• Authentic Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence
• Building relationship & Social Capital
• Financial Literacy
• Time & Project Management
• Influence & Initiative
• Professional Brand
• Work ethic
• Accountability
• Decision Making
• Problem solving/ Critical Thinking
• Cultural Consciousness
• Networking/ Interviewing/ Resume Writing

• Authentic Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence
• Building relationship & Social Capital
• Financial Literacy
• Time & Project Management
• Influence & Initiative
• Professional Brand
• Work ethic
• Accountability
• Decision Making
• Problem solving/ Critical Thinking
• Cultural Consciousness
• Networking/ Interviewing/ Resume Writing

• Effective Communication
• Business Communications (verbal/ written)
• Personal Branding
• Active Listening
• Conflict Resolution/ Crucial Conversations
• Giving Feedback

• Self Awareness
• Core Values
• Identify your Strengths
• Self Confidence
• Navigating workplace politics
• Acculturation vs. Assimilation
• Microgressions
• Influencing Up/ Managing Up
• Employability & Career Skills

After years of drifting in life and career, many emerging leaders find themselves deficient in clarity, purpose, fulfillment, and direction. Not sure of their strengths, skills, and purpose in life and career. Whether you’re just starting in your professional journey or have hit the wall and want more out of life and career, this 2-day intensive provides a guided and interactive journey in personal development to help you navigate your professional career with awareness and intention allowing you to navigate from “cradle to calling” vs. “cradle to cubicle.” Strengthens personal and professional leadership through self-awareness. Allow you to be the exemplary leader for yourself and others that you were made to be.
This program is a guided powerful and transformational experience designed to cause a shift in consciousness and direction in just two days.

Who Should Attend: Emerging leaders who want to gain a better understanding of self to take control of their life and career path, making choices and decisions that provide purpose, fulfillment, and allow them to make the most impact.

• What We’ll Cover:
  Self Discovery (Identify Formation & featured tools for assessment)
  Innate Strengths (StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment)
  Your Values Compass – Identifying your Core personal value
  Values Based leadership
  Navigating with Intention

Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
• Identify and work toward shedding dead weight of past associated with negative identity formation
• Increase self-awareness by identifying and gaining clarity on your innate strengths and core values
• Create and apply your own values compass as a tool to guide and inform life and career decisions –
enabling you to navigate toward greater purpose and fulfillment.
• Navigate with intention in life delivering the most impact personally and professionally.

Students in transition from college to career become equip to hit the ground running in corporate/ organizational cultures with life lessons and research-based curriculum from experienced professionals who have already walked the mile. They receive real-world skills for
real-world challenges. The knowledge, skills and exposure gained in this intensive helps to minimize culture shock and professional barriers to success for diverse emerging leaders. Lessons build awareness and competence in areas of professional development straight out the gate
decreasing their learning curve; accelerating their individual and organizational effectiveness. Course topics include information not typically taught in school environments.

Who Should Attend: Young leaders in transition from college to career

What We’ll Cover:
– Leader in You – Character Building
– Followership (identifying sponsorship/ mentorship)
– Impression Management/ Personal Branding
– Business acumen/ communications (written and verbal – communication styles)
– Crucial conscious conversations/ managing conflict
– Building social capital (winning friends and influencing people)
– Navigating workplace politics (Playbook of Politics)
– Emotional intelligence
– Managing up
– Decision making
– Time and project management (for non-project managers)
– Cultural competence (Assimilation vs Acculturation – Micro-aggressions)

Two day intensive cohort experience for diverse emerging leaders navigating the transition from high-school to college. Explores life lessons and skills that are directly applicable to experiences of emerging leaders that are college bound; Participants gain awareness of college life challenges, how to navigate the new cultural landscape, and real-world skills to equip them to be more effective leaders within their school and communities.

Who Should Attend: Young leaders in transition from high-school to college – High-school seniors, freshmen/ sophomore students

What We’ll Cover:
– New kid on the block (coping with culture shock)
– Character Building (Leadership) – Staying true to you
– Personal Branding
– College Financial Savvyness
– Time Management
– Emotional intelligence – Coping strategies for stress
– Goal identification and goal setting

Gain access and exposure to minority leaders in their professions while they share personal career pitfalls and lessons learned for career success specific to multicultural/ diverse emerging leaders. Workshop trainers and/or panelists provide a voice and create a safe space to share information typically not shared that aims to minimize culture shock and barriers to success for diverse emerging leaders. A safe space to students and young professional to ask their burning questions about the “real-world” workplace and learn best practices to accelerate your success as a diverse leader.

Who Should Attend: college aged student, students transitioning from college to career, early career professionals

What We’ll Cover:
– Culture Shock (assimilation vs Acculturation)
– How to lead with your authentic self (staying true to you)
– Micro-aggressions and how best to address
– Being the only “one” in the workplace/ on the team
– Navigating workplace politics
…..and many more!

• Maximize Leadership

  Equips newly on-boarded and new front-line managers with ability to make an impact faster and smarter in this 3 day intensive leadership development program. Session contains bite-sized, interactive learning experiences that develop 8 core skills (Communication, crucial conversations, conflict resolution, Relationship building, teamwork, professionalism, accountability, coaching/mentoring) for leading and influencing in today’s workforce. Prepares leaders for high impact, effective workplace interactions providing actionable tools to feel more prepared to influence the audiences they lead.

Some staff have a knack for leadership; however, often can benefit from the opportunity to increase understanding of their audiences and demographics. Customized programs are available for organizational staff that primarily serve young adult audiences from urban communities, to increase impact and effectiveness through informed learning events that provide insights/ best practices for connecting and reaching the audience they support.