Anese Cavanaugh Speaking Topics

• Engagement is the Past, Energy is the Future

  The 3 Most Critical U-Turns to Company Culture Initiatives That Need to Start Yesterday.

  Organizations spend billions of dollars a year in engagement initiatives, training, and development, and lose billions more in disengagement. They spout trust, innovation, culture, and retention as priority mandates in their OKRs, yet, turnover and burnout are at an all-time high, and consumer trust is low. And now that we’re through the “quiet quitting” trend – “shadow• jobbing” is here. Amongst all this, as organizations work to address the problems of burnout and engagement with quick fixes, platitudes, apps, and 90-minute seminars, the real issues at hand go left unaddressed.

  This high-octane emergency session shatters the status quo and gives real-talk as to what to do about the culture and innovation problems you don’t even know you have.

  In this session, Anese will share just-in-time insights, including:

  • The surprising data that undermines the status quo beliefs on the best way to build trust and innovation.
  • 3 warning signs that indicate the top talent you need to drive growth and innovation may have one foot out the door right now.
  • A simple 7-Point survey to quickly assess your organization’s cultural health and innovation maturity.
  • A proven 3-part methodology that enables your leadership and workforce to show up better instantaneously to quickly create a sustained boost of trust, collaboration, alignment, and impact.
  • Real-world examples of organizations who are putting these strategies into action, including: Immediate impact, the biggest lessons learned, regrets, and pay-it-forward advice.

  This must-attend session is custom-crafted for chief people officers, chief learning officers, chief innovation officers, and other top leaders who have a vested interest in being ahead of their competitors when it comes to being the market leader in innovation, people, and impact.

  *This session can be delivered as a keynote, conference breakout, or special executive working session. Title and content will shift depending upon outcomes and audience.

• Contagious You Keynote

  Showing Up for Leadership, Your Presence Is Your Impact

  Your success and influence as a leader depend upon your ability to relate to others, to create impact with your clients, your team, and in the marketplace, and in being an inspiring authentic human to be with. It’s the quality of your presence that ultimately determines your ability to succeed—your presence is your impact, and for good or bad, you are contagious.

  In this talk, Anese shares the power of using intention, service, and self-care as leadership skills, how to use the IEP Method® and your Intentional Energetic Presence® (IEP) to create impact, and provides frameworks for up-leveling your leadership presence and (positive) contagiousness. In a world of change and ambiguity, where we have all been impacted by the pandemic, how we show up is more important than ever now.

  In this session, participants will:

  • Learn the IEP Method and apply it immediately in their life and leadership
  • Understand the power of Intentions, Energy, and Presence and how they are operating in everything we do (either optimizing or injuring our leadership)
  • Understand that our presence IS our impact (virtual or IRL) and how it affects trust, credibility, well-being, and results in every moment
  • Learn how to reboot their energy and presence in the moment to serve any room or situation
  • Learn how to build a strong energetic presence and foundation every day to support their impact, well-being, and relationships
  • Learn the 5 Steps to Intentional Impact and how to use them in projects, conversations, sales, health care, team and relationship dynamics, and even that conversation with their in-laws or child
  • Have an immediate experience of the content, walking away with downloadable tools and resources to support their ongoing integration.

  *This session focuses on the individual as a leader and building accountability, self-care, and personal congruency in order to show up and create an authentically Positive Energy Workplace™. This session can be renamed to honor your event and intention for impact.

Contagious Culture Keynote

Creating a Positively Contagious Culture from the Inside Out

Our world has changed. How we create culture now needs more intention, care, and presence than ever before. With remote work, new workplace challenges, greater distractions, stress, ambiguity, and more opportunities and responsibilities than ever before this moment in time demands leadership and a workplace culture that is intentional, collaborative, productive, inclusive, healthy, safe, and (positively) contagious.

In the talk, Anese discusses creating a positively contagious culture (starting with ourselves first), shares the collaborative impact of “Intentional Energetic Presence®” and what happens when everyone brings their best most powerful selves to the table. As an experiential keynote, this talk offers powerful transformative tools and frameworks for improving collaboration, opening communications, implementing changes, pre-navigating challenges, building trust, and setting your culture up for success.

In this session, participants will:

• Understand the meaning of “contagiousness” from a cultural and relational perspective today, how it relates to burnout and resiliency, and how our Intentions, Energy, and Presence are creating impact and trust (or a lack of trust) and vitality (or a lack of vitality) in everything we do (either optimizing or injuring our leadership and culture)
• Understand their role in creating a culture and that a “contagious culture” is simply a bunch of contagious humans working together
• Understand that in culture creation our presence IS our impact (virtual or IRL) affecting the collaborative energetic field of the organization and is either helping us do better together, or worse, at all times
• Learn the IEP Leadership Trifecta and the Super 7 of Cultural Health PLUS the 3 elements we must tend to know even more intentionally with the pandemic being a new part of our shared lives
• Learn the IEP Method® and the 5 Steps to Intentional Impact and apply it all to create the culture they want to create

*This session focuses more on your organization and team (as well as each individual as leader) in how you all build an authentically Positive Energy Workplace™ together. This session can be renamed to honor your event and intention for impact.

The Leader You Will Be: An Invitation

Showing Up is at the heart of effective leadership — and a powerful life — but what does it mean to truly Show Up, and how do you build this skill into a core competency for yourself and your team? How do you become The Leader You Will Be when life is full and complex?

This special talk can be a 10-minute performance on your stage or a full keynote on “Becoming” as leaders in your organization. Crafted from the leadership storybook written and published by Anese and performed on stages since 2018, this poem is an invitation to those who want to have a more meaningful impact in business and life, and who want to do it in their own authentic way.

Sheep Happens: Craft Your Experience, Make Your Results (A LeaderSheep Talk)

Does life happen to you or for you? Do you struggle with change? OR do you embrace it knowing it’s your path to success? Are your clients and partners for you or against you? Do people follow you because they want to or have to? When life and leadership get rough, do you retort, react, and resist? OR do you respond, regroup, and reboot?

Every experience is an opportunity to up-level your leadership and impact — the choice is yours. How you choose establishes the results you have — and the leader you are. In this keynote, Anese shares how a literal sheep invasion was one of the most powerful things that ever happened for her life, her kids, and her company, and the 5 things you must know, do, and be, when “Sheep Happens.”