Speaking Topics

With her high profile as a professional executive coach and her innovative programs, Sheila Goldgrab is sought-after public speaker. Sheila speaks on a wide range of leadership, mentoring and coaching issues.

Invited as a keynote speaker at a wide variety of conferences, Sheila has also spoken twice at the Toronto Board of Trade. As a professional public speaker, Sheila has addressed the Canadian College of Health Service Executives, National Fire Chiefs Conference and the Canadian Institute, among others.

Presentation and keynote speeches include:

• Alphas: Top Dogs
• From Alchemists to Wranglers – Leadership Styles
• Leadership Journeys: Going Beyond the Firm
• Legacy – Creating Your Leadership Destiny
• Secrets of a Leadership Coach: Get an Unfair Advantage!
• Taking the Mystery Out of Inspiring Mentoring Conversations
  
  

Alphas: Top Dogs

We love them, find them disagreeable, admit their towering strengths, and want to change them. Alphas are powerful authoritative personalities who insist on top performance from themselves and others. Most everyone is working with or has worked with alphas. This keynote speech or custom presentation explores why understanding alphas is everyone’s challenge if we are going to work to their strengths and work for or beside them.

From Alchemists to Wranglers –  Leadership Styles

Gathered from years of in-field observation as an executive coach, Sheila’s fun and engaging presentation reveals the typologies of the people we meet at work. Find out if you’re a Curious George or a Warrior Woman or one of the many other leadership styles she will introduce and describe. Learn how to communicate effectively with people of every style.

Leadership Journeys: Going Beyond the Firm

Over the years, Leadership Coach Sheila Goldgrab has initiated and participated in many leadership projects in various communities. Sharing her stories of leadership journeys she discusses the nature of leadership, powerful persuasion, creating opportunities in the face of impossibility, and creating a legacy beyond your own life in the project.

Taking the Mystery Out of Inspiring Mentoring Conversations

There is a lot that mentors can learn from the art and science of coaching. Beyond the consideration about getting the chemistry right in the match of mentor and mentee, there is the matter of the mentoring conversation itself that is often overlooked. Topics include creating a reflective space, three objections that can kill a mentoring culture, cultivating an enquiring orientation, and what it takes to enhance access to developmental relationships in an organization.

This speaking topic can be a keynote speech, presentation or a series of mentoring training workshops customized to your audience.

Secrets of a Leadership Coach: Get an Unfair Advantage!

While supporting hundreds of top executives in many roles and industries, Sheila Goldgrab has distilled the best-held secrets of leadership. In this keynote or presentation, Sheila shares her insider knowledge to give you an unfair advantage. Topics covered include power, career, achievement and competition, among others. Sheila breaks a few sacred cows and speaks plainly about what really works as you move forward in your organization.

Creating Your Leadership Legacy

There is a great deal you can do to shape your legacy with intention.  Don’t leave your leadership legacy to chance or for others to fully define. Be a better leader now. This keynote speech or presentation is rejuvenating and renewing. We’ll take a big picture approach to achievements in your lifetime and also fill in the details to identify the personal impact you can have this month. This presentation is for those senior managers near the close of their careers, those in mid-career and new leaders. You’ll leave with what it takes to write your leadership story from this day forward.

Contact Sheila today to get more information about any of these speaking topics or to hire her as a keynote speaker or presenter for your next meeting or conference.

About Sheila Goldgrab, Leadership Speaker

Sheila Goldgrab is an expert in her field of leadership, coaching and mentoring. She is an author, executive coach and workshop training leader. Exploring a variety of subjects relating to leadership, Sheila’s keynote speaking topics and presentations are customized to the needs of your group.