As companies across industries and sectors strengthen their policies to prevent sexual misconduct, it’s easy for organizational leaders to focus on protecting their female employees rather than on creating a culture that truly empowers them to speak up and lead. For companies to retain (and, in many cases, earn back) the trust of their women, position themselves as brands high potential women want to work with, and attract female clients and consumers, it’s time for both male and female leaders to shift from sexual harassment prevention to corporate gender responsibility.

You Will Learn To:

• Discover the key components of an effective corporate gender responsibility initiative—and learn why having one benefits all employees
• Create a company culture that makes it safe for all employees to have daring conversations about gender and power
• Explore actionable strategies for restoring trust and addressing institutionalized and unconscious gender inequality

Every time an employee fails to speak up in the workplace, it costs an organization an estimated $7500 USD. Failing to speak up, whether for oneself, staff, or on behalf of patients, is one of the greatest contributors to employee burnout and turnover, negative reviews, and costly mistakes. In this provocative and timely keynote, audience members demystify the key components of vocal empowerment so they can create a workplace culture that facilitates speaking up. They will explore the mental, physical, social, and professional benefits of vocal empowerment, explore common missed opportunities for vocal empowerment, and through exploring a variety of relevant scenarios, clarify how to communicate during uncomfortable and necessary leadership, staff, and client/patient conversations. This keynote is a perfect fit for healthcare and life science organizations and conferences, but it can be delivered for any group committed to creating a "speak up" culture. It also can be adapted for patient advocacy events.

You Will Learn To:

• Co-create a workplace communication culture where leaders, staff, and clients/patients experience the psychological safety to ask questions, present counter opinions, and move through discomfort and uncertainty
• Develop the mindset and skillset to move through uncomfortable self-talk and physiological sensations that arise when speaking up
• Deliver feedback that is clear, kind, leads to better workplace performance, and minimizes frustration, burnout, and turnover

Many organizations have diversity, equity and inclusion plans, yet too many employees don’t know how to show up as allies for employees with marginalized identities without centering their own voices and experiences in conversations and advocacy. Allyship, the practice of using your voice, power and influence to address the needs of one or more oppressed groups, is the key to creating safety, belonging and dignity for all employees. In this super timely keynote, audience members will clarify specific ways to engage in allyship. They will learn how to spot and address systemic and interpersonal conscious and unconscious bias. And depending on your organization's existing DEI programs and policies, this keynote can be centered around specific strategies to increase allyship for particular groups of employees or support allyship practices transferrable to many marginalized employee groups.

You Will Learn To:

• Use key terminology related to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and allyship plus identify specific areas where individual and collective allyship is needed
• Sculpt language to speak up individually and engage fellow coworkers in championing solutions that create equity and inclusion for all employees
• Create psychological safety for fellow employees to have daring conversations about race, class, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, nationality, culture, religion, age and ability that center the experiences of those with marginalized identities