Depending on how deep you want to go, each of my topics can be designed as a keynote, series of workshops and trainings, a retreat or as a live program with one-on-one and group follow-up coaching. With a background in dance and theatre, I specialize in presenting and facilitating interactive, participant-centered learning opportunities that provide emerging through senior leaders a creative, safe space to shatter their real and self-imposed glass ceilings to success, develop heart-centered, high-impact communication skills and behaviors and set achievable, action-oriented goals to transfer their learning into action. Participants in my programs work smart and they play hard!
WORKPLACE
Step Into Your Moxie: Listen to Your Voice, Sculpt Your Message and Speak with Confidence and Impact
In my signature communication program, I take participants through my holistic and fun recipe for empowered speaking. Participants rewrite the story of who they are as communicators, identify and bulldoze through real and self-imposed barriers to confident communication, learn how to speak from their WOW Factor, influence with integrity, explore simple techniques for weeding out vocalized thinking and extraneous language and develop their “sticky” message from the end to the beginning. Walk into any room knowing how to connect with an audience of 1-1000 in the head, heart and gut, and leave them ready to take your desired action. (This program can be adapted for women leaders and Generation Y/Millennials.)
Onboard New Hires to Peak Performance in 90-Days (book to be released Spring 2012 by ASTD Press)
While in a perfect world recruiters and hiring managers would hire the “right” employees, as you have probably experienced this is often NOT the case. Learn easy-to-apply strategies to take a new hire to peak performer by the end of his or her first 90 days. Areas discussed included designing a knockout Day 1 experience, developing a customer service orientation, giving the right balance of structure and freedom, growing strong face-to-face communicators and laying the foundation for leadership. (This program can be focused on the specific needs of Generation Y/Millennials.)
Yes “Y” Can: Develop the Next Generation of Workplace Leaders
To ensure that our recent crises in global leadership are footnotes in history rather than reoccurring themes, discover how to prepare the largest generation in the workplace by 2016—Generation Y (or Millennials)—to be effective leaders. Meet emerging leaders where they are and take them where they need to be in their ability to balance short and long-term thinking, communicate with confidence and competence, prevent and resolve conflict, coach up and down, develop innovative and intrapreneurial solutions and operate from a place of integrity.
The High Impact Facilitator’s Toolkit
Learn how to deliver dynamic programs that staff and clients can’t wait to attend. Applicable both to experienced facilitators who want to reinvigorate their practice and aspiring trainers, presenters and leaders looking to flex this important muscle, this program arms participants with the practical tools and hands on experience necessary to facilitate with confidence, clarity and passion. Explore how to use role-play, storytelling and other interactive strategies for learners to rehearse for success and translate what they have discovered into measurable results. Participants will compile a range of experiential ice-breaking, group building, assessment and reflective activities applicable to various populations and content areas and discover how to design learning so that it is participant-centered and low exposure.
The Coach Approach: Create a Culture of Learning, Growth and Results
Coaching delivers an ROI of approximately 5.7% times the initial investment. I will show you a proven formula for coaching employees one-on-one and in groups. By learning to ask better questions, mirror back what you hear being said—and not said, co-create means for assessment and accountability, make behavioral feedback an ongoing part of your company culture and use role play and storytelling to dynamize your learning and development and enable employees to rehearse for professional success, participants will discover how to develop employees who are keen problem solvers, innovative thinkers and results-driven.
CAREER/COLLEGE
Awaken Your CAREERpreneur: Climb from Your Calling to Your Career
Great careers don’t happen; they are strategically created. Drawing on my book of the same name, I share how to apply best principles of self-empowerment with best principles of entrepreneurship to develop the mindset, relationships, skills and behaviors to make career success and positive social impact a way of being… irrespective of what the economy looks like.
Serve the World, Nurture the Self: Sustainability from the Inside Out
This program shows changemakers how to align their values, strengths, resources and enthusiasm to develop a sustainable career and make lasting impact. Participants learn how to pitch ideas, lean into conflict, mobilize proselytizers, shift any anticipated or unforeseen obstacle into an opportunity and take care of themselves while performing their work.
Your First 90-Days: Go from New Grad to Great Employee and Position Yourself for Growth and Promotion
In this program I show college students and recent graduates how to capitalize on their potential and deliver the measurable results employers expect from them. By learning how to co-create expectations and grounds for assessment, providing strategic value, asking the right questions, networking in and outside of their four walls and showing up with an “I Can” attitude, audience members will leave ready to rock their first jobs while laying the foundation for upward mobility.
Step Into Your Moxie: Listen to Your Voice, Sculpt Your Message and Speak with Confidence and Impact (See Workplace Topics)
ASSOCIATIONS
Share Your Story, Morning Glory: How to Use Public Speaking to Effortlessly Attract the Right Clients
While public speaking is the #1 way to grow most service AND product-driven businesses, most small business owners (whether they are life coaches, chiropractors or interior designers OR lawyers, accountants or REALTORS®), never give an “infotainmental” presentation. Learn how to create a 30-45 minute offering that lets you hook your audience with your story, demonstrate your expertise, share the top 3 things prospects want to know NOW, create a natural segue for turning your first touch into future business and most importantly, have FUN. We’ll explore how to sell from the stage by NOT selling from the stage, the key components of a hooky offer and how to lock into the mindset, once and for all, that lets you see yourself and perform as a high-impact communicator.
Step Into Your Moxie: Listen to Your Voice, Sculpt Your Message and Speak with Confidence and Impact (See Workplace Topics)
MISCELLANEOUS TOPIC:
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL ABUSE
Shhh….No More: Shaking the Stigma and Secrecy Out of Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse
As a survivor of sexual abuse, a former sexual assault prevention educator and a volunteer career coach for sexual offenders transitioning back into the community, I have a lifetime of professional and personal experience living and tackling this complicated topic from a variety of angles. In this presentation – which can be adapted to fit the needs of secondary school and college students, those who have experienced sexual assault/abuse, sexual assault/abuse prevention treatment providers, educators and activists as well as providers of treatment for sexual offenders and members of the criminal justice system – I explore the role well-intentioned people play through our thinking and behavior in perpetuating the cycle of sexual offense. Using my own story to explode dangerous myths that hurt victims, perpetrators and our families, I show audience members how to be protagonists rather than supporting characters in the movement to end sexual violence – in our families, companies and communities. Audience members, irrespective of their roles and experiences with sexual offense, learn how to replace blame, shame and fear-mongering with truth, transparency and a tremendous helping of forgiveness so that true healing can take place for all involved in the paradigm. (50% of proceeds from this presentation will benefit Family and Child Treatment – FACT – of Southern Nevada.)
Here’s What My Audience Members Have to Say
“Alexia is a tremendous coach and speaker who presented a workshop to a group of underserved teen girls preparing for first-time employment and their mentors, a group of professional women from the Step Up network. From start to finish, Alexia designed the workshop to benefit both groups. 100% of our group in post surveys commented that the workshop was valuable and uplifting. I highly recommend Alexia—she is philanthropic, results-oriented, and a skilled communicator.”
Kristen Baldwin | Senior Program Manager, Step Up Women’s Network
“Alexia is nothing short of extraordinary, one of the most well-prepared and charismatic facilitators that I ever worked with. She has an incredible ability to engage a group, inspire them, and provide tangible tools for self-development. She is also able to quickly assess the needs of her audience and to pull the best out of each and every one of them.”
Renata Moreira | Associate Director of Special Projects, New Jersey City University
“Thank you so much Alexia for an aWEsome presentation! Our Business Success Seminar attendees enjoyed not only your message, but also the humorous and real life way in which it was delivered. Your speaking strategies were easy to implement and provided a great deal of value to our event. WE look forward to having you speak again in the near future!”
Tera McHugh | Founder of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs (AofWE)
“Alexia is unlike any other speaker or presenter I’ve ever seen. She embodies the very best of her generation and showed me a range of strategies I can use in preparing my students to be leaders in the workplace. She really makes adult learning fun.”
Dr. Joseph Bonnici | Professor, Central Connecticut University
“Alexia has been a very successful presenter at our Career Development Seminars/Workshops held during our LasVegasSun.com Career Fair events. Her seminar has been one of the most popular and job seekers always give her rave reviews! She is a true professional and has been a great partner in our goal of enhancing the job seeker experience at our events, as well as truly building a better job seeker. We are thrilled with her participation and so grateful for her partnership!”
Tamya Lemke, Formerly with Greenspun Media
If you’re anything like me, no matter how many raves you read you still want to take a test drive before making a big purchase—whether it’s a car or a person. So go ahead, take a peak and see if what I do makes sense for you and your group. (You can also download my Speaker One-Sheet.)
