See Angela in Action

Courses are taught in an engaged teaching style where multiple modes of learning are employed.  This is not a lecture!  Case studies, role-playing, and group discussions, amongst other techniques, will be utilized as appropriate.  Dr. Trego is an award-winning teacher who has practical experiences that are brought in to provide additional insight and perspective.  Complex topics are reduced to key critical items that can be learned more easily and applied outside the classroom. 

Every workshop, short course, and coaching session is customized for the specific activity and audience.  Once an initial consultation has occurred to determine your program needs you will receive a written quote.  Offerings include:

  • Workshops: 1 hr, 1/2 day
  • Short Courses:  1 – 4 days
  • Customized personal coaching

Sample Course Offerings

Recruitment & Retention of Women

  • Gain Confidence by Squashing the Impostor Syndrome: Discover what’s holding you back as a member of an underrepresented population and how to gain the confidence you need to be successful
  • Seeing with New Eyes: Unpacking Unconscious Bias for an Inclusive Culture What are your biases? Do you even have any? What are some ways to create positive micro-messaging in my team and organization? Begin the conversation and see for yourself!
  • Inclusion and Diversity – How to Get It & Keep It!: Recruiting and Retaining Women in business
  • Removing Unconscious Bias in Recruitment and Retention: Understanding techniques to support increasing recruitment and retention of women
  • Micro-messaging: What I meant was…: Learn teaching techniques to support inclusion of more diverse thought
  • The Wow Factor: Methods for increasing the STEM pipeline

Engineering Education

  • 3 Engagement Principles to Reduce Workload and Increase Student Motivation: Learn three engagement principles that reduce your overall teaching workload while increasing student motivation
  • Making a Difference Through Engineering: Don’t be fooled that being an engineer means you are just a boring person sitting in a cubical. Learn that it is not the things that you make that are important but rather, it is the impact you make. Look at case studies to see what a real difference being an engineer can make on the world.
  • Removing Unconscious Bias in Recruitment and Retention: Understanding techniques to support increasing recruitment and retention of women
  • Micro-messaging: What I meant was…: Learn teaching techniques to support the inclusion of more diverse thought
  • The Wow Factor: Methods for increasing the STEM pipeline

Leadership Soft Skills Development

  • I’ve Got a Great Design. Now, How Do I Sell It?: An engineer may have the greatest design or piece of analysis in the world but if you can’t communicate it to the right people in the right way your design will never be realized. How do you do that?
  • How to Have a 5-Course Meal at Dollar Menu Prices: Effective Time Management Strategies: No matter what we do we only ever have 24 hours in a day. Time is one of our most precious commodities. How can we most effectively utilize those hours? What can we do to stretch our time? Learn 7 keys to managing your time to be the most productive person you can be.
  • That’s My Best and Final Offer – Basics of Negotiations: You are constantly negotiating in life whether it be with colleagues, customers, suppliers, bosses, family, or friends. While we don’t have control over whether we negotiate or not we do have control on whether we negotiate better or worse than others. Learn tools and tactics to increase your skills as an ethical negotiator.
  • Leadership Transitions –  But I’ve Never Done That Before?: The move can be scary.  Pick a transition (self to manager or managing my own discipline to many disciplines) and let’s navigate it!
  • Feedback as a Survival Skill: 5 Steps to Improve Giving Feedback: One of the toughest things to do is give constructive feedback. Organizations recognize that feedback is critical to their survival. We will explore how to help improve your employee’s performance and motivation.
  • The Basics of Strategic Planning: Look at methods to help your organization run more efficiently resulting in either increased profits or your donations doing greater good.
  • Developing an Integrated Roadmap to Achieve Your Strategic Vision: Creating buy-in and alignment for every level of your organization.

Project Management

  • Powering Thru the Complexities of PM: Creating streamlined processes for your projects which aren’t “make work” items (I am also available to teach workshops preparing students for certification exams)
  • Demystifying EVM: Breakdown this method into an easy and useful tool to track schedule, cost, and scope all in one fell swoop
  • Managing Risks Rather than Firefighting Crises: Creating and implementing a streamlined and robust risk management system
  • Agile Methods Aren’t Just for Software:  You want it faster, better cheaper? Maybe Agile is the way to go? Learn how to apply agile methods to your design and development process (including hardware) as you transition from waterfall methods