Natalie Johnson

Intentional Culture: From the Inside Out
Workplace culture is a common topic among organizational leaders, with good reason. Recent research suggests culture is ten times more important than compensation in determining whether valuable employees will stay or leave. But culture is a complex concept to understand – and even more complex to change.

Dare to Lead™
Based on the research of Brene Brown and led by a facilitator trained directly by Dr. Brown, Dare to Lead™ is a training session focused on brave work, tough conversations and whole hearts. In particular, it focuses on the development of the four skillsets of courage: rumbling with vulnerability, living into your values, BRAVING Trust, and learning to rise.

Coaching for Leaders (can be customized for healthcare leaders)
Coaching is an essential tool in a leader’s toolbox, but the skillsets of coaching are not widely known or practiced. Further, many leaders have been taught to be the “expert”, a mindset which can often impede the learning and growth of their team members. To be most effective in leading teams, leaders must know when and how to act as coach rather than expert.

Above the Line: Effective Thinking for Todays Workplace Challenges
Our thinking either sparks empowered emotions, productive behaviors and desirable outcomes - or it keeps us stuck. In today’s uncertain, complex, and demanding workplace, mindset matters more than ever.

Call to Connection: Cultivating Quality Relationships with Diverse Personalities
Our relationships with colleagues in the workplace offer some of life’s greatest opportunities – and challenges. Particularly when we are navigating a variety of personalities, it’s important to know how to work through differences and cultivate connection, which is the key to team success.

Creating a Culture of Accountability
Lack of accountability is one of the most frequent frustration triggers for employees and one of the biggest culprits of underperformance and friction on organizational teams. While most people want to be a part of teams where accountability is the norm, many oversimplify the idea or are unsure of how to enact it.

Courageous Communication: The Inner Game
Traditional efforts to help improve their communication skills focus on models or strategies that, while valuable, overlook one key factor: the internal work that is often necessary to improve the way we communicate with others. Developing an impactful communication style requires that we attend to important elements of our “inner operating system” such as thoughts, feelings, values, and decision-making models.

Courageous communication: Clear is Kind
Especially when we are faced with a difficult conversation, we often find ourselves avoiding, sugar-coating, clumsily landing the message, or reacting defensively. This session helps participants identify and overcome these challenges so they can become more confident and comfortable giving and receiving feedback with candor, kindness, and conviction.

Energy Management : Your Key to Ideal Work and Life Integration
The research is clear that wellbeing, work performance, and organizational outcomes suffer in the long term unless leaders develop the ability to balance the demands of the modern work world through better management of their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy. This rich, interactive, and inspiring training helps leaders understand that self-care is not a luxury, but rather an absolute necessity for showing up as the best versions of themselves at work and at home.

Your Emotional Impact
The importance of emotional intelligence in the workplace has become a significant topic for forward thinking organizations. If a person doesn’t have a high level of emotional intelligence, their IQ or work ethic will only take them so far.

Mastering Mental Focus: Training for Todays Attention Economy
Smart phones, stressors, to-do lists, interruptions, and distractions deplete our mental and emotional energy all day long, leaving us feeling overwhelmed and “crazy busy”. Today’s world requires skillsets and practices around mental attention that help us sift through the stimuli, create clarity, and stay present.

Stress: It’s Your Superpower!
Work and life today are busier and more emotionally demanding than ever. Although stress is a predominant factor in all our lives, research has revealed that the traditional way of viewing stress isn’t helpful and actually contributes to burnout. The science suggests we can use our stress to foster performance, better connect with those that matter, and even extend our life.