*All programs will be customized to be relevant for your organization/event.
**While Gael-Sylvia’s core passion is on female leadership, her presentations have been appreciated and valued by people of all demographics.
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Program Topics:
From Associate to Advocate
How do you transform your employees into passionate advocates for your business? The key is to listen to what your people aren’t saying, and equip them with the tools they need to succeed. This will lead to increased loyalty, engagement, & productivity.
Attendees will learn:
- New perspectives on approaching common workplace issues.
- Unique ways to invest in your frontline workers.
- The potential impact your business can have within its local communities.
Building Tomorrow’s Leaders
Many employees have ambitions and leadership potential, but it goes unrecognized by their managers. By asking the right questions and facilitating solutions, you can help your people rekindle their passions and achieve their dreams, both inside and outside your company.
Attendees will learn:
- How to identify the unique personality types and talents of your individual employees.
- New perspectives on approaching common workplace issues.
- How to motivate and inspire your people to pursue new roles, and how to transition them into those new roles.
- The potential impact your business can have within its local communities.
The Power of Goodwill
As an expert in philanthropy and community engagement, Gael-Sylvia will teach you how to become a company people want to work for and buy from by generating goodwill and creating a stellar reputation within your communities.
Attendees will learn:
- New perspectives on approaching common workplace issues.
- How your associates can influence others in your local communities, and what that can do for the business.
- New perspectives on the roles of businesses in modern society.
Thinking Outside the Box
How improving the three P’s (people, processes, and products) via a bottom-up rather than a top-down approach, can be an absolute game changer. Gael-Sylvia will help you think differently, so you can identify problems you didn’t know you had, and fix them using innovative solutions.
Attendees will learn:
- How to think differently about your company and its people, especially your frontline workers.
- New perspectives on approaching common workplace issues.
- New perspectives on the roles of businesses in modern society.
- How to shift your company into a “bullet-proof” business that people want to work for.
Connecting With Your Community on a Deeper Level
Our world economy is riven by politics, race, religion and cultural stereotypes. Gael-Sylvia has more than three decades of award-winning experience.
You will understand how a brand’s profitability can be positively impacted when you:
- Embrace your role as a community influencer.
- Measure our own success as community leaders by how well people in our community succeed.
- Understand how your brand goodwill must be authentic and intentional.
- Balance community engagement goals with your personal values.
- You realize that balancing community engagement goals with your workforce values is hard but worth pursuing.
Keynotes & Training
Program Topics:
Leading From a Place of Joy During Joyless Moments
In our world today with Coronavirus (COVID-19), one might be struggling with how to find joy. Are you feeling discouraged or defeated when others are looking to you for strength? Is it hard finding joy when everything around you looks discouraging? Gael-Sylvia offers context for our turbulent times and uses stories to teach lessons learned from the past.
Your attendees will learn:
- How to lead from a spirit of joy, even during the joyless moments.
- Practical tips for staying positive when the world around you feels negative.
- Thought exercises to motivate individuals and teams that are discouraged, confused and in need of fresh perspectives:
- Changing the rules for being satisfied
- Taking the long view – Managing our expectations
- Who are you comparing yourself to?
- Who is filling or emptying your emotional cup?
- Mind mapping – Empowering exercises that trigger creativity
Fixing the Broken Parts of Female Leadership
More often than not, we think we can do it all. We also make the mistake of assuming that all female leadership styles are like a pair of stretch pants or leggings and that one size must fit all of us. Not true. There is a place of leadership for our wide variety of personalities and leadership styles, but first, we must see our leadership diversity to understand our value.
Your attendees will learn:
- The key to identifying and engaging your unique gifts.
- The key to identifying your A-list supporters.
- Implementing steps to become an influencer.
Being Assertive Without Being a Bully
Does your organization have one or more females who are privately regarded as being spiteful, overbearing, moody, irritable or just downright nasty? Men behave this way too, but for the female aspiring to grow her leadership roles, what she may regard as assertive may in fact be working to her disadvantage. Take the quiz. Turn this around and watch her excel.
Your attendees will learn:
- How to recognize and redirect limiting habits based on a change of perspective.
- Finding your way in a new work culture.
- How to be heard.
- Gaining the trust of associates.
- Owning your mistakes.
- Succeeding when difficult associates are involved.
Connecting With Your Community on a Deeper Level
Our world economy is riven by politics, race, religion and cultural stereotypes. Gael-Sylvia has more than three decades of award-winning experience.
You will understand how a brand’s profitability can be positively impacted when you:
- Embrace your role as a community influencer.
- Measure our own success as community leaders by how well people in our community succeed.
- Understand how your brand goodwill must be authentic and intentional.
- Balance community engagement goals with your personal values.
- You realize that balancing community engagement goals with your workforce values is hard but worth pursuing.
Leading With the Power of the Purse
Simply put, creating a lasting financial legacy consists of three things:
- Leaving wealth behind money that serve as a foundation on which your progeny, whether biological, adopted or organizational can build their financial futures.
- Leaving behind the legacy of knowledge so that your children and organizational leaders understand how the game of money is played and won beyond the current leaders.
- Leaving behind not just a list of your accomplishments in life, but a history of good financial habits that your children and organization have internalized and can emulate to achieve financial success for future generations.
What it Actually Means to "Negotiate Like a Girl"
Your attendees will learn:
- How to become a leader that others will follow once you understand your femininity is a strength.
- Stop believing the hype and the headlines.
- How small changes have a big impact on your decisions, and your future.
*All programs will be customized to be relevant for your organization/event.
**While Gael-Sylvia’s core passion is on female leadership, her presentations have been appreciated and valued by people of all demographics.
WATCH GAEL-SYLVIA
Consulting
Gael-Sylvia also provides one-on-one consulting.
Personal development is key to leadership effectiveness. In many cases, the leader of a team has to venture into new territory, which means they have to face the unknown and take risks or break rules. In order to do this, a leader must have a trusted, experienced confidante. Part of this confidence is having faith and feeling secure in yourself and not needing to be accepted and loved by others, as well as being able to prove that you have the competencies and the skills to be an effective leader and to lead the team to its common goal.
No matter where you are in your life, career or organizational habits, it’s never too late to learn how to be an effective leader. An effective leader is willing and ready to face any challenges and obstacles so they can achieve their own goals and the goals of the organization.
“Pitzer College committed to creating international pathways to college locally and using technology to connect and train young women as leaders around the world building on the accomplishments presented by Gael-Sylvia.”
Melvin OliverPresident, Pitzer College
“It is with great honor and a refreshing perspective that we had Gael-Sylvia flown to Las Vegas to speak to JP Morgan’s philanthropy and business clients. She delivered a perspective that can only come from a woman of global diversity and business acumen, connecting the dots between business success and community relations.”
Cree ZischkePast VP Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
“Pitzer College committed to creating international pathways to college locally and using technology to connect and train young women as leaders around the world building on the accomplishments presented by Gael-Sylvia.”
Melvin OliverPresident, Pitzer College
“It is with great honor and a refreshing perspective that we had Gael-Sylvia flown to Las Vegas to speak to JP Morgan’s philanthropy and business clients. She delivered a perspective that can only come from a woman of global diversity and business acumen, connecting the dots between business success and community relations.”
Cree ZischkePast VP Global Philanthropy, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Is your way of looking at the world clouding perceptions, depleting you of joy, driving destructive thinking, and impairing decision-making? For anyone who has ever found themselves questioning their faith and if their life really matters, Gael-Sylvia’s book maybe a valuable reminder that you are not alone.
Gael-Sylvia lived through horrific losses of loved ones, health, and business. In The Good Around Us, she shares her raw, compelling, inspirational journey of how she overcame those difficulties and intentionally turned life around by leading from a place of joy. The Good Around Us will help you discover how to believe again. This book is a refreshing reminder about all that’s still good in our lives and how to stop destructive thinking that can impair decision-making. With personal stories and practical exercises, you will rethink your choices, so they align with who you are, with your dreams and your purpose.
Available Now!
Is your way of looking at the world clouding perceptions, depleting you of joy, driving destructive thinking, and impairing decision-making? For anyone who has ever found themselves questioning their faith and if their life really matters, Gael-Sylvia’s book maybe a valuable reminder that you are not alone.
Gael-Sylvia lived through horrific losses of loved ones, health, and business. In The Good Around Us, she shares her raw, compelling, inspirational journey of how she overcame those difficulties and intentionally turned life around by leading from a place of joy. The Good Around Us will help you discover how to believe again. This book is a refreshing reminder about all that’s still good in our lives and how to stop destructive thinking that can impair decision-making. With personal stories and practical exercises, you will rethink your choices, so they align with who you are, with your dreams and your purpose.