Elaine Pasqua

Creating Outstanding Performance through Healthy Relationships and Positive Choices

Nancy's Note:

“Elaine is a dynamic, thoughtful and witty presenter doing truly noble work, the kind that makes a lasting impression on the lives of many. I admire her greatly.”

Elaine Pasqua

Creating Outstanding Performance through Healthy Relationships and Positive Choices

Nancy’s Note
“Elaine is a dynamic, thoughtful and witty presenter doing truly noble work, the kind that makes a lasting impression on the lives of many. I admire her greatly.”

Elaine Pasqua

Creating Outstanding Performance through Healthy Relationships and Positive Choices

Nancy’s Note
“Elaine is a dynamic, thoughtful and witty presenter doing truly noble work, the kind that makes a lasting impression on the lives of many. I admire her greatly.”

Expertise

Workplace Culture, Sexual Harassment, Communication, Health & Wellness, Diversity & Inclusion, Decision Making, Teamwork, Mentoring, Positive Choices, Relationships

Travels From

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Speaking Style

Energetic, Passionate, Transformational.

About Elaine...

A renowned advocate for healthy relationships and making positive choices, sports teams, universities, and smart companies rely on Elaine to deliver her wisdom and guidance.

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Presentation Topics

Organizations that foster diversity and inclusion increase employee engagement, productivity, and profits. They develop a culture where employees feel safe to bring their authentic selves and innovative ideas into the workplace. This effectively serves a more diverse customer base.

We come from differing backgrounds and experiences. Traits such as race, gender, age, and more, affect the way we interact and collaborate. Understanding divergent perspectives allows us to embrace ideas that are different from our own.

Elaine helps your organization to create an inclusive environment. Through interactive exercises, she inspires critical thinking and creates an open dialogue where participants unlock unconscious bias and develop a heightened awareness of the negative effects of assumptions and stereotypes. They develop empathy and effective communication skills for greater collaboration. Many stated that the culture within their organization positively changed after Elaine’s program.

An investment in this program will:

  •  Increase retention to maintain intellectual property.
  • Attract talent
  •  Ignite creativity and innovation.
  •  Improve productivity and increase profits.
  •  Reduce litigation.

Prepare for a significant change in your culture as your staff learns that there is more that unites us than divides us!

Key Takeaways for participants:

  •  Unlock unconscious bias.
  •  Understand and accept different perspectives.
  •  Develop a more inclusive workforce.
  •  Empower staff to engage in bystander intervention.
  •  Expand empathy and effective communication skills.
  •  Increase collaboration with team members.

The number one issue for businesses today is finding and retaining good talent. Harassment in the workplace creates a hostile work environment, leading to increased disengagement and lowered productivity.

Victims experience physical and mental health ailments which further decreases productivity. Profits decrease as employees feel distracted and less trusting of one another. The majority of our waking hours are spent working. It’s crucial to create a workplace where people are happy and excited to show up.

Elaine addresses all forms of harassment from sexual, to discrimination stemming from race, gender, sexual identity, stature, religion, nationality, and more.

Through Elaine’s facilitation of eye-opening, interactive exercises, people who never talk, openly share. This honest dialogue will enable your employees to understand and gain compassion and empathy for their coworkers.

Your staff will acquire a keen awareness of the detrimental effects of incivility on workplace culture and productivity. They come to embrace an appreciation for a happy, cohesive, and productive workplace.

Elaine will move your employees to:

  • Comprehend all forms of harassment
  • Understand definition of severe and pervasive behavior
  • Set a standard for civility
  • Develop respect and understanding for one another
  • Fine-tune interpersonal skills through effective communication, negotiation, and problem-solving.

This program is guaranteed to help you attract talent, retain your intellectual property and expertise, and decrease liability, as you build a culture of respect and inclusivity!

In this unprecedented time of disruption, it’s more important for employers to make sure their staff is okay.

Americans have increasingly become unhealthier. Rates of obesity and deaths from substance abuse are up. The number of deaths from cardiovascular disease are steadily rising. Rates of cancer diagnosis are increasing. Mental health issues are crippling thousands.

Adopting a healthy lifestyle leads to more energy, mental clarity, and increased productivity. Elaine has a passion for public health and living well. She defies her age and has boundless energy. She has been an advocate for positive life-style choices for decades.

Elaine shares her wisdom and key strategies:

  • Power of positive thinking
  • Eating a very clean diet
  • Benefits of exercise and movement
  • Self-care, unplugging your mind from technology
  • Risks of self-medication with drugs and alcohol – healthy alternatives
  • Symptoms of mental health challenges – breaking stigma to get help

Elaine motivates participants to see the big picture when it comes to lifestyle and health. The two are connected. Participants learn to honor their bodies. They leave excited to make the changes to obtain optimal health, productivity, and quality of life!

Sexual violence is a devastating problem on college campuses, in the military, and in our general population today.

Elaine addresses the critical issue of sexual violence with sensitivity and inclusive language. As a survivor, she provides a perspective that others may not. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of the devastating effects of sexual violence. They gain the essential skills to provide support and to engage in prevention through bystander intervention.

Elaine doesn’t attack one gender, instead she creates an understanding of the cycle of sexual violence, allowing participants to dig deep into their past to understand their pattern of behavior. She motivates men to become part of the solution rather than putting the preventive responsibility on women. This helps to break the cycle.

Elaine is known for her eye-opening, interactive exercises which create an open dialogue. She stimulates critical thinking regarding assumptions that people make and the miscommunication between them.

Through this engaging and interactive program, participants learn to utilize crucial skills for effective communication, so they may develop relationships of mutual trust and respect.

Takeaways for participants:

  • Legal definition of sexual assault and rape
  • Stalking, domestic violence, dating violence
  • Emotional and physical effects
  • Consent, healthy communication
  • Coercion
  • Incapacitation
  • Bystander intervention – effective strategies
  • Date rape drugs
  • Common Assumptions
  • How and where to seek help

High-risk behaviors alter the future for so many. Whether it’s a pattern of abuse, addiction, or one inconsequential decision. For more than two decades Elaine has motivated professional and collegiate athletes, and college and high school students to make positive choices. She has keynoted for and trained athletic coaches and administrators nationwide. Parents have learned effective strategies to guide their children towards healthy choices and success.

Elaine is one of the few speakers who comprehensively combines the topics of high-risk drinking, sexual health, and sexual assault. Her philosophy – people often combine the three in one night, why not combine them in one program? She is a subject matter expert on the effects of alcohol on the brain and decision-making process.

Through this high-energy, interactive program, participants come to understand the consequences of high-risk behaviors and gain effective strategies to step back, assess, and walk away if a situation does not feel right. They leave this program motivated to party safely, to look out for one another, and to keep each other safe.

Elaine’s inclusive language and non-judgmental demeanor provides an open and safe environment for everyone. Programs are tailored to meet your specific needs!

Topics Include:

  •  Alcohol awareness – effects, abstinence to safe alcohol consumption
  •  Sexual assault, consent, respect
  •  Connection of sex under the influence to unsafe sex
  •  Overview of STI’s – trends & sexual options
  •  Marijuana, other illegal drugs, prescription drug abuse
  •  Vaping’s negative effects
  •  Strategies for bystander Intervention
  •  Developing confidence to make positive choices to obtain life goals and optimal    health