Keynote Presentations

Write Wise Communications, LLC has delivered training courses for years. We design our courses to be interactive and have an immediate impact on work.  Now, we are expanding to take that same approach to the keynote stage. Our keynotes provide the same practical strategies and interactivity with a more inspirational and personal focus built for a bigger audience.

Write Wise Communications would like to introduce our four inaugural topics. Each topic can be customized to your audience and delivered in person or virtually. Many of our microlearning courses can also adapt to a keynote format.

We would be delighted to discuss delivering a keynote to your organization. Contact us to discuss how a Write Wise Keynote Presentation can be tailored to your next annual meeting, corporate leadership retreat, employee training or development event.

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Angle – Line – Speed:

What Whitewater Rafting Teaches about Leadership

Whitewater rafting is dangerous. Moving water is more powerful than we are. We respect the water and work with it by adjusting our angle, line and speed. This applies to life and leadership because we navigate using our values and experiences. Values and experiences are our rudder (the paddle). This session compares maneuvering in whitewater to the movements we choose with our leadership skills.

What direction are you going? What strategies are you using to direct your career? This session compares maneuvering in whitewater to the movements we choose with our leadership skills. The concepts in this keynote challenge the audience to plan how to face work-related issues, change, and culture

What the audience will gain from this keynote:
  1. Understand their “angle” – not their direction, but their values, purpose and reason for the work they do and the life they live.
  2. Identify their “line” – not their tagline or snappy slogan.  The audience will determine how they align with their organization, groups or community.
  3. Decide their “speed” – how fast they want to make decisions.  Participants will make a plan to increase forward motion or slow their pace to reassess and evaluate their personal situation.
Microlearning courses related to this keynote topic:
  1. Revealing Unconscious Language Habits to Improve Communication
  2. How to Look and Sound Good Online
  3. Executive Presence
  4. Business Acumen
  5. Delivering Difficult Messages with Finesse
  6. Managing Resistant or Negative Audiences

Live Confidently by Taking Charge of

Your Personal Growth

If you’re looking for a motivational experience with practical advice for gaining confidence, this is it! We start with improvement strategies to take up, hold and regain your personal space. 

Then, we learn ways to position yourself in the room, in the group and in the organization. Lastly, we’ll learn to carefully regain lost power with a few simple, yet impactful tactics.  If you’re looking for a motivational experience with practical advice for gaining confidence, this is it!

What the audience will gain from this keynote:
  1. Evaluate their personal agency.
  2. Understand how positioning works in organizations to maximize their impact on projects, teams and associates.
  3. Learn tactics for regaining trust and relationships with others or repair their standing, if needed.
Microlearning courses related to this keynote topic:
  1. Effective Communication during Career Transition
  2. Take up Your Space: Confident Communication
  3. Trust and Transparency
  4. Curb Conflict Proactively
  5. Managing Tone
  6. Executive Presence

Determining Personalities and Behavior to Create the Right Environment for Growth

Something just isn’t right. I’m getting a vibe from this person, but I can’t figure out why. This person is giving me the creeps. How do I determine their personality before I hire, partner or befriend them?

This session shares five simple, practical behavior strategies to draw out a person’s real personality and show their true selves. Then you can choose to engage or disengage based on observed reactions and responses.

What the audience will gain from this keynote:
  1. Practice doing an intuition inventory.
  2. Learn behavioral warning signs of dysfunction or manipulation.
  3. Discover five behavior strategies to reveal people’s true nature.
Microlearning courses related to this keynote topic:
  1. Engagement or Bait?
  2. Identifying Toxic Behavior Patterns
  3. Dealing with Toxic Behavior Patterns
  4. Addressing Manipulation in the Workplace
  5. Gossip and Gaslighting: Addressing These Behaviors to Create Safe Workplaces
  6. Beyond the Blindside

Genuine Connection isn’t an AI Tool

A casual encounter at a coffee shop can be your only chance at a first impression. Rooting for your favorite team at a sports event can lead to meaningful connections. Shopping at a local plant nursery is a chance to reengage. 

In the age where everyone has a camera, what’s important to remember about our behavior? This session shares several key qualities to ensure we build and retain good will in our relationships.  You’ll leave with a refreshed sense of how to be your best self any time, anywhere.

What the audience will gain from this keynote:
  1. Learn the key elements of an amazing first impression.
  2. Develop a mindset of curiosity.
  3. Understand the key elements of building and retaining good will with others.
Microlearning courses related to this keynote topic:
  1. Trust and Transparency
  2. Curb Conflict Proactively
  3. Effective Questioning
  4. Executive Presence
  5. Business Acumen
  6. Beyond the Blindside