Keynotes
April 8, 2023 2023-04-13 15:39Keynotes
With over two decades of communications leadership and hands-on experience, Dawn Crawford knows how to unlock a team's creative and innovative potential. Hire her for your next event to get a presentation from an entertaining speaker with poignant insight and creative advice.
Kind Boss: Build Strength in Collaboration
45 minutes
Employees are burned out – in 2023, 30% of employees in the U.S. reported being burned out “very often” or “always” at work. Quiet quitting is on the rise. We need engaged leaders who know how to balance head with heart.
Being a Kind Boss isn’t about playing nice or not hurting feelings. Kindness is “having, showing or proceeding from benevolence.” Kindness is an action. Nice is a feeling. Kindness is collaborating with others to make the working world less awful.
In this presentation, author and creative agency owner Dawn Crawford will guide your audience through these key takeaways:
- Why kindness is critical for leadership in 2023
- How critical feedback hurts your team
- What it takes to become a Kind Boss
Throughout the presentation, Dawn will share entertaining stories of leadership gone wrong, tips to drive home key learnings and inspiration to put kindness into practice.
Get your audience fired up for action, collaboration and kindness. Give your audience the tools to develop a team that will produce better results more efficiently and helps save their sanity.
Feedback Doesn't Have To Hurt
45 minutes
Let’s be honest — creative folk are often sensitive folk. We work hard on building up a thick skin, but the chinks in our armor are visible. Building a kinder feedback process can unlock the team’s creative potential by boosting their Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Emotional Intelligence is essential for your team to recognize, regulate and understand emotions — in themselves and others.
In this presentation, author and creative agency owner Dawn Crawford will guide your audience through these key takeaways:
- Why feedback hurts
- 5 ways to strengthen your team through kindness
- Keys to bringing kindness into the creative review process
Throughout the presentation, Dawn will share entertaining stories of leadership gone wrong, tips to drive home key learnings and inspiration to put kindness into practice.
Get your audience fired up for action, collaboration and kindness. Give your audience the tools to develop a team that will produce better results more efficiently and helps save their sanity.
