Want to take your leadership style to the next level?

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Looking to elevate your team’s outcomes and create cohesion? Outspoken speakers can help you lead the way with:

👉 EMPATHY

👉 RESILIENCE

👉 AGILITY

👉 TRANSPARENCY

Empathy is not just a feeling we extend to others in moments of crisis—it's a practice that's essential to establishing (and keeping) trust and connection. And though we may be able to cultivate this in our individual lives, making it part of company culture is a challenge to integrate and maintain.

Award-winning entrepreneur and leadership expert Michael Ventura has been training leaders for more than two decades, using tools from his book to help them (and their teams) practice empathy and catalyze change from within that lasts. He explains that "The emergence of high-performing teams starts to really happen after about six months of practicing this," pointing out that while many may see empathy as a gift, it's actually a skill set that can be taught and mastered. Michael's methods have been heralded as a touchstone in a new era of leadership development, and he can help you welcome this change in your organization, too.

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👉 Discovering Your Empathic Frequency

Building trust and resilience is complicated, especially within organizations. But as the landscape of work evolves, our ability to connect on a more personal level and help each other bounce back from challenges offers a clear path to finding success, and perhaps even finding ourselves actually thriving again.

Dr. Paula Stone Williams works with teams across all sectors of business, membership-based associations, non-profits/foundations and communities to make this happen. An internationally known speaker on gender equity, LGBTQ advocacy and human understanding, Paula is a model for rebounding from personal and professional setbacks. When Paula transitioned from a man to a woman in her 60s, she lost everything—her job, her friends, her church, her pension, and her identity. She can help you tap into your own resilience and teach you how to bounce back even after the toughest challenges.

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👉 Lost Is a Place too: Finding Resiliency in Difficult Times

Coined "The Oprah of Management Thinkers," Erica Dhawan is the world's leading authority on collaboration and innovation. Erica helps leaders build agile teams, sharing her strategies for identifying their "connector types" and leveraging their talent in a pathway to success. This approach to "Connectional Intelligence" helps transform people into super connectors who accelerate innovation, break down silos, and foster breakthrough impact. 

Erica also helps top leaders elevate their style with her game-changing methodology for mastering "digital body language." Based on her newest book, Erica explains that, as important as body language is in our physical offices, Digital Body Language can make or break high performance in our hybrid workspaces. From her strategies for leveraging team members' best qualities to her groundbreaking concepts for understanding communication in the 21st century, Erica can help you establish more agile organizations that are setup for success. 

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👉 Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

The strongest leaders are transparent with their teams. Letting down the mask to acknowledge vulnerabilities, sharing essential information from the top, and communicating often and clearly (just to start) are the markers of strong management. In order to grow a successful organization and maintain top talent, establishing a solid feedback loop between leadership and employees is essential. 

Employee retention strategist Watchen Nyanue helps leaders elevate their management styles by tapping into their vulnerability, and thus, build trust with employees and act as a mentor when it matters most. With more than a decade of executive experience, Watchen understands the importance of establishing relationships within organizations that are built of trust and transparency—especially for your team members who are often overlooked or marginalized. 

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👉 Unfiltered: What Your Black Employees Arent Saying

Outspoken Agency is a women-owned speaking agency representing leaders, founders, public intellectuals, authors and entertainers for paid keynotes, workshops and panels at in-person and virtual events. Learn more about our female founders here.