Speaking Topics

You already have a personal brand. But is it a leadership brand? This hands-on, interactive session addresses the key question: How can I reinvent how others perceive me as a leader? Claim a unique and distinctive leadership niche by connecting the dots from your leadership strengths to work you love to do—that is also a valuable asset to your organization. Craft a leadership brand statement that stands for something bigger than you can accomplish alone—and makes everyone around you sit up, pay attention, and see the leader in you.

Audience: All levels
Format: Keynote, workshop, or webinar

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Have you ever felt like the best-kept secret in your organization? No matter how urgent, important, or never-ending your workload is, you can’t afford to spend all your working hours with your head down, working hard, or you’ll silence your voice, submerge your influence, and miss out on career opportunities. In this session, discover criteria for evaluating “career-defining” accomplishments that showcase your unique talents. Discuss bias-busting “stealth-promotion” tactics for making your leadership brand, value, and accomplishments visible—in a style that’s authentically your own.

Audience: All levels
Format: Keynote, workshop, or webinar

NEW! The stakes can be high, but a well-chosen, high-profile role or stretch assignment can be career defining, and it can propel you to new heights. However, the opportunities you say “no” to can be as career-defining as the ones you accept. In this session, learn to recognize opportunities that showcase your strengths and potential—while artfully declining the ones that don’t—so you’re neither over-stretching nor under-stretching. You’ll walk away with new inspiration for finding your next career-defining opportunity, and executing it like a rock star.

Format: Workshop or webinar

You don’t need a title to be a leader or to accomplish amazing things. Your leadership presence—how others experience you as a leader—is being shaped in every interaction you have. Discover five key shifts in mindset and behavior that will help you lift your head up, shift your focus, and rebalance your approach in favor of more leading, and less doing. Leave with a practical plan to “get your shift together” and become the powerhouse leader you were meant to be.

Audience: All levels
Format: Keynote, workshop, or webinar

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Is there a closed door between you and your next career breakthrough? Kick it down with the backing of influential sponsors. In this session, you’ll get clear on the difference between mentors and sponsors. Understand what sponsorship is, why you’re underestimating its value, and why you can’t ask for it—but you can up your chances to earn it. Learn what sponsors expect from you along with six steps for attracting a sponsor’s advocacy.

Audience: All levels
Format: Keynote, workshop, or webinar

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What they’re saying: 

“Here are some comments about Jo Miller shared by our attendees. She was a top favorite, for sure!” —ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference

 • Jo Miller hit all the buttons for me. She provided sound advice, tools or techniques I could use and she was super funny and engaging. I really enjoyed her session.

• Jo Miller! What an energetic positive being! Loved her session.

• Jo was the perfect 2:00 p.m. time slot. You need high energy after lunch. She was perfect.

• Jo was memorable, engaging and provided actionable items/takeaways.

• I really enjoyed Jo Miller’s energy, jokes, and fun slides. She brought a lot of positivity and encouraged me to not take my leadership journey so seriously, but to enjoy the experiences that come with it.

• I laughed most at Jo Miller, she kept me entertained.

• I enjoyed Jo Miller—she was able to bring in a lighter side to these topics and her approach got her audience interacting.

The above topics can be combined into an intensive leadership development program. Additional elements including an intake survey, recommended reading, homework, group coaching, and peer group breakouts. Participants receive Jo’s book, Woman of Influence: 9 Steps to Build Your Brand, Establish Your Legacy, and Thrive.

Contact Jo directly to discuss a custom proposal for your group.