Workshops & Keynotes

Our leadership context has changed. We are leading in the decade of disruption. This puts unprecedented pressure on leaders to bring clarity and make decisions in the face of ambiguity, drive commitment in a diverse and increasingly polarized workforce at the edge of burnout, and rapidly upskill the capacity to lead within themselves and their organizations.

There are five big challenges of leading in disruptive times:

First, our neurobiology sees disruptive change as a threat to survival. This evolutionary reaction slows down our adaptation by reducing cognition and increasing burnout. Second, our old mindsets and biases prevent us from seeing and accepting the new reality clearly. This prevents us from being creative. We need to develop meta-learning to learn, unlearn and relearn. Third, our threat states and the fluid teams we work with make collaboration harder, just when it is most needed to create opportunities. Fourth, while we recognize we’re more interdependent than ever, we are missing the skill sets to influence our wider eco-system. Fifth, upskilling and growth is urgently needed for millions to solve our collective challenges. This requires a step-change in our ability to grow ourselves and others.

The workshop will engage participants in learning and practicing the five shifts in agility we need to thrive as leaders today.

1. Neuro-Emotional Agility: the ability to activate neural states that accelerate our adaptability.
2. Learning Agility: the ability to rapidly learn, unlearn, and re-learn based on the situation in front of us.
3. Trust Agility: the ability to develop just-in-time trust with diverse fluid teams and energize creative contributions.
4. Stakeholder Agility: the ability to influence multiple stakeholders with competing needs toward solutions that serve the broader ecosystem.
5. Growth Agility: the ability to grow ourselves and others to accelerate a future-ready workforce.

It will provide an actionable and customizable tool-kit of 15 Agility Accelerators that leaders will be able to learn. Via the use of Mentimeter live polling, they will see the impact of their practice in the workshop. They will create an action plan and a set of practices that they can use to lead with greater agility in their workplaces.

Disruptions are opportunities to re-imagine, re-invent, and re-invigorate – to create something better. We have many collective problems to solve for a thriving planet that works better for all. The workshop helps each of us be inspired, bring our unique perspective, and activate the embedded agility already within us.

We believe that there is a transformational leader within each of us. Now more than ever, organizations need these transformational leaders who inspire and engage others and create environments of great innovation, engagement and agility to change. In this workshop, each participant:

• Learns the four components of transformational leadership does a self-assessment on each of these areas
• Reconnects with what inspires them to lead
• Identifies an area where they are inspired to create great transformation in their organization
• Develops an action plan to do so

As organizations move toward more matrix structures, leaders need to increasingly learn how to influence across the organization – across functions, geographies, and hierarchies. We need to get our goals accomplished through others over whom we have no direct authority. During this workshop, each leader:

• Works through a specific influencing opportunity they have identified in the workplace
• Practices a five-step model to accomplish their current and future influencing goals
• Identifies personal limiting beliefs that keep them from influencing powerfully
• Learns five different influencing styles and practices influencing with another participant
• Walks out with a specific action plan tailored for their influencing situation

Our client companies are increasingly looking for ways to more deeply engage their leaders. We are more engaged when we can bring our full selves to work. However, research shows that for women leaders it is tougher to be their authentic selves, particularly in male-dominated environments. Research also shows that being authentic is the key to unlocking executive presence, influence, and power in organizations. During this workshop each participant:

• Discovers and develops their authentic leadership brand (leadership purpose, strengths, core values)
• Learns how to proactively share this brand with others in the organization to build a strong network
• Develops insight about what unique career path will drive success, engagement and fulfillment for them
• This workshop is suitable for both male and female leaders

Working and leading in change and ambiguity is the new normal. New competition, constant restructuring, and ambiguity can leave us feeling insecure in our jobs and disengaged within our teams. In this highly interactive session leaders will learn a framework of three practices from the book Wired for Authenticity to help them navigate and lead themselves and others toward cultures that are trusting, engaged, adaptive. Participants will:

• Achieve greater self-awareness of how they sabotage themselves during times of change
• Learn the neuroscience behind what triggers self-sabotaging behaviors
• Discover and practice three practices to create within change & ambiguity
• Create an action plan and accountability to be powerful within a current change they are experiencing

Globalization, technology and productivity initiatives have created cultures where we find ourselves working 24/7. This “new normal” requires seven paradigm shifts we need to embrace in order to not just survive but thrive. We need to evolve from focus on “work life balance” to “work life energy” – being fully present and energized for all of our life. In this workshop participants:

• Work through these seven paradigm shifts
• Learn new tools to optimize their personal “work life energy”.
• Create an action plan specific for their needs

Leading effectively requires managing conflict in the workplace. Many of us are uncomfortable with conflict. Women often need to find an authentic way to manage conflict that they can exercise in the organization as “direct” or “assertive” conflict management often does not work for them.  In this highly experiential workshop participants:

• Work through a current situation where they need to have a difficult conversation
• Do a self-assessment of where they get stuck in terms of managing conflict
• Learn the five paradigm shifts that are required to effectively manage conflict
• Practice a seven step process and practice their difficult conversation with a peer
• Create an action plan and acounntability to have the difficult conversation

We are constantly working in high stress environments. The pace of change and restructuring can create fear and disengagement. In fact, according to Gallup research, 87% of employees worldwide are NOT engaged. Leading in change and ambiguity while keeping employees engaged requires high levels of emotional intelligence (awareness and management of self & others). Emotional intelligence requires strong body awareness. In this highly interactive session leaders will learn from the latest neuroscience research about how to lead more effectively using the power & self-awareness gained from their body. Participants will:

• Learn practices to grow self-awareness through awareness of the body
• Practice how to use breath and posture to reduce stress and remain centered in the face of stressful situations
• Discover ways to listen and influence others powerfully through body language
• Create an action plan and accountability to be powerful in a challenging situation at work

Leadership today is more challenging than ever.  The rapid pace of change, constant restructuring, and a 24/7 work environment create overwhelmed employees, and eroding trust in workplaces. We need leaders who can inspire others, adapt rapidly, and build trust. In this highly interactive session leaders will learn a framework of seven practices to help them to bring the power of authentic leadership to workplaces. Participants will:

• Achieve greater self-awareness of strengths and saboteurs
• Practice new tools to develop greater authenticity and greater agility to change
• Apply the seven practices of authenticity to a specific business goal
• Create an action plan and accountability to move forward