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Anne Loehr
Generational Guru
Anne Loehr
Generational Guru
Biography
Anne Loehr is a sought-after author, executive coach, facilitator, and consultant who helps leaders of large and small organizations successfully move from talk to action. She was recently #57 in Onalytica’s list of the top 100 DEI influencers for gender equality and diversity around the world.
As a training and development expert with 25 years of hands-on experience on three continents, she has designed and delivered employee development, leadership, diversity and executive coaching programs for Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and government organizations. Her coachees include C-Suite leaders, Executive Directors, 4-star Admirals and political appointees.
Leaders and managers now contend with broad diversity in the workplace. Anne’s unique insights help them manage people of all backgrounds, cultures, and generations, and create environments in which diverse talent can thrive. This leads to increased employee engagement and growth, resulting in improved performance and bottom line. Her practical tools and best practices show national and international organizations how to use data-driven insights into the demographic shifts that will rapidly change the nature of our workplaces to effectively attract, inspire, and retain top talent.
Anne speaks regularly at national conferences and in media interviews. She is also a faculty member of the American Management Association and former Entrepreneur in Residence at Cornell University. She is the author of two acclaimed books, A Manager’s Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best from Your Employees and Managing the Unmanageable: How to Motivate Even the Most Unruly Employee.
Anne’s work has been mentioned and/or featured in Newsweek International, The Washington Post (which named her the “Generational Guru”), The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Elle and CNN Money. She is also a regular contributor to Fast Company. Anne is a Meta-Coach for Dan Goleman’s inaugural Emotional and Social Intelligence Coaching Certification program.
Speaker Videos
Anne Loehr Interview
Leveraging the Strengths of Each Generation
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Leaders Making Purpose at the Center of Work
Reconnecting to Purpose
Meaningful Vision of the Future
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Speech Topics
Conflict Management
Conflict happens, whether we want it to or not. Most of us have a strong, visceral reaction to conflict, including (but not limited to) fear, avoidance, excitement and/or dread. However, when you boil it down, conflict is just when one person's desires are different from another person's desires. It's the emotions that conflict evokes that can make situations seem explosive.
In this presentation, we will discuss ways to manage conflict, and provide practical tips and scenarios for leaders to use as they develop and implement their conflict management skills.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Define conflict management
- Cost of workplace conflict
- Conflict triggers
- Resolving team conflict
- The importance of leader as a conflict coach
Agenda
- Learn the role of leaders in recognizing destructive conflict and determining whether and when to intervene
- Understand the common causes and triggers of conflict and how people typically approach conflict
- Determine how to use coaching and mediation to defuse conflict before it becomes harmful and destructive
Coaching to WIN Big
Coaching is a powerful tool for unlocking the potential of individuals and teams, driving performance, development, and engagement. In this presentation, we will explore the fundamentals of coaching, including its critical role in employee development and the key skills necessary for success.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Understand coaching's role in development
- Identify when to use coaching for performance
- Enhance listening and diagnostic abilities
- Master key coaching skills
- Strengthen relationship-building
- Cultivate self-awareness and self-coaching
Agenda
- Business case for coaching
- Essential coaching skills
- Coaching to Win BIG model
- Coaching process steps
- Relationship-building
- Self-coaching for improvement
The Science of Bias
Bias—a tendency to believe that some people and ideas are better than others—wreaks havoc in the workplace. It keeps women and people of color out of the boardroom, limits job opportunities, prevents organizations from the true monetary and cultural benefits of a diverse workforce, makes it difficult for Baby Boomers to get tech jobs, and more. It’s easy to identify and limit bias when it’s over, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes bias is completely unconscious.
In this presentation, you will understand why unconscious bias is harder to pin down and eradicate. Even those with the best intentions behave in biased ways and simply may have no idea they’re doing it. Most of us use biased language without giving it a second thought.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Understand Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Language of unconscious bias at work
- Identify potential entry points of unconscious bias in an organization
- Problems caused by unconscious bias
- Tips to manage the unconscious bias
Agenda
- The science of bias
- How bias impacts you and those around you
- Tools and tips to combat bias
Resilience & Tenacity
Resilience comes in physical, psychological, and organizational forms. It helps people and teams recover from setbacks and crises. As in nature, diversity helps builds resilient organizations. In turn, resilient, inclusive, and supportive organizations make resilient individuals.
In this presentation, you will learn how you can develop resilience by building networks, through reflective learning, and by practicing perspective-taking.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Gain familiarity with leading studies and evidence of the benefits of resilience in workplaces
- Identify resilience characteristics in selves and others
- Understand the elements of a culture that erodes resilience
Agenda
- What is resilience?
- The ingredients for organizational resilience
- Leveraging values, purpose, vision, and mission to build team resilience
- Overcoming obstacles to resilience
Values-Based Leadership
Values-based leadership instils a common set of values in all employees, improving their cohesion and motivation to work. In this presentation, you will learn how organizations that follow a shared set of beliefs have employees who are more likely to work together, which can increase productivity.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- The importance of Values
- Fundamental concepts of Values-Based Leadership
- Practical Tips for Practicing Values-Based Leadership
Agenda
- What are values?
- Values Based Leadership
- Identifying your core Values
Emotional Intelligence for Healthcare Professionals
When assessing someone’s professional capabilities, such as during a job interview, performance review, or other decision-making opportunity, it is common to rely on easily quantifiable measures, test scores, or performance metrics to make judgements. However, there are some important factors that are often overlooked, such as a person’s emotional strengths and other less measurable characteristics.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotion.
In this presentation, you will learn how to build your emotional intelligence and use it to increase your success.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Why Emotional Intelligence is the strongest predictor of performance
- Findings about the teams which are successful
- Tips to develop Emotional Intelligence
Agenda
- What is Emotional Intelligence?
- The Four Components of Emotional Intelligence
- How it can increase success within your team
- How it can strengthen your team
Promoting a Culture of Innovation in Healthcare
Fostering a culture of innovation is essential for driving growth, competitiveness, and employee satisfaction in any organization. In this presentation, we will explore the key features of an innovative culture and provide practical strategies to encourage creativity, autonomy, and risk-taking among employees.
What You Can Expect to Learn
- Understand the features of an innovative culture
- Encourage autonomy and motivation among employees
- Foster a competitive and open-minded mindset
- Empower employees to ask questions and challenge processes
- Create a safe environment for risk-taking and learning from failures
Agenda
- Importance of freedom and flexibility
- Learning from competition
- Fostering a questioning mindset
- Balancing risk-taking
- Building a well-connected network
- Structuring for better collaboration
- Inclusive innovation for all employees?
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