I offer keynotes, conference workshops, and customized half- or full-day sessions for teams and organizations. Each session can be tailored to the audience, issue, and goals at hand, whether the focus is strengthening persuasion, building support for a major initiative, or developing a practical strategy to move an idea forward.
The Impact of Persuasion: Strategies to Amplify Your Voice
Persuasion is at the heart of effective leadership. Whether you are trying to gain support for a policy proposal, move a team toward a decision, win over a skeptical stakeholder, or build consensus around a new approach, a strong idea alone is rarely enough. You also have to make a compelling case for it.
This interactive workshop focuses on the practical skills that make people more persuasive in professional settings. Participants learn how to understand their audience, frame ideas around shared interests, establish credibility, anticipate resistance, communicate with greater clarity, and build the relationships that make influence possible.
Drawing on lessons from law, public policy, organizational leadership, and coalition-building, the session goes beyond presentation skills to examine how persuasion actually works. Participants leave with concrete strategies they can use to navigate disagreement, strengthen their arguments, and move good ideas from discussion to action.
Moving Big Ideas: Strategy, Influence, and Coalition-Building
Big ideas do not move on substance alone. Advancing a major policy or organizational change requires a strategy for who has influence, what will move them, how the issue is framed, and how support is built over time.
This session focuses on the practical tools professionals can use to move complex ideas from concept to action. Participants learn how to use power-mapping to identify decision-makers, influencers, allies, and opposition; story-telling to make an issue tangible and memorable; messaging to connect with different audiences; and coalition-building to create the support necessary to sustain momentum.
Drawing on experience in public policy, advocacy, government, and nonprofit leadership, the session helps participants connect strategy, communication, and relationships into a practical plan for advancing ambitious goals.
