Speaker's Bureau

• Aligning Leadership Practice with Business Strategy

  Learn how the best leaders align their personal leadership practice with business strategy in order to ensure long-term human and organizational success.
  

• Business Ethics

  If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. This presentation focuses on the connection between leadership, effective decision-making, social responsibility, and long-term strategic planning. It also discusses the importance of following a decision and making models to improve performance.
  

• Board Development
  
  
  
• Board Governance
  
  
  
• Board/CEO Relationship
  
  
  
• Communication Skills for the Leader

  Communication basics, listening skills, and non-verbal communication are explored, along with how they play an important role in effective leadership.
  

• Effective and Non-Effective Leadership Styles

  This presentation addresses the range of leadership styles and their related strengths and weaknesses. It also discusses the optimal leadership competencies needed by today's leaders.
  

• Leadership and Conflict

  Learn to become a leader who has the skill and knowledge to both create conflict through change and work collaboratively with all stakeholders through areas of conflict.
  

• Leadership and Ethics

  Your leadership ethics and values should be visible because you live them in your actions every single day. This topic focuses on how ethics form the foundation for successful personal and professional leadership.
  

• Leadership Concepts

  This workshop helps establish a framework for developing your own leadership skills and shows how applying different leadership styles in the right circumstances and understanding available power bases can help make you an exceptional leader.
  

• Leadership Style and its Effect on Organizational Culture and Performance

  This presentation shows how the style of a leader is both mediated by and impacts an organization's culture - and ultimately, its performance.
  

• The Leading Edge

  This highly motivational presentation helps sharpen the essential skills that will get you to the next level and provide the "leading edge."
  

• The Lucky Leader

  Learn how your "luck" as a leader is something within your control through this humorous presentation which explores some of the basic - yet often overlooked - people-related principles and practices that make a leader successful.
  

• Transformational Leadership

  This presentation discusses the four key components of transformational leadership and how they can develop both the leader and the follower.
  

• What Coaching Can Do for Your Organization

  In this session you will learn about the differences between coaching, mentoring, and counseling, as well as how coaching situations, processes, and goal-setting can be used to strengthen your organization.

Better Decision Making 
This workshop will provide you with some easy-to-use tools and methods for making better decisions.

Mergers and Acquisitions: A Human Resources Perspective
Don't let anyone tell you that a merger or acquisition is the union or marriage of two sets of employees. This presentation will explain how it's more like two people who have never dated and now are thrown together because of the wishes of stockholders or boards.

Organizational Culture: Its Role and Impact
This presentation focuses on the behavior that is adopted as the norm within an organization as initially established by a founding father and how it changes due to the values and beliefs subsequent leaders and followers bring to the organization. It also addresses the potential strength and effectiveness of organizational culture and behavior on all stakeholders.

Organizational Change Management
This presentation focuses on the importance of adaptive organizations and the inclusion of all stakeholders in a change process.

Organizations Reorganized for the Future
Learn how your organization can accommodate the needs and conflicting demands of its people using principles of reciprocity as well as motivate, engage, and cross-pollinate its people and their ideas, knowledge, and points of view.

Strategic Planning: Its Importance
This presentation focuses on the key steps of crafting a sound strategic plan, underscoring that any plan is living and evolving, which results in continual planning.

Successful Project Management
This presentation explores tips and techniques to help improve the areas of communication, motivation, and recognition, and demonstrate how to take ownership of your projects, helping get the most out of your team and manage a project to success.

Succession Planning
Learn how to maintain continuity and progress toward the attainment of long-term strategic goals by creating a human resource strategy for ensuring the right people are developed and ready for the right roles.

Succession Plans: How They Affect Women and Promotions
This presentation will focus on succession plans and some common questions that often come up. Are succession plans for everyone? Do they help break the glass ceiling? And how do women fit in?

Tales From the Field
Some of the most valuable lessons are learned from experience. Find the silver lining of problems by improving processes, product quality, and customer relationships.

Diversity in Thinking
In this session you will learn how diversity of thinking turns differentiating genders, ethnicities, and cultures into an advantage by recognizing that it is an essential ingredient in creativity and innovation - two elements that will propel an organization to success.

Mentoring
This presentation is a cross-cultural perspective focusing on what mentoring does for both mentors and mentees.

Motivating Yourself and Others

Motivation Workshop

Retaining the Best and the Brightest

Team Building

Team Dynamics
This presentation defines the components of an effective team and outlines the essential elements for the successful composition of a team as well as how to construct an effective communication process.

Direct Marketing

Marketing Positioning

Marketing Your Business on a Limited Budget
This discussion focuses on what it really means to market a business in a cost-effective way.

The Unbeatable Brand
This interactive presentation focuses on branding at the individual level, focusing on how internal branding will allow everyone in an organization to understand the differentiation factors of the brand and how the brand promise needs to be fulfilled. You will learn how to take advantage of branding opportunities with a brand introduction you’ll develop during the presentation.

What to Expect From an Ad Agency
This discussion covers the role advertising agencies play and what business realistically can expect from them.

Career Change
Some Chinook salmon actually change their sex as they migrate. People don't usually have the same capacity to change careers in midstream. This presentation will show how to make that push to get us moving in a new direction.

Career Planning
When you choose a career, you should go through a four-step process: self, options, match, and action. Through this presentation, you will learn what all of these terms mean and how they can enhance your own career.

Career Selection
Imagine that you could do anything - without the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities. This presentation will help you take that answer and turn it into a fulfilling career.

Choosing the Right Career Path to Happiness
An in-depth presentation addressing how to choose the career path that's best for you.

Coaching
This presentation will explain how coaching is a method of directing, instructing, and training a person or group of people, with the aim to achieve a goal or develop specific career or life skills.

Conflict to Cooperation: A Process for Mediating Group Differences
This presentation provides participants with an understanding of the costs of unproductive conflict and a practical method for ensuring that routine interpersonal conflicts become opportunities for positive collaboration.

Maintaining Balance: Your Personal and Professional Life
Tools and tips for achieving balance between your personal and professional life.

Resume Tune-Up
Does your resume have the appeal to pass the "quick-scan" test of hiring managers? What can you do to get your resume noticed? Through this interactive presentation, you will learn a quick audit that will identify the trouble areas that need work and the eight "red flag" words to avoid.

Succeeding in College

Communication Workshop
How you can improve internal or external communication by following a few simple but vital steps.

Crisis Communication Workshop
Find out how your organization can avoid a media crisis and what to do if one happens.

Improving Business Communication
This presentation explores the dos and don'ts of business communication, using examples of good and bad communication to demonstrate the best ways and what kinds of information to communicate.

Public Relations Workshop
This presentation explores the fundamentals of public relations, including good speechwriting, how to prepare for a press conference, and creating a strong strategic PR plan.

Artificial Intelligence
This presentation covers a variety of topics, primarily focusing on the construction of intelligent systems and their interaction with humans and what we can learn from modeling human intelligence.

Cyber Culture/Pop Culture and Technology
This presentation demonstrates how new directions in technology are bringing us together, not driving us apart, while also highlighting new challenges to how we communicate.

Is Online Learning for You?

Software Architecture
This presentation focuses on large-scale architecture and current techniques like SOA and clouds.

Teaching the Invisible Class

Getting the Most From Your Volunteers

Non-Profit/Volunteer Management

The Non-Profit Organization: Reaching the Vision
This presentation focuses on the interplay between volunteers, staff, and the methods to carry out the mission and reach the vision in today's non-profit organization.

The Nexus Between Institutional Biography and Social Change