“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 We get stuck in a model of living and leading that is obsolete for who are becoming individually and collectively.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.
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 We get stuck in a model of living and leading that is obsolete for who are becoming individually and collectively.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.
Keynotes
Holistic Leadership: Leadership for a Better World
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, Kawtar speaks to:
The importance of vulnerability, authenticity and courage for Holistic Leadership
Opening the door to a win-win model
Leading with a balance of care and accountability
Leading with purpose
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
Inclusive Leadership
Why Creating Cultures of Belonging Should Matter to Leaders?
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
"I had the pleasure to listen to Kawtar during her last speaking event with the ‘She Did It Community’ entitled Emotional Resilience. 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."
“Kawtar creates a safe, inclusive space for challenging conversations that reveal transformative insights. She does so with such wisdom, grace and humility it engages everyone. Her own life-lived experiences are entertaining, inspiring and chock full of life lessons! I love her commitment to creating places of belonging, as she says it, "As long as we need to, we’ll be in it until we change it." Highly recommend this fearless facilitator.”
"I witnessed Kawtar speak at the 2023 Women Thrive Summit with grace, compassion, and a masterful ability to captivate the room with her story. I commend her ability to show up 100% authentically while staying in her power as a leader, creator, facilitator, and empowered speaker. I highly recommend Kawtar to speak at any event for trailblazers in their field. Kudos, Kawtar!."
Kawtar speaks at conferences, in organizations and on panels on the following topics:
Wellbeing & Holistic Leadership
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Authenticity in Leadership
Emotional Resilience
Purpose & Soul Journeys
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Diversity, Equity & Belonging
Women’s Leadership & Entrepreneurship
Men’s Mental Health
The Future of Work
Kawtar Offers Two Workshops at Conferences & Events
Workshops are experiential, interactive & highly engaging.
They are customizable & can be tailored to your organization specific needs.
Duration: 90 minutes - 3 hours
Collaborative 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 into whole brain function, accessing intuition and heart intelligence to enhance collaboration and decision making.
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.
“It’s both my pleasure and honor to acknowledge Kawtar for her presentation of "Empathic Listening" for the employees of Baptist Health as a speaker in our annual Stronger Together summit. Kawtar's confidence and knowledge drew in the virtual audience and engaged us to learn something new, useful, and inspiring about empathy, a much-needed skill in the modern work environment, especially healthcare. Kawtar has a soothing style and great visuals which helped the audience tap into and explore their feelings. Thank you for inspiring our workforce and helping to open up hearts and minds about the importance of empathic listening. I highly recommend if you're seeking a speaker to engage with Kawtar's deep wisdom and passion for self-leadership!”
"Kawtar is an engaging & passionate speaker. She has the amazing ability to talk about sensitive topics in a compassionate & understanding way. She is such a kind & warm human to be around & help inspire others to make positive change."
