Keynotes and Workshops
Engaged and involved training, workshops and keynotes that will inspire your audience and organization.
Leading Beyond the Tyranny of Productivity: New Strategies for Forging Cultures of Courageous Creativity
With Kris McRea and Sara Saltee
Many of our deepest assumptions about work, identity, power, and leadership can be traced to an outdated paradigm of productivity we’ve inherited from the Industrial Age. Even as we work to cultivate cultures of belonging and inclusion, the traces of this colonizing concept of productivity are so deeply embedded in our thinking that they work against our efforts to change in ways that can be difficult to see.
In this workshop we will explore how the industrial vision of productivity - and the armored leadership practices that developed in service of it - promote burnout, trauma, and stress and separate us from the best of our humanity: our capacities for caring, curiosity, innovation and creativity.
Then, we engage participants in a vision of healthy, relational productivity that includes all dimensions of our humanity by building a new Time Vocabulary. We will offer new tools and strategies that allow today’s leaders to recognize and challenge old productivity assumptions and move boldly to embrace a healthier, more equitable paradigm of time and worth. We invite mission-driven leaders to see themselves as the caring and courageous creators they are, with expanded ability to relate to themselves, their organizations, and the world with greater openness, vulnerability, imagination, playfulness, and interconnection.
Embracing a Courageous Workplace of Collaborative Feedback and Supportive Conflict
Half or full day
Do you avoid conflict or feedback? Does your team shy away from challenging conversations and focus more on being "nice"? More than ever, we need to be having messy conversations in our workplace to lean in to tough topics, especially around diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging.
Feedback and conflict can be a bridge to trust building, innovation and collaboration when delivered with empathy, support and respect. The key is courage, vulnerability, and emotional literacy.
This workshop will demonstrate why a culture of collaborative feedback and supportive conflict is vital to the health and inclusion of our organizations. We will explore how our own mythology of vulnerability gets in the way, and how our emotions can be a powerful signpost to more connection and collaboration.
With tactical tools from Dare to Lead, Emotional Agility and other resources, you'll leave this workshop with stronger muscles for approaching conflict and feedback, as well as tangible tools that can support a more innovative workplace.
Creating Community-Centered Programming
Half or Full Day
So often organizations run the same programming for the same attendees. Community-centered programming uses a valuable lens that infuses diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into the choices, experience, and outcome of the programs. Involving your local community offers more richness to the content of your programming, while also providing more varied communities with opportunities to learn new skills, connect with others, find a special connection with your organization and become a future supporter.
In this workshop, you will learn more about how diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility bring more connection to your community. You will define their goals, identify current audiences as well as audiences often missed. In collaboration with participants, you will brainstorm programming ideas and identify what other partnerships you might need. You will also learn more about how to promote beyond your usual community sources so that you can expand your mission’s impact from it currently serves.
Braving Trust: Tangible Solutions for a More Courageous Nonprofit Culture
Trust is the glue that holds a team together, but “trust” is also a highly subjective and ambiguous concept. It can be the solution or the poison among teams. When trust is shaky, eroded, or destroyed, making an impact in and for our communities is extremely challenging.
Using Brené Brown's best-selling book, Dare to Lead, we will break down the concept of “trust” into digestible sections with measurable and actionable results. Participants will gain a clearer picture of how they trust themselves and then consider how to identify and grow trust behaviors with others. This webinar offers opportunities for self-reflection, as well as takeaway tools to help your team become clearer on building and sustaining a trusting workplace.
Dare to Lead - Keynote
Based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown, Dare to Lead is the ultimate playbook for leadership. It is an empirically based courage building program. One of the most significant findings from the research that courage is teachable, measurable and observable. It's time for our leaders to embrace courage in the workplace so we have the hard conversations that lead to more connection and empathy.
