“The choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts
and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”
OPRAH WINFREY
“The choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.”
OPRAH WINFREY
Life is messy. Leadership is complex.
Life is messy. Leadership is complex. We get it. Living in a deeply disconnected world, most of us are carrying many beliefs and ways of doing that are at odds with the very things we most long for: well-being, feeling worthy and valued, collaborating with ease, and bringing big visions to life. We get stuck in a model of living and leading that is obsolete for who are becoming individually and collectively.
When Kawtar speaks or facilitates a workshop, she brings what is below the surface, what needs to be seen and heard, to light with lightness.
Her style is authentic, gentle, and yet powerful and makes audiences feel safe in exploring challenging ideas, cutting to the core of what matters, and hearing and seeing what was not yet visible in their life and work.
Audiences and organizations quickly discover where the previously-invisible stuckness is, and begin the process of moving beyond it into what we are really aiming for. She cultivates the clarity, courage, and compassion that support creating cultures of well-being, belonging, and peace.
Our Signature Talks...
Life is messy. Leadership is complex.
Life is messy. Leadership is complex. We get it. Living in a deeply disconnected world, most of us are carrying many beliefs and ways of doing that are at odds with the very things we most long for: well-being, feeling worthy and valued, collaborating with ease, and bringing big visions to life. We get stuck in a model of living and leading that is obsolete for who are becoming individually and collectively.
When Kawtar speaks or facilitates a workshop, she brings what is below the surface, what needs to be seen and heard, to light with lightness.
Her style is authentic, gentle, and yet powerful and makes audiences feel safe in exploring challenging ideas, cutting to the core of what matters, and hearing and seeing what was not yet visible in their life and work.
Audiences and organizations quickly discover where the previously-invisible stuckness is, and begin the process of moving beyond it into what we are really aiming for. She cultivates the clarity, courage, and compassion that support creating cultures of well-being, belonging, and peace.
Our Signature Talks...
Building Emotional Resilience
With the challenges of our world intensifying, building emotional resilience is no longer a luxury. We all need to develop the core skills of recognizing, naming, and reshaping our emotional states for the sake of our health and relationships and to bring our best selves to work.
In this talk, your audience will discover:
the importance of cultivating emotional resilience
how to begin or gain momentum in this journey
simple and clear steps to cultivate emotional resilience
The Anatomy of Bias: A Global Perspective for Equity and Belonging
Kawtar was exploring diversity and inclusion work long before it became the hot topic of the day. While it was unique and challenging, she had the opportunity to learn it and practice it in a global setting through a trauma informed lense.
In this talk, she discusses the core intent of diversity and inclusion work—equity and belonging—and helps audiences explore:
the universality of bias
the systemic impact of bias
how we can move past it together
Your audience will gain a fresh perspective from a racialized woman who stands for doing this work from love because we are in it together. She will inspire them to personal responsibility within systemic structures that enable equity.
Why does she speak of equity and belonging rather than diversity and inclusion?
Because the very word inclusion furthers an imbalanced power dynamic.
Please only book this talk if your organization is seriously committed to this work and ready for deep, authentic conversations.
Holistic Leadership Principles:
Shifting Narratives of Power
We have grown accustomed to a leadership model based on a power over and limited responsibility model, which has led to the compromised well-being of leaders and those they lead. In this model, decisions are made with an overreliance on the left brain, linear model, leaving out both collective responsibility and organic opportunities.
In this talk, we redefine leadership by:
exploring what skill sets are needed for today’s leaders to be agile and highly effective with more flow and less force
opening the door to a win-win model of effortless effort
leading with a balance of care and accountability so people and results are equally honored
Building Emotional Resilience
With the challenges of our world intensifying, building emotional resilience is no longer a luxury. We all need to develop the core skills of recognizing, naming, and reshaping our emotional states for the sake of our health and relationships and to bring our best selves to work.
In this talk, your audience will discover:
the importance of cultivating emotional resilience
how to begin or gain momentum in this journey
simple and clear steps to cultivate emotional resilience
The Anatomy of Bias: A Global Perspective for Equity and Belonging
Kawtar was exploring diversity and inclusion work long before it became the hot topic of the day. While it was unique and challenging, she had the opportunity to learn it and practice it in a global setting through a trauma informed lense.
In this talk, she discusses the core intent of diversity and inclusion work—equity and belonging—and helps audiences explore:
the universality of bias
the systemic impact of bias
how we can move past it together
Your audience will gain a fresh perspective from a racialized woman who stands for doing this work from love because we are in it together. She will inspire them to personal responsibility within systemic structures that enable equity.
Why does she speak of equity and belonging rather than diversity and inclusion?
Because the very word inclusion furthers an imbalanced power dynamic.
Please only book this talk if your organization is seriously committed to this work and ready for deep, authentic conversations.
Holistic Leadership Principles:
Shifting Narratives of Power
We have grown accustomed to a leadership model based on a power over and limited responsibility model, which has led to the compromised well-being of leaders and those they lead. In this model, decisions are made with an overreliance on the left brain, linear model, leaving out both collective responsibility and organic opportunities.
In this talk, we redefine leadership by:
exploring what skill sets are needed for today’s leaders to be agile and highly effective with more flow and less force
opening the door to a win-win model of effortless effort
leading with a balance of care and accountability so people and results are equally honored
Our Workshops are:
Experiential, offering the opportunity to deeply engage
ideas and concepts from different lenses
Customizable, giving organizations the opportunity to
address particular needs in their leadership and workplace
90 minutes - 3 hours in length
Our Workshops are:
Experiential, offering the opportunity to deeply engage
ideas and concepts from different lenses
Customizable, giving organizations the opportunity to
address particular needs in their leadership and workplace
90 minutes - 3 hours in length
Deep Listening
Listening is a core skill for life and work—one that is often not what we learn in schools or at work. This skill opens the capacities of our full brain, so that we can move beyond the left-brain, rational thinking dominance in which most of us are conditioned. It gives us access to our full human potential to work within all areas of life.
This workshop can be expanded to explore listening not only at the personal and relational levels, but also listening to our intuition and deepening our right-brain skills.
Building a Values-Based Culture
Values can be aspirational, or they can be the compass of your business. Aligning your organizational culture with your proclaimed values requires intentional effort as well as the ability to have crucial conversations and make difficult decisions. When your values are the North Star of your business and teams, you begin to create a culture of increased productivity, brand value, and social leadership.
In this workshop, we begin to examine your values and how to translate them into decisions and behaviors.
Deep Listening
Listening is a core skill for life and work—one that is often not what we learn in schools or at work. This skill opens the capacities of our full brain, so that we can move beyond the left-brain, rational thinking dominance in which most of us are conditioned. It gives us access to our full human potential to work within all areas of life.
This workshop can be expanded to explore listening not only at the personal and relational levels, but also listening to our intuition and deepening our right-brain skills.
Building a Values-Based Culture
Values can be aspirational, or they can be the compass of your business. Aligning your organizational culture with your proclaimed values requires intentional effort as well as the ability to have crucial conversations and make difficult decisions. When your values are the North Star of your business and teams, you begin to create a culture of increased productivity, brand value, and social leadership.
In this workshop, we begin to examine your values and how to translate them into decisions and behaviors.
We are excited to hear about how we might be able to support you.
We are excited to hear about how we might be able to support you.
What Leaders are Saying
"I had the pleasure to listen to Kawtar during her last speaking event with the ‘She Did It Community’ entitled xxxxx. I deeply resonated with her words because she helped me to put myself right front and centre, so I could pause, take more moments to listen, and honour my emotions.
Her words brought tears to my eyes and a deep sense of being understood, cared for, and supported. Kawtar is a remarkable speaker, speaking from a place of authenticity, leadership, and love. If you want to inspire or empower your audience to step into a life aligned with their purpose and find inner peace, Kawtar is the speaker that you need."
What Leaders are Saying
"I had the pleasure to listen to Kawtar during her last speaking event with the ‘She Did It Community’ entitled xxxxx. I deeply resonated with her words because she helped me to put myself right front and centre, so I could pause, take more moments to listen, and honour my emotions.
Her words brought tears to my eyes and a deep sense of being understood, cared for, and supported. Kawtar is a remarkable speaker, speaking from a place of authenticity, leadership, and love. If you want to inspire or empower your audience to step into a life aligned with their purpose and find inner peace, Kawtar is the speaker that you need."
What Leaders are Saying
"I had the pleasure to listen to Kawtar during her last speaking event with the ‘She Did It Community’ entitled xxxxx. I deeply resonated with her words because she helped me to put myself right front and centre, so I could pause, take more moments to listen, and honour my emotions.
Her words brought tears to my eyes and a deep sense of being understood, cared for, and supported. Kawtar is a remarkable speaker, speaking from a place of authenticity, leadership, and love. If you want to inspire or empower your audience to step into a life aligned with their purpose and find inner peace, Kawtar is the speaker that you need."