If you’ve ever had the benefit of a great coach in sports or other areas, then you know how meaningful that relationship can be. Leaders know, though, that it can sometimes be challenging to coach the people on your own team.

On January 25, during the Elevate Leadership series co-sponsored by the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce and Meridian Technology Center, Dr. Ron Duggins will lead “The Coaching Leader: How to Use Coaching Principles to Empower Your Team.” This session will emphasize how to integrate core coaching principles to empower and energize those you work with, so that together, you can produce the bottom-line results you want and need.

Dr. Ron Duggins is a coach for the modern economy whose focus is on assisting organizations and individuals through education, training and coaching, as they seek to reach their full potential and to thrive in today’s changing workplace and economy.

As an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, he partners with individuals and organizations to apply a coaching methodology in order to lay the groundwork for successful transitions, amplify personal and professional growth, and innovate and create change.

As a professor in the field of management, entrepreneurship and innovation, Duggins coaches and teaches the next generation of innovators and impact makers as well as conducts research into entrepreneurship support organizations.

Elevate Leadership sessions are held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Meridian’s campus. Registration is $15 per session and includes lunch. For more information or to register for the upcoming Elevate Leadership series visit www.meridiantech.edu/ElevateLeadership or contact Marcy Luter at marcyl@meridiantech.edu or (405) 377-3333 ext. 297 or toll-free at (888) 607-2509.

Meridian Technology Center has been a driver of economic development since 1975. With a mission to educate, enrich lives and secure economic futures, Meridian offers full-time career training programs, short courses, Business and Industry services and entrepreneurial support to residents from the Agra, Carney, Glencoe, Guthrie, Morrison, Mulhall-Orlando, Pawnee, Perkins-Tryon, Perry and Stillwater school districts.