speaking engagements
Captivating, inspiring, and educational experiences shared through stories that are customized for your audience.
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Evidence-based Perspectives with real-world applications
Evidence-based Perspectives with real-world applications
Content curated for your audience and customized for your needs
Content curated for your audience and customized for your needs
Storytelling style delivered in a fun, interactive format
Storytelling style delivered in a fun, interactive format
Speakers with domain expertise and deep industry experience
Speakers with domain expertise and deep industry experience
We’ve got you covered
SPEAKING FORMATS
45 min training followed by 15-minute Q&A
Includes a planning call and proposal
Can be recorded for future use
Virtual or in person
Customizable upon request
Unlimited participants
Suited for employee resource groups, conferences, or webinars
Keynote ADDRESS
4-hour private consultation with functional leader or team
Completely customized
Up to 20 participants
Virtual or in person
Follow-up action planning meeting with leader
Intended for team transformations, problem solving, reorganizations and department prioritization planning
COACHING SESSION
6-8 sessions of layered skill development
45-minute virtual coaching sessions with 15 min Q&A
Additional weekly Q&A sessions
Up to 12 participants
Follow-up action planning meeting with leader
Ideal for top talent initiatives and small group leadership development
MENTORING Program
Customization available upon request. Non-profit and education pricing available.
SPEAKER TOPICS
INNOVATION STRATEGY REIMAGINED:
Building a Reliable Innovation Engine for Your Organization
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The occasional flash of inspiration will only take your company so far. And even once you’ve identified an opportunity worth pursuing, you still need the right balance of imagination and perspiration to successfully commercialize it.
This training layers evidence-based methods to help leaders introduce or improve their products and services.
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Learn how to build reliable processes that encourage company-wide ideation, help you decide which ideas are worth pursuing and enable you to capitalize on the best of them.
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Understand how to achieve sustainable competitive advantages in products and services.
Determine which strategic approach - pipeline versus platform - is best for your business and establish the relevant roles and processes, goals and measures for success.
Learn how to develop product-service integrations and tier offerings to pursue new customers and markets while remaining faithful to existing customers and current revenue streams.
BEYOND THE BORDERS OF ETIQUETTE:
Tools to Understand and Address Cultural Differences Across Your Business
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When people and organizations lack cultural competence, it hinders engagement with important communities - internal and external stakeholders alike (e.g., minorities or other, non-American employees and foreign customers and partners). It often leads them to impose their beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior upon those from other cultural backgrounds.
This training builds on Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture to advance cultural competency for each learner.
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Learn how to navigate cultural situations beyond the exchange of pleasantries and business cards and leverage genuine connections to build better internal relationships and advance business interests outside the organization.
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Understand the different dimensions of national culture and how they manifest in workplace behavior.
Know how to reference Hofstede’s country comparisons and use relative differences to make informed decisions in previously unencountered, real-world situations.
Learn how to foster a more inclusive work environment and better plan and develop marketing and business strategies that consider and leverage national culture differences.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AT WORK:
Bringing the Best Out of People and Teams with Healthy Conflict Management
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As companies shift back to more in-office work, it becomes increasingly important for leaders to rebuild a positive company culture, reduce team stress, defuse conflict and improve job satisfaction.
This training is intended to help leaders develop stronger, more efficient and effective teams.
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Learn ways to facilitate healthy, honest interactions, methods for addressing disagreements, unmet expectations, or having difficult conversations in a way that builds, rather than breaks teams.
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Understand how personality type influences conflict management style and decisions at work.
Learn about the different emotional intelligence competencies and how they can be developed to help others through emotionally charged situations, tactfully manage disagreements, and define solutions everyone can support.
Learn how trust is built and how to identify gaps in your communication style.
Learn how to have honest and effective coaching conversations.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION BY DESIGN:
Building a Better Organization with a More Diverse Workforce
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A vast body of research has consistently shown that the more diverse and inclusive an organization is, the higher the levels of its productivity and profit. Companies without diverse workforces tend to be less innovative, poor problem-solvers, and unable to attract and retain the kind of workers needed to meet business goals, makes them dangerously vulnerable to a variety of competitive pressures in their marketplace.
This training will teach you how to implement Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives in your workplace using established methods and authentic measures of success.
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Learn how to build more innovative, engaged, and effective teams by improving diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout hiring and promotion practices and other people initiatives in the workplace.
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Understand how to collect accurate, relevant data and properly analyze it to determine the need for change in your workplace.
Learn how to design and implement DE&I strategies that are aligned to organizational objectives.
Understand how to conduct continuous evaluations and audits of the DE&I plan and make informed course corrections along the way.