Stress is nothing new for communications professionals juggling multiple deadlines, fielding media inquiries and crafting messaging during a crisis. Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in stress for working Americans due to unsustainable workloads, changing demands and a decrease in the ability to control these factors. Now, we’ve added a global pandemic, working from home, online and hybrid schooling and a general blur between work-life. So how can we cope? Join PRSA Buffalo Niagara for a virtual Health & Wellness session A Primer for Understanding and Managing Chronic Stress. Dominic Cottone, senior managing director of the Leadership Consulting practice for Ferguson Partners and an expert in executive wellness will address:
• Individual awareness and acknowledgement of situational and environmental stressors;
• The link between our fears and induced stress;
• The four key aspects to our health that determines high performance, healthy functioning and increased levels of happiness;
• Repositioning our mindset to view stress in alternative ways;
• Creating a vision for stress management through application, support and goal setting.
A question & answer session will follow the presentation.
Dominic Cottone has more than 20 years of experience in leadership development, currently serving as Senior Managing Director for Ferguson Partners. There, he has been responsible for co-founding and leading the Leadership Consulting function for Ferguson Partner’s Real Estate (all sectors), Hospitality/Gaming, and Healthcare clients. He currently leads the CEO Advisory Practice and focuses much of his time helping his clients with their needs in talent assessment, executive coaching, team effectiveness, succession planning, organizational culture and diversity & inclusion initiatives.
Dominic holds a Master of Science in Organizational Communication, Learning & Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Legal Studies from Ithaca College. In 2009 he was honored as Ithaca College’s Most Outstanding Young Alumni. He serves on Ithaca College’s Park School Board of Advocates, the Illinois substance abuse educational non-profit Prevention First and on the Marketing & Development committee for Gay & Lesbian Youth Services of WNY.
