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Keynote Speaker: Shola Richards
The Courage to Go Together™: Three Questions to Change How You Work, Live and Lead
In his inspiring flagship keynote, Shola will introduce the transformative concept of Ubuntu (pronounced, “oo-BOON-too”) which translates to “I am, because we are.” The Ubuntu philosophy, along with three powerful questions, will provide the audience with actionable strategies to transform their work culture, amplify team civility, and inspire themselves and others to consistently bring their best to their work. This keynote is ideal for individual contributors, leaders, and teams who are:
- Searching for proven strategies to strengthen team cohesion and togetherness (despite these deeply divisive and polarized times) in order to maintain a healthy workplace culture and optimal business results.
- Struggling to keep themselves engaged, energized, and positive when managing the nonstop challenges and complexities of life (both inside and outside of the workplace).
- Feeling as if they do not have the influence, professional title, or education to make meaningful positive change in their organization.
The audience will leave with:
- The three key questions that they need to ask themselves to increase the likelihood of civil, engaged, and productive work culture.
- The answers to the most common objections to beginning the important (and challenging) work of positively transforming their work culture.
- The self-awareness to become mindful of how their words, actions, and behaviors affect others.
Bio
Shola Richards is the CEO and Founder of Go Together Global™, the best-selling author of Making Work Work, and Go Together, and he is a positivity writer with a passionate worldwide following. His articles and wildly-popular “Go Together Movement” email series have been read by readers in over 160 countries, and his work has been featured on the Today Show, CBS This Morning, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Complete Wellbeing India, Business Insider Australia, and in numerous other outlets all over the world who recognize him as an authority on workplace happiness and engagement.
As a speaker, Shola has shared his transformative message with leading healthcare organizations, top universities, Silicon Valley, the motion picture industry, on the TEDx stage, and in his greatest honor to date, as a keynote speaker for the Department of Homeland Security three days before the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, under the Obama Administration. Last, but certainly not least, Shola is a father, husband, identical twin, and a self-professed kindness extremist” who will not rest until bullying and incivility is extinct from the American workplace.