Intention gets your Attention
In a world that often feels like it’s perpetually on fire—where chaos, stress, and constant demands cloud our clarity—this session offers a refreshing and practical approach to reclaiming focus and intention. Presenters Lynn Almoro and Breanne Casteel share personal stories and professional insights on navigating overwhelming situations, recognizing mental clutter, and transforming reactive habits into intentional action. Through relatable experiences as working professionals and caregivers, they illuminate how awareness and energy management can become powerful tools for personal and professional resilience.
Participants will explore how to assess what truly matters, discard distractions, and align their actions with meaningful priorities. The session emphasizes that productivity is not about being busy, it’s about being intentional. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to ride the waves of high energy, honor the need for rest, and stay grounded in their purpose, even when everything around them feels uncertain.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize and respond to signs of overwhelm by developing awareness of stress levels, sensory overload, and personal energy cycles.
- Apply intention-driven productivity techniques to prioritize tasks, reduce mental clutter, and focus on what truly matters.
- Leverage energy rhythms—high tide, low tide, and in-between—to optimize performance and maintain sustainable well-being.
Moderator:
Gladys Lam, Principal & Co-Founder, Business Rule Solutions
Gladys S.W. Lam is a world-renowned authority on applied business rule techniques. She is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company world-wide for business rules and decision analysis. BRS provides methodology, publications, consulting services, and training. Ms. Lam is Co-Creator of Proteus®, the BRS methodology. She is Co-Founder of BRCommunity.com, a vertical community for professionals and home of Business Rules Journal. She co-authored Building Business Solutions, an IIBA® sponsored handbook on business analysis with business rules
Ms. Lam is widely known for her lively, pragmatic style. She speaks internationally at conferences and other professional events. She co-presents public seminars through AttainingEdge. She is also Executive Director of Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference, which includes the Business Rules Forum and the Business Analysis Forum.
Ms. Lam is most recognized for her ability to identify the source of business issues, and for her effectiveness in developing pragmatic approaches to resolve them. She has gained a world-class reputation for fostering positive professional relationships with principals and support staff in projects.
Discussion Leader:
Lynn Almoro, Chief Architect and Founder, Lotus Beacon Consulting
Lynn is senior leader with 22 years progressive technology experience and significant achievements in high complexity digital transformation and modernization initiatives, involving cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations. An executive with a unique blend of business knowledge and technology acumen to create a vision and implement innovative solutions with long shelf life. Broad and deep experience in software engineering, solution architecture, data governance, business architecture, digital platforms, customer experience optimization, big data solutions, machine learning and next generation analytics platforms.Highly respected leader with a bias for speedy and informed decision making, role model for collaboration and communication, inspires through action, and prioritizes developing and coaching to build a large pipeline of successful leaders.
Discussion Leader:
Breanne Casteel, Sr Enterprise Architect, Principal Financial Group
Breanne Casteel is a catalyst for change enablement, through collaboration and connections, to drive empathetic business solutions. She is a passionate advocate with 20+ years’ experience, bringing awareness to business architecture and business analysis skills and mindset to numerous roles in the organization, with an emphasis on communication, transparency, and collaboration across silos. She has also presented at conferences, in webinars and podcasts and strongly believes in mentorship. In addition to her Computer Science degree from Montana State University, she also has certifications from IIBA for ECBA, CPOA and AAC as well as CBA® from the Business Architecture Guild.