Turning Meaning Into Momentum: Learning to Say No So We Can Say Hell YES!

Takeaways/Learnings

• What leaders get wrong about the prioritization dilemma.

• The top 3 reasons strategic initiatives fail and how to overcome them.

• Why saying no is hard and how to get past it—no matter who you are or what level you work.

• Discerning the meaningful from the meaningless.

• How to turn individual meaning into organizational momentum in 5 ‘tried and true’ steps that can be implemented across all levels of the organization.

• Inspire and model a culture that does less but achieves more!

Actions attendees could take to implement advice shared:

• Be the leadership who finally gets the prioritization dilemma right and builds the practices and discipline needed to sustain ongoing improvements and growth plans.

• Become the change champion for defining and implementing strategies and plans that are not only achieved, but have the full ownership and commitment of all those involved.

• Recognize the difference between must have and nice to have and balance your portfolio of goals and projects accordingly.

• Achieve more by doing less!

Keynote Overview

This keynote, which can also be offered as a webinar or workshop, is best suited for a leadership meeting or summit where the attendees are accountable for building a healthy culture and modeling the practices and behaviors that will help their employees thrive.

When we look at someone successful, we often skip right to what a person has done. We look for lists of accomplishments, challenges they have overcome, and the titles and accolades that follow them. While we absolutely make an impact on the world through our actions, our actions should be a natural extension of who we are.  Instead, what we do…has become the definition of who we are. 

As a result, we have lost our way. We have blurred the relationship between who we are and what we do. We have in essence, given up our power and lost connection to our soul’s desires. At an organizational level, we have sacrificed engagement for outcomes, at the expense of our people and ultimately to who we serve. No one truly wins. 

Instead of building a culture that thrives, leadership is caught in the trap of consciously or unconsciously creating cultures where employees are over-doing and over-efforting most everything. We are building cultures that do not have the discipline to say no, even to the wrong things, so they can say yes to all the right things.

How would it feel instead, to know deep in your gut as a leader, that you are saying yes to the right things for the right reasons? You are saying yes not because you have to, but because you want to. As a result, everything you and your teams say yes to, is from the beginning, an intention you make with full commitment to achieve— without taking you down!

Pulling from her 25 years of experience leading transformational change in global organizations and her own story of being a ‘doing addict’, Renée builds a case for learning to regularly say no so leaders and organizations can say yes to the right things with results they want and the balance their employees need.

Leading Whole: Valuing the Masculine & Feminine in All of Us

Key Takeaways/Learnings

• Understand the traits that are most activated and visible in you today.

• See clearly how the balance between your own feminine and masculine is being demonstrated today and how this helps or hinders you from taking authentic action. 

• See where you hold any bias for one or the other and how that is playing out.

• New insights around this component of your leadership— the impact on your presence and capacity to lead— and what you want to shift or change. 

Actions attendees could take to implement advice shared:

• Be a catalyst for meaningful and actionable conversations around how to bring both masculine and feminine leadership traits into the way they think, lead and act.

• Deepen their appreciation for both and become advocates for change where needed in their organizations. 

Keynote Overview

This keynote, which can also be offered as a session or workshop, acknowledges that leadership is about leading whole, not leaving any part of yourself out. Each leader brings a unique set of characteristics, experiences, preferences and ideas to this role and as a result, creates their unique legacy.

We have heard stories of women leaders feeling like or actually being asked to show up more like men, even though it is clear this advice is greatly faulted. Women who act like men are seen as ingenuous, incongruent and ineffective. It harms those they lead and it harms them. So what are we really asking for? I believe more than ever, that today, what we are asking is for both men and women to recognize and value equally, feminine and masculine traits inherent in all of us. 

In general, more women than men might more naturally demonstrate feminine traits such as connection, mutuality or empathy. On the flip side, more men than women might more naturally demonstrate masculine traits such as objectivity, independence and risk taking. Does that mean women can not be risk takers or men can't be empathetic? Of course not. But until we value both traits equally, which in many environments we still may not, both men and women suffer. Their unique leadership is stifled and limited, therefore, their impact is minimized and this is why we should care about this. 

As masculine traits have been more rewarded and seemingly more familiar, women may lean too far into their masculinity, often at the expense of losing their femininity. In this case, both men and women lose and I am passionate about helping to ensure this doesn't continue. Both men and women, any gender, should have full access to both feminine and masculine traits necessary and relevant to leadership at all levels in all organizations. This session explores this dilemma and opens the door to new and more expansive possibilities for both men and women.

Cultivating Confidence, Purpose & Authenticity: From the Inside Out

Key Takeaways/Learnings·     

• Explore five ‘non-traditional’ pre-cursors to confidence

  • Live Deeply

  • Value Connection

  • Welcome Growth

  • Be Intentional

  • Show Up Fully

• Learn three ways to achieve greater inner and outer alignment

  • Know who you are

  • Align what you do with who you are

  • Do the work life asks of you

• Be inspired to step into our full purpose, power, and authenticity

• Discover 10 ways to live a life of your choosing!

Keynote Overview

This keynote, which can also be offered as a webinar or workshop, inspires attendees to cultivate confidence from the inside out. As a result, they set themselves on a path to live and lead with greater purpose and authenticity.

We have all heard the saying “confidence comes from within”. For the most part, it’s true. On the other-hand, it can feel overwhelming to build if you don’t authentically feel it. Through personal stories and over 25 years of experience developing leaders and teams in international settings, Renée has defined 5 ‘non-traditional’ pre-cursors to confidence that are cultivated from the inside out with lasting and meaningful impact.

Join Renée as she takes her audience on a journey to not simply build confidence but inspire more purposeful and authentic ways of living and leading that can be expressed in every area of life— a life uniquely expressed and chosen by them!