Online pre-registration is now closed. Limited walk-in registration space will be available. Please send an email to [email protected] if you are in need of a walk-in registration form. Please note walk-in registrations must be paid by credit card, check or exact cash as PRSA Chicago will not be able to provide change. Thank you!

WORKSHOP DETAILS

Join PRSA Chicago's Young Professionals Network for our next monthly workshop: How to Improve Your Work-Life Balance, on Wednesday, Aug. 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. at Greentarget, 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 3100 when you will hear from three industry professionals about the rewards and challenges of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. While we cannot stop ever-changing news cycles, young professionals can learn how to manage time, enjoy time off, build in downtime, exercise and relaxation, and turn off your phone (or at least silence it).

SPEAKERS

Catherine Merritt
CEO and Founder, Spool Marketing
@SpoolMarketing
@CathMerritt

Catherine is a tenaciously curious problem solver with global agency pedigree and startup hustle. She is an innovative, results-driven communications and marketing leader who has worked for startups to Fortune 100 companies and many in between. At the end of the day, Catherine works with clients in a true partnership capacity to create smart solutions to their complex business problems. Catherine is a motivating leader to her teams, a strategic counsel to her clients and a networker extortioner.

Having run global agency practices as well as launching, running and selling startups, Catherine brings a unique blend of experiences, skills and perspectives to each client she partners with. She has helped her clients launch entire industries, grow brands, tell stories and at the end of the day, everything she does is driven to help her clients grow and drive business.

She launched Spool not because the world needs another agency, but perhaps because it needs a new type of agency. 

Catherine and her husband live in Evanston, IL where they're raising their two sons, Teddy and Archie. 

Pam Munoz
Senior Vice President, Greentarget
@Greentarget
@pmunoz
Pam’s experience in public relations and marketing communications spans almost two decades and a multitude of industries and sectors.

She has built her career advising blue-chip corporations and global professional services firms in B2B marketing, including thought leadership, executive positioning, and internal/external communications strategies. She combines a deep knowledge of legal, technology, insurance, labor and employment, government, financial and professional services, healthcare, agribusiness, and architecture industries.

She brings a combination of experience from both public relations agency and in-house corporate communications to handle crises and to develop proactive media strategies. Prior to joining Greentarget, she gained agency and in-house communications experience, working on accounts such as Allstate, Grainger, Syngenta, and Mars.

When not at work, Pam brings her passion to her love of multiple languages, international cultural experiences and discovering urban adventures with her husband and daughters, who are both learning foreign languages and teaching her what the future may hold.

Claudia Uchima
Senior Human Resources Director, Astellas
@AstellasUS
Claudia joined Astellas as Sr Director HR in June 2018 responsible for providing strategic and operational human resources leadership to various global G&A functions. Prior to Astellas, Claudia served at Mapp Digital, a global digital marketer organization, where she was the global SVP of HR supporting 750 employees across 12 countries.  She has also worked at SunTrust Banks, The Linde Group, and UBC Pharmaceuticals. 

Claudia holds a BA degree in Business Administration, MBA, and Masters in Health Administration from Georgia State University. 

In her free time, Claudia enjoys weight training and running and completed her second marathon in October 2018.

agenda

6-6:30 p.m.: Check-in and open networking over refreshments
6:30-7:30 p.m.: Panel discussion
7:30 p.m.: Closing comments and questions

FEES LISTED BELOW

***STUDENTS: To register at the $5 student rate, please email Ann Scheible at [email protected] from your student email account and she will provide you with the student discount code.

Online pre-registration is required by Tuesday, August 27 at 2 p.m.. You will be required to show a photo ID at registration. If you pay at the door, please pay with exact change, credit or check. PRSA Chicago will not be able to make change.

Questions? Please send an email to Kelsey Schroeder and Tarsis Lopez, YPN Committee co-chairs at [email protected].

THANK YOU TO OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORK SPONSOR

Program Details

Refunds:
All ticket sales are final. Substitutions may be made at any time.