Speaking
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We are now offering all our workshops via videoconference and can accommodate audiences of any size. As an example, see the session we led for MIT Sloan. We speak frequently at conferences and events, and ensure that our workshops are interactive, actionable, and engaging. Our most popular speaking topics include:
How to be an emotionally fluent leader
Combating burnout and managing uncertainty
Building belonging with a hybrid team
Scroll down for more detailed descriptions and additional offerings.
We’re trusted by the world’s biggest brands
“I saw Liz and Mollie speak at the annual Perceptyx conference and loved their presentation so much that I bought both books and took a lot of their tips back to my team!”
“As a longtime admirer of Liz and Mollie’s work, I knew their material from “No Hard Feelings” would resonate with attendees of our virtual conference- thousands of HR professionals setting the tone for culture and coaching others on working with emotions in the workplace. Their session was both interactive and informative, and ended up being the top reviewed keynote of the event. Looking forward to the opportunity to work with them again!”
“Liz & Mollie gave our team really practical and thought-provoking tools on how leaders can, and should, lean into their emotions at work. Transitioning into a post-pandemic world we found their content to be extremely important in our shift towards a more human-centered leadership model.”
“We brought Liz and Mollie in to help our newly hybrid team develop better ways of working. What a great session! Our team loved it. We were able to start putting new, helpful norms in place immediately afterwards. I highly recommend Liz and Mollie.”
“We invited Liz and Mollie to do two virtual workshops as part of our employee enrichment series. Their approach to the topics was fun and highly applicable. They also did an interactive “how to work with me” guide activity, which participants loved since it was something they could immediately use with their teams. During COVID, we invited them back to do another workshop on combating burnout, building resilience, and navigating digital communications. The workshop was highly relevant and appreciated by our team! I highly recommend Liz and Mollie for virtual workshops.”
“We had Liz and Mollie do a workshop for our summer internship program, and we loved it so much we had them back the following summer for two virtual sessions. They were able to customize the sessions to cover topics that made sense for our associates. I highly recommend Liz and Mollie for workshops.”
“Liz and Mollie led an engaging workshop with Viacom employees. We had just rolled out our new corporate values and their book and content around communication styles synced well with bravery, empathy and honesty. I’ve had multiple requests from various teams to bring them back for additional sessions.”
Detailed session descriptions
Emotions touch every aspect of our lives at work. If there’s something you don’t see below, please reach out and let us know. We would love to be part of your next event. Email us at hello@lizandmollie.com with your event description and needs and we’ll get right back to you.
Combating burnout and managing uncertainty
To overcome burnout, you first need to pinpoint exactly what's driving it. According to the clinical definition, burnout can be caused by overwork, disconnection, and/or feeling ineffective in your day-to-day. In this session, participants take our burnout profile assessment and then learn tactical tips for what individuals, teams, and managers can do to better invest in their wellbeing. We also lay out a series of science-backed strategies for how to successfully move forward in the face of uncertainty.
How to be an emotionally fluent leader
We all have emotions at work, but we don’t always know how to use them to our advantage. Success as a leader depends on knowing how and when to express emotion. In this engaging workshop, we share how emotions affect our professional lives and equip leaders with the tools to understand and navigate their emotions at work. As our jobs become more collaborative, complex, and stressful-- as well as increasingly tied to our identities-- effectively embracing emotion will only become more important. We share practical advice and a clear-sighted toolkit for navigating emotion at work as a leader. This workshop includes our emotional expression tendency assessment for all participants. (***This topic can also be focused on female leaders, specifically.)
Making hybrid work work
What steps do you need to take as a leader to reconnect and reassure your people ahead of a return to offices? How can you build a culture in which out-of-sight doesn’t translate to out-of-mind? In this session, we walk through research on effective remote work, share examples from leading organizations who have adopted new ways of working, and give tactical tips for how to successfully build a thriving hybrid team.
How to build a culture of belonging
What if you could bring yourself out of hiding and into the organization, even the parts of yourself that don’t seem to belong on surface level? Diversity is having a seat at the table, inclusion is having a voice, and belonging is having that voice be heard. We outline the actionable steps individuals and organizations can take to create a culture of belonging. We combine the latest research on the science of emotions with a paired activity that gets people on their feet.
How introverts and extroverts can flourish at work
Introverts and extroverts have different needs in the workplace. Extroverts tend to react to social interactions more quickly. But if you put an introvert in a noisy open office and he’ll quickly become overwhelmed. Introverts often try to mask their introverted qualities to fit in. In this talk, we help both introverts and extroverts understand, communicate, and optimize around their own and each others' tendencies.
Navigating different work styles
The best way to navigate potential conflict is to preemptively communicate work preferences and styles. In this session, participants learn how to understand how they, and others around them, work best. We share common communication and collaboration differences based on gender, age, race, cultural, and introversion/extraversion-level and share tips and tricks for better communicating across these differences. Participants write their own "user manuals" in order to communicate with colleagues how best to work with them.
How to create and lead the best teams
When creating a great team at work, the “how” matters more than the “who.” The best teams have psychological safety, meaning that members feel they can suggest ideas, admit mistakes, and take risks without being embarrassed by the group. In this talk or workshop, we’ll show you how to build a team whose members feel safe throwing out ideas, taking risks, and asking questions. We’ll walk through the ways successful teams kickoff projects, onboard new team members, build trust, and deal with conflict. This workshop includes an activity where participants write their own user manual (a guide for how to work with you).
10 Ways to Jumpstart Your Culture
Every company has its own emotional culture. In this workshop, we share how to understand an organization’s emotion norms, including how they are created and spread. We share research and case studies on how you can encourage more compassion, gratitude, and healthy emotional expression within your organization, whether you’re an individual contributor or a leader. This workshop includes an activity where participants design and commit to new behaviors and rituals they’ll bring back to their organizations and teams.
How to communicate better in a digital world
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place,” writes playwright George Bernard Shaw. Effective communication depends on our ability to talk about emotions without getting emotional. We often react to each other based on assumptions we never bothered to look at more carefully. But the words people say are not always what they mean. In this talk, we look at how to talk to your co-workers about hard things, highlight major differences between groups that can lead to bungled conversations, how to deliver useful feedback that doesn’t sting, and walk through ways to avoid digital miscommunication.
Watch us in action
“The topics were well thought out covering a range of concerns and questions raised during the pandemic. This was one of the most successful event we hosted and I cannot wait to work together with Liz and Mollie in future.”
“Liz and Mollie offered invaluable insight to our team. We left the webinar with a plethora of knowledge on these topics and plenty of tips and tricks for our daily lives. Best of all, Mollie and Liz were engaging, interactive and drew on lots of research to explain the topics in a compelling way.”
“Liz and Mollie joined our All Hands meeting, leading an interactive and engaging session on combating burnout and building resilience in the workplace. Attendees appreciated the dedicated time to focus on this critically important topic, and we had immediate takeaways as individuals and as a company that we could use.”
“Liz and Mollie led a series of workshops on emotions at work for our company. They got rave reviews for their specific examples and helpful frameworks. They provided actionable takeaways that made it easy for our fast-growing, hybrid team to improve our communication and collaboration skills. They even inspired us to make our own “It’s Okay To List,” which we shared on LinkedIn.”