Dr. Mary Kelly

We have all seen the news where the head of a very visible corporation suddenly becomes sick, or worse, dies, throwing the organization into chaos. We need to have contingency plans in place for a sudden senior-level departure, but we also need a long-term, strategic plan that includes the routine and scheduled departure of team members. Whether due to promotion, retirement, or other factors, the reality is, people leave organizations. One day you will, too.

Every organization needs to plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. This program, based on the award-winning book, Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy simplifies the succession planning process and gives you the framework and the tools you need to build and implement your leadership succession planning. Whether you are part of a small family business or a Fortune 500 company, you need to start planning out for who comes next.

Specifically, this program identifies:

• How to start a customized succession plan ready for immediate incorporation and implementation
• Proven methodologies for building your leadership bench so top talent can step into increased roles and responsibilities
• Powerful techniques to build long, loyal, and highly-engaged leaders
• Secrets to aligning your succession plan to your strategic objectives
• Innovative strategies to get you out of the “urgent” phase, and into a culture of continuous leadership development

Leaders Fail and the 7 Prescriptions for Success is a corporate training and conference keynote that is based on data and delivered in a way that entertains and engages audiences of all levels. Great leadership, if you are doing it right, is hard. Being a great leader is more than just showing up, going through the motions, sitting in the big chair, and getting paid. Great leaders are always thinking about how they can become even better for their organizations, their people, and themselves. Our goal with this research was to identify areas where great leaders can become even better. We surveyed over 100,000 employees in over 70 different industries and gathered the data and then categorized it into seven critical areas which define successful leaders. The 7 critical areas are Vision, Trust, Teamwork, Empathy, Fairness, Humility, and Decision-making.

In this highly engaging and deeply effective book and program, leaders will gain insights to:

• Understand why your top talent is not performing up to their top potential
• Learn specific actions that lead to both short-term and long-term success
• Control and manage how you are perceived by your team, your peers, and your leadership
• Identify small actions that sabotage the loyalty and productivity of the people around you
• Using the 7 Prescriptions for Success Assessment, leaders are able to focus their energies on the activities that maximize their time and resources

More than 45% of today’s workforce are millennials. Ten thousand boomers are retiring each day. There are three million vacant job opportunities in the US. Companies are in a race to secure the right talent that will ensure their business survives the shifting workforce. Team leaders are navigating the new ways of the workplace…. remote work, less direct communication, employee loneliness, and dissatisfaction. It’s a brave new world and you’ve got to be A.R.M.E.D.

In one of Mary’s most popular keynotes, you’ll learn to:

• Attract the right customers and people to your organization
• Recruit/Retain the right talent to serve customers and create experiences
• Mentor/Manage current and emerging leaders to full potential
• Evolve forward-thinking leadership as the corporate culture
• Develop teams and talent for future success

Do your people understand the six stages of a crisis? Do your leaders recognize the stage their people are in and do they react appropriately? Are your leaders leading, or just hoping for the right outcomes?

• Understand the six stages of any change, challenge, or crisis.
• Implement the five ways to P.I.V.O.T. through the crisis.
• Use the seven leadership reminders to lead out of a crisis.

In order to successfully lead people through and out of a crisis, first, we have to understand the 6 stages of the crisis. Based on her Navy experiences during the first and second Gulf Wars and 9-11, Commander Mary Kelly articulates the reactions of people in various stages of change, challenge, or crisis. As effective leaders, we have to be able to help our people P.I.V.O.T. through the crisis, by renewing their sense of purpose, influencing and inspiring others to take the right action, assessing the volatility levels, seeing the opportunities, providing the right tools, techniques, and technology that allow people to succeed. Then we can apply Mary’s seven leadership reminders, using the acronym C.L.A.M.P.E.R. so that we are providing the right response to the right people at the right time to achieve the right outcomes.

“Navigating Turbulence” equips leaders with the skills, strategies, and resilience needed to steer their teams through times of crisis, overcome challenges, and embrace change.

Strategic Leadership During Crisis

• Refine the art of strategic decision-making under pressure.
• Develop crisis communication skills that inspire confidence and maintain team morale.
• Understand successful crisis management across various industries.

Build Resilient and Happy Teams During Challenges

• Recognize the psychological dynamics of resilience and its impact on team performance.
• Foster a culture of adaptability and innovation within your team.
• Implement strategies to bolster individual and collective resilience.
• See what happy workplaces are doing right and adapt those techniques.

Embrace Change Management

• Master the principles of effective change leadership.
• Use Mary’s toolkit for leading teams through organizational transitions.
• Gain insights into how to manage resistance.

Using the acronym, P.I.V.O.T. leaders reinvigorate their teams with a sense of purpose; they are prepared to inspire and influence others every day, they assess volatile situations in the right way, they see opportunities when others see only problems, and make sure their teams have the tools, techniques, training, and tactics they need to succeed. This program is for executives, managers, and leaders across industries committed to enhancing their leadership skills and guiding their teams through the complexities of crisis, challenge, and change.

Leaders develop stronger strategies, better decisions, and achieve faster results when they understand economic forces. Changes in interest rates, imports, investments, housing trends, trade, and tariffs…do today’s news headlines have your stomach in knots? What do the changes in the current economy mean for your business?What do they mean for your own career? What do they mean for your family?

Join Dr. Mary Kelly, one of the world’s most influential economists, as she exposes the true meaning of the current economic situation and what this means for your organization’s future.

• Learn to operate and make decisions from facts and data, not emotions
• Understand what the changes in international trade mean for your industry
• Gain a valuable understanding of today’s economy to improve profits and safeguard your businesses’ bottom line
• Prepare your team for what is to come in 2025 and beyond