Chapter Meetings

ASSE Puget Sound Chapter Meetings are held at Angelo's Ristorante, located at 601 SW 153rd Street in Burien, WA.

"Angelo's of Burien is still about food and family" - The Seattle Times, August 2008

March 2010 Chapter Meeting

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 5:00-8:00pm - Angelo's Ristorante

Make Passion Your Competitive Advantage: Stand Out From the Crowd with a Career That Energizes and Inspires You
Presentation by Curt Rosengren, Passion Catalyst

Finding passion in your career is one of the best investments you can make. It energizes you and fuels your success. When you're on fire about your work, you stand out from the crowd. It's too important to leave to chance - and you don't have to! You can plan for passion.

In this talk you will:

  • Learn a practical, real-world framework for planning for passion.
  • Discover how to uncover your Passion Factors, the underlying characteristics that tend to be present when you feel energized and engaged.
  • Find out how to use your Passion Factors to both refine your current work and plan for a path that lights you up.
  • Learn how using your understanding of your Passion Factors will help you stand out in your career.
  • Learn why "it's all about you," and what happens when it's not.

Based on The Occupational Adventure Guide, the system Curt Rosengren developed to help people create careers that energize and inspire them, this nuts-and-bolts, easy-to-implement approach to building a career you love will give you the conceptual tools you need to take a practical approach to getting the most out of your career.

I was talking to a recruiter friend of mine recently and she made this observation: "I've been doing this for 24 years, and I always hire for passion." This presentation offers ASSE members a way to take passion out of the abstract and gives a concrete, tangible way to incorporate what energizes them into their careers. I also find that the methodical nature of the process resonates well with those with an engineering mindset.

After years as a professional malcontent, Curt Rosengren discovered the power of passion. As a speaker, author, and coach, Rosengren helps people create careers that energize and inspire them. His work focuses on three questions: What lights me up? What difference do I want to make? And, how do I weave both of those into a career that lets me thrive?

Rosengren's book 101 Ways to Get Wild About Work and his E-book The Occupational Adventure Guide offer people tools and ideas for turning dreams into reality. His first blog, The Occupational Adventure, was named by Forbes.com as Best of the Web. His current blog, The M.A.P. Maker , explores how to craft a life of meaning, abundance, and passion. Rosengren also blogs about career passion for U.S. News & World Report.

Here is a sampling of organizations where Rosengren has spoken:

  • Microsoft Visiting Speaker Series
  • Usability Professionals Association Conference
  • Association for Women in Computing
  • Society for Technical Communications
  • Society of American Business Editors and Writers Conference
  • Federal Aviation Administration (workshop)
  • American Marketing Association

Click here to get a taste of Rosengren's speaking style.

Location:

Angelo's Ristorante
601 SW 153rd Street
Burien, WA 98166

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