Currents 2005
Keynote Speaker: Judy Glick-Smith
Embracing Change: Redefining Your Career and
the Profession
 We
are living in times where change is the only constant. To make
matters more intense, the rate of change is increasing
exponentially. We are all affected by change in ways that impact
us at the very core of our being. We have been outsourced,
laid-off, right-sized, and re-categorized. We have trouble
staying ahead of the curve in our profession and in our lives.
This presentation is about recognizing the changes happening in
the profession. It is about getting ahead of the curve, taking
control, and assuming responsibility for your own happiness,
your career, and your life. To quote management guru Dr. Peter
Drucker: “The only way to predict the future is to create it.”
Judy is the founder and President/CEO of The GlickSmith
Group, Inc. Judy received her BBA in Accounting with a minor in
Information Systems from Georgia State University in 1981. She
founded her first business in Atlanta, Georgia in 1983, after
she identified the need for documentation in most of the
organizations where she worked as a programmer. She founded
Integrated Documentation, Inc. in 1987 when she relocated to
Dallas, Texas. IDI focused on documenting high technology
systems. She founded GSGI in September 2003 in response to
changing markets and changing client requirements.
Judy Glick-Smith is the founder and President/CEO of The
GlickSmith Group, Inc. (GSGI), a consulting firm that assists
organizations in making their enterprise architecture explicit
and transforming legacy infrastructures. Judy is a Past
President of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). She
is also a Past President of the Lone Star Chapter of STC and the
Dallas Chapter of the Association for Systems Management. Judy
is a member of the STC Atlanta Chapter.
Judy has a BBA from Georgia State University and was an
instructor in the Technical Writing Certificate Program at
Richland Community College in Dallas from 1991 through 2004. She
has published articles on documentation for high technology
systems in Enterprise Systems Journal. She has also published in
both of STC’s publications, Intercom and Technical
Communication, the Center for Information-Development
Management’s newsletter, Best Practices, and The Rockley Group’s
The Rockley Report. She has regularly presented at numerous
professional organizations and conferences since 1988. |
