NEELU’S SPEAKING PROGRAMS
Enrich Your Organization with a Culture of Innovation
Neelu equips your team with the self-advocacy and leadership tools necessary to build an innovative, creative, and productive environment in which every team member can thrive, contribute, and drive your company forward.
Neelu spent time learning about our culture and understanding what messaging was best suited for us. We loved having Neelu and we highly recommend her as a speaker!
- Isabella Pagana, DE&I Program Manager, Aramark
KEYNOTES, WORKSHOPS, AND BREAKOUTS
Build a Culture of Innovation by Elevating Every Voice
Imagine a workplace where every team member feels confident to voice their ideas, contributing to a powerful variety of perspectives, creativity, and innovation that drive your company forward.
Keynotes
Engaging one-hour presentations, available both in-person and virtually, perfectly suited for diverse audiences.
Workshops & Breakouts
Highly interactive 1-4 hour sessions, ideal for an in-depth exploration of self-advocacy 'how-to's.
Neelu's speaking programs blend inspiring personal narratives with actionable content, offering transformative strategies that foster cultures of innovation in which everyone is empowered to deliver organizational goals. These environments promote self-advocacy and belonging, resulting in increased engagement, creativity, and retention, ultimately enhancing your organization's agility and competitiveness.
Keynotes
Be Your Own Cheerleader: Embracing Self-Advocacy in the Workplace
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 shiny new bright ideas.
Unfortunately, many professionals struggle to speak up and advocate for themselves in the workplace. Innovation is stifled because the expectation is that new ideas can only come from the top and that everyone else should only be concerned with day-to-day operations.
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 that their ideas are heard even when they are not the loudest voice in the room.
In this session, participants will:
Understand why Self-Advocacy can be so challenging
Learn actionable techniques to speak up and be heard
Redirect thinking from invalidating self-talk to positive encouragement
Articulate their value and impact to ensure contributions are recognized and appreciated
Attendees will leave feeling invigorated, hopeful, and equipped with a fresh outlook on the true essence of self-advocacy in the workplace.
Be Your Own Cheerleader: the Power of Self-Advocacy for Underrepresented Voices
Perfect for women’s conferences and DEI events, "Be Your Own Cheerleader: The Power of Self-Advocacy for Underrepresented Voices" is a specialized extension of Neelu’s core "Be Your Own Cheerleader" program, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
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 shiny new bright ideas.
Unfortunately, many underrepresented and marginalized professionals struggle to speak up and advocate for themselves in the workplace. If they are not natural born cheerleaders, speaking up and sharing ideas can feel like an impossible endeavor.
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 that their ideas are heard even when they are not the loudest voices in the room.
In this session, participants will:
Understand why Self-Advocacy is challenging for marginalized and underrepresented groups
Learn actionable techniques for robust self-advocacy
Redirect thinking from invalidating self-talk to positive encouragement
Articulate their value and impact to ensure their contributions are recognized and appreciated
Attendees will leave feeling invigorated, confident, and equipped with a fresh outlook on the true essence of self-advocacy in the workplace.
The Teamwork Trap: Stop Collaborating and Start Innovating
Your employees are sinking deeper and deeper into the quicksand of mediocrity. With meetings piling up and productivity dwindling, it's no wonder the average employee spends around 31 hours each month in discussions that lead nowhere. When is there time to create, to innovate, to truly make a difference?
If this holds true in your organization, you may have fallen into The Teamwork Trap, where the desire for consensus stifles creativity. When group harmony takes precedence, you risk losing out on transformative ideas that drive innovation.
In this engaging 45-minute keynote, best-selling author and organizational psychologist, Neelu Kaur draws upon 15 years of creating cultures of innovation to help you break free from the cycle of endless meetings and mediocrity, and focus on creating a dynamic hub of innovation.
Participants will learn to:
Identify the vampires of innovation that drain your team's potential
Implement strategies that unleash creativity and forward-thinking
Discover the magic model for successful innovation
Create an environment that not only encourages but thrives on innovative thinking
Prepare to challenge the status quo and unleash new possibilities!
Attendees will leave inspired, armed with actionable ideas to elevate their organization's innovative capacity. Are you ready to stop collaborating and start innovating?
Real Testimonials, Real Results
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"Refreshing. Encouraging. Empowering!"
- Lauren Eastwood, Project Manager, Bloomberg
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"Neelu is an amazing speaker. Her enthusiasm is infectious!"
- April Russell, Development Manager
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“Neelu's session was truly inspiring and packed with actionable points I will take into my everyday life”
Participant from 'Be Your Own Cheerleader: Embracing Self-Advocacy in the Workplace'
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“The event was amazing and Neelu is a fantastic speaker. Her passion for the subject really shines through!”
Participant from 'AAPI + Allies Self Advocacy Session'
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An eye-opening experience!
Melissa Cheney, Assistant Project Manager at Layton Construction
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"Genuine, personable, relatable, energetic and encouraging; more than we could have ever asked for in a guest speaker"
Jeremy Casupanan, Senior Strategic Alliance Manager
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“Inspiring and actionable!”
Participant from 'Be Your Own Cheerleader - Embracing Self Advocacy in the Workplace'
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The session was packed with valuable insights and practical strategies that have already started to make a positive impact on my life. Neelu is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging, breaking down complex concepts into easy-to-understand steps.
- - Anna Sphabmkxay, Participant, Be Your Own Cheerleader: Embracing Self Advocacy in the Workplace
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“Uplifting and encouraging for young professional women of color. I’ve never been to anything like this and it’s about time I did!”
Participant from Guidehouse AAPI & Women's LeadHERship Event
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"Neelu did a fantastic job of providing strategies and kept us engaged throughout the session."
Participant from 'Be Your Own Cheerleader: Embracing Self-Advocacy in the Workplace'
