Promoting Business Best Practices

Join us and learn business best practices safely from home. WindyCityWebinars.org is a student led project from FX Initiative that promotes the highest caliber, most innovative continuing professional education (CPE) for lifelong learning. Our CPE webinars help professionals and organizations stay current on the latest regulations, developments, and trends in finance, accounting, and related business industries while earning CPE credits to maintain professional credentials.

Our teaching approach balances:

• Business school academic theory
• Practical strategies for implementation
• Examples to illustrate key concepts
• Audience polling questions
• Question and answer sessions

We invite you to attend a learning session as we fulfill our mission to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the pandemic and beyond. Our webinars cover a broad range of useful knowledge, skills, and abilities that enhance professional competence. Our objective is to ensure that knowledge is not only transferred and retained, but reinforced and practiced, enhancing each participant’s confidence in their ability to improve performance and profitability. Register here >

Serving Corporate Sponsors

FX Initiative is pleased to present our 2020 Sponsorship Guide for WindyCityWebinars.org, a student supported remote learning platform that makes it simple to promote your brand and showcase your expertise with continuing professional education (CPE) webinars. We are excited for you to participate and enjoy the recognition our sponsors receive as we facilitate collaborative projects to create engaging educational webinars between corporate sponsors and student leaders to realize synergies and foster community. 

Our dynamic Sponsorship Opportunities help to showcase your firm even better in 2020. Each sponsorship level has been tailored to offer significant value based on the frequency of webinars you would like to offer, with Platinum (monthly), Gold (quarterly), and Silver (individual) levels of Sponsor Commitment. The logo of each sponsor is promoted on the WindyCityWebinars.org website, email invitations, and promotional materials to ensure your organization’s brand is positioned prominently in front of clients and prospects.

By sponsoring WindyCityWebinars.org, you are helping fulfill our mission is to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Your contribution helps us provide students with unique opportunities to assist with webinar projects to gain work experience, explore career paths, develop and refine skills, network with professionals, and acquire knowledge and confidence as they transition into the workforce. To request your 2020 Sponsorship Guide, please email info@windycitywebinars.org.

WindyCityWebinars.org Walkthrough

Welcome to this walkthrough of WindyCityWebinars.org! FX Initiative is pleased to announce the launch our student supported remote learning platform that makes it simple to promote your brand and showcase your expertise with continuing professional education (CPE) webinars. To get the most out of the website, we invite you to explore three key sections:

Students (https://www.windycitywebinars.org/students.html)

Students are invited to join our team and build a better resume by working with a corporate sponsor on creating a webinar “portfolio project” for Windy City Webinars. Each webinar is enhanced by students using knowledge from their academic major, and our goal is to help students gain work experience, explore career paths, develop skills, network with professionals, and acquire knowledge and confidence as they transition into the workforce. If you are a student looking to upgrade your business skills and grow your network, click here to join our team >

Sponsors (https://www.windycitywebinars.org/sponsors.html)

Corporations and business leaders are invited to sponsor CPE credit eligible webinars on business topics that complement your firm’s products & services and support your training & marketing objectives. Our remote learning platform allows you to collaborate with our student team to offer CPE credit webinars that comply with NASBA licensing regulations to meet the ongoing professional development needs of your employees, clients, and prospects. If you are interested in branding, recognition, and visibility for your organization's services, click here to be a sponsor >

Sessions (https://www.windycitywebinars.org/sessions.html)

Professionals are invited to learn business best practices and earn CPE credits to maintain credentials by attending sponsored webinars. We cover several fields of study including accounting, finance, economics, and more. As a member of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) National Registry of CPE Sponsors, we issue CPE credits in all 50 states to allow our audience to safely and remotely attend learning sessions anywhere and anytime. If you are a business professional seeking to refine and sharpen your skills, click here to attend a session >

Windy City Webinars mission is to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We are a community of corporate sponsors and business students focused on educating peers and maximizing exposure to sell professional services. Students, sponsors, and professionals are invited to join us at WindyCityWebinars.org >

Student & Sponsor Synergies

In only 3 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the majority of in-person classrooms and conference rooms to online learning platforms and video based communications. While we are grateful for the technology innovations that have made this transition possible, we are mindful progress remains. In listening to our community, sentiment among students and professionals shows that engagement with classmates and colleagues feels distant. WindyCityWebinars.org is providing a solution.

We facilitate collaborative projects to create continuing professional education (CPE) webinars between corporate sponsors and student leaders to realize synergies and foster community. From real world and case study examples to academic theory, we work with sponsors to create CPE credit eligible webinars on business topics that complement products & services and support training & marketing objectives. Each webinar is enhanced by students using knowledge from their academic major.

During this period of isolation, it is clear that students and professionals alike are seeking creative ways to keep learning alive and communities thriving. WindyCityWebinars.org believes that investing in people is paramount to success. To that end, we warmly invite business leaders to invest in a CPE webinar project. As Napoleon Hill famously stated, “Within every adversity is the seed to an equal or greater benefit.” To learn about sponsor benefits, contact info@windycitywebinars.org.

Supporting Student Portfolio Projects

WindyCityWebinars.org, a remote learning project in development with FX Initiative and DePaul’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, is pleased to share our Student Application to complete a webinar portfolio project related to their academic major. Portfolio projects are designed to connect students with internship and employment opportunities by showcasing their learning abilities, skillsets, and work ethic to create educational programs presented to the Chicago business community.

Webinar portfolio projects are designed for ambitious students looking for a structured experience to help add something substantive and unique to their resumes and portfolios in summer 2020. With more and more internships cancelled, jobs on hold, and a summer in flux, this opportunity is meant to provide an approach for students to effectively use their summer and participate meaningfully in a community of professionals to gain experience and unlock potential opportunities in the future.

Students will be part of a robust and diverse community producing high quality continuing professional education (CPE) programs in business fields of study. WindyCityWebinars.org is focused on creating win-win-win outcomes that benefit our student contributors, corporate sponsors, and community of professionals as we fulfill our mission to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the COVID-19 pandemic.

All college students are welcome to apply. This interest form is designed to provide background information on student applicants to help identify and plan out each webinar project. Students should expect to spend 10-15 minutes answering the 10 questions. To get started, complete the application using the link below to be considered for this unique opportunity with WindyCityWebinars.org.

Student Application - Webinar Portfolio Project: https://forms.gle/NiQ1RAiTS3tKE6M69

Remote FX Risk Management Resources

Whether you work remotely or are highly mobile, FX Initiative provides a suite of foreign exchange (FX) risk management training and tools to help treasury professionals and sales teams achieve their objectives inside and outside of the office. If you need to research a foreign exchange educational topic related to your global business, or want to simulate a foreign exchange risk management strategy using our interactive examples, we offer a wide array of quality informational topics and tools that can help you manage FX risk.

FX Initiative is designed to make complex foreign currency matters simple and manageable, and is accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week to meet your global business needs whenever and wherever a FX opportunity arises so you can make the right decisions to meet your FX objectives. Get acquainted with our educational topics and interactive examples, then review and test your knowledge with quizzes and CPE exams. Throughout your learning experience, visit our terms glossary and FAQ for help along the way.

Benefit from our currency risk management educational videos, review quizzes, CPE Exams, CPE Credits, and Certificates of Completion:

1. Foreign Exchange (FX) Market Overview
2. FX Risk Exposures
3. FX Risk Management
4. FX Spot & Derivatives
5. Hedging FX Transactions
6. Hedging Foreign Subsidiaries

Apply theory to practice with our suite of interactive examples to help reinforce learning concepts and model risk management strategies:

• Currency Code Locator
• FX Risk Policy Drafter
• FX Derivative Speculator
• FX Transaction Simulator
• FX Subsidiary Consolidator

Our training is available 24/7 365 to help you with FX risk policies, FX accounting, FX hedge strategies, and everything FX risk management related. Controllers and consultants alike can enhance their FX policies and procedures and simulate common hedging strategies using our collection of tools to clarify complex issues in real time and mitigate currency risk when transacting across borders.

FX Initiative is focused on foreign exchange, and our mission is to help your international business succeed abroad by teaching corporate currency risk management best practices. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com.