Building Your Dream Job While Making Work Fun

  • Workshop

Building Your Dream Job While Making Work Fun

  • October 26, 2026 //
  • 1:00 pm -
  • 4:00 pm //
  • Rhode Island Convention Center

Description:

In this workshop, we hope to help case-working analysts fall (back) in love with their job. We will first identify our collective strengths and favorite tasks and focus on how to build a job where analysts can do more of what they love and inspire a stronger team. We will then discuss creative ways to spice up our least favorite tasks and improve our weaknesses. Discussion will cover everything from testimony to technical review to casework approach and efficiency (and more!), all with the goal of making work more fun, more efficient, and less stressful.

 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Strengthen laboratories by utilizing members to their full potential.
  • Inspire analysts to build jobs where they can do more of what they love – or at least find more enjoyment in what they are doing.
  • Identify areas of growth opportunity and obtain creative ways to encourage skill development and process improvement in laboratories.

 

Intended Audience:

Crime Lab analysts, Supervisors and Technical leaders

Description:

In this workshop, we hope to help case-working analysts fall (back) in love with their job. We will first identify our collective strengths and favorite tasks and focus on how to build a job where analysts can do more of what they love and inspire a stronger team. We will then discuss creative ways to spice up our least favorite tasks and improve our weaknesses. Discussion will cover everything from testimony to technical review to casework approach and efficiency (and more!), all with the goal of making work more fun, more efficient, and less stressful.

 

Learning Outcomes:

  • Strengthen laboratories by utilizing members to their full potential.
  • Inspire analysts to build jobs where they can do more of what they love – or at least find more enjoyment in what they are doing.
  • Identify areas of growth opportunity and obtain creative ways to encourage skill development and process improvement in laboratories.

 

Intended Audience:

Crime Lab analysts, Supervisors and Technical leaders

Pricing:


  • Standard Registration$275

Fee includes lunch and materials.

  • Early Registration
  • $250.00
  • Standard Registration (after July 15)
  • $295.00
  • Student Registration$195.00
  • $195.00

Workshop currently at capacity. A waitlist is available to join on our registration page.

Brought to you by

Worldwide Association of Women Forensic Experts

Co-Chair

Rachel Gabrielse

Crime Laboratory Analyst Supervisor in the Biology/DNA Section, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE)

Rachel Gabrielse is a Crime Laboratory Analyst Supervisor in the Biology/DNA Section at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) in Tampa, FL. She’s spent over 13 years with FDLE and has made the most of her time in every role she’s held, from her beginning years as a Forensic Technologist to her 11 years spent as a Crime Laboratory Analyst. Her mission within the field is to promote the highest quality of work balanced with a fun and supportive workplace environment. She is a trainer and a coach at heart, and her true forensic science loves include maximizing efficiency in workflow processes (which she considers her real life escape room simulator) and tackling the beast that is courtroom testimony. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from William Jewell College in Liberty, MO.

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Co-Chair

Elyssa Trautmann

Florida Department of Law Enforcement

Elyssa has worked with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for over 14 years. She has found a love for cold cases and a knack for bending the SOP to her will. (All with TL and supervisor approval)

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