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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 scientific literature so that the takeaways are valid and successful; and (3) weaving stories into the speech to make it memorable. 

The speeches I've given fall into three primary categories: (1) management; (2) leadership; and (3) career development, with a particular emphasis on mentoring, my greatest area of expertise. Below are some specific speeches I've given within these topical areas.

 

1) Management

  1. distinguishing fact from fiction about millennials and how to engage and motivate them

  2. Who are Generation Zers and how manage them when they join the workplace

  3. What five recent scientific breakthroughs can tell us about being great managers

  4. Harnessing authentic you as a manager without going overboard

2) leadership

  1. Mentoring, sponsorship and the C-Suite

  2. The future of women’s leadership: Where do we go from here?

  3. Propelling women to the C-Suite and corporate boards

  4. Defining the ceiling you want to break

  5. Do it anyway: What science tells women lacking confidence

3) Career Development

  1. Mutual, not traditional or reverse, mentoring as the way to grow talent

  2. Become the ideal mentor: Simultaneously be a mentor, coach, sponsor and protégé

  3. Don’t create a career, create a life

  4. Build your own personal board of advisors

  5. How to live a happy and meaningful life