Downtown Shelley Brown
Keynote Experiences
Incredibly engaging, inspiring, and fun, Shelley incorporates storytelling and her own artwork to inspire, encourage and teach your audience actionable practices to embrace individuality and land at a place of belonging.
At the heart of every presentation is Shelley's driving message--when we recognize the experience of belonging starts with allowing our own individuality, we can then amplify the experience for others in a meaningful way.
Shelley's expertise in mindfulness, mindset, and self-awareness will guide you through integrating the concept of W.E.I.R.D. to fuel individuality and cultivate the experience of belonging for everyone.
Welcoming
Engaging
Integrating
Risk-taking
Delivering
Ditch the Should Show
We live in a world of shoulds that rule us, tear us down, interfere with our self-care, and steal our peace. Should causes comparison and envy, regret and guilt, feelings of defeat, fatigue and burnout. Worse, shoulds cause us to shape shift, constrict our body and words, hide from our truths, shove down our creative spirit, and play small.
In the last year, 80% of our employees and colleagues report experiencing burnout at their current jobs as a result of should like this. Shoulds should shape our creative genius and our culture, not squelch it. This keynote reveals how to transition from bullshould to good should, take back your power and bring it to the bottom line.
Over the course of Shelley’s keynote, participants will:
Examine the impact that shoulds have on our life, leadership, and organization.
Understand how “bullshould” leads to cognitive dissonance—frustration, discomfort, confusion, and conflict.
Discover how “good should” fosters cognitive resonance—innovation, creativity, connection, and growth.
Implement the S.T.A.R.T. process to continually eliminate the bullshould and turn problems into opportunities for personal and organizational growth.
Move people to take meaningful action both personally and professionally.
The Belonging Equation
We all have one thing in common: the need to belong. The problem is, we get so caught up in emulating each other, that we forget the real power is embracing our authentic selves—our weirdness. This may be counterintuitive. It’s also counterproductive: 80% of consumers want authenticity in a brand. They WANT our weird!
Embracing authenticity, connection and belonging is how we do better, culturally and financially – both for the human side and for the bottom line.
Over the course of Shelley’s keynote, participants will:
Amp up the emphasis of belonging and connection by fostering a culture of safety and choice.
Strengthen your team with empathy, respect and value-aligned actions.
Uplevel employee authenticity and engagement.
Enhance your culture and leadership outcomes with greater wellbeing and productivity by embracing and nurturing the W.E.I.R.D. process: Welcoming, Engaging, Integration, Risk-Taking, and Delivering.
Improve brand loyalty and the bottom line at all levels of the organization.
The Art of Disruption
Disruption!
Did you gasp a little?
Rainstorm in the middle of a Coldplay concert.
Flight delays for 3 hours, otherwise known as forever.
Upgrade to your smartphone wipes out all your contacts.
We often think of disruption as negative, an unwelcome interruption such as the past couple of years and the last thing we want is more change, uncertainty, and fear.
But the fact is we love disruptions!
Netflix!
Google!
Amazon!
even
falling in love!
Disruption has the power to transform the world we live in and change the way we do things. In business, positive disruption is all about reinventing ourselves and our brand! It helps us be creative, innovative, stay relevant and competitive!
Trying new things is risky but hold on, there’s good news.
The key to disruption is you!
bold,
unique
out of the ordinary
and yes, weird
(Because we are all)
In this highly “edu-taining” talk, Shelley will take you on a colorful weird journey complete with her very own pop art and powerful stories from her life and 25+ year travel, events & hospitality sales career. She’ll pop into your heart, tickle your funny bones and inspire you with her W.E.I.R.D. process teaching you tips and techniques to confidentially begin to pop out of the box and be the big bold, creative, buzzworthy, unique brand of you. You’ll come to a place where authenticity becomes your sales superpower.
Over the course of Shelley’s keynote, participants will
Learn a simple framework you can enact immediately to build and strengthen connections, trust, and results!
Be inspired to create disruptive selling strategies that will empower your customers and ensure you stay memorable and competitive
Gain a foundation for the simplest changes to make to inspire disruptive sales not only for yourself but others too.
Walk out of the room a little lighter, a little weirder and with a little kick in your step having laughed and learned.