IN-PERSON | The Lab | Session One: Calibrate
The Lab: Bring a Challenge. Leave with Possibilities.
Life rarely hands us a clear next step. Whether you’re navigating a career move, growing a business, rethinking a relationship, or simply sensing that something needs to change, the hardest part isn’t always making a decision. It’s making sure that what you’re creating actually feels like you.
The Lab is an interactive three-part series that invites you to bring one real challenge and explore it differently. Using the Calibrate → Experiment → Optimize framework, you’ll learn to separate your signal from the noise, test new possibilities without needing to know the outcome, and use what you discover to shape what comes next. Blending reflection, interactive exercises, live science experiments, and original live music, The Lab combines scientific thinking with creative discovery to help you explore what’s possible.
Each session stands on its own, while the full series allows you to take one challenge through the complete process.
Session One: CALIBRATE: Read the Signal. Cut Through the Noise.
When you’re facing a challenge, it’s tempting to try to force a solution. But when you’re surrounded by outside expectations, assumptions, responsibilities, and competing demands, it can be difficult to hear your own signal through all the noise. In this session, you’ll learn to turn your attention inward before deciding what comes next. You’ll map a real challenge, begin recognizing your own patterns and signals, and get better at hearing yourself when everything around you gets loud.
Attendees will leave with:
- Separate external noise from the internal signals that can help guide you.
- Recognize personal patterns that provide useful information
- Reframe a current challenge through greater awareness of yourself
- Leave with a simple calibration practice to collect useful observations between sessions.
Dr. Kelsey Miles is a scientist, songwriter, and speaker who uses scientific thinking and creative discovery to help people navigate uncertainty, challenge assumptions, and discover what’s possible.
As a chemist in research labs and lecture halls, and as a musician in recording studios and on stages across the country, Dr. Miles discovered the same lesson: breakthroughs come from experimentation, not certainty. That lesson became the foundation for her CEO Framework (Calibrate. Experiment. Optimize.) and signature programs, Signal Over Noise and Life Experiments™. Through live chemistry and original music, Dr. Miles creates an experience unlike any other. Audiences don't just learn the framework. They experience it in real time.
Dr. Miles is the 2026 Avila University Professor of the Year, an award-winning songwriter, and a 2025 International Blues Challenge Semi-Finalist. She brings a rare combination of scientific thinking and creative insight to audiences across the country.
Think Like a Scientist. Create Like an Artist.
Date and Time
Tuesday Oct 27, 2026
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
11:30 AM - Arrival, Mingle and Enjoy Lunch
12:00 PM - Program Begins
1:00 PM - Program Ends
Please Provide Us Notice If You Need To Cancel:
We understand that schedules change. If you have registered for this program and can no longer attend, we greatly appreciate you notifying us of your cancellation by completing our cancellation form or emailing hello@centralexchange.org at least 48-hours prior to the program if possible. This is so we can adjust our catering order to help eliminate food waste and prepare accordingly. Thank you!
Location
IN-PERSON AT UMKC BLOCH EXECUTIVE HALL
5108 CHERRY STREET, ROOM 331
KANSAS CITY, MO 64110
Parking is available in the Cherry Street Garage and you are able to park in Lot 12, Lot 14 or Lot 19, or any of the other lots in red on the map (see here).
Fees/Admission
FREE for CX Members Interested in becoming a CX Member? Read more about membership here and be our guest for up to two CX Programs or Exchange Circles.
1 Voucher for CX Partners
$35.00 for Non-members
No refunds.
Contact Information
Allison Baker
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