WiM Arizona | Finding Your Voice and Using It: The Art of Confident Feedback

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Finding Your Voice and Using It: The Art of Confident Feedback

Date:
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Time:
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. AZ Time

Location:
Marsh McLennan Agency
8605 E Raintree Drive 
Scottsdale, AZ 85260 

Cost to Attend:
WiM Members = $20
Nonmembers = $30

People want feedback—and they need it to grow. Yet in high-stakes environments like manufacturing, the fear of saying the wrong thing can hold people back. You may wonder: “What if I discourage a top operator?” or “What if they take it the wrong way and morale drops?” Avoiding the conversation might feel safer, but it’s not the solution.

Leaders have a responsibility to engage with their teams in a way that is courageous, compassionate, and constructive. With over 30 years of experience as an HR professional and executive coach, Joan Hibdon frequently hears the same concern: “My voice or opinion doesn’t matter.” Or, “I need to give someone feedback, but I don’t know what to say—what do I do?” In this session, Joan will share practical answers to those and other questions—offering proven strategies for delivering meaningful feedback that strengthens relationships and improves results.

Attendees will walk away with:
• A renewed sense of confidence and voice
• A clearer understanding of why feedback matters—especially in manufacturing
• Common barriers that prevent effective feedback
• Tools to deliver the right feedback, to the right person, at the right time
• Real-life stories, research insights, and techniques to voice and use your voice, develop relationships, and build a culture where feedback fuels performance
Put feedback back where it belongs—at the center of a thriving, resilient workplace.

Our Speaker
Joan Hibdon

Joan is the principal owner of jdhinsights, LLC. She provides coaching, consulting, and learning services focused on cultivating leadership excellence and creating extraordinary employee experiences resulting in high performance organizations. Aligning business strategies with human performance is the essence of what Joan's career has been devoted for nearly three decades. Cultivating cultures where people thrive is her passion.
Joan's approach to coaching is tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals she works with. In doing so, she creates awareness, purpose, and action resulting in success for the client. Joan's insights heighten executive effectiveness, emotional intelligence, improvement in team dynamics, the ability to navigate through complex situations, accountability, and goal attainment. In her practice, Joan leverages a variety of assessments to co-design a comprehensive development plan with clients focused on reaching and sustaining their goals.

Joan is certified through the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), is certified with The Leadership Circle. The integrative Enneagram (iEQ9). Emotional Intelligence (EQi 2.0), Prosci ADKAR Organizational Change Methodology, DiSC Myers Briggs MBTI Personality Type Assessment. Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Assessment, and Lominger Leadership Architect.

We can't wait to see you there!