We're coming back to Cincy!

Join us for Mid-Ohio HDI's Free April event in Cincinnati! 

Join us on April 21st for an event you don't want to miss. You will hear from guest speaker and Mid-Ohio's VP of Communications, Rocky McGuire, who will be speaking on servant leadership in a session titled, "The Heart in the Art of Leadership: How to help a surviving team thrive through servant leaders". Lunch will be served AND we're bringing back Round Table discussions!

When: Friday, April 21st, 11:30pm-2:00pm EST

Where: Ameritas - 1880 Waycross Road, Cincinnati, OH 45240

Agenda:

• Networking & lunch
• Chapter Announcements
• Session on Servant Leadership with Rocky McGuire
• Round Table discussions!

Cost: Free! Invite a friend or colleague!

Session Overview

"The Heart in the Art of Leadership: Helping a surviving team thrive through servant leadership."

As a leader who's worked in numerous roles, from service desk agent to experience manager, Rocky McGuire has seen teams of all sizes in all morale states. We have a more diverse workforce than ever before, with technology that's changing faster than ever before, in a time when experience matters to our employees and customers more than ever before. It's critical that we have thriving teams – and embrace servant leadership.

Leaders are serving in a world with more emerging technology, evolving tools, and greater pressure to resolve problems quicker. How does a leader ensure their team finds meaning in the madness? How do we support our teams and take steps to help our most valuable resources -- our people -- thrive? In this session, we'll look at best practices in servant leadership, discuss challenges and obstacles that often create defeated teams and explore approaches to help change the dynamic from simply surviving - to thriving. We will talk about why people matter, why purposes matters, and why persistence matters and how those 3 things truly impact us as leaders.

Speaker Spotlight 

Rocky is a Cincinnati, Ohio native. Starting his adult career in management of Chick-fil-A, Rocky gained a love for investing in others and truly striving to live the meaning of “my pleasure” when serving customers and his team.

That passion has followed Rocky to the IT industry. In 2015 Rocky began his Service Desk journey as a Level 1 analyst working for Atos supporting public sector clients. In the years following Rocky would serve in Level 1, Level 2, Admin, Team Lead and Training roles. In June 2022 Rocky was brought into Unisys in the role of Operations Manager. It was at Unisys Rocky was introduced to HDI and a part of the HDI certification process seeing the Unisys team receive a 3.5/4 rating. In 2022 Rocky transitioned to a new role, Experience Manager, with the aim to help lead the End User Experience organization at Unisys in the already underway transformation from service focus – to experience focus.

Rocky’s personal mission bullets are to be humble, a servant and encourager of others, a disciplined and intentional leader while leaving things better than when he started - in all that he does.

Outside of work, Rocky enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Allie, is involved in his local church and with what free time he can find, loves going to play disc golf and catching tournament coverage on the Disc Golf Network. January 2022 Rocky took on his favorite and most rewarding job yet, dad, as he and Allie welcomed baby # 1, Willow, to the world. Baby #2 coming June 2023!