KELLI THOMPSON

We often promote people from doer to leader and assume a magic transformation will happen, but high achievers may struggle to become strategic leaders because it's tempting to believe the myth that "doing all the things" will help them achieve their goals and become respected leaders. This is especially challenging for women who navigate an extra layer of challenges like the unpaid workload, and taking on this unpaid work often keeps women labeled as "unstrategic." This session teaches you simple tools to stop saying yes when you need to say no, break the overwhelm cycle, and shift your identity from doer to leader, not by doing more, but by doing L.E.S.S. so you can step into the confident, empowered leader you are meant to be.

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We often promote people from doer to leader and assume a magic transformation will happen - that they'll shed the identity they had as a doer, and evolve overnight into a strategic leader who is comfortable coaching, delegating and making hard decisions.

High achievers may struggle to become strategic leaders because it's tempting to believe the myth that "doing all the things" will help them achieve their goals and become respected leaders. After all, it was being a great "doer" that earned them recognition and promotions - it's part of their identity. This is especially challenging for women who navigate an extra layer of challenges like the unpaid workload. Women get 44 percent more requests at work to volunteer for unpaid, non-promotable tasks. In addition, taking on this unpaid work often keeps women labeled as "unstrategic."

This session teaches simple tools to help you:

• Stop saying yes when you need to say no
• Break the overwhelm cycle, express your expectations, and set healthy boundaries
• Shift your identity from doer to leader and delegate wisely

To be an effective strategic and development-focused leader, more is not always better, in fact, it leads to burnout and resentment for the leader and their team. It's time for women to level up their leadership and transform their role from doer to leader, not by doing more, but by doing L.E.S.S. After this session, participants will be able to:

• Apply the L.E.S.S. framework to improve their leadership skills, develop their team and reclaim their time for more strategic pursuits
• Limiting Beliefs: Recognize the four common beliefs that keep them in the overwhelm cycle, saying yes when they should say no
• Express Expectations: Clearly communicate expectations that result in successful outcomes
• Shift Their Identity From Doer To Leader: Level up their leadership skills and identify their strategic priorities
• Start Delegating: Use a simple three step framework clean up their calendar and develop their team through delegation

Despite having more women than ever in leadership roles today, doubt, imposter feelings, and systemic issues like gendered expectations and likability biases are costly, holding women back from their peace, their potential, and their paychecks. In this keynote based on Kelli's critically acclaimed book, you'll hear deeply personal stories and walk away with practical tools to own your unique leadership style, stop allowing doubt to hold you back, and speak up in the rooms where decisions are made to drive results. After all, it's not that successful leaders never feel doubt, it's that they've learned to lead successfully while also feeling doubt.

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What would you do if you had a little more confidence? Would you take the next step in your career, assume more leading roles, set boundaries, ask for a raise, or even run for office?

Despite having more women than ever in leadership roles today, doubt and imposter feelings are a big reason women hold back and play small instead of going for what they truly desire at work. Coupling this with gendered expectations and likability biases women experience in the workplace today, it's no wonder that so many women are undervaluing themselves and their abilities.

These doubtful thoughts and systemic issues are expensive—they cost women (and their organizations) their peace, their potential, and in their paychecks.

To close the confidence gap and see more women showing up in their full potential at work, we need more women leaders at the top of organizations using their unique leadership style and approach. There are many ways to define executive presence and when you show up like someone else, you give away the power that makes you - YOU.

In this keynote based on Kelli's critically acclaimed book, you'll hear deeply personal stories and walk away with practical tools to:

• Own your unique leadership style and use it to make lasting impact
• Stop allowing doubt and imposter feelings to hold you back
• Speak up in the rooms where decisions are made to drive results

After all, it's not that successful leaders never feel doubt, it's that they've learned to lead successfully while also feeling doubt. Confidence is a side effect of taking action.

Participants will learn how to boost their peace, potential and their paycheck by:

• 1. Recognizing the true causes of the confidence gap and learning practical tools to close it
• 2. Owning the peace that comes with accepting their unique leadership style and using their unique talents for a powerful presence and lasting impact
• 3. Recognize the sneaky causes of doubt and imposter feelings and learn simple tools to boost their confidence and leadership potential in the moments that matter
• 4. Stop self-silencing and learn to advocate in the rooms where decisions are made, boosting everyone's paycheck

It's so common to let nerves and doubt get the best of us, keeping us silent in the meeting, only to think of everything we wanted to say after it ends, and as we level up, greater exposure to new leaders and audiences can bring more doubt and nerves. With a higher-level audience, the stakes rise and the time shortens to show up confidently, deliver a clear message, and make the asks you need, and the key to success isn't to add more content, but to subtract for clarity. Participants will learn practical tools to navigate the uncomfortable emotions that arise with speaking up, clearly communicate their value at work, and compel others to take action, because you don't "find" your voice, you remove everything standing in the way of it.

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It's so common to let nerves and doubt get the best of us, keeping us silent in the meeting, only to think of everything we wanted to say after it ends. As we level up, greater exposure to new leaders and audiences can bring more doubt and nerves, and that's not surprising. Studies show that 75% of the population fears public speaking in some form and people are experiencing social anxiety returning to in-person group settings. Yet, when you speak up, you inspire others to do the same (especially for women leaders who are more influenced by watching her leader go first)

All too often, we remain "on mute" when we worry about what people will think about the ideas and goals we want to share. However, the world is noisy. People are busy. Inboxes are full. No one is paying attention to you as much as you think. When we don't clearly express our hard-earned results, goals and desires, our leaders are left to guess. When you aren't clear with your leader, your leader can't be clear with others about you when you are not in the room.

With a higher-level audience, the stakes rise and the time shortens to show up confidently, deliver a clear message, and make the asks you need. How do you cut through the noise to clearly articulate your unique point of view, your value and compel others to act? The key to success isn't to add more content, but to subtract for clarity.

Participants in this session will learn tools to boost their confidence and practice a model for speaking up and advocating at work. They'll learn practical strategies to:

• Navigate the uncomfortable emotions that arise with speaking up at work
• Identify the unique perspective that is only theirs to share
• Get off "mute" and use an advocacy model to communicate their perspectives and ideas with clarity and conciseness
• Clearly communicate their value at work to advance their career, even when time is short
• Compel others to take action on their ideas

This powerful session receives rave reviews for its unique and counterintuitive approach to finding the clarity and confidence to speak up and influence others to action.

After all, you don't "find" your voice, you remove everything standing in the way of it.