TRAINING & SPEAKING

OFFERED VIRTUALLY & IN-PERSON

High-impact leadership training programs, developed for talent and management. Designed to foster an inclusive and equitable culture and create enduring and positive change within your organization. 

 

Research-backed curriculum and insights from Joan’s 20+ years of experience inside global corporations as a researcher and advisor to Fortune 100 companies, top business schools, and professional sports organizations.

Our programs create breakthrough moments that have a multiplier effect. Through accountability partnerships and peer engagement strategies, the learnings continue to flourish within your organization long after the workshop has ended.

TALENT ACCELERATOR

STAY TO LEAD is a global female talent retention and leadership development program for high-performing mid-level professionals, inspired by Joan Kuhl's Dig Your Heels In. The program is designed to empower participants with strategies to advance and thrive in the global workplace.

The peer cohort experience cultivates meaningful connections with colleagues, so they can bring positive change into their teams, companies, and personal lives.

For maximum 360-degree impact, a companion manager training can be run in parallel in order to teach people managers the barriers women face and the coaching tools they’ll need to fuel culture change within their organization. 

ASCEND

THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE EXECUTIVES

A SIX-MONTH INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

This female leadership initiative educates, equips, and empowers women identified as next-generation executives to advance in their organizations.

Using customized curriculums and dynamic experiences Joan prepares participants for new challenges, by unleashing their personal impact style and providing growth opportunities to stretch their strengths and develop broader business impact, vision and purpose. 

This program is designed to integrate your organization's leadership programming to ensure consistency in language, career strategies, values, and performance management objectives for optimum commitment, engagement and results.

Aligned to three stages of development along with self-study components, pre and post-live workshop assignments, group peer coaching, accountability partnerships, and 1:1 coaching.

SAMPLE TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • Role Articulation & Leadership Vision

  • Navigating Conflict & Negotiation Skills

  • Enterprise & Individual Goal Ownership

  • Network Development & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Managing Well-being & Growing Demands.

MANAGEMENT
TRAININGS

LEADERS TODAY FACE COMPLEX CHALLENGES

From retaining top talent to managing hybrid teams and fostering inclusion, diversity, and equity in an ever-changing work landscape. 

Joan’s manager training for ALL leaders unpacks these challenges, offering research-backed solutions and efficacy-based strategies to help people-managers engage their teams while developing meaningful relationships, inspiring positive culture change, and ultimately impacting the bottom line. 

Management training can be done as a stand-alone offering, or, in conjunction with female talent programming. Below are two examples, in addition to training programs, that can be designed exclusively for your organization's needs:

HOW TO BE A BETTER ALLY

Keynote, 2-Hour Workshop or Half Day

Active and visible efforts to listen and support the female voice at all levels are critical to unleashing the full potential of an organization's diverse workforce. This program is a foundational building block for your managers to identify and remove barriers that women face in high-performance workplace environments.

The interactive experience includes scenario-based exercises, 1:1 breakouts, and research-backed tools to help your people managers become inclusive and equitable leaders at your organization while helping the teams they manage to thrive and advance.

SUPERCHARGE YOUR ‘HYBRID’ TEAM


Keynote, 2-Hour Workshop or Half Day

Inclusive leaders must energize, motivate, and cultivate connection in the hybrid team model. It's time for leaders to celebrate their team's success and recognize the endurance they’ve built coming out of the challenges of the past few years. 

This workshop will help people managers learn how to recalibrate expectations and leverage modern strategies to build meaningful connections with their people and with each other. Vital tools such as facilitating inclusive and dynamic meetings as well as delivering feedback effectively will help all voices be heard and valued so your team can thrive and advance.

EXECUTIVE WORKSHOPS

Joan advises C-Suite, Business School leaders,and Board Members on the trends for women around career pathways, skill development, engagement, and retention, so they can fully understand the value of creating work environments that both attract empower and advance female leaders. This session is available in strategy sessions or in an interactive presentation format.

TAILORED KEYNOTES

Contact us for a complimentary consultation to discuss the speaking engagement that would serve your people best. 


Some sample topics include: 

  • Confidence Building & The 6 Big Career Derailers

  • How To Be a Better Workplace Ally 

  • Emotions In The Workplace & The Bottom Line

  • Making Invisible Work Visible

  • Job Crafting: Add Meaning & Purpose To Your Career

  • Compassionate & Open Communication 

  • Healthy Boundaries and Breakthrough Goals

  • Building HER Narrative - How To Craft Your Personal Brand Story

  • Cultivating Presence and Influence in the Virtual Workplace

  • The Urgency of Female Leadership

  • Career Planning and Feedback for Growth and Engagement

  • Joan Kuhl is a certified facilitator of The Fair Play Method: Achieving Equity In The Workplace & Fairness In Our Homes