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Hi I'm Jacki de Villias, and I'm creative director for a company called CLA Venting.
And every year we do it in a different country. And this year it was in Barcelona. And we
had a wonderful five day conference. And one of the highlights of our first day was when
we had Dr. Mark DeVolder who came from the United States to give a wonderful message
about change. He's a fantastic change specialist. And our whole theme of the conference , there's
a lot of change within Boehringer Ingelheim and in this particular region they've grown
quite extensively from a MENA region (Middle East/North Africa) to a META region (Middle
East/Turkey/South Africa) which requires a lot of change. And embracing of change and
also meeting resistance to change. So Mark came in and energized the room with some amazing
thoughts, some personal insights. and got into an amazing interactive session with our
people ... we're usually quite reserved and English is a second or third language. They
were really engaging, jumping up and loved the talk. And Mark (hahaha) was really engaging.
He was doing a lot of physical work. And got us laughing and smiling and also thinking.
It was a fantastic session and great asset for the first day of our conference.