2025 Bigwood Lecture
Featured Speaker
Jodee Bock
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 21
Legacy Hall, M State Fergus Falls campus
The Time is Now to Get R.E.A.L.
Radical | Energized | Authentic | Learning-focused
Our workplaces, communities, schools, governments – everywhere we as humans interact, seem to be in turmoil because we don’t know how to communicate with each other.
Because we don’t know how to communicate with ourselves. It doesn’t have to be that way.
When each of us decides to get R.E.A.L. with ourselves, we invite others to do the same. When we collaborate and support each other in becoming and being the best each of us can be, amazing things happen in communities, families, organizations and the world.
Who is Jodee Bock?
Jodee Bock is a dynamic business communicator who encourages people to have conversations and dialogues that matter, with PEOPLE who matter (and that’s everyone). By encouraging them to think beyond their reasons, she leaves audiences with new insights, along with ideas for turning their knowledge into action.
Jodee has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of corporate communication, media relations, executive coaching, and training & development. She holds certifications in Life Purpose and Career Coaching, Extreme Leadership®, PSYCH-K Facilitation, Job Relations Training (JRT), and Life Success Consulting®.
The author of several books, podcast interviews, speeches, and blog posts, Jodee is a thought leader who has been called a boat rocker and a people enhancer, thanks to her unique ability to add a new perspective to common ways of thinking.
About the Bigwood Lecture Series
Funded in part through an endowment by Otter Tail Power Company in 1991, the Lecture honors the late Bob Bigwood, who served as Otter Tail Power president and chairman of the board. Bigwood’s leadership in civic affairs at Otter Tail Power and at M State Fergus Falls campus as a founder of both the College and Fergus Area College Foundation sets the standard for the Lecture’s continuing recognition of engaged leaders and citizen participation.