Professional Keynote Speaker

When you hire the right professional keynote speaker, your audience leaves energized, entertained, educated and also alive with possibilities. In partnering with keynote speaker Dr. Odom as a professional speaker and expert facilitator, you can provide top-­notch personal and professional branding keynote speeches and facilitation of experiential learning breakout sessions to your attendees that is in keeping with the “YOU 2.0” message.

Key Focus Areas:

1. What is Career Development? = Shifting how people think about development planning
2. The Importance of Developing Yourself = Discussing methods of personal professional development
3. Owning Your Career Success = Empowering people to own their career development

Sample Session: Shifting how people think about development planning

• Provide an alternative to classes and conferences as ways to be developed
• Discuss options for development when there is not a lot of upward mobility
• Identify the practical need for more mentoring and stretch assignments
• Focus on rebranding of self as a potential key to unlock career growth
• Allow for creative thinking about career options

Sample Session:  Non-traditional methods of professional development

• Devise a development option that is more robust or practical than classroom training
• Stress the importance of owning your own success
• Discuss the merits of seeking and finding your career passion
• Enable realization that career success is not your leader’s or the organization’s responsibility

 Sample Session: Empower people to own their career development

• Empower participants to seek and finding their career passion
• Begin creating your personal “YOU 2.0” brand onsite
• Demystify networking and stress the importance of related events
• Engage participants to redefine their professional brand, and leave able to articulate that brand

Sample Speaking Engagement:

1. Keynote Address of 45 minutes
   1. Key Note Theme: “You Own Your Career Success”
2. Facilitation of Two 45 minute Career and Branding Breakout Sessions
   1. Session #1 Theme/Title: “Building YOU 2.0 From The Inside Out”
      Agenda
      • Identifying Hot Spots for Personal Success
      • Finding Your Purpose, Why, and How
      • Discovering Your Strengths and Values
      • Creating Your Professional Tag line
      • Living Your Life Metaphor
      • Outlining Personal Success Patterns
      • Arriving at Self-Awareness
   2. Session #2 Theme/Title: “Creating Your Career Bulls Eye Workshop”
      Agenda
      • Determining Your Personal Desire/Need for Change
      • Creating Your Professional Vision Statement
      • Targeting Enabling Mindsets and Behaviors

Professional keynote speaker and expert facilitator, Dr. Curis Odom, shares how creating a personal brand is rapidly becoming a necessity: both employers and customers are choosing whom they work with on the basis of a person’s personal brand just as much as their other qualifications. Developing and managing an impactful personal brand requires a unique combination of skill, knowledge, discipline, self-­-perspective, future-­-oriented thinking, and tools & techniques in order to make “YOU 2.0” standout from the rest of the workforce today.