. He is a master trainer, a business coach, a professional facilitator, and public speaker. He has formed long-term business relationships for more than 25 years in connecting, collaborating, and creating solutions for clients. Kevin has worked collaboratively with a broad range of organizations in Iowa and throughout the United States.
Kevin is a business coach for leaders and small business owners. He is a skilled facilitator
utilizing a number of group facilitation processes including SWOT analysis, mind mapping, the World Café conversation process, and DiSC® Behavioral assessments. His training expertise includes being a compassionate presence in the workplace, managing change and transition, cultivating emotional intelligence, building effective teams, minimizing unconscious bias, preventing discriminatory harassment in the workplace, and integrating mindfulness practices into leadership styles and organizations.
He has a background in civil rights law and honed his knowledge and expertise serving at the Iowa Civil Rights Commission as an investigator, mediator, and training officer and at the Iowa Department of Personnel as a training officer. Kevin has facilitated sexual harassment prevention training to thousands of employees across the country. He has served as moderator for a number of public discussion groups on race relations and white privilege. In addition, Kevin has worked with several attorneys in preparing cases for trial, served as an expert witness in a harassment and disability discrimination trial in federal court, and has been called upon to provide training as a result of pre-trial settlements.
Kevin is a past President of the Des Moines West Side Chamber of Commerce and is actively involved with the Greater Des Moines Partnership. Kevin has been recognized twice by the Des Moines West Side Chamber as their 2016 Ambassador of the Year and the 2012 Business of the Year.
Kevin has a B.A. degree from Drake University. He is an active writer with extensive blogs on subjects of leadership, harassment, mindfulness, compassion, and team development. He is a frequent Letter to the Editor contributor with The Des Moines Register having close to 100 letters printed. He has been featured as a Guest Opinion writer in The Des Moines Register and the Des Moines Business Record. Kevin is an active member of the International Coaching Federation, Iowa Chapter, which is committed to developing the profession of coaches.
Overcoming the 5 dysfunctions of teams
How do we build our teams to focus on accomplishing our organization's mission or purpose? One BIG step is to recognize and solve the 5 dysfunctions of teams researched and written by Patrick Lencioni.
You will learn the 5 dysfunctions, which are:
- Absence of trust
- Fear of conflict
- Lack of commitment
- Avoidance of accountability, and
- Inattention to results
The learning is in groups with everyone completing a...
Mindfulness Practices for Leaders
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How to Live in the Present by Being Mindful
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In our time together, you will learn and experience:
- What is mindfulness?
- Why mindfulness in my life?
- Mindfulness practices of breath, awareness and presence, thoughts, emotions, and taks.
- Time to focus on one mindfulness practice that speaks to what you...
Managing the 3 Phases of Transition in Response to Change
Understanding Unconscious Bias and Tools to Minimize It
- Identify our biases
- Acknowledge that biases exist
- Learn effective tools to minimize our biases
Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
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- Each person will complete an emotional intelligence appraisal to measure one's level of emotional intelligence.
- You will learn how emotional intelligence is critical for leaders and working...
Building Working Relationships Using DiSC Behavioral Assessments
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Finding Self-Compassion & Meaning in the Midst of Suffering
Preventing Sexual Harassment
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