Audience: Everyone

Do you know how to spot the signs of burnout in yourself, or on your team? The reality is, burnout occurs over time, when you deplete more energy than you replenish - physical, mental, or emotional - and so often we don’t see it coming or consider it a problem until we are broken down. So, how do you see signs earlier? Or better yet, how do you discover what you need earlier so you can make proactive changes to avoid it all together?

In this workshop, Sandhya will share the latest science on work/life burnout and the most critical information you need to prevent or recover from it. She will guide you through ways to evaluate what's working and not working in your current work/life and concrete action steps to start improving your well-being. You'll discover how to stop managing your time and start managing your energy, and gain practical tools to have the conversations you need to make it happen.

In this workshop, you will:

• Learn the three types of energy you have and why they are important to reducing burnout and improving your well-being

• Complete a personal inventory of your work/life to identify your top energy drainers and generators

• Identify the top things you can change in your day to have more energy and feel more motivated

• Practice a new framework for communicating your needs and advocating for your work/life well-being

Audience: Everyone

Women face unique challenges when it comes to attending to the demands of work and home. To top it off, the cultural lessons of our formative years in which we were expected to be “good girls” did not teach us self-advocacy or how to set/communicate healthy boundaries. As a result, we barter personal well-being for the sake of others, often subconsciously & in the sneakiest of ways. Your resultant outward success comes at a cost–a perpetual state of stress and an internal feeling of your actions never being good enough...and maybe a general sense of discontent.

What got you here, your most powerful asset, is actually what’s keeping you from thriving personally and professionally–your brain. And it’s time to reprogram it so you can start creating the life of your dreams. A life filled with success and happiness that is meaningful and sustainable–at work, home, or anywhere in between.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify the types of thought patterns that are keeping you stuck in stress and discontent 

• Learn the three-step-methodology to help you thrive at work, home, or anywhere in between 

• Explore ideas and tools to help you stop jumping through hoops for the sake of others at the cost of your own inner peace 

• Feel empowered to start living the life you want to live today.

Audience: Everyone

Do you struggle to say no? Do you say yes even though you want to say no? Then later resent that you said yes? Or maybe you dodge giving a straight answer altogether so you can avoid saying no?

Setting clear boundaries on who and what you will allow or not allow into your life creates the space for you to live your best life. Unfortunately, many of us struggle to uphold our boundaries. Most of us probably have not even clearly defined what our boundaries are. What will you allow within your boundaries? What will you not allow?

In this workshop, we’ll explore:

• What boundaries are and why they are important

• Types of boundaries and how they function

• Why it’s hard to uphold boundaries 

• How to identify clear boundaries 

• Strategies to set limits and say no with confidence and respect

Audience: Everyone

Team cohesion, or the strength between team members, determines how effective teams will be. If its members are to function as a unit, working closely and efficiently to achieve common goals, there has to be cohesion with the team. On the flip side, what’s the cost of not putting time and attention to building a cohesive team? The cost is steep: low trust, low team member engagement, increased errors, loss of time, turnover, slowed productivity, and the list goes on. 

Strong teams require a level of leadership and ownership no matter what the job title is. In this course, you'll learn easy strategies to build up teams that focus on five areas: trust, conflict, responsibility, accountability, and goal-orientation. 

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Success doesn't come easy, especially when you're trying to navigate the complexities of the modern workplace. That's why having a strong support network of sponsors, mentors, cheerleaders, and confidants is crucial to your career advancement. In this workshop, you'll hear from a panel of accomplished professionals who have successfully built their own support networks. Learn how to create your own network of champions who will lift you up, no matter the challenges you face.

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Are you an Asian American struggling to advance in your career? Despite your critical contributions to your workplace, do you feel invisible and passed over for promotions? Discover the strategies and tools to work through these barriers and advance in your career.

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As an Asian professional, you may be facing stereotypes that limit your career opportunities. But don't let these negative perceptions hold you back. In this workshop, you'll hear from successful executives who have overcome stereotyping by building their personal brand and reputation. Learn how to showcase your strengths, passions, and ambitions to overcome stereotypes and advance in your career.

Audience: People Managers

Numerous studies show that when our people feel empowered to bring their full selves to work, employee engagement and team performance improve, while burnout decreases significantly. So, why aren't we all doing it? The reality is that most can’t, won’t, or don’t want to because their work environment isn’t a place where they feel their full self is welcome - even when the leader has the best intentions to make it that way.

In this workshop, Sandhya will share the top challenges to showing up authentically at work and discuss how the team environment you create plays a critical role in encouraging (or discouraging) your people to be themselves. She will guide you through actionable steps that you as a manager and leader can take to assess where you are today and what your team needs to be even better, by creating a more inclusive team culture that builds a sense of belonging and enables your people to thrive.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Unlock your team's fulfillment and performance potential by understanding and managing to the intrinsic motivations of your people

• Recognize the biases you show up with as a leader, how they impact your team, and what to do about them

• Create a more inclusive environment by designing for differences in thinking and communication styles in your team's operations and practices

Audience: Everyone

Pumping breast milk while working at your desk. Cooking dinner while helping with homework. Scheduling doctors appointments during lunch. Working from home to accommodate school holidays. Comforting a crying child while refereeing an argument. Taking meetings while your kids do their activities. It doesn’t take much observation to see that mothers have an entire skill set that is grossly unappreciated and undervalued–especially in the workplace. Task management, delegation, prioritization, & emotional awareness are just a few examples.

In our effort to please everyone and do everything, we find ourselves always at odds with time. This constant race with the clock leaves us feeling exhausted, undervalued, and unfulfilled in our relationships personally and professionally.

This interactive workshop is designed to give participants a welcoming space to be validated and understood, provide insights into how they experience time, and teach easily-applicable, simple tools to make peace with the “tik-tok” of the clock.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Unstick yourself from the overwhelm, frustration, and guilt you experience from your schedules and to-do lists 

• Discover the life-changing shift you can make TODAY to start feeling more fulfilled, productive, and present in every aspect of life 

• Start setting healthy boundaries and saying "no" with compassion with a simple tool you can practice immediately.

Audience: Everyone

Are you a kind and generous person, but find yourself exhausted in some relationships because you’re over-giving? Do you sacrifice your own comfort for the comfort of others? Do you feel guilty for even thinking about your own needs and wants?

Women who put themselves first are happier and more successful. Yet, for many Asian women, our upbringing has taught us that to be a good person we have to put the needs of others ahead of our own. In fact, we’ve come to believe that expressing our own needs is selfish. The result? The Pleaser Saboteur can lead to burnout, resentment, and jeopardize your happiness and success. 

During this interactive workshop, we will unpack

• Misconceptions about the Pleaser Saboteur

• How the Pleaser Saboteur is holding you back

• How to detect when the Pleaser Saboteur has hijacked your brain

• Strategies & practices to break the Pleaser Saboteur cycle and speak up for your needs and wants

Audience: Everyone

A March 8th 2023 Forbes article stated that 57% of employees quit their job in 2021 because they felt disrespected at work. According to a recent Human Workplace Index survey, 36% of employees plan to leave their job in 2023. It’s time for leaders to examine or revisit employee retention strategies.

In this course, you’ll discover 4 simple ways to keep your team members engaged and happy at work. We’ll specifically talk about the employee lifecycle at on-boarding, on going engagement, development, and off-boarding.

Audience: People Managers

True leadership is not a title or role that you are given - it’s earned based on how you show up. Leading effectively requires a level of authenticity as it needs to be grounded in who you are, what’s important to you, and what you’re good at. This can be challenging for API women because it requires you to show up with confidence, lean into your strengths and take up space. The good news is that there is a way to do this that honours your lived experiences and personal and cultural values as an API woman. 

This workshop is designed for new managers who are finding their authentic leadership style, individual contributors who want to become effective people leaders, or seasoned managers who want to lead more authentically. Workshop participants will learn how to:  

• Clarify the core values that are important to you 

• Define the strengths or gifts that set you apart as a leader

Audience: Individual Contributors, Team Leads, and Managers working in a team and/or with other teams. 

We all have different working styles, so naturally we will disagree on how to work together. It is important to make sure we’re aligned on the essentials in order to work effectively across job functions and teams. This experiential workshop will share how to align on those essentials, and provide opportunities to practice aligning within the context of your work situation.

Objectives:

• Learn how to align on the what, why, how, and who on the work we need to do cross-functionally and cross-team.

• Learn how to align on how we’re progressing across functions and teams.

Outcomes:

• A set of questions for you to walk through with the other function/team to help you align on the work you're doing together.

• A personalized assessment on how you’re doing on alignment on the what, why, how, who, and how you’re progressing across functions and teams.

Audience: Leaders, Revenue Growth Roles

In this new era, the new psychology for influence, inspiration, sales, and revenue growth has changed and we need to take a new approach to persuade our employees, earn new customers, increase referrals, and maximize opportunities for partnership and repeat business.

If you've ever found yourself facing resistance to your ideas - you're not alone. Even when we have a great idea that will affect enormous change, we don't always get the reaction - or action - we're hoping for.

We spend the majority of our energy making our ideas and changes more compelling, more interesting, more attractive -- pouring on the fuel -- that we don't consider the frictions that are working against us. 

In this interactive session, join 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker and Workplace Performance Expert, Henna Pryor, to uncover and explore the 4 main reasons why people resist change, and more importantly, how to overcome them to leverage the NEW psychology of influence, so we can move our ideas, initiatives, team members, and mission forward.

Audience: Current, Rising or Aspiring Leaders/Managers 

The way we communicate with one another matters. The key to boosting your leadership presence is building your communication strategies because your influence and impact as a leader is greatly affected by WHAT you say and HOW you say it. It becomes even more difficult when your cultural values conflict with what society expects of you as a leader. In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to create engaging and effective dialogue with your team, peers, and leaders while increasing your credibility and staying true to your values.

Outline:

• Why communication strategies are the key to an effective leadership presence

• Turning off communication autopilot and identifying conflicting cultural values (what’s in the way)

• Key communication techniques:

  • Connecting and Context

  • Clarity and Consistency

  • Listening and Awareness

  • Engagement and Insight

• Learning each technique with examples and role play breakout or in-session volunteers

Programming Summary

Are you struggling to find a work-life balance in today's post-pandemic world? Don't let stress and exhaustion hold you back from achieving your personal and professional goals. Join our workshop and learn from successful executives who have developed the best practices to manage their time and energy. Discover their secrets to staying productive and focused, while still enjoying a fulfilling personal life.

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Your Asian heritage instilled in you values like hard work, attention to detail, big-picture thinking, and empathy. These are the strengths that can set you apart in your career. Join our workshop and hear from successful executives who have leveraged their Asian values to overcome obstacles and thrive in their careers. Learn how to harness your unique strengths to stand out and achieve your professional goals.

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If you aspire to leadership positions, strategic thinking is a must-have skill. In this workshop, you'll hear from experienced executives who have honed their strategic thinking skills and climbed the corporate ladder. Discover what companies expect from their leaders and learn how to develop your own strategic mindset to succeed in your career.

Audience: Everyone

For many folks, asking for what you need in the workplace can be extremely difficult. This is even more challenging when we’re not used to prioritizing and/or voicing our needs. This could be asking for:

• Help from a colleague;

• Better work/life balance;

• The promotion you’ve worked really hard for; or

• The raise you deserve. 

For many API women, cultural, gender and societal norms and expectations have a direct impact on our capacity to prioritize our needs. Maybe you’ve internalized that asking for help is a sign of weakness. Or you feel selfish for burdening others with your needs. Or you worry that you’ll seem greedy and ungrateful to ask for more than what you have. Because of this discomfort, it can often feel easier to dismiss your needs. While that may feel like an easier option, you lose the opportunity to advocate for yourself in the workplace and limit your leadership potential by not fulfilling the needs that allow you to do your best work. 

This workshop is designed for all leaders who want to be able to advocate for themselves more effectively in the workplace. Workshop participants will learn how to:  

• Understand the benefits of prioritizing and voicing your needs

• Build your capacity and confidence to advocate for yourself in the workplace

Audience: Individual Contributors, Team Leads, and Managers working on a team

We are learners for life. Throughout our career, we get to learn and develop ourselves in context of our team needs. This experiential workshop will share a career growth framework for you to learn and practice in order to help you grow in your career while delivering on your team’s business needs, such that when the team wins, everyone benefits.

Objectives:

• Learn how to grow your career in the context of what your team needs.

• Learn how to connect your work to what is critical for the business, in a sustainable way.

• Learn how to connect your work to the skills you need to develop.

• Learn how to connect your work to what fulfills you.

Outcomes:

• Experiential practice of a career growth framework.

• A personalized career growth plan for the quarter.

• Self-awareness and an action plan on what is critical to the business and what is you and your team’s capacity.

Audience: Everyone

Risk-taking sounds good in theory, but most of us have a hard time moving from wishful thinking to execution. Why? Because when we have a chance to take a risk in the moment, we feel awkward - and that awkwardness bumps up against our deep desire for others to approve of us and what we do. As it turns out, it’s what we improve in the face of taking risks -- often despite others’ judgment -- that leads to the greatest growth. After all, the fastest path to major improvement comes from strengthening what’s weak, rather than what’s strong.

Join Workplace Performance Expert and 2x TEDx and Global Keynote Speaker, Henna Pryor, and learn why conditioning for awkward is your secret weapon for strengthening your risk-taking muscle - and how to do it right.

Audience: Everyone

It’s been said that women are effective negotiators when they advocate for others. But they typically stop short when asking for what they want, what they deserve, or what they’re worth. This interactive session will teach you the strategies needed to actively advocate for yourself and negotiate effectively across your career (eg. compensation packages, promotions, and development opportunities).