Speaking Engagements

Dr. Audrey Reille delivers engaging, motivational, and educational presentations, webinars and workshops customized to the audience's needs and learning objectives. She brings expertise in higher education leadership, peak performance, self-empowerment, and humor to every event. 

Topics

Leading Through Crisis

Covid brought unprecedented challenges and disruptions to the world and to higher education in particular. Leadership through crisis requires courage, flexibility, decisiveness, effective communication, calm, and resilience. In this webcast, you will discover how to shift your mindset, become comfortable with uncertainty, respond to urgency, and lead your teams effectively.

Transformational Leadership

Higher education needs more transformational leaders. It involves identifying the need for change and improvement, creating and communicating an inspiring vision, and building a culture of trust and innovation. In this presentation you will learn how to foster employee motivation, morale, engagement, and performance, as well as develop a culture of accountability, ownership, and workplace autonomy.

Developing Trust

Trust is absolutely critical to developing a well functioning department, motivated and loyal employees, as well as effective leadership. There are three elements to trust: (1) trusting ourselves to follow-through on our intentions and to do so successfully, (2) trusting others in the context of one-on-one communication and professional relationships, and (3) trusting our department and the organization to do lead and do the right thing. Audrey will show you how to foster a higher degree of trust and reduce behaviors that make people feel unsafe in the workplace.

Developing the Mindset of a Leader

Being an administrator in higher education requires having to respond to needs and requests of others (e.g., impromptu meetings, e-mails, grievances, reports, committee work etc.) leaving very little time for strategic planning and leadership. Audrey will explain how shifting focus from reacting to demands, to thinking like a leader and being proactive will help you make positive changes to advance your department, prevent chronic problems, and avoid dysfunction.

Compassionate Leadership 

The first step to empowering employees to improve their work performance is to discover what they think and feel. Audrey will show you how to uncover what is in the hearts and minds of your team members so that you can help them express their full potential, improve morale, increase loyalty, and encourage innovation. 

Leading Departmental Culture Change

Leaders in higher education often wish their employees would demonstrate more resourcefulness or dedication. Others want to inspire teamwork and collaboration. Most want to see a more positive attitude and less complaining or resistance to change. What cultural change would you like to see in your department? You don’t have to wait for people to quit or retire. Audrey will show you step by step how you can facilitate a change in culture to make your department a more pleasant and effective workplace.

Time Management/Organization

Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two different things. Audrey will not only share effective time optimization strategies but also explain why people don't implement what they know and how to overcome unconscious habits that create self-sabotage. Attendees will understand what drives their decisions and behaviors and how to regain control over their schedule to improve productivity and create work-life balance. 

Learning to Embrace Change 

Change is a good thing but rarely seen as such. It is natural for managers, faculty, and staff to fear the unknown and be resistant to change, but it does not have to be that way. Audrey will show you how to bring reassurance, motivate your teams to own the new decisions as if they were theirs, and step up to make the changes successful. 

Custom Presentation

Audrey can create a custom presentation for you, related to any of her articles and other areas of expertise. Please send us a message and we will schedule a call to discuss your needs and goals.