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To innovate through change

To collaborate with purpose

To thrive in a complex world

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Tania brings a unique blend of lived experience, global insights, and actionable strategies to help leaders build deeply connected, innovative, and high-performing teams that people rave about. It's time to go from disconnected to deeply engaged.

Employees today feel disengaged, isolated and disconnected, leading to a lack of innovation, stagnant growth and a high turnover of top talent. Tania knows the challenge of feeling unseen in the workplace – often being the youngest, the only woman, and the only person of color in management meetings.

Having inspired in 29 countries, delivered impactful TEDx talks, and worked with global giants like Google, Amex, Johnson & Johnson and Intel, Tania’s expertise is as diverse as her background. Her transformative keynotes harness these experiences to inspire leaders to own their differences as strengths.

Tania’s contagious energy, courageous storytelling, and proven strategies turn workplace disconnection into cultures of trust, innovation, and impact, leaving teams feeling empowered, equipped and energized.

Connection makes all the difference

More Than a Keynote

Tania believes in co-creating every engagement with clients to deliver a unique end-to-end experience, including:

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Own Your Difference

Reimagine Engagement. Build Teams that are Fueled by Connection, Trust and Accountability.

Turn disconnection into collaboration.

Teams that foster connection see a 30% boost in productivity and improved collaboration across the board.

Unmute your people, potential and plan.

Empowering employees to speak up can transform workplaces, resulting in a 21% increase in profitability and a 70% boost in team collaboration.

Own your difference to accelerate innovation

Teams that own their difference and embrace intersectionality are 35% more likely to outperform their peers in decision-making and innovation

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Whether your team is struggling with disengagement, connection or leading through turbulent times, Tania is ready to inspire, motivate and empower.

Empower leaders to transform disconnected teams into thriving, engaged communities built on connection, trust and curiosity.

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Empowering People to Thrive in a Complex World

Description

In a volatile market, teams are juggling competing priorities, employees are battling “survivor guilt” and employee engagement is at an all time low. The mood of sadness and defeat is growing in organizations and it’s resulting in a lack of innovation, declining competitiveness and career stagnation. It’s time to pivot.

In this energizing keynote, discover the step-by-step strategies to unleash human potential and help your teams leverage their talents, strategically connect and cut through the noise to own their value more everyday at work.

Walk away feeling inspired, empowered and equipped with the tools to change the way you lead starting today.

Learning Outcomes

  • Discover how to link your unique value to the organizational mission in order to elevate your voice, visibility and influence

  • Identify how self-doubt and workplace myths are limiting your career growth and collective team impact

  • Learn how to build advocates and elevate trust, collaboration and alignment across silos, teams and geographies

  • Explore everyday ways to own and strengthen your leadership brand without feeling the pressure to be everything to everyone

Meet The Moment: Creating Cultures of Trust, Action & Accountability

Description

Employees are struggling with a profound sense of disconnection. And it’s taking a heavy toll: burnout is accelerating, innovation is stalling, collaboration is breaking down. Leaders have a pivotal role to play.

The challenge is clear: without empowering connection, personal ownership and belonging, organizations risk losing their competitive edge. Gallup found that 70 % of the variance in team engagement can be attributed to the team’s manager, yet how often do we equip our leaders with the tools to create thriving, happier and more productive teams?

It’s time to set leaders up for success. Gain practical tools to build a culture of trust and innovation and as a people leader, drive transformation in an empowering way. Walk away feeling ignited, inspired and ready to spark happier, deeply connected teams around you.

Learning Outcomes

  • Leverage active listening as a trust building tool & way to inspire vision and purpose – especially executing on organizational transformation & strategy

  • Communicate transparency & alignment to help participants feel part of something bigger and process real-time information in a complex & technological world

  • Learn how to co-create a space of psychological safety in any team environment

  • Discover everyday ways to showcase your Leadership Presence to increase buy-in, empathy and personal accountability across teams and geographies

Break Silos, Build Bonds: Building a Culture of Belonging

Elevating Engagement to Unlock Team Collaboration & Momentum

Description

In an increasingly technologically complex work, 43% employees don’t feel connected to their coworkers, 38% don’t trust their coworkers and 22% say they don’t have one friend at work.

Disconnected teams, lack of belonging and siloed thinking are leading to disengagement, low retention, and an increasing sense of loneliness at work.

In this keynote, Tania unveils how to break free from these barriers by building connection, belief and alignment in everything from team meetings to client pitches.

She shares the latest data and step by step tools, so that you will walk away ready to amplify your voice and create the sense of community and connection that drives innovation and engagement.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore strategies to build courageous cultures where employees bring all of who they are into work everyday

  • Discover ways to articulate an inspiring organizational mission, gain buy-in and instill emotional commitment in order to drive momentum

  • Learn how to create everyday opportunities for connection, innovation and ideation in any team environment

  • Co-create new definitions for creating brave spaces of trust and respect in your organization- across business units and geographies

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