Keynotes, Workshops, and Executive Development Programs
Our world is understanding and influencing human decision-making.
Rarely have those skills been more important.
This is how we teach them.
Teaching the tradecraft and stagecraft of advanced negotiations. Working through a phased approach to understanding perspectives, finding mutual interest and using psychological tools to navigate to a workable agreement. Building a personal brand as a leader who negotiates with integrity across and between organizations.
Instructors: Scott Wayne / Jamie Jones Miller / Roger Parker
Keynote: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 1-2 days
Leading High Performing Teams Through Uncertain Times
The old predictable rules are out, a new operating environment is in. Building new frameworks and models, stablizing attitudes of staff, and providing tools for your highest performers to stay on mission becomes key.
Instructor: Ace Callwood / Candace Nicolls / Scott Wayne / Jamie Jones Miller /
Keynote: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 2-3 hrs
Stealing the techniques typically associated with the “innovation industry” and applying them to finding pathways forward in negotiations, navigating through conflict, and finding agreements on strategy amongst leadership teams.
Instructor: Ace Callwood / Lucy Taylor
Keynote: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 2-3 hrs
Shaping strategy in unpredictable times. Facilitating the development of strategy that negotiates commitment across leadership teams for committed execution.
Instructors: Scott Wayne / Ace Callwood / Stinson Mundy
Delivery style: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 2-3 hrs
Understanding how conflict is generated and escalates. Applying the best of behavioral economics and mediation techniques to navigate through conflict while building trust and stronger long term partnerships. Moving “difficult conversations” to being “necessary conversations”.
Instructors: Scott Wayne / Ace Callwood / Roger Parker
Delivery style: Keynote: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 2-3 hrs
Working through the six types of executive fatigue (intellectual, social, physical, emotional, inactivity, purpose) and strategies for addressing them. Rebalancing workload, introducing decision-making protocols, managing time, delegating, and investing in relationships to be at optimal performance.
Instructors: Alan Dow M.D. / Candace Nicolls
Delivery style: Keynote: 45 mins to 1.5 hrs / Workshop: 2-3 hrs / Coaching Series
Presentations, Storytelling, and On-Camera Skills
Applying storytelling structures to executive presentations, supported with engaging visuals, and delivered in-person or on-camera with grounded presence. Presenting as a relatable human who can engage and influence perspectives of diverse groups. Handling aggressive Q&A and dealing with unexpected interventions from audiences and stakeholders.
Instructors: Elizabeth Byland / Ace Callwood / Scott Wayne / Lucy Taylor
Delivery style: Half-Day Workshop or Coaching Series
Building partnerships between team-members that cut across traditional barriers to work on mutual interests and common outcomes for the team and organization. Addressing isolation in the work place, with tools to build allyship from those of “in” groups to those in “out” groups, building a sense of team cohesion across backgrounds, political outlooks, and cultural beliefs.
Instructors: Ace Callwood, Alan Dow, Candace Nicolls, Lucy Taylor, Scott Wayne.
Keynote: 45 mins to 1 hr / Workshop: 1-2 hrs
Building trusted channels of communication within teams and across groups. Active listening, creating opportunities for team-mates’ perspectives, building bridges between stronger and less-confident voices in groups.
Instructors: Elizabeth Byland / Lucy Taylor
Keynote: 45 mins to 1 hr / Workshop: 1-3 hrs
Handling VIPs and very senior decision-makers, shaping behaviors of high ego/intellect groups, negotiating hard outcomes with more institutionally powerful counterparts.
Instructors: Scott Wayne / Jamie Jones Miller
Keynote: 45 mins - 1 hrs / Workshop: 2-4 hrs / Coaching Series
Governance, AI, and Driving Results
Building systems of rights and responsibilities to reward performance, provide accountability and drive forward transformation of organizations to be fit for purpose for contemporary operating environments. Creating partnerships between boards and leadership teams that magnify impact, ensure transparency, and encourage effective delivery.
Instructors: Stinson Mundy / Candace Nicolls / James Villarrubia
Keynote: 45 mins - 2 hrs / Workshop: 2-4 hrs / Coaching Series
Our keynotes and workshops are designed to engage, stretch, and motivate audiences and groups to expand their skills in understanding executive decision-making and influencing the choices and behaviors of human stakeholders.
Each keynote, workshop, and program is tailored and custom-branded for the client organization. All are taught through the lens of negotiation and mediation.
The programs are taught by a transatlantic team, blending expertise and experience to match the participants' particular needs.
For more information on these sessions, or how they may be combined to create an executive development program, drop Candace Nicolls an email.
FEES, EXPENSES, AND VENUES
Fees are based on number of participants, location, and time of year. Alternatively they’re included as part of an Envoy Consulting Subscription.
All keynote, workshop, and program fees include: materials, resource websites, online learning and collaboration tools, virtual event software, instructor travel.
Sessions can be delivered at a location of client choice. Alternatively we have a library of low-cost/high-impact venues across major cities around the world and a production team that can source non-traditional venues and experiences at discounted rates.
INSTRUCTORS & DELIVERY STYLE
All instructors are members of the Envoy Team or are individual experts who have a deep history of embedding with the Envoy team in delivering outcomes. We embrace our philosophy of “Taking the work seriously, but not ourselves.” and try to balance earnestness and humor accordingly.