Speaking Presentations
Leading with Love: The Heart of Success
Public service is the heart of good local government and non-profit work and it becomes great when service is heart-centered. Having served as the Zion Township Supervisor in Lake County, Illinois for over 20 years (ziontownship.org), Cheri has learned the intrinsic and lasting value of leading with love.
The lessons learned and the successes celebrated have all come from following the principles of showing respect, care, appreciation, encouragement, flexibility, engaged listening, having candid yet caring conversations, focusing on what we want instead of focusing on the problems, and not giving up on believing in the best.
In this enlightening program, participants will:
Embrace the value of thinking about how we think, interact, and take action in leading our teams.
Bust the limiting beliefs that keep us in boss-mode versus embracing the power of servant-leadership.
Maximize Nonjudgmental Discernment as a means for mobilizing your team for greater success than you dreamed possible.
Learn a communication style that guarantees better team cohesiveness and productivity, no matter what the relationships were prior.
Messages of the Monarch Butterfly
Mother Nature is a pretty smart cookie when we pay attention. When we listen. When we’re watching. The Monarch butterfly offers unique lessons that will transform the way you lead your life and the lives of those around you. Participants will acquire a new appreciation for the Monarch as a symbol reminding them of the opportunities available to support them in making changes that will significantly enhance their lives. They will leave with specific strategies in addressing drama in a healthy way, identifying what holds them back, new confidence for taking the oh-so-necessary steps to transform their lives and a rock-solid plan for doing so.
In this insightful, growth-inspired session your team will learn how to:
Identify and release the layers that may have been binding your growth;
Turn toxic situations into compelling opportunities for success;
Create a personal habitat that allows you to thrive;
Learn to overcome the internal critical voice so that you can soar;
Metamorphose into your best self by trusting the mystery and answering the call.
Transform Workplace Drama & Create Extraordinary Outcomes
Our World and Our Lives. All fueled, unfortunately all too often in today’s chaotic times by drama. All too often driven by our internal and external critics. And that leads to toxicity that sends us careening down a negative path instead of elevating us to grow, transform, and align ourselves with the people, passion, and practices that will catapult us towards our goals and dreams. The tough part? Naming it. Recognizing it. It’s like quicksand. Once you step into it you can lose your footing and get sucked under. It is a human response to the flight, fight, freeze, or appease mode. And the cost? Precious time, money, energy, relationships, desires, dreams.
In this empowering and insightful session based on the work of David Emerald in The Power of TED* and 3 Vital Questions, your team will learn to:
Acquire tools to prevent burnout and increase job satisfaction and fulfillment;
Identify drama in the workplace, understanding the roles that allow it to thrive;
Become crystal-clear in your focus and shift your attention and actions towards your goals;
Learn a process and shared language to significantly improve productivity and build a strong foundation for future success.
How to Move from Crazy to Crazy Good
In our society, where we are inundated by non-sensical rules that go unquestioned, we are driven to stay stuck in crazy! Join Cheri as she challenges these limiting beliefs and offers a new paradigm that allows you to design the life you wouldn’t even give yourself permission to dream of. Her entertaining presentation is filled with real-world experience and strategy for creating the kind of life that is measurably better than what you’ve ever imagined.
In this timely session your team will learn how to:
Become aware of the external rules in place to keep us from succeeding.
Identify what internally stops us from achieving our intended goals.
Shift to a new understanding, propelling you to greater success than you ever dreamed!
Define what it is you want, with a template for how to achieve it!
Learn an easy to remember 4 step-process for success.
Mental Fitness - The Key Ingredient for a Healthy Organization
We only have so many years to impact our world around us. One thing that stands in our way is our Mental Fitness – the capacity to respond to life’s challenges with a positive rather than a negative mindset. Our Mental Mindset is crucial to leading an effective life.
Utilizing the evidence-based model of Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine, rooted in neuroscience and brain development, Cheri teaches the 3 brain muscles that one must build to become mentally fit. She clarifies the purpose of emotional pain. And she shares how to shift from Saboteur to Sage brain by seeking out the gifts and opportunities in every outcome or circumstance.
In this challenging, pivotal program, participants will:
Recognize the war that goes on in your mind between your inner Critic and your inner Sage;
Identify the Saboteurs that work hard to keep you playing small;
Learn how to build the mental fitness muscles in order to release your inner critic and respond effectively to the outer critics;
Become equipped to rise above the mental chatter that distracts you, tapping into the powers of empathy, curiosity, creativity, and calm, clear-headed action.
“Cheri is one of the best motivators that I’ve seen in a while! She has a natural and comfortable and inviting presence and she speaks from her heart, which makes her influential and thought-provoking words resonate and connect with everyone in the audience.”