Keynote Speaking
Towards Acceptance: Effective Intercultural Development Practices
A critical medical tenet is “First do no harm.” When diversity initiatives ignore a group’s level of intercultural development, they could increase fear and prejudice and exacerbate in-group / out-group separation. In this thought-provoking presentation, the speaker addresses the problem and proposes solutions. Specifically, she shares a model of intercultural development, connects interventions to employees’ development stage, offers realistic and helpful tips, and introduces Conversity®, a simple and effective process to increase acceptance and respect in your organization. This program can be run as a shorter keynote or as a four hour workshop. Click here for detailed information.
Ethical Challenges in the Workplace
Ethical decisions may be trickier than we think. First, engaging leaders must demonstrate both fairness and compassion. Sometimes, these two critical demands clash. Second, leaders may feel closer to some employees than to others. Proximity tends to change the way we reason about ethical decisions. The presenter will share the results of a study involving more than 1,000 professionals, suggest implications of her findings, and offer recommendations for leaders. Click here for detailed information on a 3-hour workshop
Decoding Leadership Change
Common myths regarding change include "The Fortune Teller Myth" (the idea that leaders know exactly what will happen as a result of change initiatives, "The Super Hero Myth" (the expectation that the leader can lead followers to a promised land of safety and abundance), and "The Mechanic Myth" (the attempt to address change issues by focusing on one small problem at a time, independently of others). This presentation helps dispel such myths and addresses the very real uncertainties, losses, and conflicts resulting from changing conditions. Topics such as adaptive leadership, systems thinking, and connections between leadership and biology are further explored by the presenter.
Decoding Innovation
Many believe that innovative ideas are the result of "idea machines" - special beings with extraordinary imagination and vision. While it is true that some people are naturally more imaginative than others, innovation is hardly the result of individual imagination alone. Instead, innovation results from the complex interaction of individual, team, and organizational factors. This presentation will "decode" innovation. You will differentiate innovation and creativity; explore connections between personality and innovation-related competencies; assess the culture of your organization; and come up with an action plan to champion innovation at your organization.
The Meaningful Leader: A Leader's Guide to Passion
This presentation introduces you to a critical “passion formula” that could explain approximately 70% of the variation in emotional engagement at work. Learn the differences between physical, cognitive, and emotional engagement; review relationships between individual personalities, psychological conditions related to employee engagement and passion; focus on the importance of “meaningfulness” and “fit”; and recognize your own role, as a leader, in nurturing a culture of meaningfulness and passion at work. Click here for a detailed description including learning objectives.
Beneath the Surface: Understanding Personality Diversity
Leaders operate in the “people business.” It is vital that they understand the basics of human psychology and become aware of their own challenges and opportunities for success. Personality colors the lenses through which we see, judge, and relate to others. It gives us a special language – a language that only those who share key pieces of our personality puzzle can understand. Even though personality is often not excluded from diversity training initiatives, it is a highly significant, albeit invisible, source of bias and conflict in the workplace. This presentation introduces human resources practitioners to personality diversity and helps them plan to incorporate this important topic in their diversity initiatives.
The 10 Ms of Engagement
In today's economy, employers must find new and innovative ways to encourage employees to do "more" with "less." External and tangible motivators such as bonuses, salary increases, or promotions may simply not be feasible under current circumstances. This presentation will focus on the importance of employee engagement...a powerful connection between person, job, and employer that has been linked through recent research to increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, and lower turnover.
A critical medical tenet is “First do no harm.” When diversity initiatives ignore a group’s level of intercultural development, they could increase fear and prejudice and exacerbate in-group / out-group separation. In this thought-provoking presentation, the speaker addresses the problem and proposes solutions. Specifically, she shares a model of intercultural development, connects interventions to employees’ development stage, offers realistic and helpful tips, and introduces Conversity®, a simple and effective process to increase acceptance and respect in your organization. This program can be run as a shorter keynote or as a four hour workshop. Click here for detailed information.
Ethical Challenges in the Workplace
Ethical decisions may be trickier than we think. First, engaging leaders must demonstrate both fairness and compassion. Sometimes, these two critical demands clash. Second, leaders may feel closer to some employees than to others. Proximity tends to change the way we reason about ethical decisions. The presenter will share the results of a study involving more than 1,000 professionals, suggest implications of her findings, and offer recommendations for leaders. Click here for detailed information on a 3-hour workshop
Decoding Leadership Change
Common myths regarding change include "The Fortune Teller Myth" (the idea that leaders know exactly what will happen as a result of change initiatives, "The Super Hero Myth" (the expectation that the leader can lead followers to a promised land of safety and abundance), and "The Mechanic Myth" (the attempt to address change issues by focusing on one small problem at a time, independently of others). This presentation helps dispel such myths and addresses the very real uncertainties, losses, and conflicts resulting from changing conditions. Topics such as adaptive leadership, systems thinking, and connections between leadership and biology are further explored by the presenter.
Decoding Innovation
Many believe that innovative ideas are the result of "idea machines" - special beings with extraordinary imagination and vision. While it is true that some people are naturally more imaginative than others, innovation is hardly the result of individual imagination alone. Instead, innovation results from the complex interaction of individual, team, and organizational factors. This presentation will "decode" innovation. You will differentiate innovation and creativity; explore connections between personality and innovation-related competencies; assess the culture of your organization; and come up with an action plan to champion innovation at your organization.
The Meaningful Leader: A Leader's Guide to Passion
This presentation introduces you to a critical “passion formula” that could explain approximately 70% of the variation in emotional engagement at work. Learn the differences between physical, cognitive, and emotional engagement; review relationships between individual personalities, psychological conditions related to employee engagement and passion; focus on the importance of “meaningfulness” and “fit”; and recognize your own role, as a leader, in nurturing a culture of meaningfulness and passion at work. Click here for a detailed description including learning objectives.
Beneath the Surface: Understanding Personality Diversity
Leaders operate in the “people business.” It is vital that they understand the basics of human psychology and become aware of their own challenges and opportunities for success. Personality colors the lenses through which we see, judge, and relate to others. It gives us a special language – a language that only those who share key pieces of our personality puzzle can understand. Even though personality is often not excluded from diversity training initiatives, it is a highly significant, albeit invisible, source of bias and conflict in the workplace. This presentation introduces human resources practitioners to personality diversity and helps them plan to incorporate this important topic in their diversity initiatives.
The 10 Ms of Engagement
In today's economy, employers must find new and innovative ways to encourage employees to do "more" with "less." External and tangible motivators such as bonuses, salary increases, or promotions may simply not be feasible under current circumstances. This presentation will focus on the importance of employee engagement...a powerful connection between person, job, and employer that has been linked through recent research to increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, and lower turnover.