Dr. Shirley Davis

Transforming Organizations and Empowering Individuals to Achieve Sustained Success

Nancy's Note:

“I personally sought out Dr. Shirley after hearing glowing reports about her. Impressing me from the very beginning, she is a multi-hyphenated expert and speaker. Any organization intent on excellence will also be impressed by Dr. Shirley and her deep well of knowledge.”

Dr. Shirley Davis

Transforming Organizations and Empowering Individuals to Achieve Sustained Success

Nancy’s Note
“I personally sought out Dr. Shirley after hearing glowing reports about her. Impressing me from the very beginning, she is a multi-hyphenated expert and speaker. Any organization intent on excellence will also be impressed by Dr. Shirley and her deep well of knowledge.”

Dr. Shirley Davis

Transforming Organizations and Empowering Individuals to Achieve Sustained Success

Nancy’s Note
“I personally sought out Dr. Shirley after hearing glowing reports about her. Impressing me from the very beginning, she is a multi-hyphenated expert and speaker. Any organization intent on excellence will also be impressed by Dr. Shirley and her deep well of knowledge.”

Expertise

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Global Workforce, Human Resources, Leadership, Employee Experience, Culture, Reinvention, Change Management

Travels From

Tampa Bay, Florida

Speaking Style

High-Energy, Captivating, Relevant.

About Dr. Shirley...

Global workforce expert specializing in human resources strategy, talent management, leadership effectiveness, culture transformation and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Presentation Topics

Everyone has bias. It’s a part of the human make up. But when left unchecked, biases can have a negative impact in every interaction. With the vast amount of diversity that makes up our global workforce, the level of complexity and potential conflicts that can arise from unconscious bias is sure to increase. The goal of this presentation is to underpin the discussion on diversity and inclusion and cultural competence by helping participants move from unconscious to conscious awareness of their own biases.

In this engaging session, Dr. Davis will guide participants through several real-world examples of how biases play out in the workplace and impacts individual and organizational behavior. She will outline their impacts on selection and hiring decisions, collaboration, team effectiveness, and productivity. She will also discuss them in the context of micro aggressions, micro advantages and disadvantages. Dr. Davis will conclude this session with strategies for how participants can/should address bias in the workplace.

The work, workers, and workplace of the future will continue to undergo dramatic transformation. Research suggests that by 2030 workers will be older and younger at the same time, more educated and less skilled, hyper-connected through new technologies, and more ethnically diverse. How can we ready our organizations for this new workforce reality? What new strategies, competencies, and skills will be necessary to harness the benefits, yet counter the negative effects of these global disruptions? More importantly, what new leadership models will be needed in order to achieve high performance, innovation, and inclusiveness?

Dr. Shirley Davis, a recognized authority on the global workforce and leadership effectiveness will answer all of these questions as she details the megatrends and business implications that will shape the workforce of the future. Additionally, she will provide practical strategies that business leaders should employ if they expect to achieve greater Inclusion in 2030.

Never before has inclusive leadership been more important than it is today. Recent research reveals that inclusive work environments produce higher performance, increase employee engagement, fuel innovation and creativity, increase retention, and positively impacts the customer service experience. The workforce has become more diverse, global, multi-cultural, multi-generational, hyper-connected, and are working more remotely. As a result, the ability to lead across differences, create a culture of belonging, inclusion, and high performance will be a key lever for attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent, new customers, clients, members, and donors. This kind of leadership requires new competencies, skill sets, and strategies.

In this engaging and interactive session, Dr. Shirley Davis, a global workforce expert, successful business executive, leadership coach, and best-selling author will highlight key demographic disruptions and their impact on employee performance, satisfaction, and retention. She will introduce a model called the 6 C’s of Inclusive Leadership, and describe key competencies and skills needed today and for the future workforce of 2030.

Many companies tout how much progress they have made in their diversity efforts because they have recruited more diverse talent and offered D & I training. But if achieving representation, counting heads, and raising awareness is all that you do, and you don’t have a welcoming or inclusive workplace culture, your efforts will not be sustainable. So what does it take to create a winning and inspiring workplace culture that rocks—one that attracts top talent, increases performance and engagement, fosters collaboration and trust, and creates a WOW employee experience that makes great workers want to stay?

In this high-energy and engaging session, she will share the latest research and innovative strategies for how winning cultures are created and how they lead to significant benefits to the employer, the employee, and to the bottom line. Walk away with practical tips on how you can contribute to building a welcoming, winning, and high performing workplace culture.

Fostering a Psychologically Safe Workplace

The term “psychological safety” has gained much attention this past year as organizations recognize the need for greater inclusion, belonging, and enhancing the employee experience. Simply put, psychological safety means that employees feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. In other words, employees feel empowered to express an idea or contribution fully, without fear of negative consequences to themselves, their status or their career. This term was coined by Harvard researcher and author Amy Edmondson and propelled into the spotlight by a Google study that identified psychological safety as the key characteristic of exceptional teams.

In this presentation, global workforce thought leader and culture transformationalist, Dr. Shirley Davis will explain the concept of psychological safety—what it is and what it is not and help us to understand how to operationalize in our teams and across the organization. She will also identify the factors that drive psychological safety and those that can hinder your team. Dr. Davis will also highlight the well-known Google study that revealed psychological safety as the key characteristic of exceptional teams, and she will provide participants with some practical action steps for how they can contribute to fostering a psychologically safe workplace.

Fostering a Psychologically Safe Workplace

The term “psychological safety” has gained much attention this past year as organizations recognize the need for greater inclusion, belonging, and enhancing the employee experience. Simply put, psychological safety means that employees feel confident that no one on the team will embarrass or punish anyone else for admitting a mistake, asking a question, or offering a new idea. In other words, employees feel empowered to express an idea or contribution fully, without fear of negative consequences to themselves, their status or their career. This term was coined by Harvard researcher and author Amy Edmondson and propelled into the spotlight by a Google study that identified psychological safety as the key characteristic of exceptional teams.

In this presentation, global workforce thought leader and culture transformationalist, Dr. Shirley Davis will explain the concept of psychological safety—what it is and what it is not and help us to understand how to operationalize in our teams and across the organization. She will also identify the factors that drive psychological safety and those that can hinder your team. Dr. Davis will also highlight the well-known Google study that revealed psychological safety as the key characteristic of exceptional teams, and she will provide participants with some practical action steps for how they can contribute to fostering a psychologically safe workplace.

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PERSONAL AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Strategies for Getting Beyond Your What Ifs?

We all dream. We all imagine. And we all plan. But why is it that some people achieve their dreams and most do not? Experts say that when we are living a life of meaning, purpose, and significance we are happier, healthier, more productive, and come up with better solutions. So, what makes us press the pause button on our dreams and live our lives by default versus by design? What makes us settle for a life of mediocrity versus a life of greater meaning and fulfillment? What keeps us unable to get beyond “What If?”

In this life transforming session, Dr. Davis will expose the many limits that we place on ourselves that can hijack and sabotage our purpose, our power and our possibilities. She will reveal the common disempowering “What If?” questions that keep our dreams on pause and our destiny delayed. Dr. Davis will take participants on a journey of self-discovery, a search for significance, and guide them through strategies for how to begin living beyond What If, by release the limits, realize your dreams

Getting a Seat at the Table and Making it Count

The world continues to change demographically and has become more diverse, multicultural, multigenerational, and more hyperconnected. With these shifts, now more than ever organizations recognize that their workplace cultures need to be reflective of the demographics, while also being more inclusive, equitable, and free from discrimination. They are also realizing that the seats at the table need to change and that new voices need to be invited and heard. And for those who already have a seat, they need to make it count? Not only for driving results to the organization’s bottom line but for opening up seats for others that may be overlooked.

During this high-energy and engaging session, Dr. Shirley Davis, global workforce expert, best-selling author, and President of SDS Global Enterprises, will share strategies and best practices for how high performing organizations create cultures of inclusion, belonging, and greater equity to ensure that ALL talent can thrive. You’ll also hear her story and the journey she took to go from being invisible, overlooked, and undervalued, to getting invited to the table, making her seat count, and to creating opportunities for others who were not there.

Mastering the Art of Reinvention

Given the current state of affairs, it couldn’t be a more opportune time than now to reinvent yourself. We’re currently living in an era of disruption–experiencing accelerated change, increased competition and overwhelming complexity in the marketplace, workforce, and in our personal lives.

In this session, Dr. Shirley Davis CSP, will assume her role as a certified life coach, success business executive, and the author of the best-selling book, “Reinvent Yourself: Strategies for Achieving Success in Every Area of Your Life,” and describe some of the most pressing challenges/issues that we face at work and beyond. She will also outline how these issues have a significant impact on how we show up every day in life (e.g., sense of self-worth, self-confidence, attitude, performance, etc.). Be prepared to laugh, learn, and be inspired, as she shares from her 25+ years of experience some proven strategies and tips for how to become the master of your own reinvention, take control of your destiny, and live a life of significance and fulfillment at work and in every area of your life.

Ten C’s to Achieving Career Success

Looking to take your career to another level? Want to enhance your personal brand and stand out from the competition? Trying to manage work, family, and other life commitments? It’s time to take control of your own career. Don’t just rely only on your employer or your boss for professional development.

In this session, Dr. Shirley Davis, CSP, SHRM-SCP, a successful business executive and veteran HR expert will share proven strategies of how she moved up the corporate ladder to the C-Suite while managing a demanding role, pursuing her doctorate degree, and being a single mom. She will highlight the key competencies and skills that will be relevant to employers both today and in the future. She will also identify the top 10 key strategies that she and other successful leaders have implemented in order to achieve career.

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