ISPI Vancouver Bulletin
March 11, 2004

April 13th Event | Thiagi becomes ISPI President-Elect | Inthernational Room in Tampa
Membership Involvement Survey Results | And more!

Rise 'n Shine with David Gouthro

Back by popular demand... David Gouthro will be our speaker at our April 13th breakfast meeting. Plan now to join us for David's Courage by Design session. 7:30am breafast, 8:00-10:00am event. More details coming soon.

Don't know David? To learn more about David Gouthro, visit his company's website, The Consulting Edge Movers & Shakers Inc.

Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan, CPT is ISPI International's new President-Elect!

Many ISPI Vancouver members will recognize Thiagi's name, for others, check out his website at www.thiagi.com. You can learn more about Thiagi's new ISPI role www.ispi.org.

Thiagi's goals include:

• Increase inclusiveness: invite, inspire, and include the newer generation and international participants
• Exploit paradoxes
• Remove time and space barriers

International Room at Tampa Conference

Going to Tampa? The International Room is a special place to network and share ideas. Plus the room boasts a very valuable "job aid": binders containing a single copy of every conference handout, a great help to selecting sessions. There will also be an International Wrap Up Session on the last day of the conference.

Partnering for Performance will be will be held in Tampa, Florida April 20–23, 2004.

Membership Involvement Survey Results

Thank you to all members who responded to our recent Membership Involvement Survey. We were delighted to receive 54 responses. Your executive team is currently sifting through the results and will be in touch with those of you who put up your hand to say, "Yes, I'll get involved." Thanks again!

In Other News ….

ISPI Vancouver member Stacey Mitchell is involved with the Canadian Cancer Society's Vancouver Relay for Life, and invites you to get involved. Relay for Life is a unique community fundraising event that celebrates survivors and honors those who have lost their battle to cancer. Teams are comprised of 8 - 12 people that are friends, family, colleagues. This is an extremely enjoyable event that has lots of activities for every audience. We invite you to get a group together and come join us this May 28 & 29th. For more details please visit http://www.bc.cancer.ca or email smitc@shaw.ca.

Ramona Materi is one of several ISPI Vancouver members who is actively involved with eLearningBC (http://www.elearningbc.com) and has passed on an opportunity that other members may be interested in. The eLearningBC Board is looking for a facilitator to lead us through a strategic planning process on April 8. For more information, please contact Ramona (rmateri@ingenia-training.com).

Our Spectrum Survey is ongoing. If you haven't responded yet, editor Julie Case invites your feedback at:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?L222RZ35M9RJKAJDCDFVL5DA