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As a management professor, I'm often asked to speak on management and leadership topics, which I greatly enjoy. My approach to speaking involves (1) ensuring that the audience has practical takeaways that they can implement in their careers; (2) incorporating the scientific literature on that topic so that the takeaways are valid and the right ones; and (3) weaving stories into the speech to make it more memorable.
The speeches I've given fit three primary categories: (1) management; (2) leadership; and (3) career development, with a particular emphasis on mentoring. (The latter is my greatest area of expertise.) Below are some specific speeches I've given within these topical areas.
Peak Performing Management (Sample Speeches Below)
- What five recent scientific breakthroughs can tell us about being great managers?
Career Development
- Mutual, not traditional or reverse, mentoring as the way to grow talent
- Become the ideal mentor: Simultaneously be a mentor, coach, sponsor and protégé
- Don’t create a career, create a life
- Build your own personal board of advisors
- How to live a happy and meaningful life
Women’s Leadership
- Mentoring, sponsorship and the C-Suite
- The future of women’s leadership: Where do we go from here?
- Propelling women to the C-Suite and corporate boards
- Defining the ceiling you want to break
- Do it anyway: What science tells women lacking confidence