Speakers

UNLEASH THE POWER OF YOUR PEOPLE THROUGH DECISION-MAKING

People want to feel empowered in their work while leaders want to ensure their team members are prioritizing and working on the right work. Can the two co-exist?

When people feel empowered, they bring more to the table. More ideas, solutions, and opportunities. They also bring greater productivity and higher customer satisfaction.

How can we, as leaders, unleash that potential in a way that moves the right work forward? How can we keep people’s time, energy and focus directed in the most powerful, effective way for our business and clients? These are questions leaders ask themselves all the time. Some respond by holding onto the work, doling it out as a gatekeeper, and being a bottleneck to their own team’s performance.

In this session, we will introduce a variety of frameworks to empower decision making throughout your team, transitioning the role of the leader from gatekeeper and bottleneck to an enabler who unleashes the power of their people.

USING NEUROSCIENCE AND AI TO DEVELOP EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Harvard did a study and found that the further one gets into their career, Emotional Intelligence (or EQ) is a 2-to-2 predictor of career success over IQ. And yet, technical fields tend to focus overwhelmingly on technical skills.

Worse yet, people are then promoted into leadership without effective training, support, and coaching to develop the EQ skills that will be the strongest predictor of their ability to retain people, develop talent, and create a high-performing team.

So how can neuroscience and AI help to address this prevalent pain point?

In this session, we will start by understanding the importance of EQ. We will understand the role that neuroscience plays in our ability to innovate, collaborate, and solve problems. We will explore how to leverage neuroscience and AI to better develop our EQ capabilities to more effectively build the skills needed for powerful, sustainable, and effective people leadership…in less time.

In short, you will leave this session with a greater understanding how to leverage neuroscience and AI to develop work experiences that produce more engaged and productive teams, as well as sustainable organizational outcomes.

USING NEUROSCIENCE TO LEAD THROUGH CHANGE EFFECTIVELY

The only constant is change, and the pace of change continues to accelerate.

The truth is that most organizations do not do change well. As a result, teams, leaders, and individuals are left with the struggle of navigating the ever-growing tide of change, wave after wave, change after change.

To succeed in today’s eco-system, we need to be better equipped to deal with change.

We will start by understanding why change is challenging for us as humans, and how a foundational understanding of neuroscience can help explain the threat of change and be leveraged to more effectively navigate through it.

We will look at change from an organizational perspective. More importantly, we will look at change through the expected human journey through change. We will look at ways we can leverage neuroscience to better reframe and respond to change, for ourselves and our teams.

In short, you will leave this session with a greater understanding how to lead yourself and others more effectively through change.

CREATING WORKPLACES WHERE MULTI-GENERATIONAL TALENT CAN THRIVE

There is a dynamic shift happening in the workforce and in our workplaces.

More than ever before, businesses are managing through a multi-generational workforce, each generation with distinct needs, expectations, and communication styles. The “one size fits all” approach no longer works. And while the decision-making power mostly sits with one generation, the power of numbers sits with others. Businesses and, more specifically, leaders are struggling to reconcile these changing dynamics.

What was “good enough” for businesses and leaders to succeed in the past won’t be sufficient to drive success through your staff in the future. Why is that?

In this session, we will explore what aspects of leadership have been valued and rewarded in our workplaces, and how that is inadequate to meet the needs of the present and future. We will discover the “why now?” to shifting needs and expectations of the workforce. We will look at how we have prepared people leaders (or not) with the skills they need to lead effectively in today’s environment. We will look at how to get the best out of any multi-generational team so that everyone, regardless of generation, can thrive. More importantly, we will discover how to future-proof your leaders and companies to evolve with the changing eco-system, retain and grow the best talent, and remain competitive in the marketplace.

THE NEUROSCIENCE OF LEADING PEOPLE

It’s hard to produce quality work and sustainable results without great people on our teams. The biggest problem that impacts the ability to retain, develop, and engage great people is poor or ineffective people leadership. When new leaders aren’t supported with high-quality or even adequate leadership training, they can’t succeed. And yet we know that much of what we’ve been doing to train leaders is working, or isn’t used.

In this session, we will look at how neuroscience can help us to develop more effective leaders, and high-performing teams as a result. We will look at how to leverage neuroscience to absorb, retain, and recall key power skill concepts. Most importantly, we will introduce some foundational aspects of neuroscience so that participants leave with immediate access to being more effective leaders themselves.

During this session, we will explore how neuroscience can, and should, transform workplace learning and people leadership, and the root cause of retention as a result.

We have been fortunate to have Heather present at our International Branding Summits multiple times - her ability to engage an audience is first class!

Brett Minchington - Chairman & CEO of Employer Brand International

Heather created and presented a great learning experience for our NAWBO-MN members.  Heather has a great style and is very engaging with the participants.  Heather presented relevant and important information in a fun presentation.  Her program attracted people not only from our state chapter but other chapters nationally.  She received great scores and feedback on the follow-up survey.  I would highly recommend Heather.

Jackie Engmark - Executive Director, NAWBO Minnesota

Heather was our speaker for one of our first hybrid events this summer. Minutes before we went “live," the internet went down, and we lost Wi-Fi. Thankfully, we connected our virtual attendees through my phone. While this situation would throw off most speakers, Heather rolled with it and helped create a sense of ease for all of the event attendees, both in the room and online. Even more impressive is how engaged all of our attendees were, despite the glitches, as demonstrated during the Q&A that would have continued had we not run out of time. Heather identified the pain point that resonated for people and offered tangible, actionable takeaways to address them. Her energy, expertise and engagement with our members was top-notch and we would gladly invite her back.

Katy Burke - Executive Director of Team Women

2022 Minnesota Conference on Architecture – Speaker rating 4.9/5.0

Great presentation. Heather was really engaging and clearly knows the subject and how to explain it to others. Content felt really applicable to the challenges faced by most firms today.

2022 HR Tomorrow Conference – Speaker rating 4.73/5.0

Great session!  Heather was very engaging and presented meaningful content that was practical and immediately applicable to a wide audience.

2022 SMPS SERC – Speaker rating 8.6/10

The speaker was fantastic and really had a lot of energy which made the presentation exciting.

I thought the content was extremely relevant with solutions!! I appreciated that she was able to tackle such a hot topic while addressing things from a perspective I hadn`t heard before.

Heather had great examples and didn`t sugar-coat the issues.

Heather was an amazing presenter!

2022 SMPS Seattle – Speaker rating 4.73/5.0