Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, New York Times best-selling author, and 2023 World’s #1 Leadership Guru who is recognized for her Reality-Based approach to leadership. Backed by over 25 years of unparalleled experience partnering with top brands spanning all industries, Cy’s philosophy offers a modern approach to leadership in which employees and managers alike can deliver better results with less drama, higher engagement without entitlement, and more happiness in even the most challenging workplace realities.Deemed “the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace and the worldplace,” Cy empowers leaders to love their teams up while calling them to greatness. Her client list includes Google, Meta, Viacom, NBC Universal, Keurig Dr. Pepper, NASA, Pfizer, CVS, Johns Hopkins, Stanford Medicine, Bank of America, among others.As a highly sought-after conference headliner, Cy holds a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speaker’s Association, placing her within the top 3% of speakers worldwide.Cy’s avid fanbase online has surpassed 250,000 followers. Her Reality-Based newsletter that often goes viral within organizations reaches over 30,000 raving fans who discuss and apply her modern leadership techniques each and every week with their terms.She has published four best-selling books, the latest of which is Life’s Mess, Live Happy: Things Don’t Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content (2022). Cy shares her latest leadership insights on the Reality-Based Leadership podcast where she offers practical way to modernize how leaders evolve their teams beyond the challenges they face.
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Life's Messy, Live Happy: Things Don't Have to Be Perfect for You to Be Content

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Ditch the Drama – How to Live Happy in a Messy World

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Reality-Based Leadership Series

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Thu, May 15, 10:50 am - 12:20 pm MT
Ending Exhausting Conversations to Begin Anew: Evolving Humans to Co-Create Workplaces
RISE UP FOR YOU

Still involved in exhausting conversations about how to attract, engage and retain top talent in a constantly changing environment? Riding the rollercoaster of trying to engage talent without breeding entitlement? Struggling with fostering an environment of accountability that can drive top results in spite of challenging circumstances? Finding yourself caught in the middle of polarized situations where team members are demanding, and leaders are seemingly under-delivering? Are you experience the weaponization of key requirements in your workforce like resiliency, accountability, or psychological safety? Finding the array of HR current programs and initiatives overwhelming and less effective than hoped for?

You are not alone. And Cy Wakeman can help you sort through the confusion.

Here is a revolutionary invitation:

If you are involved in an exhausting conversation. STOP. Just end the conversation AND begin a new one.

Our new role in HR is to actively evolve the humans in our midst so that they can move through their new realities skillfully and healthily.

Join Cy Wakeman as she initiates a whole new conversation for your organization. Cy will totally interrupt your thinking, reveal some new truths for HR, and show you the path to move away from all that is not working because it is based upon conventional and traditional thinking and instead adopt a modern philosophy based on evolution and integration. Cy will present a new model of co-creation in the workplace based upon shared accountability for all team members, influencers and leaders who must gain fluence in modern workplace competencies. You will learn to evolve your HR and talent philosophies to transcend all that is polarizing and no longer working and be invited to a whole new conversation about what is possible in the new world of work and life.

Burnout, Resilience & Wellbeing | Conflict & Feedback Management | Employee Engagement & Experience | Leadership & Talent Management | Professional Development & Skilling/Reskilling | Workplace Culture & Innovation
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