Who is the summit for?

All RDNs and NDTRs!

If you're looking to evolve in 2024 (both personally and professionally) while earning CEUs, the summit is for you. You can be in a clinical role, or not! All of the sessions are designed to support your growth no matter what your practice area is.

What's included?

  • 100% Virtual

    Attend all sessions from anywhere with wifi

  • 9 CEUs

    Pre-approved by CDR

  • 14 Sessions

    Hear from 15 experts on personal and professional development topics

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Get Ready To Level-Up in 2024. Registration is now open for $197.

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Day 1 Sessions

January 25, 2024

  • Why Dietitians are the Leaders the World Needs Now

  • The Power of Empowerment

  • Strategies for Salary Negotiation as an RDN or NDTR

  • Fueling Your Writing: Ten Powerful Tips for Better Communication

  • Emotional Intelligence: Applications to Your Career Development

  • Nutrition Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Gastrointestinal Nutrition

  • Managing Energy for Full Engagement

  • Self-Publishing on Amazon: Reaching an Untapped Audience

Day 2 Sessions

January 26, 2024

  • Get out of your head: Using Mindfulness to Manage Stress, Gain Clarity, and Live a More Meaningful Life

  • Speak Up Dietitians! How to Turn What You Do into a Presentation Topic

  • Link to Success: How to Use LinkedIn to Take Your Career to the Next Level

  • Assemble and Empower: The Art of Building an Amazing Team

  • Building Your Dream Life: Becoming Limitless

  • Fueling Success: Mastering Time Management and Boosting Productivity for Dietitians

Why Dietitians are the Leaders the World Needs Now

Alexis Williams, MAN, RD & Melanie Byland, MPH, MBA

With increasing employee burnout, and mental health concerns, having dietitians in leadership roles is what the world needs. Why? Because dietitians are strong communicators, empathetic, and trained in some of the key skills for modern leaders. Leave the session with an understanding of how to transfer your dietetics skills into a leadership position!

The Power of Empowerment

Crystal Duque, RDN, LDN

Learn the four steps to evoke emotion in your client and inspire change. You no longer need to worry about saying the wrong thing to your clients. During this session, you'll be set up to empower your clients to make changes to support their nutritional goals.

Strategies for Salary Negotiation as an RDN or NDTR

Stacey Dunn-Emke, MS, RDN

Compensation negotiation isn't something we practice often but when we do the outcome can be a winning situation for both you and the employer or client. This presentation will give you the strategies and tools to successfully engage in compensation and salary negotiation with confidence.

Fueling Your Writing: Ten Powerful Tips for Better Communication

Holly Larson, MS, RD, LD

Holly walks attendees through ten strategies to better connect with (and empower) their readers. After the session you'll be able to explain yourself more simply, weave storytelling into your writing, and implement formatting that makes copy easier to read, skim, and understand.

Emotional Intelligence: Applications to Your Career Development

Adam K. Lax, RDN, LDN

We are seeing great changes, movements, and opportunities in the dietetic industry, however are we, as an industry, at our optimum emotional intelligence to connect with not only others, but to ourselves? In this presentation, we will dive into the 5 pillars of emotional intelligence and compare them to a unique system of 5 ways of being to create greater "evidenced based" results in personal and professional settings.
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Nutrition Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Gastrointestinal Nutrition

Niki Strealy, RDN, LD

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the impact of storytelling with practical skills and awareness to integrate narrative approaches ethically and effectively into your practice.

Managing Energy for Full Engagement

Rebecca Schubert, MS, RDN, NBC-HWC

Peak performance in work and life depends on personal energy. We so often hear about the importance of time management, but time is finite. It is the one thing we can never make more of. Energy, on the other hand, is a renewable resource and managing our energy is the key to health, happiness, and peak performance. Come away with practical strategies you can implement to help you avoid an energy crisis and enable you to thrive in work and in life.

Self-Publishing on Amazon: Reaching an Untapped Audience

Liz Jalkiewicz, RDN, LDN

Learn the benefits of self-publishing on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing. We’ll dive into Amazon SEO so you can increase the chances of your product ranking high in the Amazon search results. This session will also review the profitable niche of creating lower-content books to best serve your ideal client. Self-publishing on Amazon is a non-traditional way to reach a wider audience, have greater impact in reaching your ideal client and it serves as a stream of passive income for you.

Get out of your head: Using Mindfulness to Manage Stress, Gain Clarity, and Live a More Meaningful Life

Diane deJesús, RD, CLC, IBCLC

This presentation will introduce the basic principles of--and research behind--mindfulness, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Training. Topics will include the benefits of mindfulness and tips for starting a mindfulness practice that actually sticks! We'll bust some of the myths about mindfulness (hint: you don't have to practice for a long time, sitting still, with eyes closed!) and will learn a couple of quick, easy mindfulness exercises that can be used in your personal life, at work, or with clients!

Speak Up Dietitians! How to Turn What You Do into a Presentation Topic

Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, LD, CEDS-C

Do you dream of standing on a stage, presenting to your community, your colleagues, or the world? Or making money presenting worldwide from home? These dreams can become reality if you can frame your experience and expertise a certain way. This presentation by dietitian speaker Jessica Setnick will give you the building blocks to start your speaking career off on the right foot and tailor your message in a way your audience can hear.

Link to Success: How to Use LinkedIn to Take Your Career to the Next Level

Kelan Sarnoff, MS, RDN

Interested in making a career change or growing your own business, but the thought of networking fills you with dread? Discover how simple changes to your LinkedIn profile can help you land in front of your target audience. In a time of ever changing trends in social media, LinkedIn offers a more stable and meaningful platform for connecting with others and landing opportunities. And the best part is that it doesn’t take hours each week to be successful.

Assemble and Empower: The Art of Building an Amazing Team

Ana Reisdorf, MS, RD, CDE

Learn how to know when its time to build a team, how to get started, and how to select ideal team members to help your business or endeavor reach its full potential. Also included are strategies for fostering an environment that empowers your teammates to excel!

Building Your Dream Life: Becoming Limitless

Katie Dodd, MS, RDN, CSG, LD, FAND

Dietitians are world changers. We all have dreams and aspirations with our careers/lives- but we are often held back in achieving our biggest dreams. What typically holds us back? Ourselves. In this session we are going to dive deep into what building your dream life looks like. Then we are going to dive into the limiting beliefs that hold you back. Get ready to dream big and commit to becoming limitless!

Fueling Success: Mastering Time Management and Boosting Productivity for Dietitians

Heather Neal, MS, RD, LDN, CLT

Discover innovative strategies to streamline your workflow, eliminate time-wasters, and elevate your productivity. This presentation is your roadmap to achieving a satisfying work-life and achieving a feeling of ease in your day to day life. Get ready to ignite your success and embark on a journey towards enhanced efficiency and professional fulfillment.

Register Today

Get Ready To Level-Up in 2024. Registration is now open for $197.

Register Now

FAQs

  • How much does it cost to attend?

    The cost is $197.

  • When is the summit?

    January 25-26, 2024

  • What is the schedule like?

    The sessions will roll out over the 2 days. There are 8 sessions planned for Thursday the 25th and 6 sessions planned for Friday the 26th - because… Friyay!

  • Do I need to attend the sessions live?

    No! All session recordings will be available for the rest of 2024.

  • Does the summit offer CEUs?

    Yes! The summit was pre-approved by CDR for 9 CEUs.

  • Where does the summit take place?

    Wherever you are! The summit is 100% virtual. You can watch from your desk, your office, your kitchen, your couch, or anywhere else!

  • I'm in a clinical role, is this for me?

    Yes! The session topics were specifically selected to support dietitians across all practice areas. The topics are centered around areas for personal and professional growth and are not geared to any specific practice areas.

  • How will I interact with the speakers and other attendees if this is virtual?

    There will be an online community for everyone to get together. Engage, ask questions, and connect with like-minded professionals.

  • How will I receive the CEU certificate?

    Once the summit concludes on January 26th, the certificate will be made available within the summit platform. Don't worry, you won't miss it!