Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer,  and Facilitator.

Is your audience filled with leaders who want to reach the next level? Are they individuals who want to increase their potential? Maybe your business wants to focus on leadership development, strategic HR planning or change management. Dr. Charity Hughes is here to motivate your team, unleash potential, and transform your organization.

Don’t take a chance with your company by delivering a lessor credentialed speaker, trainer or facilitator. Book Dr. Charity Hughes and receive powerful messages, strategies and direction from a Doctor of Organization Management with a master’s degree in Training and Organizational Development, a bachelor’s degree in speech communication, and experience as a past president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Leading Through Tension

Leading Through Tension: Using EQ to Unleash and Build Momentum

It’s been over two decades since Emotional Intelligence was first introduced to mainstream business. Why are we still talking about emotional intelligence? Does EQ really impact the ability to lead and make decisions when the stakes are high and is it a good predictor of success of leaders and organizations? In this engaging and informative session, keynote speaker, Dr. Hughes will share research which establishes the business case for Emotional Intelligence and demonstrates the competitive advantage of EQ in a global marketplace and its impact on organizational performance.  Charity will also share her recent and most relevant HR research based upon a study of EI and transformational leadership for HR professionals. She will answer the question of whether managing emotions is the key to the ability to lead and whether it is a good predictor of success.

Heart of a Leader

Heart of a Leader: Driving Results with Passion, Power, and Purpose

From the Industrial Age to the ever-present Digital Age, the role of leadership has evolved with changing shifts in social, cultural, and economic pressures. What has remained constant is how important leadership is to motivate employees, inspire teams, and deliver optimal results. Why is leadership still as popular today as it was over 50 years ago? In this interactive session, Dr. Hughes discusses what employees want from leaders and how the most effective leaders focus as much on an employee’s well-being as they do their organization’s growth and profitability. Finding balance between empathy and discipline can be challenging, but when a leader strikes that harmony, greatness can be achieved. Whether you are a newly promoted leader or an established, experienced executive, this session will help you explore what it takes to lead from the heart while executing goals with clarity and rigor.

Personal Leadership Lessons

Triumph Over Tragedy: Personal Leadership Lessons on the Journey to Fulfillment

What inspires you? How do you find time to do everything? What’s your secret for success? These are questions we tend to ask individuals who we admire or individuals who have overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. In this keynote session, Dr. Hughes shares her personal experience of overcoming physical disability, discrimination, health challenges, financial devastation, and other tragedies to fuel her determination to move forward. We all experience setbacks and disappointments, but how we respond to life’s difficulties can be the difference between being a victim or a victor. Dr. Hughes highlights five key lessons to overcome tragedy and live in fulfillment.

Corporate Training & Facilitation

Are you looking to improve your team’s results and overall performance? Offering development workshops to your employees can help with employee retention, organizational engagement, and individual and team performance. Pathfinder Leadership Group, LLC can work with you to customize a program to meet your specific needs, or you can contact us today about one of our established programs.

Strategic Thinking and Driving Performance

Strategic and critical thinking provide you with the framework to analyze and evaluate information. Participants will learn skills to consider divergent perspectives, think more rationally, and anticipate various scenarios. The workshop will teach skills to mitigate biases and lead to a greater understanding of stakeholders needs and expectations. Participants will learn skills to evaluate, identify, and distinguish opportunities for greater alignment which will provide an incredible boost in performance.

This workshop will help participants:
  • Set the context for performance
  • Address the challenges of managing others’ performance
  • Set priorities for self and others
  • Effectively understand and engage with various styles

Innovation, Problem-Solving, and Effective Decision Making

Having strong problem-solving skills can be a huge benefit in the workplace. Solving the simplest to the most complex problems is what workers are called to do nearly every day. Problem-solving skills are critical to making sound, effective decisions that yield desired results. Sound decision making in today’s tough business environment demands much more than just coming up with or picking the best alternative or option. It requires analyzing potential problems or opportunities and making sound judgments based on analysis.

This workshop will help participants:
  • Make business decisions more effectively and confidently
  • Avoid obstacles to objective analysis and judgments
  • Involve the right people at the right time in the decision-making process
  • Gain the help and support needed to make high-quality decisions and to implement them

Embracing Accountability

The first step in creating a culture of accountability within your organization is to define clear expectations and desired results. We all have unique skills, experience, abilities, perceptions, but unless we work together to maximize our efforts, we may miss the mark and fail to accomplish our goals. Personal accountability is about full engagement in a team’s process as well as the team’s outcomes. It is also about challenging others to have the same level of engagement in a non-threatening, collaborative manner.

This workshop will help participants:
  • Create and drive a culture of accountability for superior results
  • Explore the difference between urgent and important
  • Develop a common language around accountability
  • Identify and address detracting behavior

Career Planning & Development

Charting a course to reach your career goals can be daunting and confusing. Discovering your strengths, considering your successes, applying your skills, understanding your challenges, and learning from your mistakes are all important milestones on your path to success. Coaching for career planning involves self-discovery and personal introspection to tap into your authentic voice and professional passions. Career coaching helps you find the intersection between what you enjoy doing and what you do really well.

This workshop will help participants:
  • Self-assessments
  • Resume review
  • Skill analysis
  • Interview preparation

Executive Presence

Organizations are looking for leaders who can engage an audience, inspire teams, and speak with conviction. While nothing can replace technical competence, executive presence helps to shape an organization’s culture based on how leaders “show up” and connect with employees. Employees are looking for leaders who are passionate about a vision and who are able to clearly and succinctly articulate that vision in a way that inspires, engages, and motivates.

This workshop will help participants:

  • Self-assessments
  • Communication style
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Eye contact
  • Content messaging

Energetic, great engagement, great participation and involvement. Wonderful topic and way to end the day on a high note.

– Attendee, SHRM Education Partner’s Conference, 2018

Favorite session…great speaker – topic is relevant across fields and professions.

– Attendee, SHRM Education Partner’s Conference, 2018

This was a superb presentation. It was brilliant in the sense it incorporated EQ concepts into the HR practice. CHarity’s use of engaging the audience with in-class exercises demonstrated wonderful instructor possibilities for classroom use.

– Attendee, SHRM Education Partner’s Conference, 2018

FANTASTIC! Clean take-aways, relevant, content.

– Attendee, PSHRM Symposium, 2017

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