Keren Tsuk, PhD. Speaking Topics

• Conscious Leadership in Action: Building Inclusive and Engaging Work Environments

  Modern organizations navigate intricate and dynamic landscapes, presenting ongoing challenges and opportunities simultaneously. This environment fosters stress but also opens doors to unlimited possibilities. Currently, workplaces are transitioning from the transformations initiated during the pandemic, prompting a collective quest for novel approaches to establish positive and inclusive environments that foster innovation and engagement in today's new normal.

  A central challenge leaders face today revolves around recruiting and retaining talented employees. Successfully achieving this involves the creation of a positive and inclusive work environment that supports employees 'development and keeps them engaged.

  In an upcoming talk, Dr. Tsuk will address leaders' primary challenges today. She will delve into the three essential qualities characterizing the new wave of conscious leaders: presence, holding the tensions, and being a servant. This approach stimulates growth, peak experiences, creativity, and innovation. Drawing on her two decades of experience collaborating with leading companies and leaders globally, Dr. Tsuk will illustrate these insights with examples from various global organizations during her lecture.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Strengthen the ability to be present and attentive to enhance engagement with both employees and clients.
  • Acquire the skills to skillfully navigate tensions, enabling the emergence of accurate and creative solutions.
  • Cultivate a work environment that values authentic connections and embraces inclusivity

  Workplace Application:

  • Attendees will gain insights into fostering conscious leadership by cultivating presence, navigating tensions, and embracing a servant mindset for establishing inclusive and innovative workplaces.

• Thriving Amidst Uncertainty: Empowering Managerial Presence

  We face challenging times that confront us with difficult emotions and various complex feelings. As managers, we need to manage and contain our personal and internal experiences and be present and attentive to our employees while leading effectively during this complex period.

  During this lecture, we'll delve into the central leadership tool of mindfulness. We'll explore:

  • The role of mindfulness in bolstering managerial presence amid uncertainty.
  • Practical strategies for managers to cultivate resilience and adaptability within themselves and their teams.
  • How mindfulness facilitates effective decision-making under uncertainty and pressure.

  The lecture will include a guided meditation to increase awareness and presence, reducing stress and anxiety.

  Practical tools will be provided for:

  • Boosting personal and organizational resilience: Techniques to reduce tension and anxiety.
  • Strengthening acceptance of uncertainty and deriving meaning from it.
  • Establishing communication that is supportive and empathetic during times of uncertainty and pressure.
  • Balancing managerial tension

Seizing Success: The Power of Mindfulness in Elevating Work and Personal Life

We are experiencing a challenging reality that forces us to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity and lead through these hectic times. Organizations function in complex and dynamic environments. This reality creates ongoing challenges, stress, and, at the same time, unlimited possibilities and opportunities.

Nowadays, to lead effectively, leaders need to be able to manage themselves better, others, and the vast amount of opportunities out there. Mindfulness is becoming a key tool for leaders in cooperation worldwide. Leading organizations like Google, Facebook, General Mills, Apple, and more have already implemented mindfulness programs, resulting in increased productivity, innovation, and employee engagement.

• How can we better manage ourselves, relationships, and work?
• How can we achieve better results and foster innovation?
• What techniques can we employ to manage both our professional and personal lives better?

Dr. Tsuk will present mindfulness as a central tool for leadership in the 21st century. She will present what mindfulness is, what occurs in a various leading organization, and how mindfulness-based leadership can help us better effectively manage ourselves, create a better relationship, improve performance, and enhance our personal and organizational leadership capabilities and innovation. During the lecture we will experience a meditation tool.

The Power of Compassion: Empowering Ourselves and Others

In the lecture, we will delve into the meaning and importance of compassion during times of crisis and adversity. We will understand the connection between compassion and self-compassion and how it impacts our ability to cope effectively and embrace the complex reality we find ourselves in. As part of the lecture, we will practice compassion meditation, providing an effective tool for practicing and adopting compassionate awareness as a healing and empowering mechanism in challenging times that confront us with difficult emotions.

How does cultivating compassion contribute to personal and collective empowerment during adversity? What are practical ways to integrate compassion into daily life to enhance resilience and well-being? How do compassion and self-compassion facilitate navigating challenging circumstances with increased ease?

Practical tools attendees will gain from the talk:

• Strategies for integrating compassionate actions into daily routines and interactions.
• Insights into the relationship between compassion and self-compassion, facilitating greater self-care and acceptance.
• Techniques for leveraging compassion as a tool for empowerment and effective coping in times of crisis and uncertainty.