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Be Your Own Cheerleader:

Your Work Won’t Speak For You!

In this insightful and actionable keynote, Organizational Psychologist Neelu Kaur lifts the lid on the strategies and benefits of self-advocacy in the workplace.

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Elevate voices, accelerate results

The success of your organization relies on fresh ideas and diverse perspectives. To maintain a competitive edge, your employees must have the skills to speak up and share their unique insights.

Unfortunately, many professionals struggle to advocate for themselves in the workplace.

Innovation is further stifled by the expectation that new ideas should come from the top, and everyone else should only fulfill day-to-day tasks.

Often, the people with the most interesting ideas about how to streamline processes and innovate products are the very people who struggle to express those ideas in front of others.

In this insightful 30-45 minute keynote, Neelu Kaur, best-selling author of Be Your Own Cheerleader inspires audiences to own their value and equips them with practical self-advocacy strategies to ensure their ideas are heard, even when they are not the loudest voice in the room.

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“I've been going to therapy for years and this was so powerful, so insightful, and so much MORE thought provoking than I've had in my sessions. I loved it, it was worth it, and if you have the time - take the time.”

- CAITLIN GUENTHER, Participant, UKG event

Why should employees speak up and be heard?

We live in an era of fast-paced social and technological change, in which employees are no longer happy to be cogs in a wheel; measured, judged, and easily replaced.

Your people are invested in your future. They want to make a difference.

But — for complex social, cultural, and personal reasons — many of them believe their contribution is either unwanted or of less value than that of someone higher up the chain.

At best this means you miss out on diverse contributions to conversations. At its worst, this can impact employees’ health and leave them searching for new roles.

When you give people the tools and permission to speak up, you unlock a creative, innovative future for your business, with the side-effect of increased job satisfaction and reduced staff turnover.