CEO Rebecca Shambaugh speaks at major conferences around the world. In her keynotes, she overturns assumptions about how to lead in today’s business environment. Rebecca is a champion for collaboration and inclusive workplace culture. She helps leaders and employees find new ways to work together in order to boost their resilience, creativity and potential for growth.
Rebecca Shambaugh is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker, author, blogger for The Huffington Post, and contributing editor for Harvard Business Review. Rebecca has been showcased on CNBC, TED Talks, Fox News (New York), NPR, Washington Business, ABC, and numerous syndicated radio talk shows. She has been featured in publications such as: Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time Magazine, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report.
While organizational culture is an important element to achieving gender balance, too many women unknowingly hold themselves back. Rebecca inspires audiences with her vision on leadership today and provides tools that empower women to lead with their natural talents verses trying to fit into an outdated and hierarchical work environment.
We are living in times of uncertainty at work, within our communities, and families. This calls for being resilient in order to adapt to changing work structures, manage emotions, optimize our time, mobilize greater levels of energy, and foster supportive relationships. Rebecca will present on important behaviors, tools, and practices that can immediately be applied back to attendees work environment.
Executive presence remains at the top of the list of how executives are evaluated. Recent studies indicate that executive presence counts for 26% of what it takes to influence others and get promoted. Our proven and research-based model for Executive Presence gets to the core of the “Why”, the “What” and the “How” for leaders to tap into the ideal presence that allows them to lead more effectively.
Whether you feel isolated, constantly challenged, fatigued, or simply lost your direction, it’s important to overcome obstacles and lean into your leadership to succeed in your endeavors. Rebecca will provide real world examples and a proven formula for championing your goals for creating a path forward. Rebecca will share her leadership principle, We Are Better Together, and will provide ways to foster allyship and ignite a spirt of collaboration and inclusion so together we can all thrive.
Chair
As Chair of Women in Bio, we were thrilled to have Becky at two of our organization's events - an executive seminar and a leadership retreat. Becky presented a compelling and engaging two sessions on Resilient Leadership During Disruptive Times and Mastering Leadership Presence in a Virtual World. Her deep expertise, tools, and practices served to be relevant, timely, and valuable - all applicable to our own environments and leadership.
Vice President
SHAMBAUGH delivered an amazing session on Leadership and Executive Presence. They resonated with the participants and were able to transfer learnings directly back to their leadership. SHAMBAUGH is a true partner and we valued their amazing facilitator.
Chief Inclusion Officer
"SHAMBAUGH served as a valuable strategic partner, helping us conduct a global assessment and then identify important aspects of our culture, leadership, and systems that helped us to create a realistic roadmap for creating and sustaining an inclusive culture."
Karen Bechtel, Managing Director
Extremely informative, entertaining, and insightful, Rebecca Shambaugh’s message is aimed at both a male and female audiences. She succinctly describes business leadership models that drive top performance in organizations.
Co-Chair
Rebecca’s emphasis on inclusion, the leadership pipeline, uncovering latent biases, and the lack of women’s visibility and presence in upper levels of business made a real impact in the practical work of the senior executive women on the council. Rebecca provided the practical lessons learned from her 25 years of working with women leaders and generated a rich discussion.
Executive Vice President
Rebecca’s keynote address was inspiring and extremely well received, it resonated with the attendees. I have received an overwhelming amount of response, positive I must say, regarding her keynote address.
Sales Executive
Marriott’s Women’s CEO Executive Forum was a tremendous success, and that is due in large part to Rebecca Shambaugh. When organizing an event for CEOs and executive directors of major associations, ensuring high ROI is critical. The content Rebecca delivered coupled with her knowledge, experience and expertise was a home run. We could not have executed this without her.
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