February 17, 2006
In Unison featured in the Small Business Times Life's Balancing Lesson - Self empowerment is a balance of mind and body and a realization that each piece that creates a whole is as equal and as important as the next.

The Selp-Emplowerment Games Online Ordering Now Available

http://www.getinunison.com/products.htm
A 21st Century tool for training and changing. Have some fun and learn a new approach to the empowerment of Conscious Awareness for the work place and in your life. Includes game board, e-cards, player pieces and dice.

Wisconsin Public Radio's Ideas Network Guest Appearance

December 21, 2005 5:00pm CST - Ben Merens Show
Employees are not without power in the workplace but often feel that they are. Ben Merens and his guest, Colleen Hickmann, talk about how you can take more control at work and be happier for it.

Listen to the show here
http://www.wpr.org/ideas/programnotes.cfm?dteDate=12/21/2005

Activities of 2005

July 23, 2005
A most enlightening website for those who share a vision of the workplace as an environmental tool to express connectedness, cultural growth, individual development and spirit. The links are informative and educational. www.spiritatwork.org

September 2005
Servant-Leadership, a phrase coined by Robert Greenleaf. Chapters of study groups as well as The Robert K. Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership in Indianapolis, IN, is fast growing in business developmental awareness. Servant-Leadership encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening and the ethical use of power and empowerment, as taken from the website introduction http://www.greenlealf.org/. This approach shares a similar mindset of Conscious Awareness Training in the Workplace, uniquely created by inUnison.

December 2005
The Networking Community http://www.thenetworkingcommunity.com/
Colleen Hickmann is the new chapter President of the Milwaukee Airport Group called United in Networking. Meetings start January 5th and 19th, the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, 8:30 AM at the restaurant in Milwaukee Best Western Airport Hotel and Conference Cter. 5105 S Howell Avenue, Milwaukee. Contact Colleen by email or phone at 414-856-0268 for more information.

Activities of 2004

June 2004
Completed continuing education program with Dr Deepak Chopra at The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA. Eastern philosophy joining with our Western approach to our life's work. A book to review for anyone interested in balancing their approach to lifework and purpose, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra.

July 2, 2004
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. J. Krishnamurti. An interesting quote to begin a discussion of judgment and its impact on our day-to-day interactions. Dialogue, by Ellinor and Gerard, dedicates an entire chapter to the suspension of judgments. I agree with them, ìSuspension of judgment is about developing the ability to observe judgments, your own and those of others, from a neutral position, remaining detached and unreactive. I practice this daily, it is empowering to be proactive, it does, however, take practice. This book was good reading for executives and managers who want to communicate with a 21st century approach.

July 10, 2004
Officially became of member of Tempo International Milwaukee Chapter. TEMPO Milwaukee is the premier organization of professional women. It serves both its diverse membership and the community through educational programs, networking opportunities, relationship building and mentoring, while promoting the goal of empowering women to achieve and sustain leadership roles within the political, educations and corporate arenas. If you are a professional woman, check the website, www.tempointernational.org

August 2004
Attended PGA Championship at Whispering Straits near Sheboygan, WI. I will not be going on tour playing professional golf, did you know they never miss? I don't even count the misses when I play!