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Jessica Stollings-Holder 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.
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.
Key Topic
Conflict management, conscious and unconscious bias, diversity, inclusion, innovation.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
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.
Key Topic
Non-verbal communication, listening, verbal communication, crucial conversations, emotional intelligence.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
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.
Key Topic
Inclusive culture, expectation setting, team alignment.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
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:
Key Topic
Gamification, problem solving, change management, team building, story sharing, diversity and inclusion.
Duration
60-90 Minutes
Want to sustain and deepen learning after a keynote?
Check out Jessica’s award-winning Include & Innovate training series
