Event Summary

WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series

(Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs)

WALA’s Creative Entrepreneurs Series is a series for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own business.

Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity, to understanding copyrights and trademarks, to contract and negotiation skills, and finally to taxes and understanding the grants process.

The series comprises of six sessions to be held on *consecutive Tuesdays, starting Tuesday, September 17, 2024 and continuing through Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from1am – 1pm.

• Session #5: Tuesday, October 15, 2024 ~ Negotiation Strategies
(Select this date to attend this session)

Presentation and Q & A with:
Lynn Sylvester

Covered in this session:

"In business and in our personal lives, we are constantly needing to negotiate and collaborate with other people – people whose interests differ from our own.

Success in our lives therefore can hinge on how well we engage in these necessary interactions with others. This program offers attendees tips and tools for being a successful negotiator and collaborator."

Learn:

• the fundamentals of interest-based negotiations and avoiding the zero-sum game,

• the power of language in negotiations,

• what mediation is...and is not,

• when to consider facilitated negotiations,

• how to facilitate meetings and avoid breakdown and deadlock, and

• how to plan, prepare for, and participate in negotiations.

Lynn Sylvester has been a mediator in the Washington, D.C., field office of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service since 1989. Prior to joining the mediation service, she was a senior labor counsel with the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce. Ms. Sylvester has also represented unions, having served as the deputy director of Council 26 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal, Employees (AFSCME) and as assistant counsel with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). She briefly served as a staff attorney in the Office of the Solicitor, US Department of Labor.

Ms. Sylvester came to the mediation service with a background in labor and employment law. Ms. Sylvester is a graduate of Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and the University of Wisconsin Law School. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.

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The 2024 Fall WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series is FREE for *WALA members.

*$20 per workshop for non-members.

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WALA programs and activities are sponsored in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Event Details

• Date

  October 15, 2024

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• Time

  11:00am - 1:00pm

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• Venue

  Online