5:30 PM – Networking 
Connect with fellow HR professionals in a relaxed, virtual area while waiting for the meeting to start. 

6:00 PM – Chapter Meeting
Our chapter meeting begins with welcomes, chapter updates, sponsor recognition, legal updates, and other important association announcements. 

6:30 PM – Featured Presentation
Our speaker presentation begins and will conclude at 7:30 PM.

Lisa Jones is a speaker, author, and creator of the Thrive Through P.L.A.Y.® framework, working with organizations to transform communication, leadership, and collaboration through the science of play. With a background in healthcare and corporate learning and development, Lisa turns complex ideas into engaging experiences that people understand, remember, and apply.

A three-time TEDx speaker, Lisa is known for her interactive programs that blend humor, hands-on learning, and practical strategies audiences can immediately use. In her signature program, Crayons Over Credentials: Why the Best Communicators Think Like 5-Year-Olds, she challenges professionals to trade complexity for clarity by rediscovering the communication skills they naturally had before they learned to overcomplicate them.

Crayons Over Credentials: Why the Best Communicators Think Like 5-Year-Olds

Where the science of play meets the art of communication.

What if becoming a better communicator wasn't about adding more information, but removing it? What if the secret wasn't another PowerPoint slide, but a box of crayons?

As adults, we often mistake complexity for credibility. We use more words, more slides, and more explanations, believing they create more understanding. The best communicators do the opposite. They simplify, engage, and make ideas stick.

In this highly interactive keynote, speaker and communication Play Strategist Lisa Jones introduces her Thrive Through P.L.A.Y.® framework to show participants how play-based communication transforms the way they connect, collaborate, and communicate. Through guided activities using crayons and an interactive participant playbook, attendees experience how curiosity, visual learning, and hands-on experiences cut through complexity, create clarity, and turn ideas into action.

No artistic ability is required. Just a willingness to think like a 5-year-old.

Because people don't remember what they hear. They remember what they experience.