SPEAKING SERVICES: COLLEGIATE
Campus programs, First-Year Experience/Orientation, Student Organizations, Fraternity/Sorority Life, Leadership programs, Student staff retreats
KEYNOTES
PLAN IN LEGOS
Do you remember how great it was to play with LEGOs as a kid? If you didn’t like what you were building or changed your mind you could shift with ease. Wouldn’t it be nice if that flexibility applied in life? What if I told you that it could, but we have been so conditioned to build our life plans out of concrete that flexibility and change feels impossible?
Students are coming to campus feeling more pressure than ever to have life figured out. Not only is this unrealistic, but it is causing or adding to rampant mental health issues. In this session Lynsy will address this issue head on and help students crack the paralyzing pressure that so many are feeling. She’ll walk them through steps to begin building a fulfilling plan for their future, while leaving room for exploration and self-discovery. Students will leave this session feeling relieved and more confident in their ability to define their path.
Learning outcomes:
Identify ways to decrease pressures that may be caused internally or externally
Explore what it looks like to be intentional with one’s time
Discover strategies to evaluate options to strive for growth
Recommended Audience: Anyone—First-Year Experience, Wellness Seminar, Leadership programs, Women’s Summit, Greek Week…
IGNITE: STRATEGIES FOR TAKING YOUR ORGANIZATION TO THE NEXT LEVEL
From apathy and retention issues to complacency and stagnation our organizations consistently end up operating at a less than optimal level. Just as many of us find ourselves struggling from similar organizational woes, there are also some common solutions. Through authentic stories of comedic failure and unlikely triumph, Lynsy will share how you too can overcome organizational challenges and find success. Walk away with tools and tangible solutions to take your organization from good to great.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Identify the issues that are preventing your organization from thriving
Explore opportunities to promote member retention
Discover how to build strong relationships with your members
Recognize how to intentionally engage all members
Recommended Audience: Organization or Council leaders
IT'S NOT A CONTEST, IT'S LIFE
Do better, be stronger, do more, BE FIRST…when does it end? Healthy competition can serve as great motivation at times. When it comes to our life’s journey, however, we should never use others’ to benchmark our own. Through battles with depression and the need to be perfect (in everyone else’s eyes), Lynsy struggled (and failed) to climb to the top of her academic, social, and professional circles. It wasn’t until a friend dropped one hard-hitting piece of advice on her, that Lynsy’s entire outlook on life changed. With laughter-filled stories of struggle and success, Lynsy will share how she finally stopped competing in everyone else’s race and became the champion of her own.
Learning Outcomes:
Recognize that your worth isn’t based on anyone else’s expectations
Discover what brings joy to your life
Explore ways to insert happiness into your daily routine
Examine what it would look like to say “No” more often
Learn to be more intentional with your time
Recommended Audience: Anyone—First-Year Experience, Wellness Seminar, Leadership programs, Women’s Summit, Greek Week…
NO MORE DRAMA: HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE CONFLICT
Conflict prevents our clubs from being successful. Conflict limits our leaders’ effectiveness. Conflict inhibits our organizations’ impact. Conflict causes internal turmoil. As leaders, we need to be able to prevent harmful conflict when possible and resolve negative conflict when it does arise. In this session we will discuss the benefits healthy conflict and what to do when conflict becomes destructive. We will explore ways that we, ourselves, may enhance conflict and how to minimize our internal struggle.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Compare healthy and harmful conflict
Explore ways to manage conflict as it arises
Discover ways we personally contribute to conflict and how to prevent unnecessary internal struggle
Recommended Audience: Organization and Council leadership
WORKSHOPS
FROM SOLO TO ENSEMBLE: LEADING WITH YOUR MEMBERS
If you want something done right you better do it yourself, right? Wrong. That mentality will put you on the fast track to burnout and your members on the road to apathy. In this session we will discuss ways to remove some of that burden from yourself and more effectively engage all your members in leading your organization to success. Individually you are strong, but together you are powerful. Turn your membership into an unstoppable force.
Recommended Audience: Student Organization/Council Leaders
CHANGE: THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED OR THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?
Many organizations and members are afraid of change. We often live by the phrase “We’ve always done it that way”. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to grow or improve as a person or as an organization if we don’t break free from that philosophy. In this session we will explore ways that we are being held back by our own traditions, how to look at our practices with a critical eye, and how to reduce the anxiety we feel regarding change.
Recommended Audience: All Student Leaders
FUNEXPECTED MEETINGS
Have your meetings become monotonous and boring? Are you struggling to get your members to attend meetings regularly? Let’s share some ideas! This is an interactive workshop in which participants will be asked to share some of their best meeting experiences. Together we will brainstorm ideas to take your meetings from snooze-worthy and expected to exciting and FUNexpected.
Recommended Audience: All Student Leaders