I'm Not Ready is a Lie!

In this high-energy keynote, Arika will inspire the audience with tactical strategies to push beyond their comfort zones at work. The audience will:

• Learn to recognize and embrace opportunities that showcase their leadership strength and potential.

• Discover the five shifts in mindset and behavior that will spotlight their leadership brand.

• Learn to embrace and create career-defining moments that will stretch them as leaders.

The audience will leave this program ready to lead with more courage and confidence to step into their leadership identity.

You Can’t Spell Leadership Without D.E.I.

To sustain momentum around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), organizations must have a surplus of leaders who view DEI as a business driver and understand that their success as a leader depends on it. When DEI is presented as something outside of a leader’s span of responsibility, it is viewed as an addition to their workload and is not approached with the same energy and excitement as other opportunities.

In this session, Arika will share:

• How to evaluate yourself as a DEI impact leader.
• Strategies to engage in DEI impact work today.
• An actionable framework to set personal intentions for DEI impact.

Code Red: Why You Need to Grow Talent as if Your Business Depended on It

In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers retire every day. Without a bench of ready-now leaders, there will be a gap when someone leaves or retires until there is a candidate to fill the leadership role, putting an organization in jeopardy. Organizations whose senior executives fail to prioritize leadership development will end up experiencing a steady attrition in talent and risk achieving strategic growth goals.

In this session, Arika shares the three leadership pipeline disasters that every leader should have on their radar along with strategies to build a culture where leaders are routinely and systematically developed. She also shares how several forward-thinking companies are implementing smart, integrated, talent development initiatives and why these types of strategies have the most significant long-term impact on business performance over anything else.