Events
Get ready to expand your professional circle at our exclusive members-only event, "Rapid Connect," designed to help you make valuable connections in record time!
Tired of trend reports that never quite land? KC IABC invites you to a game-changing Professional Development session featuring a leading brand strategist who has done the heavy lifting for 2025.
Our next Coffee Chat presenter is author Kimberly Wright. We'll discuss how our perceptions are powerful lenses that shape both our identity and professional interactions.
Carissa Sadique, who works in Learning and Development at Johnson County Community College, will get us fired up and ready to implement inclusive practices that support team cohesion, reduce conflict and leverage generational strengths to enhance organizational effectiveness.
We'll mingle starting at 5:30 and sit down to order and chat at 6. Members attend free; nonmembers pay $10. We pick up our own dinner and drinks.
Think fast, adapt, and communicate with confidence! Discover how improv transforms workplace communication in this dynamic session.
Amplify! Elevate Your Voice, Expand Your Impact
Mark your calendar for KC IABC's Business Communicators Summit (BCS), one of the region's largest gatherings for communications and marketing professionals.
Join us on 12 February for this FREE webinar as Steve Gregoire and Paul Stewart cover the key findings of PoliteMail’s 2024 Benchmark Report and present email best practices supported by data science informed by four billion internal emails to 15 million employees. Gain actionable insights you can apply right away to improve your reach, readership and engagement.
Are you swirling over all the implications of AI in your work? We've found just the right person to help us dig into the possibilities, the probabilities and the problems. Hear from the expert and throw your questions out for discussion with your peers.
Join us on Thursday, December 5th, as we continue our KC IABC coffee series on personal development for communicators. Our guest speaker will be Lisa Nickel, who will speak on "Get Out of Your Head: Strategies to Stop Negative Thinking Patterns."
Dave will explore the wisdom behind leveraging the network you already have - and growing it to build relationships that help you reach your goals. At this breakfast event, you'll learn 3 proven, easy-to-implement strategies to tap into your network's wisdom, become a collector of "gold coins," and become smarter and more effective in reaching your professional and personal goals.
Join us on Thursday, August 15, as we continue our KC IABC coffee series on personal development for communicators. Our guest speaker will be JL Heather, who will speak on "Building and Maintaining Boundaries."
Trade shows have been a core marketing tool for new product launches. But all too often features and benefits have outweighed authentic brand messaging. In this professional development session, Darius Lane, Public Relations Manager with John Deere, will share how John Deere has successfully woven storytelling, narrative control, and thought leadership into their media events.
Join us for this breakfast professional development event hosted by our friends at Burns and McDonnell. Networking and breakfast will be at 7:30 am, with the presentation from 8:00-9:00 am.
Burns and McDonnell is located at 9450 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO. Please park in the visitor's lot and use the lobby entrance for 9450 Ward Parkway. Follow the signs for Training Room 1A.
This is one you don't want to miss!
Darius Lane is a public relations manager for John Deere, managing the thought leadership, storytelling, and narrative control for the company’s ag and turf equipment.
With over 20 years in advertising, marketing and PR, Darius has leveraged his skills and many experiences to impact a wide variety of industry initiatives, including the campaign development and execution for the world’s first high-speed planter — one of the most revolutionary product launches in agriculture.
Darius continues to his innovate on new ideas and approaches for communicating the value of ag tech, autonomy, and electrification for farmers, property owners, and B2B businesses. Darius has been a speaker at multiple events and webinars, including Equip Exposition and Turf & Ornamental Communicators Association.
Join us on Thursday, June 6, as we continue our KC IABC coffee series on personal development for communicators. Our guest speaker will be Mark Mears, author of Amazon five-star rated book, "The Purposeful Growth Revolution."
For many marketers and internal communications professionals, part of your responsibilities may include creating content for other executives.
How are you able to create original, interesting, Thought Leadership on behalf of someone else, capturing their unique voice?
This is a challenge we are going to tackle with help form Christina Hager, VP of Marketing & Client CMO at Crux KC!
Takeaways from this session include tips, tricks and resources on how to:
Build an authentic brand…for someone else!
Shift tone and voice quickly when you write for your executives
Juggling multiple LinkedIn Profiles and brands
Ghostwrite for Executives in any industry
Use an hour to get a month’s worth of material
Repurpose content for a “cycle of life” on LinkedIN and other platforms..and more!
We will save time for a Q&A to talk about your questions and answers!
Join Christina and KCIABC for this breakfast professional development event on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 AM, at 2380 McGee, Kansas City, MO. The Gather Conference room is located on the first floor at the far end of the lobby next to Jimmy Johns and the coffee shop.
Validated parking available at 2345 Grand Plaza. (Use the Grand Blvd. Garage Entrance and park only in designated "Visitor" spaces. Take the elevator to the main floor. Please bring parking ticket to the event for validation).
About Christina
Christina Hager is a VP and Client CMO at Crux, and the Founder and President of Ovations Digital, a boutique social media & digital strategy company in Kansas City, a member of the Forbes Communication Council since 2001, and former adjunct professor of digital marketing with North Carolina State. She is regarded as an authority on social media marketing, digital communication, corporate identity & branding, executive communications, and thought leadership.
Her insights on social media marketing have appeared in publications like Inc.com, People Maven Magazine, National Jewelry, Social Media Today, as well as numerous times in Forbes.com, and she has given a multitude of podcast interviews on this topic. She is likewise highly sought after as an executive speaker on social/digital media tactics and strategy.
Ms. Hager consults on numerous business and individual projects in the B2B/B2C industries, including construction, manufacturing, health & wellness, change management, skincare, SaSS, tech, business consulting & career services, e-commerce, restaurants/hospitality, luxury goods, not-for-profits, and the performing arts.
Ms. Hager also assists corporate leaders and entrepreneurs, ranging from small-business owners to Fortune 500 executives, in their business endeavors and excels at developing thought leadership credentials for her clients through her ability to place and promote their insights in top industry outlets like Forbes, Inc.com, U.S. News & World Report, Business.com, and Thrive Global.
In 2023, she was named by the Kansas City Business Journal as one of the “Top 20 People to Know in Marketing and Advertising” in Kansas City.
Join us as we hear from Angela (Orr) Kennedy of AoK Consulting LLC. Angela works with organizations to help foster inclusive and high-performing cultures. In this session, she'll lead a discussion on how we can work as individuals to help elevate the performance of our teams and make collaboration a more satisfying experience for all.
KC IABC's Business Communicators Summit, one of the region's largest gatherings for communications and marketing professionals, returns to the KU Edwards Campus with an exciting roster of expert speakers and local leaders.
Let's talk about employee comms and how we can help create, enhance and build on the desired culture.
We're planning a combo of case studies and a roundtable so you can learn AND share your own successes, challenges and questions on the topic. With this group, we can almost guarantee a robust discussion!
The Masters group is designed for senior communications professionals. It's an informal gathering that fosters expertise-sharing among all the attendees.
Members of the Kansas City Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators KC chapter attend free. Non-members pay $10. We each pay for our own drinks and dinner.
Understanding your core tendencies and behaviors can help you achieve your professional and personal goals.
How do you want 2024 to shake out for you? In your career? In your life? Are you ready to bring to life that thing you’ve been wanting to do forever?
It’s common to hear that ‘how you do anything is how you do everything.’ That’s true for some people, but what’s true for everyone is that how you PLAN is unique to you, and in fact that’s what determines how you do everything.
There are six different Planner Archetypes that align with the spectrum of how people think and behave in planning, whether in our jobs or our life. Why does that matter? Because if we can understand our core tendencies and behaviors, we can work better with them – for ourselves, working with our teams, and living more happily in our relationships.
About Kathyrn
Kathryn Lorenzen is a full-time career and livelihood coach, helping people through a career transition or a search for their most satisfying work. A former recruiter and partner at LandaJob, Kathryn has united over 500 people with jobs, and as a career coach has supported more than 250 people through successful transitions and job searches. She is also co-leader of Your Right Livelihood, a course and group experience for those who are ready to pursue the work, art, or service they love. Kathryn is a past board member of KC IABC.
Join us on Thursday, Jan. 11 as we continue our KC IABC coffee series on personal development for communicators. Our speaker this time will be Kansas City-based life coach Haley Prophet.
Haley has more than 20 years of experience in "corporate well-being" and will help us learn six ways to thrive and flourish in our lives while balancing work and life. Haley's expertise has been used by large area organizations like Black & Veatch, American Century Investments and many others.
We will meet at 7:30 a.m. at Urban Prairie Coffee, 5606 Johnson Dr., Mission, KS. Hope to see you there!
On Thursday, Nov. 30, GKC-PRSA is partnering with KCIABC to bring you a very special in-person professional development and networking event from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park.
We’re restarting the bi-monthly coffee gatherings beginning in November. Our focus will be slightly different… we’ll be focusing on personal development for marketing communicators.
How to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to grow your revenue!
Talk with KU's Dr. Jeff Conlin about proven ways to improve persuasion by selecting the right source, medium, modality and message.
Team leaders are much like coaches. It's their responsibility to develop, and bring out the best skills in each team member. RSVP For This Event
Join Matt Tidwell, IABC board member, for an update about our international chapter, new member benefits and how you can become more involved. Matt will also share great insights as the Assistant Dean for Graduate and Professional Studies for the Integrated Marketing Communications graduate degree program at the KU Edwards Campus. Both KCIABC members and non-members are welcome.
Summer networking is in full swing.
Join KC-IABC Masters June 27 to brainstorm a work challenge with your peers!
How do brands let communities know they care?
Learn about an award-winning campaign and get insights from more than a decade in nonprofit communications.
Learn how to intentionally craft internal communications for the right audience to get the right results.
Join us to celebrate spring, Kansas City and connect with fellow communicators.
