Ideas that close the distance between leaders and the work.
KEYNOTES AND WORKSHOPS
Each talk is available as a keynote, a 3 hour workshop, or both. Chelsea tailors each one to your audience, industry, and goals. Expect big ideas, real stories, genuine laughs, and a room that leaves different than it arrived.
AI is widening the gap. Every talk shows leaders how to close it.
Talk 01
WORKSHOP: 3 HOURS
KEYNOTE: 45-60 MIN
The Proximity Gap
The plant had great pay, great benefits, and the best numbers in the company. People organized anyway, because decisions were being made for them, not with them. Now AI is about to send every decision even further from the work.
Leaders already manage through dashboards and AI summaries, and a dashboard can make you feel close without ever putting you on the floor. When a decision comes from a model, gets approved by a committee, and arrives by email, who made it? Chelsea opens with an uncomfortable question about how distance makes harm easy, then the room works through a real AI rollout using the Multi-Perspective Practice. Leaders leave knowing where their own Proximity Gap is and how to use AI to listen at scale without losing sight of the people doing the work.
“The further a decision travels from the work, the more people it can hurt.”
AUDIENCES LEAVE WITH
✦Where they sit on the Proximity Gap
✦A two minute check for any AI decision
✦Early signs of quiet disengagement
PERFECT FOR
CEO and executive summits
Leadership conferences
Tech and manufacturing leaders
Talk 02
KEYNOTE: 45-60 MIN
WORKSHOP: 3 HOURS
Turning Communication into Connection
Every year “communication” shows up on the engagement survey. Every year leaders send more updates. Every year the score doesn't move. Now AI can write those updates in seconds.
AI just made information free, which makes connection more valuable than ever. Chelsea learned on the plant floor that when people ask for more communication, they are usually asking for connection. Leaders learn LOCAL, a five step method, and practice it on the announcement everyone is dreading: an AI rollout. The most important step, looping back to tell people what you did with their input, has to come from a human.
“Stop sending more updates. Start closing the loop.”
AUDIENCES LEAVE WITH
✦The LOCAL method, practiced on an AI rollout
✦Information vs. connection
✦The habit of closing the loop
PERFECT FOR
HR and people leader conferences
Manager development programs
Public sector leadership
Talk 03
KEYNOTE: 45-60 MIN
WORKSHOP: 3 HOURS
What You Bring to the Table
When AI can write your job description, the only thing that sets you apart is what you uniquely bring to the people around you.
As AI takes on more of the tasks on your list, the work that is left is the work only people can do: judgment, trust, and showing up for your community. Most people can recite their title. Very few can explain their contribution. Chelsea helps every person in the room name their passion, their power, and their purpose, and write their own contribution statement before they leave.
“I don't care what your title is, I want to know what makes your heart sing!”
AUDIENCES LEAVE WITH
✦A clear contribution statement
✦Clarity on what no tool can replace
✦Confidence to lead as themselves
PERFECT FOR
Women's leadership events
Emerging leader programs
University and alumni events
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Tell Chelsea about your audience and what you want them to walk away feeling. She is always up for a conversation.