Margie Warrell

No organization can outperform its leaders over time. It’s why the #1 threat is never external but the fear that drives smart employees to play it too safe. Leaders who invite candor and encourage innovation without demonstrating vulnerability, normalizing dissent, and derisking ‘smart failure’ will fall short every time. Margie will embolden your leaders to lead from the inside out, building a ‘culture of courage’ that unlocks collective creativity and discretionary effort across your enterprise.

Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

• Research into a ‘courage mindset’ and why it’s a force multiplier of talent
• Harness ’emotional contagion’ to galvanize employees behind a bold vision with a big “Why”
• What we get wrong about risk that makes us more vulnerable
• Three ways to foster loyal dissent and harness constructive conflict
• How to lead from self-certainty to make more effective decisions amid the unknowns
• Identify the invisible ‘timidity tax’ of excess caution in your team/business
• Accelerate learning and incubate innovation by scaling a play-to-win mindset

This program is ideal for leaders at all levels, from emerging to those at the top.

No one is immune to life’s hardships and heartaches, yet some people handle them better and emerge better off. This powerful keynote draws on research in positive psychology, well-being, and spiritual traditions to help you reframe how you are viewing your circumstances and processing your biggest problems, expanding your bandwidth to handle them better and turn your biggest challenges into your greatest catalysts for growth and personal transformation. Weaving her own hardships and heartaches – including losing a brother to mental illness and supporting another to adjust to life with paraplegia – Margie will help your audience expand their capacity for life and find the opportunities for growth that our toughest challenges always hold.

Learning objectives and audience outcomes:

• Understand why your stress is all in your head and learn how to short-circuit stressful thinking
• Discover the four pillars to activate post-traumatic growth and can-do optimism
• Apply BE-BEFORE-DO to thrive under pressure and align with your True North
• Establish daily resilience rituals, including taking a sacred pause to turn stressors into cues for courage
• Rescript the stories holding you victim to the past and fueling anxiety
• Learn micro-habits that build capacity to grow through change and use setbacks to bounce forward better off

This program is for broad audiences, from faith groups to business groups.