Shelette Stewart

Shelette Stewart Speaking Topics

• Achieving Success by Connecting Your Profession with Your Purpose

  We spend too much time at work not to enjoy it. We don’t have a personal life and a professional life; we have ONE life. And, we have to make that life count. What is your purpose as an individual? How does it relate to your profession? Does it align with the mission and vision of your organization? This interactive program positions you for achieving not only success, but more importantly significance, by offering spiritual principles, practical tools, real life examples, and Harvard Business School best practices for:

  • Understanding the meaning of purpose and calling and why it’s so important to align them with your profession.
  • Identifying your purpose and calling as an individual and how to align them with your career - - and what to do if they don’t align.
  • Developing an Action Plan for connecting profession and purpose to position yourself for achieving personal fulfillment and professional success and significance.

• Leading by Leveraging Your Platform

  Most of us have heard of the infamous 4 “Ps” of Marketing: price, product, place, and promotion. This session introduces you to the 5th “P” of marketing - - your Platform (i.e., what you authentically stand for as a leader). Incorporating business principles, Harvard Business School insights, practical tools, and best practices from leading organizations including The Coca-Cola Company, Chick-fil-A, and Mercedes Benz, this interactive session offers key steps for:

  • Understanding what a Platform is and why it’s so important to your success.
  • Identifying the Platform for yourself as a leader and for your organization or project initiatives.
  • Developing an Action Plan for leveraging your Platform to drive performance, productivity, and bottom-line profitability.

• Leveraging AI and Pivot Strategy to Drive Business Results

  Your strategy will be established by design or by default. The choice is yours. We are living in a VUCA environment: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous. Society is ever-changing. The economy is ever-changing. Industry is ever-changing. At times, our strategies must also change. How might Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Pivot Strategy be leveraged? Incorporating business principles, practical tools, and Harvard Business School cases and best practices from leading organizations and Fortune 500 companies including Netflix, The Coca-Cola Company, and Mary Kay Corporation, this interactive program offers key steps for leveraging pivot strategy to drive results for your organization, department, or business unit.

  Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the meaning of Pivot Strategy; when you need it; and, why it is so important.
  • Identify a Pivot Strategy for your team, your business unit, or your organization.
  • Develop an Action Plan for executing your Pivot Strategy to drive performance, productivity, and bottom-line profitability.

• Strategic Thinking & Communications

  Both organizations and individuals benefit from the ability to create value. Often this value creation emanates from from the way in which we think and communicate. The most effective leaders have the ability to appreciate the macro-level (big) picture, while understanding and communicating micro-level implications and ramifications, in ways that drive performance, productivity, and create profitable ideas.

  This interactive session offers practical principles, pragmatic insights, tools, and Harvard Business School best practices for:

  • Understanding the concept of strategic thinking and communications and why they're so important to your success and that of your organization and initiatives.
  • Identifying your top challenges around strategic thinking and communications.
  • Creating an Action Plan to enhance your strategic thinking and strategic communicatiosn skills as they relate to your real world initiatives.

• Leveraging Cause Marketing to Drive Results

  Not every company is in a position to donate a million-dollar check to a charitable organization. But, many companies can leverage cause marketing to drive revenue while benefiting society. This course tells you how to engage these companies. Incorporating business principles, practical tools, real-world examples, and best practices from leading organizations including The Coca-Cola Company, National Park Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network, McDonald’s, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, this interactive session offers key insights for:

  • Understanding what Cause Marketing is and how it differs from traditional marketing
  • Identifying Cause Marketing opportunities for your organization.
  • Developing an Action Plan for a Cause Marketing program to drive performance, productivity, and bottom-line profitability for your organization.