Building a strong brand is critical to success in any profession. You must excel at telling your story if you want to reach your professional goals. But, how do you let others know about your strengths, accomplishments and brand without coming across as arrogant? Debby builds upon the concepts in her book, The Art of Self-Promotion: Tell Your Story, Transform Your Career, to guide attendees toward becoming more confident, graceful and authentic self-promoters who tell their stories powerfully.

You will learn to:

• Adopt an empowering mindset about telling your story.
• Determine the components of your personal brand.
• Leverage concrete tools to develop the key components of a masterful self-promotion story.
• Develop practical strategies for implementing the art of self-promotion in the context of your career path.

We live in a coffee-driven world. We push ourselves, we strive, and we are addicted to adrenaline. Yet, we crave more ease. We want to achieve our goals without sacrificing our peace of mind. Debby shows you how you can harness the power of TEA – Time, Energy and Attention – to consciously direct the impact you have, the relationships you create and the results you achieve more organically and naturally.

You will learn:

• How to shift your focus from striving and pushing to thriving and ease.
• The secret to achieving your goals without working so hard.
• How consciously directing your Time, Energy and Attention can increase your productivity.

We all face adversity, hit roadblocks and have setbacks. It is how we respond to those events that makes or breaks our careers. Debby shares with you the key components of resiliency, why it is important to leadership and how you can become more resilient.

You will learn:

• How resiliency affects business and career-pathing decisions.
• The fundamental components of resilience.
• Ways to incorporate resiliency-building habits into your life and work.

Now more than ever, it is critical that leaders listen deeply to their stakeholders, colleagues and those they manage. Listening is especially challenging in the virtual world when we are deprived of the visual cues that help us interpret someone’s words. However, when you learn to actively listen at the deepest level, you can better understand those you lead and build stronger relationships with everyone around you. In this interactive program, Debby helps you learn the five keys to active listening through teaching and hands-on exercises.

You will learn:

• Why listening is critical to improving your working relationships.
• How to avoid distraction.
• The core skills needed to become a focused, active listener.

Some people seem to have that certain something that sets them apart and tells everyone they meet that they should be taken seriously. That something is Executive Presence, and in business, it is a key component of leadership success. Debby will show you how you can develop your executive presence and ensure that you are having the leadership impact you desire.

You will learn:

• How executive presence is defined.
• What you can do to enhance your presence.
• Common pitfalls that derail presence and how to avoid them.

Communication is a key factor in career success. As women, what we say and how we say it strengthens or diminishes our leadership brands, and we often sabotage ourselves in small but powerful ways. Debby believes that we can all be more effective in communicating our messages by being aware of and correcting some common mistakes.

You will learn to:

• Identify the common pitfalls women fall into when communicating.
• Notice and correct your own communication derailers.
• Manage your message so you speak more powerfully.

Although the vast majority of Americans consider themselves unbiased, research shows that most of us harbor some degree of implicit gender bias. Implicit bias can be especially insidious since it unconsciously shapes our actions. Debby will share the latest research, facilitate a discussion about how implicit gender bias shows up and teach you ways to fight bias through awareness and action.

You will learn to:

• Define implicit bias and how it affects the legal community.
• Recognize bias in the midst of everyday scenarios.
• Consciously redirect your thinking and take concrete action to combat bias.

Do you wish you had more time to focus on the big picture? Do you feel your time is not your own and that you are constantly solving other people’s problems? If so, you are not alone, and Debby will teach you to gain more control of your time and become more skilled at developing and managing the people around you by becoming a coaching leader.

You will learn to:

• Implement core coaching skills that are critical for leading and developing others.
• Use focused listening and powerful questions to shift a relationship and improve communication.
• Provide acknowledgement to create a positive work environment.

Delegation is an essential leadership skill. As your leadership role grows, trying to do everything yourself will lead to missed deadlines, underdeveloped team members, and burnout. Effective delegation involves far more than assigning a task. In this workshop leaders learn how to establish trust and then clearly communicate what is being assigned, creating ownership and clear direction. Leaders who effectively delegate are freed up to innovate, are able to develop their direct reports, and have the ability to create higher productivity by sharing the workload.

You will learn:

• Why delegation is important.
• When to delegate and to whom.
• How to make concrete assignments and set clear expectations.
• The importance of setting deadlines and establishing check-ins along the way.
• How creating ownership and accountability increases productivity.