Annual Leadership Conference: The Leadership Expo

The Leadership Expo brings experts and leaders together in a dynamic forum to share best practices and cutting edge techniques to assist you in your employee recruitment, motivating and retention needs. Our line up of sessions guarantees participants a variety of topics to suit their needs. Find out more about the Leadership Expo by visiting www.leadershipexpo.com.

Keynote Speaking Engagements:

Keynote Speaking is about setting the tone, energizing participants, and creating an interactive, relaxed, and motivating environment for corporate and community events.  Sandra proudly accomplishes all of these goals through her philosophy of “get involved, laughing, and living!”   Please contact Sandra to discuss your unique and personal key note speaking needs.  Rest assured you will be amazed by Sandra’s ability to connect with people and lead a dynamic and insightful key note address. 

Three of her most recent Keynote Addresses are:

Using Laughter to Reduce Stress & Enhance Employee Morale or Laugh Yourself Silly!

The word silly comes from the old English word sellec which means health, happiness and prosperity. This workshop looks at therapeutic and somewhat ‘silly’ laughter exercises proven to decrease stress, boost morale and increase job satisfaction. Find out the benefits of bringing laughter into your workplace!

Dynamic Instruction: Practical Instructional Techniques to Engage the Learner

Humour, music, storytelling, activity, and audience interaction are experienced firsthand at this unique and dynamic approach to instruction. Expect to be physically engaged and mentally stimulated while learning critical concepts & techniques to help you engage your employees in the learning process.


Using Storytelling to Drive Organizational Results

Why is there a resurgence of interest among today's business and organizational leaders in the ancient art of storytelling at a time when electronic communications might seem to make it obsolete? Studies have shown that by using storytelling, you can more fully engage your employees, reduce turnover and align staff with organizational goals. In this workshop, you will find out how major companies are using storytelling to achieve results and learn the 8 narrative patterns to make stories work for your organization.

Executive Retreats:

Save time and money, achieve results and build relationships in the process.  Based out of the beautiful Niagara peninsula, Sandra Summerhayes and Associates proudly works with our world-renowned hospitality industry to coordinate and deliver experiential and interactive executive retreats. Sandra will partner with your executive team to craft an unforgettable executive retreat that supports both immediate and strategic activities of your leaders. Executive retreats are often the key to fostering successful work relationships, as individuals are more creative and relaxed outside of traditional office environments.  Opportunities for dialogue outside traditional office environments, can foster creative solutions to your immediate and strategic plans.

Sandra Summerhayes and Associates are also available to come to your local community and other retreat locations throughout North America. 

Sandra Summerhayes recommends the following resources:

• The 8th Habit:  From Effectiveness to Greatness by Stephen R. Covey
  This book is worth the money just for the DVD that is included let alone the book itself. The DVD has 16 inspirtational films including many of Covey's training DVDs. Like his other books, it is a good read.
  
• Gutfeeling:  Instinct and Spirituality @ Work by Peter Urs Bender
  This book outlines how gutfeeling, defined as instinct and intuition, is as important as reason, logic, analysis and connections. He shows us how to use gutfeeling in annual meetings, balance sheeting, leadership, profit, ROI, teamwork and so much more. This is a great book for anyone wanting to hone their leadership skills.

Tune in for more of Sandra's recommended resources each month!

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