TCBANDD
Twin Cities Black Affinity Network Development Day

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Jun
29
9:00 AM09:00

TC BANDD XVII, Finding Your North Star: “Charting Your Career Path”

I am excited to invite you all to TC BANDD XVII: Finding Your North Star: “Charting Your Career Path”! The event is being held on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at Best Buy's Richfield campus and virtually via Microsoft Teams!

This summit is designed to empower attendees with knowledge, strategies, and inspiration to excel in their careers and personal lives. In conjunction with professional networking, prize give aways, trivia, food, and more this event promises to be an inspirational, uplifting, and impactful event that you don’t want to miss! And best of all, it's 100% FREE to attendees!!  This is made possible by the generous support of our Event Host Best Buy, our speakers, and our Gold Sponsor Bremer Bank!

We are excited to have another slate of stellar Corporate Executives, Business Leaders, and Subject Matter Experts sharing their knowledge on the topics of “Leveraging Your North Star to Drive Your Career”, “Bringing Your Whole Self to Work”, “Keys to Black Advancement”, “Demystifying AI and Leveraging AI to Advance Your Career”, and “Leading Through Adversity”!

The initial list of session speakers includes:  Neo Thurston, ID&E Director, Best Buy; Kloė Mallard, Events Specialist, Best Buy; Craig Warren, CEO, Washburn Center  for Children; Drinal Foster, Senior Vice President, Workforce Engagement Leader, Wealth & Investment Management Technology, Wells Fargo; Chris Thibodeaux, Owner/Founder, Career Fitness Center; Daniel Shannon, DEI Executive, Wells Fargo; LeBrent Speed, President, DiverseCityAp; Alex Merritt, Global Development Speaker; Sharon Kennedy Vickers, CEO, Software for Good; Eric Alexander, Founder and CEO, TC BANDD, and more to be confirmed.

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Toward a Racially Just Workforce
Dec
7
12:00 PM12:00

Toward a Racially Just Workforce

Join us pm December 7th invite Professor Tony Mayo of the Harvard Business School for a discussion titled “Toward a Racially Just Workforce” . This interactive lecture showcases some of the key findings from the edited volume, Race, Work, and Leadership and the Harvard Business Review Big Idea series: “Toward a Racially Just Workforce” that chronicles the systemic challenges that underrepresented individuals face in ascending in their careers but also showcases the resiliency, strength, and character of these same executives as they navigate an often difficult and unwelcoming terrain.

Registration for “Toward a Racially Just Workforce” is now open, and we look forward to seeing you there in December!

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TC BANDD XVI & 10 Year Anniversary
Nov
4
9:00 AM09:00

TC BANDD XVI & 10 Year Anniversary

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TC BANDD is excited to invite you, your family, friends, and loved ones to our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration over the November 4th Weekend. As part of our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, we want to ensure that we continue to grow in impact, scope, and visibility within our community. 

We would like to thank our sponsor Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI) and our host General Mills.

There will be free food, development, and even cake! We’ll also be giving out some exclusive merchandise and gifts for those in attendance over a weekend that you won’t want to miss.

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Interviewing For Success
Oct
4
11:30 AM11:30

Interviewing For Success

With our organizational focus on helping Black, African, and African American professionals achieve their career goals, we felt that providing the tools and resources to make it through the interview process was a critical component to supporting that mission.  This workshop is designed to be interactive, candid, and transparent with focus on enhancing or developing key interview skill areas while highlighting the risks while also having a candid discussion about the unique watch outs and challenges that specifically impact our community.  Please come prepared to listen, learn, ask questions, and actively engage in breakout exercises.

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Growing Away
Sep
27
12:00 PM12:00

Growing Away

This panel discussion discusses the challenges that many members of our community face by having to leave their family, friends, and community to venture off in search of career success.  This will be a honest and transparent discussion on a topic that impacts many of us, but we find in uncomfortable to verbalize. 

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, September 27th at 12PM (CST), click here to register for the event if you haven’t already, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Session Details:  

Wednesday, September 27th (9/27/2023) from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM CST (10:00 PM to 11:30PM PST)

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How You Doing?
Aug
30
12:00 PM12:00

How You Doing?

We are excited to kick off our Summer Wrap-Up series with “How You Doing?” We are excited to have Dr. Taisha Caldwell-Harvey, Founder of The Black Girl Doctor join us for an invigorating workshop to deepen our understanding of mental health, radically shift our beliefs about self-care, learn to access our mental health, and gain practical tools that we can use right away.

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, August 30th at 12PM (CST), click here to register for the event if you haven’t already, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Session Details:  

Wednesday, August 30th (8/30/2023) from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST (10:00 PM to 11:00PM PST)

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