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Workshops

My workshops are welcoming spaces where we learn and grow together. Since my TEDxSanDiego talk, Conversation as a Survival Skill in the 21st Century, the question I hear most is, “How do we actually do this?” These sessions are my answer: practical, warm and often funny, and built to help you have the conversations that determine what happens next.

We discuss important topics such as leadership, crisis management, and building strong communities. I also offer sessions on faith and hope, aging, and handling challenges.

My goal is to help you find clarity and confidence, drawing on more than three decades in schools, media, nonprofits and boardrooms, and my passion for helping others. In the words of The Silent Rebellion: Becoming a Modern Leader, “True growth happens when we are willing to challenge old ideas and embrace new perspectives.”

Potential Workshop Topics:

  • Identifying a team

    Mentoring for the occasion

    Learning the skills of effective meeting facilitation

    Creating positive work environments

    Engaging in difficult conversations with colleagues, team members and customers

    Developing coping skills and cultivating joy

    Creating strategies for crisis management

  • Navigating vast and complex topics to create public-facing stories

    Podcasting to build your brand

    Developing a brand identity for yourself

    Presenting your organization through podcasts and video

  • Solving problems: Independent School Triage Strategies

    Developing a brand identity for your institution

    Creating positive learning spaces

    Managing speaking engagements and presentations for board and parent groups

    Preparing for crisis communications

    Establishing a re-recruitment plan

  • Elder & Aging issues

    Threat Assessment and Management

    Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse

    Victims of Violence: A Guide to Help Bring Justice

    Faith and Hope in the Modern World

  • Truth. Difference. Possibility. Accountability. Belonging. A practical framework your team can use the next morning to name the conversation you are avoiding and have it well.

  • The workshop version of my signature talk. We look at why conversation is the root system beneath every family, school, and organization, what happens when it erodes, and how to grow it back on purpose.

  • For independent school leaders, faculty and parents. How new families learn and shape a school’s culture, how to raise young people who can talk to anyone, and the bedside manner that turns difficult family conversations into partnership.

“True growth happens when we are willing to challenge old ideas and embrace new perspectives.”

INEZ ODOM