Kate speaks frequently to companies and associations on mindfulness in the workplace. She inspires people to make a change.
Kate's talks are always tailored to your audience needs and can be delivered in person or via webinar. All of Kate's workshops are filled with actionable, relevant take-aways, tips and practices. Here are four popular talks that Kate offers:
1. An introduction to mindfulness: incredibly simple ways to practice it anytime, anyplace
Description: Inspire and motivate your audience to take action and leave them with simple tools they can use as soon as they leave the workshop
Audience: Everyone
Length: 60-90 minutes, Q&A
What you'll learn:
- What mindfulness is and isn't
- The neuroscience behind it
- Compelling case studies which show the benefits
- Experiential guided practices which you can apply immediately in your work and life
- Easy to use handouts with techniques taught and Kate's go-to resources
2. Bringing mindfulness into the workplace: cost effective ways to leverage it in your organization
Description: Discover how mindfulness and being present can boost profit, strengthen engagement and cultivate self-aware leaders
Audience: Emerging leaders, executives, HR, employees, team building days, staff wellness events
Length: 1-2 hours, Q&A
What you'll learn:
- How companies like General Mills, Intel and Aetna are fostering mindful practices among employees
- Why productivity rests on focused human attention
- The key to building self awareness and emotional resilience
- Practical ways to practice mindfulness at work
- Strategies to introduce mindfulness into your organization
3. Work-life balance: winning with mindfulness
Description: A surprising, thought-provoking look at how work-life integration is the new work-life balance and why mindfulness is the key to positive change
Audience: Anyone interested in supporting colleagues, co-workers and teams to reduce stress, strengthen resilience and improve work-life
Length: 1-2 hours, Q&A
What you'll learn:
- How our fast paced digital world is leading to alarming increases in stress, anxiety and depression
- Why striving to achieve the perfect balance does more harm than good
- How to leverage mindfulness and present moment awareness to work smarter, not harder
- How to make time to eliminate tasks with limited productivity value
- Experiential practices you can introduce into the organization
4. Creating positive change: how to turn adversity to advantage
Description: In this candid talk you'll discover why stress isn't what you think it is, how mindfulness is a skill which teaches us to become more comfortable with adversity and how to build unshakable resilience
Audience: This talk is for everyone, but especially those who recognize it's becoming harder to bounce back from health stress, job stress and people stress
Length: 1-2 hours, Q&A
What you'll learn:
- Why you may not be as resilient and stress hardy as you think you are
- The cost of stress on you and your organization
- How to bounce back quicker after organizational change
- How to see failure as an opportunity
- How to thrive in a stressful environment
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Kate's talks can run from 20 minutes to 1-2 hours and can be standalone, or part of a conference or corporate event. If you're interested in booking Kate for a future event, drop us a line.
Some of Kate's speaking engagements:
- Ontario Superior Court Of Justice
- 2018 EHS&S Management Forum Conference, Louisville Kentucky
- National Union of Public and General Employees Annual Leadership Development School, Toronto
- Centre for Behaviour Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario
- 2017 NAEM Women's Leadership Conference, Portland Oregon
- The Canadian Institute Conference - Women's International Forum, Toronto, Ontario
- Scotia Wealth Management Staff Training Day, Toronto, Ontario
- Sunlife Financial, Toronto, Ontario
- Canadian Cancer Society, Toronto
- DuPont USA
- DuPont Canada
- Human Resources Professional Association Conference, Toronto
- Pink Triangle Press, Toronto
- Waterloo Region District School Board Success Planning Day, Waterloo Ontario
- ErinOakKids Centre For Treatment & Development
- College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
- Earthfresh Corporate Retreat, Deerhurst Resort
- Elby Professional Recruitment Team Building Day, Ontario
- TEDx Distillery District Women, Toronto, selected as speaker, conference cancelled
- Company Of Women Conference, Ontario
- MacLachlan College, Ontario
- Telus Swing For A Cure, Toronto
- Women Presidents' Organization
- Young Presidents' Organization
- New Roads Automotive Group, Ontario
- Living Well with Lymphoma, Queensway Health Centre, Toronto
- Blakelock High School Relay For Life