#NMTW27
Virtual Event • August 15–21, 2027 • Up to 8.5 HRCI/SHRM Credits
better workplaces begin with Better Managers
Leave with skills you can use immediately.
Earn professional development credits.
A practical virtual summit for HR professionals, certified HR leaders, business owners, and people managers who want stronger leadership, better retention, and more confident day-to-day management.
COUNTDOWN TO
NATIONAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING WEEK
Format
Virtual & Flexible
Attend the sessions most relevant for you
Designed For
HR & People Leaders
For ALL People Leaders at every stage of their career
Investment
High Value access
Recognized for SHRM & HRCI Recertification Professional Development Credits
2026
BRONZE SPONSORS
OFFERING CERTIFIED HR PROFESSIONALS UP TO 8.5 CREDITS
This Program is APPROVED for up to 8.5 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
HBL Resources, Inc. is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®. This program is PENDING for up to 8.5 PDCs for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
WHY ATTEND
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
Untrained managers cost more than most organizations realize.
Weak communication, inconsistent accountability, avoidable turnover, and stressful employee issues usually do not start as “big problems.” They start as management gaps.
This summit reframes management training as a business advantage: stronger leadership, better employee experience, and fewer costly mistakes.
A Summit built for real-world management challenges
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What Attendees Say!
Great job...
So well organized and with so many speakers, they were all on time, ending your conference on time. The two stretch sessions were something that I’ve not experienced before and I loved it!
Judith Charlton,
Broward County Program/Project Coordinator
Human Resources/Learning & Organizational Development
Wonderful Event!
All of the speakers presented relevant interesting topics. Wonderful wonderful event! SO SO important to humanize HR.
Alissa Chaim
Human Resources Business Partner
"Great lineup of speakers. Loved the opportunity to network in the breakout rooms."
"The presenters were excellent; loved the topics and the convenience of online learning."
Incredibly Valuable
Thank you so much for the wonderful workshop, it was packed with inspiration and incredibly valuable growth material. I left feeling energized and motivated to keep building on what I learned. I truly appreciate you sharing the presentation slides; they're a great resource for continued reflection.
Claudia Z.
2025 Attendee
MEET THE 2026
NATIONAL MANAGEMENT TRAINING WEEK SPEAKERS
Learn from leadership experts and HR professionals across industries sharing practical strategies to lead better, work smarter, and strengthen workplace culture.
Indie Bollman
Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Indie Bollman Coaching and Consulting LLC
Session Topic: Leadership Truth Bombs®: What Your Team Wants You to Know but Isn't Telling You
Dr. Wendy Richard
Hospitality Performance Strategist
& Speaker,
BrainrichX
Session Topic: Blindspots: What Makes or Breaks Managers
Vanessa Milara Alzate
Owner & CEO, Kirkpatrick Partners
Founder & CEO, Anchored Training
Session Topic: Building a Culture of Evaluation: The Path To Enterprise Performance Intelligence
Eric Brown
Transformation Financial Coach & Wellness Speaker,
PS Financial Coaching
Session Topic: Money at Work: Why Financial Clarity at Home Drives Performance on the Job
Erin Ramirez
Chief Executive Officer,
Real Change Studio
Session Topic: When There Is No Easy Answer: How Leaders Lead with Both/And Thinking
Carlos J. Perez
Resilience & Mindset
Keynote Speaker,
Carlos Perez Speaks
Session Topic: From Survival Mode to Strategic Rebuild: How to Perform Stronger After Adversity
Vince Han
Founder and CEO,
Mobile Coach
Session Topic: AI Is a Survival Skill: Why Workforce Learning Has Become a C-Suite Mandate
Katherine Fry
Executive Coach Thought
Intelligence™ Pioneer,
Marble Peak Consulting
Session Topic: Thought Intelligence™ (TI): The Must-Have Upgrade in the Age of AI
Latisha B. Russell
Emotional Wellbeing, Executive Coach, Speaker,
Latisha B. Russell, LLC
Session Topic: Increasing Mental Toughness
Speakers and Session Topics are subject to change.
About the founder
Lisa I. Perez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is the founder of National Management Training Week, The Complete Manager Makeover and HBL Resources, Inc., dedicated to ensuring every employee maintains their dignity in workplace interactions. With 35 years of HR experience, Lisa developed Department of Labor-recognized best practices during the post-9/11 Fontainebleau Hilton Resort layoffs, where her compassionate approach earned unexpected gratitude from terminated employees.
She has received two Silver Stevie Awards, the 2024 City of Miramar Hispanic Business Award, and is a USA Today Bestselling Author. HBL Resources delivers The Complete Manager Makeover® curriculum, teaching fundamental management skills that address why 60 percent of employees cite poor management as their reason for leaving.
What else attendees are saying...
Do not let another year of undertrained
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Choose practical management training that supports your people, your performance goals, and professional growth.
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Vanessa Milara Alzate
Owner & CEO, Kirkpatrick Partners
Founder & CEO, Anchored Training
In today’s data-driven landscape, learning and HR leaders are under pressure to demonstrate real impact. This session explores how to move beyond isolated metrics and build a culture of evaluation that connects learning, performance, and business outcomes. You’ll gain a practical approach to turning data into insights that drive decisions and enterprise results.
Learning Objectives:
- Define Enterprise Performance Intelligence (EPI) and its role in organizational success.
- Identify the limitations of traditional learning and HR metrics.
- Apply a framework to connect learning initiatives to business performance outcomes.
- Utilize evaluation data to inform decisions and improve organizational effectiveness.
- Embed evaluation practices that support continuous improvement and agility.
Vanessa Milara Alzate is the Owner and CEO of Kirkpatrick Partners and Founder and CEO of Anchored Training. With more than 15 years of experience, she has advised organizations across industries including life sciences, federal agencies, and the Department of Defense.
Since acquiring Kirkpatrick Partners in 2023, Vanessa has led the evolution of the globally recognized Kirkpatrick Model®, expanding its application from training evaluation to enterprise performance strategy. Her work focuses on helping organizations connect learning to measurable business outcomes through aligned evaluation, data-informed decision-making, and performance intelligence systems.
She is a frequent speaker at leading industry events, including ATD conferences and Learning Solutions, and is known for delivering practical, engaging sessions that bridge strategy and execution. Her upcoming book, Building a Culture of Evaluation (2026), presents a modern approach to integrating learning, performance, and organizational impact.
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Eric Brown
Transformation Financial Coach & Wellness Speaker
PS Financial Coaching
Money at Work: Why Financial Clarity at Home Drives Performance on the Job
Financial stress is the silent productivity killer showing up in your retention, engagement, and performance metrics. In this keynote, Eric Brown delivers a practical framework employees can use immediately to get clear on goals (especially retirement), align money with what matters, and cut the financial noise that drives distraction and burnout. Your people leave with next steps they’ll actually do, and you get a workforce that’s more focused, confident, and productive.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize employee financial well-being as a workforce and business issue that directly affects productivity, engagement, retention, and retirement readiness.
- Evaluate how financial wellness aligns with core HR priorities, including Business Acumen, Consultation, Total Rewards, and Employee Engagement and Retention.
- Apply practical strategies to help reduce employee financial stress and improve retirement readiness through coaching, communication, and access to relevant financial wellness resources.
Eric Brown is the founder of PS Financial Coaching and a keynote speaker who helps HR leaders treat financial wellness as a practical employee benefit. With 27 years of marriage, Eric knows money stress doesn’t stay at home, it follows employees to work, affecting focus, morale, and performance. He and his wife once built life faster than they built margin, and their turnaround required clarity, alignment, and habits that held up in real life.
Eric holds the Ramsey Financial Master Coach credential and is a certified SYMBIS (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts) facilitator, blending financial strategy with relationship insight. Across the individuals and groups he has led, the combined impact exceeds $3 million in debt payoff and savings.
In “Money at Work: Why Financial Clarity at Home Drives Performance on the Job,” Eric delivers practical steps employees can apply immediately. Reducing stress at home and restoring focus, engagement, and momentum on the job.
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Vince Han
Founder & CEO
Mobile Coach
AI Is a Survival Skill: Why Workforce Learning Has Become a C-Suite Mandate
Organizations are facing a growing gap between how quickly roles evolve and how slowly traditional learning models respond. This session explores why workforce learning has become a C-suite priority and how AI enables continuous, in-the-flow-of-work development. Attendees will gain practical insight into how HR leaders can support faster upskilling and build more adaptive organizations.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand why workforce learning is now a strategic priority for executive leadership
- Identify the limitations of traditional training approaches in rapidly changing environments
- Explore how AI supports continuous, in-the-flow-of-work learning
- Learn practical ways to accelerate upskilling and workforce readiness
- Align learning strategies with evolving business and talent needs
Vince Han is a technology founder and CEO who advises organizations on adopting artificial intelligence in ways that are practical, responsible, and aligned with real business outcomes. His work focuses on helping leaders move beyond AI experimentation toward enterprise-scale capability—building organizations that can continuously learn, adapt, and compete in a rapidly changing environment.
As Founder and CEO of Mobile Coach, Vince has helped global organizations design AI-powered learning, coaching, and performance solutions that support workforce transformation while maintaining strong governance and trust.
A frequent speaker at leading industry conferences including DevLearn, Learning Solutions, ATD ICE, and ATD TechKnowledge, Vince is known for translating complex technological change into clear, actionable insight for HR and business leaders.
He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and has founded multiple successful technology companies.
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Katherine Fry
Executive Coach | Burnout Expert | Thought Intelligence™ Pioneer
Marble Peak Consulting
Thought Intelligence™ (TI): The Must-Have Upgrade in the Age of AI
As AI reshapes the modern workplace, HR professionals face a new challenge: how to stay deeply human while leading through massive technological change. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) was yesterday’s differentiator. Today, Thought Intelligence (TI) is the real competitive edge—the ability to recognize, reframe, and redirect your thinking in real time.
Learning Objectives:
- Strengthen Strategic Thinking & Change Leadership: Apply Thought Intelligence™ techniques to lead confidently through rapid organizational and technological change.
- Enhance Emotional & Cognitive Agility: Use neuroscience-based tools to improve focus, emotional self-regulation, collaboration and adaptability—key to maintaining well-being and performance in high-stress, AI-driven environments.
- Drive Ethical, Human-Centered AI Integration: Evaluate how bias, perception, and thought patterns influence the design and deployment of AI and analytics in HR decision-making.
- Build a Culture of Connection and Collaboration: Apply TI to reduce crucial conversations and elevate communication, psychological safety, and trust—creating conditions for inclusive, high-performing teams and meaningful employee experiences.
Katherine Fry, SHRM-SCP, is an executive coach, burnout expert, and Thought Intelligence™ pioneer.
While many professionals lose steam in the second half of their careers, Katherine Fry’s passion and perseverance are only accelerating.
Her career vision is bold: to revolutionize the HR profession by replacing archaic leadership and management practices with approaches rooted in neuroscience.
Katherine has been named the 2024 and 2025 Top Burnout Coach in the United States by Evergreen Awards and Best Future of Work Keynote Speaker by Biz Weekly.
She is the CEO and founder of Marble Peak Consulting and creator of Refresh HR, a first-of-its-kind app, providing HR professionals and people leaders with 24/7, on-demand access to 100+ accredited SHRM and HRCI recertification workshops.
As president of Elevate HR and founder of HR Empower Hour, Katherine is the driving force behind a growing, modern-day movement that helps HR professionals reclaim their energy, amplify their influence, and transform organizational culture from the inside out.
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Latisha B. Russell
Emotional Wellbeing, Executive Coach, Speaker
Latisha B. Russell, LLC
Increasing Mental Toughness
Mental toughness is often mistaken for endurance, but in today’s workplace, pushing harder leads to burnout, not performance. This session equips HR and people leaders with practical strategies to manage pressure, maintain clarity, and lead with composure without sacrificing their wellbeing. Participants will learn how to sustain high performance while protecting their capacity to lead.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify hidden pressures that impact focus, confidence, and leadership effectiveness.
- Strengthen clarity and composure in high-stakes and fast-paced environments.
- Apply practical strategies to manage emotional bandwidth and reduce overload.
- Build sustainable habits that support long-term performance without burnout.
Latisha B. Russell is an emotional wellbeing strategist, executive coach, and speaker who helps high-performing leaders and organizations navigate burnout, change, and sustainable performance. With over 20 years of corporate HR and leadership experience, she brings both strategic insight and real-world perspective to the evolving demands of today’s workplace.
Known for her clarity, candor, and compassion, Latisha equips leaders with practical tools to sustain performance without sacrificing wellbeing. Her work focuses on helping organizations build resilient leaders, strengthen emotional intelligence, and create cultures where people can perform at a high level without burning out.
She has spoken for organizations and audiences including SHRM Savannah, Gwinnett County Chamber, AICPA & CIMA Women’s Global Leadership Summit, Bank of America, Disney, Chase, and the U.S. Senate.
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Lisa I. Perez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP
Founder, National Management Training Week
Creator of The Complete Manager Makeover Curriculum
President, HBL Resources, Inc.
From Her Father's Glass Shop to HR Reform: How One Woman's Mission to Preserve Dignity Changed an Industry
Lisa I. Perez, SPHR, SHRM-SCP is the founder and president of HBL Resources, Inc., a human resources consulting firm dedicated to transforming the way people are treated in the workplace. With a mission to ensure "no matter how tough the conversation, every employee walks out of their manager's office with their dignity intact," Lisa has spent 35 years proving that compassion and business effectiveness are not trade-offs.
Her journey began at age eight in her father's glass shop in Brooklyn. Laval Joseph Brown Sr. owned Brown's Glass Shop, a multi-generational family business inherited from his father, Leroy Brown. The shop smelled like dry curing wood. It had glass display windows facing the street, frames lining the walls, and a massive desk where customers were served. One day, Lisa's father let her answer the phones. Something clicked. "I knew at the age of eight that I was going to own a business one day," she would later recall.
But the shop also taught her a harder lesson. She watched her father carry the weight of business ownership through dinner table conversations where he shared his struggles. Her mother, Maria Del Carmen Rodriguez Brown, worked as an accomplished legal secretary at a law firm, providing stability when the glass shop faced financial difficulties. Eventually, her father transitioned to the New York City Housing Authority for steadier income. The burden of entrepreneurship left its mark on young Lisa, even as she absorbed the pride that came with building something of your own.
Lisa started her career as a receptionist and legal secretary, following in her mother's footsteps. She found the work unfulfilling. It lacked human connection. So she pivoted to hospitality, starting as a front desk clerk. She fell into human resources by chance, working as an administrative assistant in an HR department. It was the perfect blend of people and paperwork. She stayed for the next three decades, rising from front desk clerk to Corporate Director of Recruitment and Succession Planning within ten years, eventually becoming Vice President of Human Resources for major hotel companies managing over 1,100 employees.
The defining moment of her career came after September 11, 2001. As Director of Human Resources at the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach [a luxury resort complex in South Florida], Lisa coordinated the layoff of more than 200 employees as the hospitality industry collapsed in the wake of the terrorist attacks. She could have processed the layoffs quickly, checking boxes to satisfy legal requirements. Instead, she built what became known as, the "layoff binder"—a comprehensive system ensuring every terminated employee received personalized information about job opportunities, re-employment services, medical benefits extensions, and government resources. The Department of Labor requested a copy to share with other employers as a best practice.
The conversations took 35 to 45 minutes each. Lisa trained the executive committee on how to deliver the news with compassion, kindness, and concern. One employee, a man named Jose from the purchasing department, sat back in his chair after hearing he'd lost his job. He looked at the binder. He looked at Lisa. Then he leaned forward and said two words: "Thank you." Once he left, Lisa broke down crying after that conversation, the only time during three days of layoffs when she cried at work. Jose's gratitude for the respectful way he was fired became the proof that her approach worked.
But compassion without dignity proved impossible in some corporate environments. At the Fontainebleau Hilton Resort, new management refused to give an employee her paycheck because her ID had expired, even though it remained a valid employment document. Lisa challenged the decision and ensured the employee received their check that day. She soon left the company when she realized the culture had become incompatible with everything she believed about human dignity in the workplace.
Years later, another incident solidified her resolve to launch her own firm. As Vice President of Human Resources earning a six-figure salary, Lisa had committed to take her daughter to her eighth-grade dance to help with hair and makeup. When a client meeting ran late on that Friday afternoon, the new CEO told her to "do what you got to do"—but not in a supportive way. The weight of the ultimatum landed heavy. After giving years to the company, this was her reward. She called her husband to take their daughter to the dance. She stayed at the meeting. She was miserable. That day, she decided to relaunch HBL Resources.
Lisa had first attempted to start HBL Resources in 1999 but lacked the entrepreneurial skills to sustain it. She spent the next 12 years learning. She took on various ventures, including Amway and Creative Memories to develop business acumen. On August 13, 2011, she relaunched HBL Resources. This time, she was ready.
Under her leadership, HBL Resources has become an approved provider of HR recertification credits from both the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI). Lisa has received two Silver Stevie Awards from the American Business Awards, one for Entrepreneur of the Year and another for HR Professional of the Year. She was honored with the 2024 City of Miramar Hispanic Business Award and has been recognized by organizations including SCORE, the South Florida Business Journal, and the Florida Hotel & Motel Association. She is a contributing author to the USA Today Bestselling The Younger Self Letters: How Successful Leaders & Entrepreneurs Turned Trials Into Triumph (And How to Use Them to Your Advantage). She's the author of The Complete Manager Makeover: Transforming the Human in Human Resources®. And she’s founder of National Management Training Week, a national movement to elevate leadership development across industries.
The company delivers fractional HR support, strategic consultation, and The Complete Manager Makeover® curriculum, a foundation-first training program teaching managers the fundamental skills others assume they already have. While many consultants focus on advanced leadership development, Lisa identified a critical gap: 60 percent of employees cite poor management as the reason they leave their jobs. Her curriculum addresses the basics that managers need but rarely receive.
Today, Lisa continues to lead with conviction and purpose. As a consultant rather than an employee, she can distance herself from companies that don't align with her values, something she couldn't do in corporate roles. She knows that business owners who reach out to an HR consultancy are already interested in doing things right. Her family, daughters Jacqueline and Amanda, husband Mark, and sister Xenia, contributes to the business, carrying forward the multi-generational family business model she learned in her father's glass shop.
Lisa's work rests on a simple principle born from personal experience: dignity and business success are inseparable. Whether coordinating layoffs during a national crisis or teaching a first-time manager how to give feedback, the standard remains the same. Every employee deserves to walk out of their manager's office with their dignity intact. It's not just what Lisa teaches. It's what she's lived, what she's fought for, and what she's walked away from jobs to protect. The little girl who answered phones in her father's glass shop knew she'd own a business someday. She just didn't know it would be built on the foundation of making workplaces more human.
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Carlos J. Perez
Resilience & Mindset Keynote Speaker
Carlos Perez Speaks
From Survival Mode to Strategic Rebuild: How to Perform Stronger After Adversity
After prolonged stress, organizational change, or crisis, employees often remain in survival mode impacting engagement, performance, and retention. In this session, Carlos Perez introduces a practical resilience framework that helps professionals reset their mindset, transition from reactive coping to intentional rebuilding, and restore high-level performance. Attendees leave with actionable strategies to strengthen focus, sustain energy, and perform without burnout.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the behavioral and performance indicators of survival-mode functioning and assess their impact on engagement, productivity, and retention within the workplace.
- Apply a structured resilience framework to navigate organizational change and transition from reactive coping to intentional, strategic rebuilding.
- Develop a performance sustainability plan that strengthens resilience, reduces burnout risk, and supports long-term workforce stability.
Carlos Perez is a Resilience & Mindset Keynote Speaker and founder of You Are Stronger Than You Think. With over 40 years of experience in healthcare performance and rehabilitation, he specializes in helping professionals transition from survival mode to strategic rebuild after prolonged stress or organizational change.
Drawing from clinical expertise and real-world adversity, Carlos delivers a structured resilience framework focused on performance stabilization, burnout reduction, and sustainable workforce engagement. His approach emphasizes accountability, mindset recalibration, and practical execution strategies that restore focus and strengthen long-term contribution.
Carlos speaks to HR leaders, healthcare organizations, and corporate teams seeking measurable tools to improve resilience, retention, and performance in high-pressure environments.
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Indie Bollman
Chief Executive Officer and Owner
Indie Bollman Coaching and Consulting LLC
Leadership Truth Bombs®: What Your Team Wants You to Know but Isn't Telling You
In today’s fast-paced world, leaders are driving growth but often miss the connection with their teams. The result? Uneven performance, low morale, turnover, and a workforce that feels unseen. Based on her bestselling book Leadership Truth Bombs®: What Your Team Wants You to Know but Isn't Telling You, Indie Bollman delivers a bold, high-energy keynote that bridges this gap with audience engagement and humor. Attendees will walk away with practical strategies to boost engagement, strengthen communication, and lead with purpose—transforming both culture and results.
Learning Objectives:
- Uncover what today's top talent expects from leadership and culture-and how these expectations impact engagement, performance, trust, and loyalty.
- Examine how leadership style, behaviors, emotional intelligence, and purpose collectively shape fulfillment, organizational health, and long-term success.
- Learn simple, effective strategies, to strengthen communication, enhance connection, and elevate overall team performance.
Indie Bollman is a respected leader with over 30 years of leadership and executive experience in corporate organizational development and Human Resources. Her culture turnaround work is featured in Love is Just Damn Good Business by Steve Farber.
Now the owner of Indie Bollman Coaching and Consulting, she delivers keynote speaking, leadership coaching, and consulting services. She’s the bestselling author of Leadership Truth Bombs, based on her real-world insights into what teams truly need from their leaders. Indie has held executive roles in tech and engineering, supporting startups and high-growth companies through team development and training programs. She’s also known for her early work in wellness, mentoring, and community leadership initiatives.
Recognized as one of the “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive and a Woman of Influence by the Jacksonville Business Journal, Indie holds an MBA, SPHR and SHRM-SCP certifications, and is a certified life coach. A proud Florida native, she lives in Jacksonville with her family.
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Dr. Wendy Richard
Hospitality Performance Strategist & Speaker
BrainrichX
Blindspots: What Makes or Breaks Managers
Today’s hustle culture overwhelms managers with nonstop demands, yet the biggest problems are the ones that go unnoticed. Grounded in practical lessons from Disney’s operational excellence, this session exposes critical blind spots that quietly erode clarity, trust, and team performance.
You'll leave with simple habits any manager can embrace immediately to drive stronger results.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize critical blind spots in management that erode clarity, trust, and performance.
Apply a three‑part framework to spot and address blind spots before they escalate.
Increase your ability to sustain a high‑performing, collaborative culture.
Dr. Wendy Richard works with hospitality and service‑driven teams overwhelmed by constant busyness and inconsistent outcomes, helping them achieve measurable clarity, cohesion, and execution within 90 days.
Known by clients as the Beyond‑Busy Performance Expert, he equips managers to replace reactive work with disciplined, proven practices that teams trust and customers notice. Grounded in nearly two decades of leadership at Disney, he leverages his expertise in Organizational Development to bring clarity, impact, and a surprising amount of joy into leadership performance.
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Erin Ramirez
Chief Executive Officer
Real Change Studio
When There Is No Easy Answer: How Leaders Lead with Both/And Thinking
Leaders are often told to choose: be empathetic or be firm, prioritize people or prioritize performance, move fast or manage carefully. But leadership rarely lives in black and white, it lives in the gray, where the most powerful solutions are found. This session equips leaders with both/and thinking tools that expand options, reduce unnecessary tension, and open up new pathways for engagement, accountability, and sustainable results.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize how either/or thinking limits leadership effectiveness and team performance.
- Apply both/and thinking to reframe complex people and performance challenges.
- Generate expanded options when facing conflict, change, or competing priorities.
- Identify one current leadership tension they can approach with greater flexibility and confidence.
Erin Ramirez is an organizational scientist, executive coach, and speaker who helps leaders build the adaptability required to lead people through change, complexity, and pressure. As the founder of Real Change Studio, she partners with organizations to strengthen the human side of leadership so managers can communicate clearly, navigate conflict, and create environments where people and performance improve together.
With a background in industrial–organizational psychology and years of experience leading large-scale change initiatives across technical, operational, and mission-driven organizations, Erin specializes in helping leaders develop the mental flexibility and unlearning skills needed to move beyond reactive habits and lead more intentionally. Her work focuses on practical tools leaders can use immediately to strengthen trust, accountability, and engagement within their teams.
Erin is known for delivering high-energy, interactive sessions that translate research into real-world application. She has coached and trained leaders across corporate, nonprofit, and community sectors, supporting teams in navigating transformation, strengthening culture, and developing more confident, adaptable managers. Her approach equips leaders not just to respond to challenges, but to approach them in new ways, making the “quantum leap” from stuck to effective when the path forward isn’t obvious.