ATD Dallas December Chapter Meeting
Hosted by North Texas Food Bank
Success Foundations
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 / 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Speaker: Lorea Seidel, M.Ed., SPHR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Success Foundations is a simple yet powerful process that helps employees adjust to new roles and align quickly with what drives success in their teams and culture. In this interactive session, you’ll explore how to facilitate meaningful, strengths-based conversations that uncover success factors, potential derailers, and cultural goals and issues. You’ll leave with practical techniques to draw out insight, ask powerful questions, and guide employees toward clarity and confidence in their new role.
By the end of this 1-hour session, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the purpose and flow of a Success Foundations Conversation and how it supports employee adjustment and engagement.
2. Apply key facilitation skills—such as inquiry, reflection, and summarizing meaning—to help participants surface success factors and cultural expectations.
3. Use the “Habits” and “Values” tools to generate meaningful dialogue around what enables or hinders success.
4. Identify strategies to tailor Success Foundations Conversations for different career stages or transitions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lorea Seidel currently serves as the Chief People Officer for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. Lorea has 25 years of experience working across all areas of Human Resources. In addition to her work with the Perot Museum, she has held leadership roles in both corporate and non-profit entities including Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she served as a director in SMU’s Department of Human Resources. She has facilitated workshops for numerous consulting clients as well as for SMU’s Executive Education Program. Lorea currently teaches a course on Executive Leadership in the online MBA program for SMU’s Cox School of Business.
Lorea holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, a master's degree in Community Counseling and has completed additional graduate work focusing on psychology at work and executive coaching. Lorea is certified as a Senior Human Resources Professional (SPHR) and was trained by Dr. Brené Brown to become a certified Dare to Lead™ facilitator.
She leads with inspired optimism and is fond of reminding her clients:
“If you’ll stop obsessing over what’s problematic, you can discover what’s possible.”
This meeting is a continued partnership with North Texas Food Bank. Please use the QR Code below to join in our efforts to support the local community.
AGENDA
5:30 pm – Registration Open, Networking Time, & Refreshments
6:00 pm – Welcome & Announcements
6:15 pm – Program Begins
7:15 pm – Wrap-up / Q&A
7:30 pm – Meeting Concludes
LOCATION
North Texas Food Bank
3677 Mapleshade Ln
Plano, TX 75075
Map link!
REGISTRATION COST
- Member registration: Free!
- Non-Member Guest registration: $10
PARKING / ENTRY INFORMATION
Visitor parking is available in the east surface parking lot outside Towers Two and Three.
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