People don't leave companies, they leave managers. But flip that around, and the manager is just as easily the reason they stay. The catch is most of us got handed a team and never got shown how to lead one, so we spend years winging the part of the job that matters most. Lia Garvin breaks it into three behaviors that turn anyone into a leader people actually want to work for: build trust, be clear, and delegate to motivate. Drawing on a decade inside Apple, Google, and Microsoft, this talk shows audiences why the best people stay, exactly what to do differently the next day, and the kind of leader you become when you stop winging it, not just for your numbers, but for the best work your team will ever do.
Most team problems don't start with conflict. They start with avoidance. There's a conversation you've been putting off, and odds are you didn't even realize it was the thing quietly crushing your team's morale and pushing your best people toward the door. Lia Garvin calls it The Sit-Down: a simple, structured conversation that shows your strongest people they matter and gives the ones who are struggling a clear path to turn things around. We lose great people not because we couldn't keep them, but because no one ever sat them down to show they were valued, or told them the truth early enough to fix it. This talk shows audiences why The Sit-Down matters, exactly how to have it, and the power it holds, not just for your team, but for every relationship in your life.
Return to office, layoffs, restructures, and now AI telling your team a robot might take their job. The ground keeps shifting, and your people are looking to you for certainty you don't have either. Here's what most leaders miss: you don't steady a team by having all the answers. You steady them by how you show up when you don't. Lia Garvin shows you how to build a team that can absorb change instead of buckling under it, starting with the fear underneath most of it right now, the quiet worry of becoming obsolete. Drawing on a decade inside Apple, Google, and Microsoft, this talk shows audiences how to lead through uncertainty, calm the fears that quietly kills momentum, and become the steady center a team can build around when everything else is moving.
Lia was very nice and easy to work with! She definitely did her research on our company, and even though she didn't bring any new ideas overall it was good.
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- May 10 2023
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