Learn About The Pet Professional Guild It’s Programs, Products and Member Support

Come and learn about the Pet Professional Guild.  This event is open to members and those thinking about joining PPG

In this webinar, we will cover the following topics. There will be ample time for questions and answers during the session and at the end. The webinar is being held on Zoom.

Orientation Key Topics

1. Welcome to PPG!
2. Advocacy Work
3. Meet your Inclusivity Committee.
4. What are our Guiding Principles?
5. Your Code of Conduct.
6. Fly your flag: your membership certificate.
7. Fly your flag: your member badge.
8. A brief review of your membership benefits.
9. How to set up your directory listing.
10. How to set up your member profile.
11. Navigating the member area of the website.
12. Introduction to the PPG divisions.
13. The ins and outs of PPG webinars & events.
14. PPG program overviews:
    • Project tRade
    • Behavior Teams
    • The Shock-Free Coalition
    • The PPG Scholarship Program
    • Pet Dog Ambassador
    • Doggone Safe
    • Pet Training Science Alliance
    • Divisional Meetups
    • Positive Bookworm and Scholarly Circle
    • Feline Lounge
    • The Pet Professional Accreditation Board
15. PPG’s publications:
    • BARKS Magazine
    • Pets & Their People
16. Meet your membership support team.
17. FAQs.

This video will reveal all of PPG’s great benefits and help you navigate around the site. Please join us to say hello, get acquainted with your membership benefits, meet your peers, or just enjoy a Chat and chuckle!

Your Presenter – Niki Tudge MBA PCBC-A CABC CDBC. Six Sigma Certified Black Belt

Niki Tudge MBA PCBC-A CABC CDBC is the founder and president of  the Pet Professional Guild, DogNostics Education and The DogSmith. She has substantial leadership experience in business management and administration, particularly in the nonprofit sector, which encompasses her role as the president of Doggone Safe, a nonprofit educational organization. She has published numerous articles, which have been featured in publications such as the New York Times. She has also authored five books; her most recent project, Pet Training and Behavior Consulting: A Model for Raising the bar to Protect Professionals, Pets and Their People, which she co-authored, was published in 2019.

Before following her passion into small business and nonprofit management, she enjoyed a distinguished career in the hospitality industry, holding executive positions all over the world. Her real passion in her corporate role was the identification and development of female talent in the workplace. She enjoyed managing and coaching her team through both their personal and professional development and loved watching the process of female empowerment and growth at a high level of management.

Along with her business degrees from Oxford Brookes University in the U.K., her professional credentials include ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer and she is Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, specializing in data analysis and process improvement. She is also an International Training Board (HCITB) certified people trainer at levels TS1, TS2 & TS3 and a certified facilitator and project manager. In addition, she was recognized for her outstanding contribution to the business community and honored with a Fortune 500 Company Leadership Award for her accomplishments.

Please support this presenter’s business. They are donating this webinar to the Pet Training Science Alliance.