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Inclusion Keynotes
In-Person or Virtual
Jessica Stollings delivers educational, interactive, and results-driven keynotes that inspire audiences to understand, appreciate and benefit from different perspectives.
Using research, story, gaming, video, live polling, and audience activities, Jessica engages all learning styles to drive personal and organizational results.
Keynotes may be shared in person or online and are customized to your audience, needs, and desired outcomes.
See Differences Differently
Honor and include all perspectives to fuel success.
Our personal backgrounds influence our perspective.
Among a wide spectrum of backgrounds, it’s no wonder perspectives collide and cause conflict… even when everyone means well.
It doesn’t have to be that way. With the right understanding, our different views can serve as our greatest strength.
In this session, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings-Holder will share how to break down barriers that divide and build up awareness that unites and empowers all people to create a more inclusive and innovative future.
- Manage conflict in a constructive way.
- Evaluate personal paradigms and see self and other more clearly.
- Consider and include alterative points of view.
- Honor and combine all perspectives to create positive breakthroughs.
Key Topic
Conflict management, conscious and unconscious bias, diversity, inclusion, innovation.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
Fuzzy to Clear
How to communicate so everyone can hear.
Words, phrases and body language can have different meaning depending on your cultural context, and your preferred communication channels may vary based on your background and experiences.
Among a myriad of meanings, styles, and channels, messages can easily get lost in translation and cause misunderstanding.
National speaker and author Jessica Stollings-Holder will clear up the communication lines, guiding you toward strategies that ensure everyone on your team gets the message.
- Create a non-verbal presence that is welcoming and safe for engagement.
- Practice active, non-defensive, and empathetic listening with your employees.
- Translate your words so that everyone can interpret your desired meaning.
- Determine the communication channels that are beneficial for all members of your team.
Key Topic
Non-verbal communication, listening, verbal communication, crucial conversations, emotional intelligence.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
benefit from belonging
How to design a culture of inclusion and alignment.
Belonging, a sense of fitting in, is a basic human need that- according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs- is necessary before self-esteem and reaching full potential and optimal performance.
Among a diverse mix of perspectives in the workplace, it’s challenging to create a culture where all people belong and are empowered to thrive yet strive towards a common goal.
In this keynote, national speaker and author Jessica Stollings-Holder shares how to design a culture conducive for diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences while ensuring a shared language and expectation set, and movement towards a common goal.
- Create an inclusive culture where all people belong and are empowered to thrive.
- Ensure a common language and understanding among your diverse workforce.
- Design a culture of clarity where everyone is headed in the same direction.
Key Topic
Inclusive culture, expectation setting, team alignment.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
Live Escape Game Experience
Where There's a Will, There's a Way Out
Complex. Chaotic. Changing. Uncertain.
These are just a few words used to describe today’s workplace as it undergoes significant demographic, cultural, and systematic shifts.
While there is no playbook for success, there are powerful perspectives within your workforce waiting to be tapped into as you seek to escape challenges and unlock an innovative future.
Jessica Stollings-Holder’s research-based and award-winning learning experience utilizes an escape game in a box called Will Power™ to bring diverse teams together to solve a series of intriguing puzzles using post cards, tape players and even Instagram.
All puzzles simulate real-world workplace challenges and drive post-game discussion questions for on-the-job application.
The keynote closes with the code to align diverse skills and perspectives towards a common goal. Audience members will learn, laugh, have fun, and be inspired with the reminder: where there’s a will, there’s always a way out.
The experience guides audiences in hands-on understanding of how to:
- Use divergent thinking skills
- Navigate chaos and change
- Communicate through complexity
- Maximize each team member’s strengths
- Bridge gaps and benefit from diversity
- Use story to bring people together
- Build high-performing teams
Key Topic
Gamification, problem solving, change management, team building, story sharing, diversity and inclusion.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
“The Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation was fortunate to have Jessica serve as a keynote presenter. Her topic was the perfect kick-off for our conference and helped lay the foundation for its theme. The audience loved her! Post-event surveys proved to be some of our best yet! Jessica’s unique ability to connect with her audience, even large groups, and to engage them in the presentation make her a HIT!”
Jeff FrancisAssistant Administrator | Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation 
“Jessica Stollings-Holder appreciates and empowers all people while boasting a cutting-edge philosophy of engagement, ultimately bridging the widening chasm between our ever-evolving world. Her entertaining, informational and solution-driven style is a must- for everyone interested in improving understanding and communication across a spectrum of differences.”
Susan LambertSpeaker, Trainer, Success Coach
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