Leadership Development Programs & Team Building Workshops

Immersive, interactive experiences for teams and women’s leadership development programs, ranging from two hours to multi-day, in-person and virtual

Imposter Syndrome Deep Dive Workshop

How to Reclaim Your Power from Doubt, Fear, and Self-Questioning

This isn't your typical imposter syndrome training. Instead of scratching the surface with facts and figures, we're going to dive DEEP into the reasons you experience imposter syndrome - and how to reclaim your power from doubt, fear, and self-questioning so you can take bold steps in your career, share new ideas, advocate for yourself, and challenge the status quo.

Doubt and imposter syndrome often sound like a questioning voice in your head. They show up with inner critic thoughts like, "Did I just get lucky? Do I have what it takes? Am I really ready to move into the next role? Do I belong here? Is everyone smarter than me? Do I know enough to speak up? Am I enough of an expert?”

The root causes of these thoughts don't come from inside of you - but they can be disrupted inside of you. You'll walk away from this workshop feeling empowered and knowing how to:

  • Distinguish between helpful self-questioning and doubting imposter syndrome that is better thrown out the window

  • Get grounded in who you are and know what TRUE confidence looks like

  • Gain clarity on what's more important than imposter syndrome - and how to use that as motivation to act when doubt and fear show up

  • Build a community that quiets doubt and reinforces your authenticity and grounded confidence

Best audiences: Women at all levels, either as part of a larger leadership development program or as a stand-alone workshop. Content will be customized to meet the level and needs of the participants.

Structure: 2-4 hours, in-person or virtual

Click on the orange button to schedule a call with Heather to discuss your organization, goals, and the details of the workshop!

Creating Your Own Rules For Success Workshop

The Creating Your Own Rules For Success workshop is a longer version of Heather’s popular keynote of the same name. The additional time allows participants to dive deep into their definition of success, connect that definition to both career development and personal priorities, and determine actions to live towards that definition of success. Highly customizable and great for team building and leadership development programs for all genders!

Description of the workshop:

What rules are you playing by? Do you feel like you can’t disappoint anyone? Have to say yes to everything? Aren’t allowed to fail – or even make a mistake? Always have to do more, be responsible for everything, and keep everyone happy?

These rules helped you at some point in your life – but they may be creating unnecessary stress and holding you back from the impact you want to create now. It’s time to know what YOU want and WHY. Key takeaways from this workshop include:

  • Understanding the rules you’re playing by now, where they come from, and if they still make sense at this point in your career and life

  • Redefining success on your own terms

  • Creating a new set of rules that align to your values, goals, and the impact you want to have 

  • Designing action steps to live into your new rules so you can create the career and life you desire

Best audiences: Team building, leadership development programs for all genders

Structure: 2-4 hours, in-person or virtual

Click on the orange button to schedule a call with Heather to discuss your organization, goals, and the details of the workshop!

Mastering Boundaries For Better Work-Life Balance Workshop

This training dives deep into setting boundaries to increase wellbeing, improve work-life balance, and decrease the hours your employees work without sacrificing results. This is not an impossible unicorn to achieve! This training will address the specific barriers that your business faces in achieving better work-life balance for employees and provide a common framework for setting boundaries that you can use in ongoing conversations about work load and prioritization. We'll also address the emotional barriers that can get in the way of setting boundaries, such as worrying about disappointing your team and feeling like you can't say no.

Even more unique, different forms of this workshop exist for individual contributors and leaders, so you also give leaders the tools they need to have conversations about boundaries and work-life balance with their teams while addressing their own needs. We'll also discuss how leaders can reward actions that lead to better work-life balance - and recognize when you inadvertently reward behaviors that have a negative impact on wellbeing.

Your employees will walk away knowing how to:

  • Decide what's most important to work on - and how leaders can communicate those priorities

  • Utilize the framework for setting boundaries for both one-on-one conversations and team discussions about priorities and work-life balance

  • Say no effectively - and set yourself up to make saying no and setting boundaries easier

  • Implement strategies to decrease stress and deal with the guilt that arises when setting boundaries

Leaders will also receive a facilitator guide for discussing boundaries and work-life balance with their teams! Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a testimonial from a recent client who implemented these trainings - their results were incredible!

Best audiences: Teams, All-employee trainings with separate sessions for leaders and individual contributors

Structure: 1-2 hours, in-person or virtual

Leading With Grounded Confidence

Leading With Grounded Confidence is a unique and powerful multi-day leadership development program designed to specifically for women to examine the rules women are handed that make you feel like you need to prove, please, and perfect in your work, leadership, and personal life - and how to break free from those rules and reclaim power and authenticity so you can advance with confidence, increase impact, and improve your wellbeing. Instead of telling women how they should show up, they’ll uncover and define what is authentic to them.

Based on Heather’s many years of experience facilitating leadership development programs as well as what has gotten the best results for her executive coaching clients, the program dives deeply into the framework for leading with grounded confidence, which includes:

  • Reconnect to yourself: Recognize the rules you’ve been handed and realign to your values and inner voice separate from those rules

  • Redefine success on your own terms: Take a step back and create a picture of what success looks like in your career, leadership, and personal life

  • Rewrite your rules: Learn how to let go of the past rules that hold you back so you can lead with authenticity, engagement, and impact

  • Reset boundaries: Create space to focus on what’s most important in work and life - and improve your wellbeing and work-life balance as well

  • Reignite grounded confidence: Gain strategies to deal with the inevitable doubt and imposter syndrome that arise and rediscover your own sense of grounded confidence deep within you

  • Reawaken your authentic voice: Define where you want to use your voice to influence change and learn approaches to get heard in ways that are both authentic and effective

  • Rekindle your community: You aren’t meant to do this alone! The Authentic Leadership program itself will build your community and you will walk away with steps to create a community of mentors, sponsors, and peers that empowers and supports one another

Each program will be deeply customized to meet the goals and challenges of your industry and organization, including meeting with a number of participants before the program to gain a first-hand view of their experience and be able to speak directly to them with relevant examples and exercises.

Additionally, this program (and all of Heather’s work), takes an intersectional approach, recognizing the biases and discrimination that get in the way of sharing our authentic selves and how those biases disproportionately impact women of color.

Best audience: Women moving into expanded leadership, whether as a people leader or thought leader, often at the Sr. Manager, Director, or Sr. Director level

Structure: In-person, virtual, and hybrid options available

Schedule a Call With Heather to Discuss Workshops and Programs for Your Company!

Testimonials

Heather recently led a 3-part program on Authentic Voice for us at The Toro Company – it was outstanding! I've heard so many positive comments from participants and even had other women in our company ask how they can get into the next program after hearing about the experience from a colleague! What's more, participants reported greater confidence, speaking up more often, and even applying for promotions as a direct result of this program. We can't wait to hold the next program later this year!

Sarah Moran, Learning & Development Sr. Manager, The Toro Company

"We recently worked with Heather on a set of trainings on "Mastering Boundaries For Better Work Life Balance" for leaders and individual contributors across our business. The title of the training delivered! One of our locations said the trainings were "the spark that led us to talk about work-life balance differently." Since the sessions, that location has seen a measurable reduction of work hours and an increase in work-life balance. The team is now sharing their learnings across the business to drive action and continued implementation of the tools from the trainings. Thank you, Heather, for your wonderful support and guidance as we focus on work-life balance!"

Stephanie Arnold, HR Leader, Cargill