If you need a speaker or facilitator
to take your team to the next level... to ask the hard questions... and to have fun while doing it...Let’s have a quick 15 minute chat to see how I can help you.
Communication
Create consistent, clear, and compelling messages that stand out and STICK.
Leadership Development
Show up consistently as the kind of leader you’d want to follow.
Organizational Growth
Help your team connect, grow, and move forward with clear direction.
Confidence
Outsmart Imposter Syndrome and increase performance.
Helping you build the systems you want
with personalized speaking and facilitation
Are you tired of BOOOORING workshops and professional development?
I’ve helped businesses, nonprofits, and governmental agencies create memorable, relevant, and IMPACTFUL trainings, workshops, and keynote engagements with my speaking and facilitating.
And I can help you, too.
Let’s make your event more effective… and more fun
Without subjecting people to lame trends
(Like trust falls)
While honoring the business you already run
With an eye towards the business you want it to evolve into.
Getting the right people the right tools
Because this can be one of the biggest issues I see in small businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofits.
And focusing on the real needle-movers
So you’re not wasting time on initiatives that don’t make a difference in the direction you need to move in.
How do you know if I can help you?
Does your organization need a fresh pair of experienced eyes to help you figure out the best path forward?
Then my speaking or facilitating might be for you.
What topics do you offer?
I’ve developed a diverse toolbox in my years coaching and facilitating. I use frameworks and tools that are ACTIONABLE and MEMORABLE. I only choose models that are simple, are easy to remember, and work well.
I can offer sessions on the following topics:
THE BIG PICTURE
- Goals (with Design Thinking principles)
- Strategy (with Design Thinking principles)
- Vision (WHY the company exists, using Sinek’s framework)
- Mission (HOW the company will achieve its vision, using Sinek’s framework)
- Values and how to put them in action
- Team/ relationship building (using Lencioni’s 5 Behaviors of a Team framework)
- Growing trust intentionally and naturally
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
- Making feedback effective
- Driving accountability
- Leadership core competencies and styles (using Goleman’s framework)
- Social styles in the workplace (using Wilson’s Social Styles and Myers-Briggs assessments)
- Coaching for leadership (using the GROW model)
- Powerful delegation
- Supporting neurodiversity in the workplace
- Stakeholder mapping and engagement
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Growth mindset (using Dweck’s research and framework)
- Decision-making with a value-driven focus
- Prioritization/ time management
- Outsmarting Imposter Syndrome
COMMUNICATION
- Conflict management (using Karpman’s Drama Triangle framework)
- Building understanding and relationships (using The Ladder of Inference model and Wilson’s Social Styles)
- Storytelling for influence (using Olsen’s ABT framework)
- Communications and messaging
- Personal branding
- Recognition in the workplace
How do your engagements work?
The easiest way to figure this out is for us to have a quick 15-minute call.
We’ll brainstorm on what you want to create, and from there, I should have enough information to see if we’ll be a good fit.
If we are a good fit, we’ll meet again to understand the best ways for me to help you.
Then, I’ll create a customized Statement of Work to lay out a timeline based on your goals.
What kind of facilitation do you do?
I do interactive, participant-led facilitation. I’m allergic to boring, all-day team building that’s not relevant or focused on the participants.
Along with more “traditional” facilitation methods and powerful conversational techniques, I use different activities and techniques to keep people’s brains activated depending on the audience, their preferences, and the goals of the sessions/ workshops.
These might include:
- Design Thinking principles and techniques
- LEGO Serious Play
- Various leadership, communication, and thinking frameworks and models (I’ve given a few examples in my list of speaking topics above)
- Improv and fast-paced games, as well as games that encourage movement and participation
- Drawing exercises
- Music
Why should I choose you over other speakers or facilitators?
Well, you SHOULDN’T necessarily choose me over other speakers or facilitators.
Depending on what comes up in our brainstorming session, I might refer you to someone else who I think would be a better fit for you.
My specialties are leadership and brand integration, business optimization and strategy, personal branding, and outsmarting Imposter Syndrome.
If you’re not looking for help anywhere near those ballparks, I’ll try to help you figure out who you should be looking for.
Why can having a facilitator be helpful?
Personally, I think having an outside facilitator can be helpful because often, you’re too close to your organization to see the opportunities for improvement.
From a business standpoint, working with the right facilitator can be one the most cost-effective ways to make your people and your organization more effective. (AKA: helps the business make a lot more money!)
What's your facilitation style like?
As a former teacher and university lecturer, my style is open and experiential. In my 20’s, I was a high school teacher, and learned VERY quickly how deadly using boring content will be. It turns out, adults don’t like being bored any more than teenagers do!
That’swhy I ensure that I do a lot of work BEFORE the sessions to ensure that my content is tailored to the group’s needs, relevant, interesting, and FUN. No one has time for boring trust fall workshops….least of all, me!
You can watch a video of a virtual workshop I conducted here.
Why choose me for speaking and facilitating?
As a business coach, facilitator, and speaker, I’ve worked with companies in the areas of trust building, goal achievement, ownership, culture, communication, and leadership.
With over 20 years in the leadership field and living by the concepts I teach, I work with businesses to create leaders and a proficient team who then take their operations and systems to new levels.
Experience my style:
- Watch my Story Magic workshop here
- Check out the workbook for Day 1 of my Wonderleader Workshop (a program for mid-level emerging leaders)
- Here’s a video going over the engagement portal I use to keep the workshop’s momentum going even after we’ve finished
And here are a few of my credentials:
- M.A., Geography: Environmental Planning and Resource Management, San Francisco State University
- B.A., English, San Francisco State University
- International Coaching Federation Certified Business and Life Coach
- Certified Facilitator
- Certified NLP Practitioner
How to work with me for speaking and facilitating:
Schedule a quick chat
Reach out- fill out my contact form, email me, or message me on social media.
We’ll set up a time for a quick chat, and we can see if we might be a good fit.
Create a Statement of Work
Assuming that we ARE a good fit, I’ll create a custom proposal for our time together.
The details will depend on what your goals are, where I see opportunities for improvement or growth, and your team’s preferences.
Start kicking a$$!
When you work with me, you’ll transform your life, your business or career, your relationships, your confidence, your present and your future. And because each session is action-driven, you’ll see results after our first few meetings.
Let's have a conversation...
How can I help you? I’d love to hear from you.
Seriously. It will make my day. Like going-to-a-small-town-carnival or -a-weirdly-themed-mini-golf-course kind of make my day.
Please fill out this short form, and I’ll be in touch within 2 business days.
If we’re a good fit, you’ll get a link to schedule a call. If we’re not a good fit, (I’m so sorry, and you’re still an awesome person)
I’ll try to direct you to someone who is a good fit.