CARS Summer Learning Series 2021
"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end." ~Bruce Lee
Sessions
Archived Sessions
July 12
July 13
Tell me you know about Digital Retailing without telling me you know about Digital Retailing. I’ll go first.
Darren Haygood
Jessica Ruth
Jessica Ruth
Title: Product Owner – Automatic
Fun Fact:
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Jessica Ruth
Webinar
Tell me you know about Digital Retailing without telling me you know about Digital Retailing. I’ll go first.
Description: If you’d rather do calculus than talk to your dealer about Online Shopper and AUTOMATIC then we have a seat for you here. It turns out that talking to dealers about Digital Retail is actually pretty easy. In this working session you will learn how to talk the talk so that YOU are empowered, comfortable and knowledgeable about all things Digital Retail.
11:00 AM
Productivityist
Mike Vardy
Mike Vardy
Webinar
Productivityist
Description: Mike gives actionable advice on how to maximize your productivity throughout the day. He gives great tips for combatting fatigue, handling a todo list, and what apps are the best
July 15
12:00 PM
Agile: Back to Basics
Crystal Newmon
Crystal Newmon
Title: Agile Coach
Fun Fact: I was the opening singer for a country music festival in South Florida.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Crystal Newmon
Webinar
Agile: Back to Basics
Description: An in depth overview of Agile, what it really means, how it can be used by ALL types of business teams, and the overall benefits it provides to a company that shares these mindsets and values.
2:00 PM
Zoom for Zoomies
Brandon Nivens
Brandon Nivens
Webinar
Zoom for Zoomies
Description: Learn some tips and tricks that may be new to even you, the seasoned Zoomer!
July 19
July 20
Bringing Your Purpose to Work
Ethan Martin
Ethan Martin
Title: Training Manager
Fun Fact: Ethan has been to 18 of the 20 biggest American Cities
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Ethan Martin
Workshop
Bringing Your Purpose to Work
Description: Bringing your purpose to work requires first understanding what your purpose outside of work is. In this session you will learn tools and techniques to elevate your sense of purpose in a way that you can bring to your life today. Clarity on your Purpose, Core Values, and Focus Areas will transform the way you show up at work and in the areas of life that matter most to you! Bring it all to life through Simple Actions, Done Daily so you can bring your best self and live in your deepest meaning.
12:00 PM
Stress Less, Do More
Kevin Hekmat
Kevin Hekmat
Webinar
Stress Less, Do More
Description: In this session, you’ll learn how stress and anxiety can impact your focus, energy levels, problem-solving, and communication – and easy techniques on how to transform that into productivity, clarity, and resilience.
4:00 PM
9 Exciting Features of the new OneCARS Salesforce
Chris Halvachs
Chris Halvachs
Title: Salesforce Administrator – Business Intelligence
Fun Fact: I won a car from someone on YouTube.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @chrishalvachs
Darren Coombes
Darren Coombes
Title: Principal Software Engineer
Fun Fact: I once flew from England to Bermuda….for the day!
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack: dcoombes
Workshop
9 Exciting Features of the new OneCARS Salesforce
July 21
12:00 PM
Agile: Back to Basics
Crystal Newmon
Crystal Newmon
Title: Agile Coach
Fun Fact: I was the opening singer for a country music festival in South Florida.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Crystal Newmon
Webinar
Agile: Back to Basics
Description: An in depth overview of Agile, what it really means, how it can be used by ALL types of business teams, and the overall benefits it provides to a company that shares these mindsets and values.
July 22
Why Reviews Matter
Lana Waters
Lana Waters
Title: Business Development Manager
Fun Fact: I enjoy spending time with my teenage daughters cooking and baking
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack: lwaters
Mike Lauf
Mike Lauf
Title: Principal Product Manager
Fun Fact: I started a side business during COVID making custom cutting boards and other wood things.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: Michael Lauf
Webinar
Why Reviews Matter
Description: Reviews are everywhere these days, influencing decisions of all shapes and sizes. In automotive, reviews matter more than ever in establishing trust with not just a dealership brand, but the people online shoppers work with. Join us to learn more about the influence that reviews have in not only driving better decisions for shoppers but how they drive a competitive advantage for CARS Inc.
12:00 PM
Why Scrum? FOR Developers!
Bob Clifford
Bob Clifford
Webinar
Why Scrum? FOR Developers!
Description: An examination of the relationship between developers and Scrum methodologies and the benefits therein
3:00 PM
9 Exciting Features of the new OneCARS Salesforce
Chris Halvachs
Chris Halvachs
Title: Salesforce Administrator – Business Intelligence
Fun Fact: I won a car from someone on YouTube.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @chrishalvachs
Darren Coombes
Darren Coombes
Title: Principal Software Engineer
Fun Fact: I once flew from England to Bermuda….for the day!
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack: dcoombes
Workshop
9 Exciting Features of the new OneCARS Salesforce
July 26
July 27
Google’s Page Experience Update: What It Is & Why It Matters For Dealers
Brett Lee
Brett Lee
Title: Manager, SEO
Fun Fact: Brett once enjoyed an 8.5 hour bus ride across Chicago during Snowmageddon 2011.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack: Brett Lee
Mary-Grace Wilson
Mary-Grace Wilson
Title: SEO Director
Fun Fact: In younger days, Mary-Grace once found herself at the the bad end of a pepper spray can.
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @mgwilson
Webinar
Google’s Page Experience Update: What It Is & Why It Matters For Dealers
You’ve heard about core web vitals, but that’s just a part of the update rolling out. Learn about all elements of the page experience update, how you can communicate effectively about it, and what DI & Cars are doing to future proof our clients.
3:00 PM
Confluence Best Practices
Donovan Roberson
Donovan Roberson
Erin Hipple
Erin Hipple
Title: Director, Internal Communications
Fun Fact:
Email:[email protected]
Slack:@Erin Hipple
Scott Holleman
Scott Holleman
Title: Systems Administrator III
Fun Fact:
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Scott Holleman (He/Him/His)
Webinar
Confluence Best Practices
July 29
Time Management
Steve Gaede
Steve Gaede
Title: Corporate Trainer
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack Handle: @Steve Gaede
Shanissa Bell
Shanissa Bell
Title: Organizational Development Manager
Fun Fact: I was born in an ambulance on Halloween and I grew up with a black cat named Boo.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @Shanissa Bell
Webinar
Time Management
12:00 PM
Agile Myth Busters
Natalia Samoylova
Workshop
Agile Myth Busters
Description: Detailed review of the most common misconceptions about Agile and a refresh on what Agile really is.
3:00 PM
What To Do With An Idea
Jonah Cole
Jonah Cole
Title: Product Owner
Fun Fact: I crashed a wedding reception dressed as Pikachu. I did NOT know anyone at this wedding.
email: [email protected]
slack: @Jonah Cole
Webinar
What To Do With An Idea
Description: Join me as we take a picture book approach to Idea curation and the journey a thought can take from creeping into your mind to being part of your world. What do a picture book, product management, and a healthy mindset have in common? Come find out.
August 03
Google Data Studio
Orlando Gallegos
Orlando Gallegos
Title: Technical Analyst
Fun Fact: I like to build furniture.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack Handle: @opuɐlɹO
Justine (Jiachin) Xiong
Justine (Jiachin) Xiong
Title: Associate Digital Analyst
Fun Fact: I’m really good at eating spicy food, I sometimes eat dried peppers as snacks.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @Justine Xiong
Webinar
Google Data Studio
Description: This introductory session will cover the Google Data Studio platform. We will give a basic tutorial as to what it is, how it works, and show how we can reflect Google Analytics data in order to create custom dashboards.
August 05
Level Up Your Communication Skills
Erin Hipple
Erin Hipple
Title: Director, Internal Communications
Fun Fact:
Email:[email protected]
Slack:@Erin Hipple
Ethan Martin
Ethan Martin
Title: Training Manager
Fun Fact: Ethan has been to 18 of the 20 biggest American Cities
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @Ethan Martin
Webinar
Level Up Your Communication Skills
12:00 PM
Jira Management Tips and Tricks
Megan Landahl
Megan Landahl
Title: Scrum Master – DI
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle:@Megan Landahl
Webinar
Jira Management Tips and Tricks
Description – An in-depth dive into how to optimize your team’s workflows using Jira automations, filters, and boards.
August 10
Impact of Collaboration on Retention
Francisco Carrillo
Francisco Carrillo
Title: Revenue Strategy and Operations Manager
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @Francisco Carrillo (he/him)
Mike Greco
Mike Greco
Title: Sr. Regional Account Supervisor – Pod A
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @MikeG
Webinar
Impact of Collaboration on Retention
Description: No one collaborates quite like the CARS Team! High levels of collaboration have grown to be the standard here at DI & Cars.com. It’s a huge element of our company culture and has proven to have a positive impact on many of our health metrics including customer experience and ultimately client retention. And whether you know it or not, each and everyone of you are contributors! Tune in to hear us dig a bit deeper into why this is so important, some of the things we’re doing today and a sneak peak into what future collaboration between the DI/Cars.com team looks like!
12:00 PM
Industry Trends
Jason Stum
Jason Stum
Title: Director of Strategy
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack Handle: @jstum
Webinar
Industry Trends
Description: Coming Soon!
2:00 PM
Productivityist 2.0
Mike Vardy
Mike Vardy
Webinar
Productivityist 2.0
Description: Mike is back! He is giving more actionable advice on how to maximize your productivity throughout the day. You don’t have to listen to the first session, but it will help!
August 12
Diversity and Inclusion
Kara Genereaux
Kara Genereaux
Title: Organizational Development & Diversity and Inclusion Specialist
Fun Fact: I like to listen to Dungeons and Dragons podcasts, but I’ve never actually played DnD.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @Kara Genereaux (she/her)
Shanissa Bell
Shanissa Bell
Title: Organizational Development Manager
Fun Fact: I was born in an ambulance on Halloween and I grew up with a black cat named Boo.
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack handle: @Shanissa Bell
Workshop
Diversity and Inclusion
Description: Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) have been popular topics over the last few years, and while you may have already attended an Unconscious Bias session, this session takes a step back to cover the basics of Diversity and Inclusion. Learn what impact D&I has in the workplace, challenges you may face, and how you can become an advocate.
2:00 PM
SLACK 2.0
Alyse DeBonnett
Alyse DeBonnett
Webinar
SLACK 2.0
Description: We know the basics (don’t worry, there will be a quick refresher in case you don’t), so lets learn about some of the more advanced features, how we can utilize more apps, and how we can use slack overall to boost productivity and maybe even have a little fun.
3:00 PM
Industry Trends
Jason Stum
Jason Stum
Title: Director of Strategy
Fun Fact:
Email Address: [email protected]
Slack Handle: @jstum
Webinar
Industry Trends
Description: Coming Soon!
August 17
FUEL Search & Display + DI Digital Advertising
Cara Garvey
Cara Garvey
Title: Digital Advertising Director
Fun Fact: My college senior thesis was published and still gets mentions in other academic articles!
Email: [email protected]
Slack: @caragarvey
Keirstin Carson
Keirstin Carson
Title: Product Owner, FUEL
Fun Fact: I got called in to sing a duet of a song I didn’t know at a friend’s wedding 3 hours before the ceremony.
Email:[email protected]
Slack Handle: @Keirstin Carson
Webinar
FUEL Search & Display + DI Digital Advertising
Description: Coming Soon!
3:00 PM
How to Deal with the Elephant in the Room
Patrick Leddin
Patrick Leddin
PATRICK LEDDIN, PHD
Professor, Vanderbilt University,
Author, The Five-Week Leadership Challenge
Host, Leadership Lab Podcast
Webinar
How to Deal with the Elephant in the Room
Learn about the importance of discipline and a proven process in your efforts to become the leader you were meant to be.
August 19
The Future of Cars.com Post Beta
Greg Heidorn
Webinar
The Future of Cars.com Post Beta
Description: Coming Soon
Vehicle Acquisition Roadmap
Mark Hodes
Webinar
Vehicle Acquisition Roadmap
Description: Coming Soon
August 20
12:00 PM
Courageous and Healthy Living
Rich Roll
Rich Roll
A graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School, Rich is a 50-year old, accomplished vegan ultra-endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate, popular public speaker, husband, father of 4 and inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living.
In 2012, Rich became a #1 bestselling author with the publication of his inspirational memoir Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.
Taking up where the book leaves off, in 2013 Rich launched the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, which persistently sits atop the iTunes top-10 lists. In 2014, Rich & his wife Julie Piatt published the bestselling cookbook and lifestyle primer, The Plantpower Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes And Guidance For The Whole Family.
In May 2010, Rich and his ultra-colleague Jason Lester accomplished an unprecedented feat of staggering endurance many said was not possible. Something they call the EPIC5 CHALLENGE– an odyssey that entailed completing 5 ironman-distance triathlons on 5 islands of Hawaii in under a week. Commencing on Kauai, they travelled to Oahu, Molokai and Maui before finishing on the Big Island, following the course of the Ironman World Championships on the Kona coast.
In addition, Rich has been a top finisher at the 2008 and 2009 Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii. Considered by many to be one of world’s most daunting and grueling endurance races on the planet, Ultraman is a 3-day / 320 mile double-ironman distance triathlon that circumnavigates the entire Big Island. Limited to only 35 carefully selected invitation-only participants from all over the world, Day 1 involves a 6.2 mile ocean swim immediately followed by a 90 mile cross-country cycling race. Day 2 is a 170 mile cycling race. And the event culminates on Day 3 with a 52 mile double marathon run on the searing hot lava fields of the Kona coast.
But what makes Rich truly remarkable is that less than two years prior to his first Ultraman, he didn’t even own a bike, let alone race one.
Webinar
Courageous and Healthy Living
“Getting out of the 'present' and day-to-day. A look back to where we've come from, with a renewed focus on new opportunities in front of us. To not be burdened by the context of today, but free to dream of what tomorrow may bring.”
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