EDENPRAIRIE GRACE CHURCH | 9301 Eden Prairie Rd | Eden Prairie, MN 55347
Our purpose is to help unemployed and misemployed people with effective strategies and resources for a job search, while helping them hear and follow God's calling in their life and their work.
FREE JOB SEARCH SEMINARS AND WEBINARS
1st Thursday MORNING of each month | 7:30 - 9:00 am
(IN-PERSON ONLY at Grace Church in Eden Prairie)
FOLLOWED BY THE IN-PERSON NWG group meeting beginning at 9am
FOLLOWED BY our MICRO JOB-FAIR featuring employers each month
AND a "Financial Considerations in Job Transition" Q&A beginning at 10:45am
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2nd Thursday EVENING of each month | 7:00 - 8:30 pm
(IN-PERSON ONLY at Woodbury Lutheran Church)
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3rd Thursday MORNING of each month | 7:30 - 9:00 am (Central Time)
(ONLINE Webinar Only)
These FREE Seminars include an introduction to all the additional free but valuable resources you will find through MN Crossroads Career Network.
At our Monthly Seminars, we feature a guest speaker presenting topics related to job search, networking, and lead generation.
OUR UPCOMING GUEST SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
ONLINE ONLY:
Pre-Register to Participate
The Interview's Over, Now What?
with: Kristy Busija
Thursday Morning, July 17th
7:30 - 9:00 am
Pre-Register Here to Participate in This Webinar
Master the critical post-interview phase with confidence, whether you're facing silence, rejection, or multiple offers. This practical course guides you through emotional intelligence, strategic decision-making, and offer negotiations.
You'll Learn:
• How to transform interview outcomes into opportunities
• Strategic offer evaluation techniques
• Smart negotiation tactics, even for exceptional offers
• Professional follow-up strategies
• Multiple offer comparison frameworks
Perfect For:
Professionals seeking to navigate post-interview decisions with confidence and transform uncertainty into empowered action. From managing emotions to negotiating benefits, you'll develop the tools to make informed career choices.
Before becoming an award-winning business owner, best-selling author, and Forbes contributor, Kristy Busija, the CEO & Founder of Next Conversation Consulting, was known by her clients as the one who makes sense out of their chaos. When others see mess and confusion, she sees a beautiful puzzle in the making. That means she can quickly and concisely give you actionable steps you can take today!
KRISTY BUSIJA
IN-PERSON ONLY:
at Grace Church - Eden Prairie
The ONE Thing Guaranteed to Hold You Back!
with: Leary Gates
Thursday Morning, August 7th
7:30 - 9:00 am
No Registration Necessary! Just come and connect with others!
There’s a hidden force that quietly holds us back—often unnoticed, yet deeply powerful.
In this honest and hope-filled message, Leary Gates shares his personal journey of discovering what was quietly shaping his thoughts, choices, and identity.
Through biblical truth and practical insight, he invites you to break free from the lies that keep you stuck and step boldly into the freedom and new identity you have in Christ. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of what’s been holding you back—and the courage to move forward.
Leary Gates is an advisor to venture-minded leaders, helping them discover and unleash bold ideas in business and life. A founding partner of a business growth agency and leader of a venture consulting firm, he also serves as a transitional pastor with Converge North Central. Leary has founded multiple businesses and ministries, previously led the National Coalition of Ministries to Men, and co-hosted the BoldIdea and Reinventure Me podcasts. He writes on leadership and business strategy at strategicceo.substack.com. He and his wife Anna have four grown children and five grandchildren.
...then stay after the presentation, at 9am for the Networking With Grace Meeting and our MICRO JOB FAIR and "FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS DURING JOB TRANSITION" Q&A at 10:45!
LEARY GATES
IN-PERSON ONLY:
Discovering Purpose In The Pause
with: Mitch Bliven
Thursday Evening, August 14th
7:00 - 8:30 pm
No Registration Necessary! Just come and connect with others!
This interactive session will provide a new framework for self-awareness, equipping you pinpoint the work you are uniquely built to do.
The goal is to give you a clear, practical understanding of your natural gifts so you can build your next chapter on a foundation of strength.
We will then connect this self-awareness to the single most powerful lesson from a year of intensive networking: how to become a leader in your network. You will learn a practical strategy for building deep, authentic trust that will create real opportunities.
Mitch Bliven is a Collaboration Designer and the founder of Genius Network Solutions. His passion for unlocking human potential and eliminating the burnout he once experienced is deeply personal. When people do the work they are meant to do they are happier, healthier and more effective.
He operates with Tenacious Wonder, a relentless drive to find solutions to the problems no one else is considering. This is possible because he is continually asking “How can we do this better?” For example, he re-engineered core departmental workflows allowing the team to accomplish the same results in half the time. Mitch founded his company to apply this skill at scale.
Today, Mitch equips leaders to build teams that thrive. He provides practical tools that foster the trust, communication and community necessary for human potential to be fully realized in the modern workplace.
He is married to Cassie, and they have two children, Patrick (5) and Rebecca (3).
MITCH BLIVEN
ONLINE ONLY:
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Use AI To Get Smarter In Your Job Search
with: Cherie Anderson
Thursday Morning, August 21st
7:30 - 9:00 am
Pre-Register Here to Participate in This Webinar
Want to gain clarity on your career goals, make your resume stand out in the crowd and shine at your interviews?
Join us in this highly interactive session to see how AI tools to do all of those things and more.
Cherie Anderson is a learning and development professional who has worked in Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to create learning experiences that transform leaders and lead to bottom-line results.
She is also a former participant of Crossroads. She’s so grateful for the help she received, that she wanted to do the same for others. She’s a big believer in that whole “Do unto others…” thing.
CHERIE ANDERSON