If you are looking for a leadership speaker Cheryl Cran is a great choice for your next meeting or conference.

“Gen X / Zoomer cusper” Cheryl Cran is a sought after consultant on trends in the workplace.  Her firm, Synthesis at Work, is a generational leadership consulting and training company with high-profile clients across the nation.  Her research on generations led her to write the popular business book The Control Freak Revolution– Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work For Your Company And To Your Advantage.  . 

Cheryl worked her way through the ranks of leadership during two recession-like environments.  While in banking she watched people lose their homes to 22% interest rates; moving to insurance the company was downsized she was asked to stay and manage further lay-offs without telling anyone- she lasted three months before she left to head up a mortgage program for a major credit union and oversold the mortgage portfolio in ten months.  Cheryl knows how to thrive during tough times. 

As a consultant Cheryl researches the trends and advises her clients on attracting and retaining the best of the generations while showing positive controlled leadership skills.  As a speaker she brings energy, thought provoking ideas and a passion for creating a workplace of choice.  Cheryl has informed audiences for 3M, AstraZeneca, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Manulife and MedImmune.  She has worked with a broad range of industries including financial services, homebuilders, manufacturing and healthcare.

A sought after expert on workplace trends Cheryl has been a guest commentator on Fox’s The Mike and Juliet Show and The Fanny Kiefer Show.  She has been interviewed and written articles for a wide range of publications including Profit Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Metro New York, The Globe and Mail, Selling Power Magazine, Small Business, and Builder Woman Magazine. Watch for her next book “Who Is Really in Control? 101 Ways to Make Gen X, Y and Z Happy at Work”.

Keynotes

Cheryl Cran, CSP is a motivating business speaker- her keynote presentations are perfect as an opening to your annual conference where she will work with you to set the right tone and message that starts your event off with energy and excitement. Her inspirational and informational presentations are also often requested as a closing keynote to a conference or business event where she will wrap up the theme and the messages that have been presented. Cheryl’s entire keynote presentations are one hour to ninety minutes and can be also be presented as half day or full day workshops.

Cheryl is known by meeting planners for being fun to work with, her flexibility and her ability to fully customize her presentations directly to the message that is most relevant to the goals and results of your event.

The one thing that is common in all of Cheryl’s presentations is her dynamic energy, fun audience involvement, practical tools and thought provoking stories.

Take Positive Control of the Future!

What if you had a crystal ball? 

Cheryl Cran can help you see what the future holds, what the trends in the workplace are and what we need to do to take control of the future.

Based on Cheryl’s best-selling leadership book, The Control Freak Revolution: Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage, this keynote shows how being a positive control freak is necessary in tough times.  It motivates and teaches audiences to channel their passion for quality and performance into specific positive leadership techniques that prepare everyone for challenging times and the future ahead.

By utilizing positive control, leaders can influence coworkers and achieve results that would make their competitors envious.  This keynote is fun, vibrant, full of content and puts a unique spin on positive controlled leadership skills.  Cheryl steers audiences through humorous examples of why negative control leads to failure, and how harnessing positive control of the future can lead to a fun, funky brand of leadership that inspires others to follow.

Lead Gen X, Y and the Zoomers in Turbulent Times

This keynote is based on Cheryl’s soon to be released book, “Who Is REALLY in Control? 101 Ways to Make Generation X, Y and Z Happy at Work.”

A recent USA Today article asked Zoomers (Modern Boomers) if their retirement plans have changed due to the economy and the response was 41% intend to retire later than planned. This clearly indicates that generational communication in the workplace will be an area of opportunity for the next few decades.

Deciphering generational labels can be confusing, so it’s easy to see how clarity in the workplace can be a challenge when team members claim vastly different perspectives. Add to that the current turbulent work environment and you have an added challenge to navigate these times of massive change.

The future success of your organization is dependent on the people you have on board.  A seasoned guide, Cheryl Cran, will show your team that, while differences of opinion are the rule, the gaps between their perspectives aren’t as large as they think.  Using her trademark humor, relatable examples and interactive elements, Cheryl motivates business audiences by providing real-world techniques that equip your group to face the challenges of inter-generational communication in the workplace. 

This keynote is designed to educate your group on generational traits and to provide everyone in your organization with the means to unite members of different generations in achieving extraordinary results.  In it, Cheryl reveals how to lead and work effectively with coworkers of multiple generations and differing personalities. 

“Gen X / Zoomer cusper” with three “Gen Y” children Cheryl Cran is a sought after consultant on trends in the workplace.  Her firm, Synthesis at Work, is a generational leadership consulting and training company with high-profile clients across the nation. 

Her research on generations led her to write the popular business book The Control Freak Revolution– Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work For Your Company And To Your Advantage.   

Lead to Attract - Lead So They’ll Stay

What is the one thing that leaders must do to succeed?  Boldly look to the future! 

Being bold is recognizing opportunities to evolve your team, move them forward and helping every individual to full personal accountability for their success.  This energetic, forward thinking and candid program is designed to inspire focused, assertive action by leaders of all types and styles to prepare us for the exciting future workplace.

The fun of the keynote comes from Cheryl’s dynamic presentation, her pull-no-punches delivery and the infectious audience response.  The content is filled with trends, case studies and practical tools for success, all guaranteed to provide value to your teams.

Whether or not you think you lead, it’s a fact that we all must demonstrate personal leadership.  This keynote looks at everyday leadership decisions through a humorous yet practical lens and then provides steps to create greater success at work and in life.

Employees who are stifled with bland leadership aren’t likely to stick around for long.  Cheryl’s bold and forward thinking leadership style encourages audiences to act with passion, conviction and confidence attracting similar people of action.  Lead to attract them - lead so they stay!

Say What You Mean- Mean What You Say- Communicate to Get Results

Welcome to the communication age. Thanks to the internet, social media and email, everyone is on information overload.

The new currency is people skills and communication is cash. Advanced communication can mean the difference between having award-winning individual departments and having a Fortune 100 company.

Communication is often touted as a necessity by executives and leaders……and left at that. The reason the topic of communication surfaces repetitively is that, even though it is universally acknowledged as important, people don’t always communicate in the most effective ways.

Some of the communication challenges are a result of the following:

Departments, expand, companies grow larger and the number of functioning teams increases

Companies restructure and downsize and those left to deal with the changes struggle to regain footing within the new workplace

Companies merge and get bought out, sowing confusion over who does what and who is responsible

A “silo” mentality prevails and pretty soon interdepartmental communication is fraught with excessive email threads, misunderstood objectives and garbled strategy.

To find out more about booking Cheryl Cran as a leadership and generations expert for your meeting, conference or seminar please contact us.