Cheryl Cran

In today’s fast-evolving world, leaders and individuals must develop resilience to navigate constant change. The ability to adapt, transform, and thrive is no longer optional—it’s essential. But resilience isn’t just about bouncing back; it’s about bouncing forward with greater wisdom, energy, and purpose.

This powerful keynote blends leadership strategies, neuroscience, and energy intelligence to help individuals and teams move beyond survival mode and into a state of thriving. Through inspiring stories, actionable insights, and transformative tools, attendees will learn how to strengthen their inner and outer resilience, embrace change as a catalyst for growth, and lead with confidence in uncertain times.

In this inspirational resilient leader keynote you will learn:

• The science of resilience – How mindset, energy, and our habits contribute to our resiliency
• Navigate uncertainty with courage – Strategies to reframe fear, reduce stress and use tools in the present to help focus on future focused solutions
• The power of energetic intelligence – Understanding the ranges of energy and how to access energy to self lead and lead others
• Transform your narrative – How to rewrite the stores we tell ourselves about our circumstances and transform them into a hero/heroine’s journey
• Daily rituals – Everyday practices that are simple and easy to remember and to incorporate into your life and work for greater optimism, well being and impact
• Practical ideas and solutions – Models and tools for you to take back to your workplace and apply right away for immediate transformation

This keynote focuses on what it means to be a better human in order to be a better leader - its not about being 'soft' its about caring, compassion and mutual accountability.

Based on Cheryl Cran’s book, "Super.Crucial.Human," this keynote focuses on the concept that now and in the future ‘everyone is a leader’ and with that everyone needs to be a better human. Research has confirmed that not only are we in a workers market, we are going to need MORE people now and into the future even with the rise of automation, AI and robotics. What we need is people who have crucial human skills – skills that go beyond the basics when it comes to compassion, creativity, communication and collaboration.

This keynote will INSPIRE, elevate the mindsets of audience members to embrace that being human means we have infinite possibilities to evolve and to adapt at the speed of change.

In this keynote you will learn:

• Research on the social trends that are driving the urgent need for everyone to develop ‘crucial human skills’
• How to reframe challenges, setbacks and disruptions into elevated opportunities to evolve and grow
• The 4 C’s of being a super crucial human – next level skills of compassion, creativity, conscious communication and collaboration
• Why LQ (love quotient) is even MORE important than EQ (emotional intelligence) and how to apply it in both life and work
• How to leverage the ‘me to we’ mindset model to increase collaboration in a hybrid workplace reality
• Actionable models and strategic ideas on how to elevate crucial human skills and apply in real time in life and work for accelerated success in all relationships

What are the attributes, what are the mindsets and what are the secrets to being a change leader driving towards the future of work.

Never before have workplaces had so much ambiguity, uncertainty and constant change. Workers are challenged with doing more with less, learning at the speed of disruption and working with diverse situations. There is a massive opportunity for leaders to create the future for themselves and their teams.

With the increase of digital transformation there is a calling for leaders to be connected, empathetic and inspiring for their teams.

Attendees will leave this session with:

• The most recent and up to date research on the future workplace and what it means for leaders today
• Statistics and sentiment analysis on worker attitudes and what workers want today and in the future from their leaders
• Leadership models on the ‘me to we’ mindset and mapping the future of the leadership journey
• Tips and strategies on how to leverage leadership mastery to increase the attraction and retention of top talent
• Inspiring ideas that can be put into immediate action to increase employee motivation and engagement
• Practical daily actions to help leaders feel energized and to help their teams to be inspired and excited to create the future of work

What will leaders and their teams have to do to thrive today and beyond to the year 2030? Today’s challenges include ongoing global change, technological innovation and fast changing workplace dynamics.

Employee engagement, creating future ready leaders, attracting and retaining top talent are all elements that are rapidly changing and impacting the way we work and how we need to change to meet the challenges of the future workplace today.

This keynote will provide researched global business insights, thought provoking, creative, leading edge ideas and strategies on how leaders can take immediate action to increase team buy in, adaptability and execution NOW as we head towards 2030.

Attendees will leave this session with:

• A look at the trends and technologies shaping the future workplace today
• Ideas for leaders and their teams to adapt their personality style and leadership style to the fast changing workplace
• “How” to successfully work with and engage the multiple generations in the workplace
• Insights into how leaders need to adapt to the ever-changing reality of worker attitudes and shifting attitudes on loyalty, job satisfaction and how work is done
• Mindset model on how to navigate fast pace of change as we head to future of work
• Research on the multiple intelligences needed to navigate the future of work
• Case studies and examples of progressive companies and leaders on the leading edge of creating innovative future ready workplaces
• Strategies on how to get everyone on board with the overall future vision, build excitement for the company’s direction and create commitment and buy-in to taking action today and for the future
• Cheryl’s style is dynamic high energy and interactive, she presents relevant research and her presentations always have fun movie clips and music. With Cheryl Cran as your keynote speaker you are guaranteed to have one of your best events ever with increased audience engagement, and an audience that leaves with easy to implement ideas as well as inspired to lead with 2030 vision to build the future workplace today.

We are firmly in a workers market. Hybrid workplace is here to stay. 89% of workers surveyed have stated that they want to work remotely at least two days a week. We are in a new reality where workers expect increased flexibility and increased life/work balance. Leaders need to upskill their mindset, perspectives and strategies to inspire their hybrid teams.

There is no ‘right way’ to do hybrid. Every organization is lining up their hybrid strategy to align with their workplace culture. With the hybrid workplace comes challenges that include increased siloes, decreased communication, less sense of an embedded company culture, leaders challenged with engaging and motivating workers and more.

Workers have higher expectations from their leaders and their workplace and this means leaders and teams must upskill and reskill to ‘future ready skills’. This includes shifting to multiple perspectives, increasing compassion and patience and creating new strategies that match up with the hybrid workplace dynamics.

In this keynote you will learn:

• The now and next hybrid workplace reality and what it means for leaders and the future of business
• How leaders can engage workers in the company culture in a hybrid workplace
• The three biases that increase siloes and hinder collaboration and what to do about it
• The change leadership skills needed to successfully recreate a unified culture
• A proprietary hybrid communication model to help leaders coach their teams to greater productivity
• Actionable ideas on how to increase worker engagement and collaboration in the hybrid workplace