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Most Requested Talks
The Authentic Leader:
Women in Power
Women at work are at a crossroads. Our stress is at a record high. Only a third of us are truly engaged in our work. The majority of us don’t even feel safe at work. Only 16% of us feel we are paid fairly and the gender gap in senior leadership continues to expand as women are leaving the workforce faster than we are promoted. We must interrupt this cycle with a new kind of leadership.
Women are in a unique position to emerge as the authentic leaders the world so desperately needs. If we want to win, we must do so through radical self-awareness, skilled empathy, and sound logic. Above all, we must embrace human-centric leadership by being true to ourselves.
In this empowering keynote, author and Wipfli Leadership Consultant Caroline G. Nuttall will show us how to embrace authentic leadership as women. You’ll get individualized data and valuable insight into how you operate today and how you wish to lead with intentionality going forward. We’ll learn the importance of vulnerability-based trust, the foundation for leading ourselves, our clients, and our teams. Finally, we’ll carve a path so we never again have to be on the receiving end of, “Who does she think she is?”
We must be the cycle breakers. Whether you’re at the beginning of your career or the end, the time to build your leadership legacy is now.
Featured Events:
Greater Washington Society of CPAs Women’s Leadership Summit
Association Events
FEARLESSLY FORWARD: Leading Through Adversity
We are navigating rough seas. Industries were turned upside down through the pandemic, we’re battling never-ending staffing challenges, we’re hit with internal barriers, and our employees are on the verge of burnout. And here we are trying to lead through all these challenges not just to survive but to hit continuous growth goals.
It’s easy to blame our hardships on our external challenges. There’s certainly plenty to go around. But this is really a leadership issue. Adversity forces us to ask ourselves, “am I prepared to lead my team through a storm?” The stakes have never been higher to develop ourselves as leaders in order to protect our greatest asset—our people—to re-energize the future of our organization.
We have the opportunity to emerge as authentic leaders well equipped to lead through ambiguity and adversity to drive the future of our brand and workplace. If we want to win, we must do so through radical self-awareness, skilled empathy, and adept resiliency.
In this empowering keynote, author and organizational performance consultant, Caroline Nuttall, will show us how to embrace deep self-awareness and build our resilience skills. We’ll learn the Three Circles of Control to best focus our valuable time and energy. You’ll get curious about how you operate today and how you wish to lead with intentionality going forward. We’ll understand the importance of vulnerability-based trust and determine how to lead others during change. Finally, we’ll take concrete action in putting on our own oxygen masks before assisting others.
Are you ready to lead your team through adversity, ambiguity, and change? Let’s go.
Featured Events:
- Corporate Events
BIG, FAT HEART: How Empathetic Leadership Drives Performance, Profit, and the Future of Work
We are at an unprecedented tipping point. Half of American workers are making career changes in light of the pandemic. Employee engagement has dropped for the first year in a decade. About 75% of employees report symptoms of burnout, and mental health issues have tripled since the start of the pandemic and are continuing to rise. In short, people are over it.
The stakes have never been higher to protect our greatest asset—our people—to re-energize our organizations for the future. Not only do we want to keep our current talent, but the rising workforce—millennials and Gen Z—only want to work for companies that sincerely appreciate them and reflect their idealistic values. And yet, as leaders, we don’t know how to truly care for and nurture our people. A whopping 68% of CEOs view showing empathy in the workplace as a sign of weakness. Our entire culture of leadership has been built on a foundation that is now harmful—one of an alpha archetype of dominance, ego, charisma, and even psychopathic tendencies—and is depleted of increasingly vital social qualities such as empathy and morality. Companies that fail to develop leaders who fundamentally understand and manage the emotions of their people will not survive.
Empathetic Leaders will drive the future of work. We must activate our empathy as an instinctive path to driving success and results in those around us. If we want to win, we must lead with our Big, Fat Hearts.
In this enlightening and empowering keynote, author and leadership development consultant Caroline G. Nuttall will show us how to bridge the empathy gap in the workplace. We’ll understand how to bake empathy into our operating styles and organizational framework to accelerate the performance of our people. Finally, we’ll take concrete action in putting on our own oxygen masks before assisting others, our most important Profit Producing Activity.
Are you ready to lead the future of work? Are you ready to create a better culture that enables our individual and collective success? Frankly, it doesn’t matter if we’re ready or not. American workers have drawn a line in the sand, and now we’re forced to pick a side. Let’s go.
Featured Events:
Chicago Booth Women Network’s Leadership Summit
The E-Team: How to Create a Culture that Attracts and Retains the World’s Best Talent
The stakes have never been higher to attract and retain the best talent. We are doing all we can to better position ourselves over our competitors. We are spending a fortune on creating culture. No matter what we do, disengaged employees and turnover continue to threaten our success.
Meanwhile, we are not even in the running for the best talent on the planet. And if we happen to get lucky enough to somehow land this talent, we’ll never keep them. We are losing the best talent in the world to the biggest competitor we don’t even know we have: Entrepreneurship.
We must bridge the massive gap between entrepreneur and employee. If we want to have the best business possible—which means having the best team possible—we must embrace the E-Team, A-level players of could-be entrepreneurs.
The most successful companies in the world put people first. But not in a doesn’t-that-sound-nice tagline kind of way. Prioritizing individuals above the bottom line is baked into the organizational DNA. Jane’s purpose is your purpose. So is John’s. We must align the organization with each individual to create a Culture of Equilibrium, the only way to thrive as an organization among today’s increasingly self-empowered workforce.
In this enlightening and empowering keynote, author and talent optimizer Caroline G. Nuttall will show us how to attract and retain an E-Team. You’ll learn why entrepreneurs are the best talent to have within your organization and how to make “intrapreneurship” actually work. You’ll learn the keys to leading with purpose and creating an “Us” culture that leads to exponential results. We’ll understand how to stop the broken cycle of corporate structure and ignite the purpose, personalization, and power of our individuals.
Are you ready to untie the corporate noose once and for all and create a better culture that enables our individual and collective success?
Featured Events:
Corporate Events
Retired Talks
Big Fish: How to Stand Out in the Sea of Sameness to Drive Massive Revenue and Raving Fans
It has never been easier to be ignored. Glazed over with the unconscious, habitual swipe of a finger. No matter the industry, we are in a sea of commoditized competitors and how we are marketing is not only wasting our time and money, but is making us more irrelevant every day.
In today’s tactic-overload marketing landscape, we have blinders up to the only problem we have to solve: nobody is listening. And the reason nobody is listening is because we’re all saying the same thing, which means we’re all saying nothing.
The most successful people in business with scaling revenue, raving fans, and massive impact have one thing in common: they stand for something. We have to plant our flag and stop resting on the laurels of our expertise. We must draw a line in the sand and not be afraid to lose audience to unlock the riches in the niches. As the power of the personal brand continues to rise, the urgency has never been greater to say something.
In this insightful and empowering keynote, entrepreneur and ForbesBooks VP Caroline Nuttall will fundamentally change the way we approach marketing. She’ll shift our perspective, identify the real problem we face as marketers, and advise us on how to stop following the misguided best practices of all our competitors and start doing the only thing that matters.
There is only one question we need to ask ourselves to be successful marketers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders: “What do I stand for?”
Featured Events:
SAM: The Sales, Advertising, Marketing Event
The Growth Summit
Content Marketing World