Student Leader Spotlight: Ginaelisa Cortez, University of Texas at El Paso ’14
School and Year: UTEP ’14 Major: Psychology Leadership position: Student Assistant in the Office of Student Life, American Cancer Society Relay For Life Chairperson How do you define leadership? This is such a hard question to answer! Of course, I can easily rattle off that leadership is about team work, and creativity, etc. but in my mind, leadership […]
Counterintuitive Dance Floor Theory™ Tip?
Hi Swift Kickers! You might read this DFT tip and think: “But I am a FIVE! I am in the middle of the dance floor, a real student leader, starting my own parade! Someone’s gotta!” Sabina here, Community Manager at Swift Kick, and I have to admit, I thought something similar at first. Here’s how […]
Company Retreat, Accidentally in Chinatown on Chinese New Year
Hey Swift Kickers! Sabina here. Last Friday the crew of myself, Tom, and the shiny new interns Megan and Dustin all met each other in person and got to getting well acquainted, with a whole slew of company shenanigans. We started the day in the conference room, doing fun ice breaker type exercises. Tom had […]
The Times They Are A-Changin’: Meet The New SK Interns
The Gang of Rebels here at Swift Kick just got two new members: Dustin Ramsdell and Megan Wood. You know how we are normally excited just in general? Well, now we are SUPER DUPER excited. Meet Dustin: Coming from New Jersey, a Student Affairs Grad student at Rutgers University, he will be in office with […]
Free High Fives, Just In Case Hugs Scare You
As you probably know, Swift Kick enjoys the #FreeHugs movement. A lot. Sometimes, though, we run across people who do not enjoy the whole hugging thing, and we get it. Not everyone is a hugger. Anyone who participated in #FreeHugs Day knows that. So when we came across this Improv Everywhere video, we knew we […]
How Swift Kick Defined the Path of my Life
My junior year of college at Fordham University, Swift Kick came to train us orientation leaders. Tom Krieglstein did his Dance Floor Theory and let me tell you, I never forgot it. My friend Kelly and I would always chant “From meh, to hmmmmmm.” I even participated in a #FreeHugs campaign four times after doing […]
4 Simple Ways This Groovin’ Blender Event At Baldwin Wallace Is Perfect
First, check out this video. Basically, students at Baldwin Wallace got two pieces of fence and a boombox and stood at various places around campus, giving passersby a chance to go between the fences and dance for a couple seconds. They then got a flyer that gave them a discount code for registration for the […]
Student Leader Spotlight: Carlos Escamilla, Front Range Community College ’13
School and Year: FRCC ’13 Major: Art History & Magazine Journalism Leadership position: VP of Public Relations for Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, Press Secretary of Art Club, staff writer for Front Page newspaper, co-founder of GSA How do you define leadership? My definition of a leader is someone who inspires innovation, motivates others, asks questions, and […]
3 Ways You Can “Feed Your Butterflies” in 2014
Swift Kick lives by certain company values that help us do amazing things every week. My personal favorite value is “Feed your butterflies**.” Basically, it means take that nervous feeling about doing something and turn it into motivation to just go for it. No, I am not talking about necessarily jumping out of a plane this […]
We Are Going to Miss Her: Intern Reflection by Kelsie Hardison
All of us here at Swift Kick feel absolutely blessed to have been able to work with Kelsie while she interned here. She is a go-getter and always eager to help out an overwhelmed team member. Smart, kind, and funny, we all found friendship with her as well as gaining a colleague for a few […]