Keynotes and Workshops
For your organization
Whether you're part of a global company or a small startup, an activated workforce is essential to continued development, growth, and yes, revenue. There are three ways you can hire me to help bring your community into alignment:
1) through one of my workshops
3) as a coach
4) as a keynote speaker
Workshops
These are a few of my most requested workshops. Looking for something a bit different? Contact me and we'll customize one.
Artful Inquiry: When Words Are Insufficient | Explore new ways to uncover information, discuss issues, or create innovative solutions. Isn’t it time you tap into the underutilized part of your brain, which is the door to new information? Stop letting words limit your ability to think.
Critical Conversations | No one loves talking about emotionally charged issues, but it’s necessary. Learn strategies for dealing with those conversations that make your palms sweat and your stomach turn. So much of what happens during the conversation is dependent on what you do before the conversation.
Change and Transition for Me | People don't resist change; they resist loss. What is the personal safety net your employees need in order to let go of the old way of doing things and grasp onto the new? Move your employees from victims to proactive participants.
Keys to Effective Communication | People are a bit like locks – each lock requires a different key. What opens one door does nothing for another door. Learn how to select the right keys to unlock effective conversations.
Insights Personal Discovery | Gain deeper insights into yourself and your colleagues. Learn to adapt and connect with others to create strong and effective relationships based on understanding preferences and behavior. Learn more about Insights, the organization that trained me in this powerful method.
Lumina Spark | Increase self-awareness, reveal hidden potential and cope better under pressure. Discover practical actions for improved communication, teamwork and leadership. Find your Inner Spark and increase your potential.
7 Levels of Effectiveness | This framework, developed by my friends at BEabove Leadership, offers powerful insights into how we communicate, work together, create teams, etc. Let me help you learn to recognize and ascend the 7 Levels to create a powerful working environment.
Managing Stress through Neuroscience Tools | This unique model is where coaching, neuroscience and consciousness meet. Allow me to bring a practical approach, based on the latest neuroscience research, to managing stress, raising consciousness and the brain to your organization in an engaging, fun, actionable way.
Polarity Thinking | An underutilized approach for thinking through the dilemmas and tensions that every person struggles with. Cost and quality, speed and quality, independent and team, work life and family life, etc. These are pairs of challenges that are forever linked – they are NOT a problem to be solved. Let me help you work through some of the dilemmas that are a drain in your resources. Based on Barry Johnson’s Polarity Management work, I can help you get very practical very quickly.
Keynote Speaking
Need something more focused, brief and large scale? I am a frequent speaker at local, national and global conferences and events.
These are some of my most popular presentations, but if are looking to engage your audience on a different topic, let's customize a keynote for your next large group event.
The Reflective Leader | Neuroscience shows us that having an experience and learning from the experience cannot happen at the same time. There must be a process to turn that experience into learning. Why would you miss the opportunity to get everything you can from the experiences you are having? The best leaders hit the pause button to evaluate who they are and what they are doing; explore what it means to be reflective
Pictures of Leadership Transition | "See" what 10 successful leaders learned as they made dramatic, successful leadership transitions. Dr J’s doctoral research used both story and pictures as a way for leaders to reflect on these difficult transitions. No book on leadership or change can compare to the surprising lessons the leaders shared, and we want to share these with you.
Reflections on Leadership: 10 Keys to Great Leadership | Lessons learned from 25 years of working with highly successful and highly unsuccessful leaders.
Life: It’s a Matter of Perspective | It's easy to get stuck in one way of seeing things; learn to expand your choices by exploring other perspectives. This interactive keynote has you experience a real-time shift in thinking!
Noticing: The Key to Getting More Out of Life | We are living in a time when fast equals better – the next place is better than where we are – just get it done and move on to what’s next. These subtle (and not so subtle) messages are causing to live our lives at a superficial level – not taking the time to really notice what is within and around us. Come learn about how to truly NOTICE (we can’t change or celebrate or eliminate what we don’t notice)!
Polarity Thinking | How do you manage the tension between working on your business and in your business? How do you balance work and life? How do you manage your focus on individual versus team? How do you maintain the necessary structure but remain flexible? These questions are not problems that can be solved. They are issues, tensions, dilemmas, polarities – whatever you call them, they involve interdependent pairs. When we apply traditional problem solving models to issues like these, all we get is frustration and wasted energy. However, when we apply Barry Johnson’s concept of polarity thinking, we begin to unravel their complexity and see the forest for the trees.
The goals of this interactive session are for you to:
Understand the terminology and basic concepts of polarity thinking
Learn from various real-life examples of polarity management
Identify polarities in your work (and life)
Apply polarity mapping to these issues
This is an interactive session so it’s ideal for those that value participation.
Seasons | Our lives change, just like the seasons. Health challenges, family additions or losses, moves, career changes, empty nesting, retirement, etc. Each of these presents an opportunity for growth and fulfillment if we are intentional about our journey. 25+ years of helping people embrace the season they are in has given me stories and wisdom that I’d love to share with you.
5 Keys to Finding Balance | Need a change? Feeling stressed? This session will introduce you to 5 tools for balancing stress to maximize your effectiveness.