Personal, passionate, and professional with a touch of humor, my speaking engagements center on two major topics: mental health advocacy and how Gen Z navigates the world, both at and outside of work.
Gen Z Speaking Topics
For Managers and Employees
For Managers and Employees
For Managers and Employees
Example subtopics:
- Gen Z's role in the workplace
- Reasons for the communication gap between generations
- What motivates Gen Z
- What Gen Z values/needs
- How to communicate with Gen Zers at work
- The impact vs. intention of miscommunications
- How to balance empathy and accountability
- How to offer and accept feedback
- How to gain Gen Z's respect as a leader
- And more!
For Gen Zers at Work
For Managers and Employees
For Managers and Employees
Example subtopics:
- Gen Z's role in the workplace
- Reasons for the communication gap between generations
- Pressures and expectations of the Gen Z generation
- How to advocate for your needs
- What managers expect from you
- How to offer, ask for, and accept feedback
- Compromises you may have to make
- The impact vs. intention of miscommunications
- How to leverage your unique skills
- And more!
For Anyone: About Gen Z
For Managers and Employees
For Anyone: About Gen Z
Example subtopics:
- Who is Gen Z
- Major reasons why Gen Zers are more anxious now than ever before
- Unique pressures that Gen Zers face
- What Gen Zers value compared to other generations
- How to communicate effectively with Gen Z
- The impact vs. intention of miscommunications
- And more!
Mental Health Speaking Topics
For Teens
For Parents
Example subtopics:
- Why there is stigma associated with mental illness
- Why talking about mental health is so important
- Statistics about mental health and teens
- Language to use when talking about mental health
- The difference between mental illness and regular anxiety, depression, etc.
- How to advocate for your needs
- What resources are available
- Strategies for coping with mental illness and mental health challenges
- And more!
For Parents
For Parents
Example subtopics:
- Why there is stigma associated with mental illness
- Why talking about mental health is so important
- Statistics about mental health and teens
- Language to use when talking about mental health
- The difference between mental illness and regular anxiety, depression, etc.
- When to seek professional help for your kid (and for you!)
- Why your help isn't helping
- How to start an open dialogue about mental health at home
- Help strategies to offer to your child
- And more!
For Teachers and those working with kids/teens
Example subtopics:
- Why there is stigma associated with mental illness
- Why talking about mental health is so important
- Statistics about mental health and students
- Language to use when talking about mental health
- Signs you should be looking out for
- What to say vs. not say to a kid dealing with anxiety
- How to be approachable
- Help strategies to offer
- What your students wish you understood about them
- And more!
For Professionals: Mental Health at Work
For Anyone: How to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help
Example subtopics:
- Why there is stigma associated with mental illness
- Why talking about mental health is so important
- Why it can feel hard/scary to be open about mental health at work
- How to advocate for what you need
- Specific strategies for talking about mental health at work in a more natural, effective way
- And more!
For Anyone: How to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help
For Anyone: How to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help
For Anyone: How to Offer, Ask for, and Accept Help
Example subtopics:
- Why offering, asking for, and accepting help is hard
- How to become "help fluent" (knowing lots of ways to offer and ask for help)
- How to help someone who doesn't want help
- How to offer feedback about what's working and what isn't
- How to create a helping culture at home, work, school, etc.
- Mindset shifts that are needed to make it easier for you to offer, ask for, and accept help
- And more!
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