Liane Davey

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• Better Apart: Thriving in Remote and Hybrid Teams

  Many organizations are envisioning a future that includes permanent or part-time remote work. While the advantages of remote work are clear, the challenges are also becoming evident, particularly the challenge of managing teams with both remote and in-office members. These hybrid teams are the future of work, but they present unique psychological challenges.

  In this talk, learn the seven pitfalls of hybrid work and the strategies and techniques to ensure that your team is as productive, innovative, collaborative, and fun as any traditional team would be. Audiences will walk away being able to do the following:

  • Address the attitudes, behaviors, and judgments that will derail a hybrid team
  • Balance attention to reduce friction among remote and in-person employees
  • Foster a healthy team dynamic without the benefit of face-to-face interactions

• The Good Fight: How to Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team Back on Track

  Business today is more competitive than ever. Getting ahead and staying ahead requires you to make tough calls, face hard choices, and work through conflict. But no matter how much you invest in conflict workshops and training, productive conflict is still rare. Why? Because productive conflict is about more than the right skillset — it requires the right mindset and the right processes, neither of which come naturally.

  In this keynote, Liane Davey walks audiences through the process for creating productive conflict that will improve results and enhance engagement.

  Audiences will learn how to:

  • Identify the costs (in lost productivity, reduced engagement, and heightened stress) of avoiding the difficult issues.
  • Reframe people’s perception about conflict so that their natural conflict aversion doesn’t turn into conflict avoidance or worse, passive-aggressiveness.
  • Systematize conflict to neutralize and normalize even the most difficult issues in your business.

• You First: How You Can Change Your Team for the Better

  Organizations of all sizes depend on teams for productivity, growth, and innovation. Unfortunately, even with the most talented teams, dysfunction is the norm, not the exception. To make things worse, most teams are doing little to make it better, either because they aren’t aware of the problem or because they’re waiting for “someone else to fix it.”

  The good news is that you don’t have to wait. You don’t need the jerk to get fired, your boss to move on, or a pricey consultant to turn your team around. In this keynote, you’ll learn how you can change your team from any seat at the table and take steps to help your team get along and get stuff done.

  Audiences will learn how to:

  • Proactively identify toxic behavior before it results in lost revenue or customers.
  • Discover how your attitudes, choices, and behaviors are affecting the dynamic of your team.
  • Learn the five things you can do immediately to help your team be happier, healthier, and more productive.

• Change has Changed: How to Create High Performance in a World of Perpetual Change

  As a leader, managing change is nothing new. So, why does it feel so much harder now? Because change has changed. It’s no longer an event to prepare for, but a constant reality to cope with. With this unrelenting pace and intensity, your employees don’t have a chance to recover from the last initiative before moving on to the next one. Over time, even the best employees will either stop caring and check out or try so hard they eventually burnout. While you can’t stop the tsunami of change, as a leader, you have more power than you think to create calm within the storm.

  Audiences will learn:

  • How the human brain reacts to perpetual change and how to use neuropsychology to your advantage.
  • How to manage attention and anxiety on the path to managing performance.
  • How to develop the resilience necessary to have the courage, empathy, and patience to lead your team through perpetual change.

• Proactive Accountability: Enhancing Responsibility without Eroding Empathy

  Recent upheavals, including the pandemic and the great resignation, shifted the power balance in manager-employee relationships. Now, managers know they need to boost results, but worry they have to trade off productivity in service of being compassionate. It’s time for a reset. We need a new era of greater personal accountability, but you can’t afford an overcorrection that risks creating a toxic workplace. The secret is helping leaders understand that accountability and empathy aren’t mutually exclusive.

  In this session, audiences will learn practical techniques to increase accountability and drive results in a psychologically safe way. You’ll discover new ways to position people for success and effective approaches to deal with people who are always making excuses.