Anne Grady

Anxiety, stress, and burnout are at an all-time high, and if we don’t take time to reset, the physical and psychological results can be catastrophic. More than training, education, or experience, your resilience determines your success, personally and professionally. Fortunately, resilience is a set of skills and habits that can be learned and cultivated. Learn how to take back control, make stress work for you, and cultivate a resilient mindset, skill set, and the ability to reset.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Practice brain-based strategies to offset your negativity bias.
• Shift the way your brain interprets and responds to stress.
• Develop a toolbox full of resilience-building skills.
• Utilize mindfulness to reset your nervous system.
• Build emotional reserves to prevent and combat burnout.

Resilient leaders cultivate emotional intelligence and strong relationships, and they facilitate learning and personal development through everyday experiences. More importantly, these exceptional leaders create a culture of psychological safety, the number one predictor of high-performing teams. Using the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, this session provides a road map to developing resilient leaders, teams, and organizations.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Create a culture of psychological safety.
• Leverage emotional intelligence to build connection, credibility, and trust.
• Improve personal and team engagement and well-being.
• Gain alignment on expectations and priorities.
• Foster a growth mindset culture.

Your brain does something differently when you are focused on comparing vs. improving. By learning your fixed mindset triggers, you can make conscious choices about the way you approach adversity, problem solving, creativity, and more. Learn to assess your current mindset and develop habits that turn adversity into opportunity.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Define characteristics of fixed and growth mindsets.
• Uncover self-limiting beliefs that may be sabotaging your success.
• Identify personal fixed mindset triggers.
• Develop strategies to shift from a fixed to growth mindset.
• Build skills to improve creativity, problem solving, and decision making.

Harness the power of your emotions to navigate change and uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and positively influence the people around you. Learn the critical skills needed to accelerate your emotional intelligence.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Assess your current levels of EQ.
• Understand the role of emotions in your personal and professional success.
• Practice science-based strategies to regulate and manage emotions.
• Build self-awareness and uncover blind spots.
• Utilize mindfulness to build EQ.

This session dispels the myth of work life balance and instead helps you to define success and focus on what’s most important. Learn to proactively manage your stress response, identify high-payoff activities, and develop habits that will help you improve focus, energy, and attention.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Break out of reactivity to think strategically.
• Identify personal and professional high-payoff activities.
• Develop an integrated personal and professional goal setting model.
• Create strategies to minimize interruptions, fires, and emergencies.
• Cultivate mindfulness as a productivity tool.

While workload, deadlines and shifting priorities are stressful, it is our relationships with others that cause most workplace challenges. Conflict can easily turn into combat, and we often communicate to be right, rather than get it right. Building the skills and habits that promote effective communication and collaboration is what separates good leaders from great ones. Learn actionable strategies to build self-awareness and emotional intelligence, improve communication and influence, and tap into the strengths and motivators of others.

By the end of the session, employees will be able to:

• Build connection, authenticity, and trust with emotional intelligence.
• Assess, identify and modify communication style for maximum effectiveness.
• Tap into individual motivators and strengths.
• Learn brain-based influence strategies.
• Create a collaborative environment that drives results.