Corporate Keynote Speaker
Sarah Scala injects energy and candor into your conferences, association meetings, and events. She speaks on Positive Change Management, Mentoring, Neuro Coaching, Networking, and Leadership.
Her engaging and dynamic keynotes and workshops are designed to promote active participation and inclusion. Having spoken to groups of varying career levels and sizes at diverse venues for the last 20+ years, she ensures a proper understanding of your goals and the demographics of your audience.
Speaking Opportunities
Sarah Scala is a business keynote speaker and facilitator delivering engaging corporate topics in the following ways:
Corporate Events
Facilitated Workshops
Conferences
About Sarah Scala
Sarah Scala is a sought after speaker and expert on designing mentor programs with a strong ROI, neuro-coaching for behavior change, Sarah’s high-energy, engaging, and dynamic keynotes and workshops are designed to promote active participation and inclusion.
Having spoken to groups of varying sizes across all career levels for the last 20+ years, she ensures a proper understanding of your goals and the demographics of your audience.
20+ years of experience as an executive coach and corporate keynote speaker
1,000+ speeches and workshops
Holds a Master’s degree in Organization Development & Adult Education
ICF Certified Executive Coach (PCC)
TESTIMONIALS
UPCOMING
SAMPLE TOPICS
POSITIVE ROI: EFFECTIVE MENTORING FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
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This workshop explores mentoring as a cost-effective method to strengthen skills and develop future leaders. You'll learn examples of mentoring successes with a strong ROI.
Learn to:
Use components necessary to support and design both formal and informal mentor programs that are successful.
Use mentoring to provide a strong return on investment for businesses and organizations.
Find a mentor that is appropriate for their development.
WHAT’S GOING ON UP THERE? UNDERSTANDING COACHING AND THE BRAIN TO BUILD BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
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This workshop dives into neuroscience and what happens in the brain with different approaches to coaching. Workshop participants will gain tools and tips to bring change to individuals and teams.
Learn to:
Build skills and methods that support a balance of both compassion and compliance approaches to drive successful, sustained change in behavior with data from fMRI studies.
Use the different levels of listening and the effectiveness of each level.
Use the Intentional Change Theory (ICT) as a psychological model for sustained behavior change.
BUILDING ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE WITH OPTIMISM, RESILIENCE, AND GRIT
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This interactive workshop focuses on leadership and people development, exploring ways to strengthen and teach others optimism, grit, and resilience to overcome challenges and change.
Learn to:
Strengthen resilience and optimism for managing and overcoming challenges in the workplace.
Use ways to build grit in self and teams you lead.
Strengthen self awareness.
BUILDING PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY AT WORK
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Participants get tips, guidance, and experiential practice on how to create psychological safety, to support organizational innovation, creativity, and an environment that employees are comfortable taking risks and trying new things.
Learn to:
•Feel safe speaking up about legitimate concerns in the workplace
• Effectively resolve most disagreements
• Respectfully intervene when witnessing inappropriate behavior
• Feel included and valued in the workplace
• Create a psychologically safe workplace culture
DEVELOPING YOUR ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT GROWTH USING THE WORLD CAFÉ MODEL
Using the World Café model, participants work in small groups, discussing topics such as: inclusion, managing change, building executive effectiveness, leading Millennial talent, executing for results, building self awareness, and thinking and acting globally.
Learn to:
Support the emotional impacts of growth and change through experiential facilitation.
Gain ideas from a diverse group of people in a way that is inclusive.
Use the World Cafe method to build solutions, collaborate, and generate ideas to solve real business and world challenges.
PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT: ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSITION THROUGH GROWTH OR MERGERS
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This workshop focuses on the often-overlooked emotional impact of organizational change, mergers, or acquisitions, and how executives and leaders can take a people approach to change.
Learn to:
Strengthen resilience and optimism for managing and overcoming challenges in the workplace.
Build grit in self and teams you lead.
Strengthen self awareness.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: ADDING BUSINESS VALUE TO THE CORPORATE CLASSROOM
This session combines the disciplines of experiential learning with interpersonal and group dynamics, leadership, and human impacts of organizational change in an intuitive adult education process.
Learn to:
Design learning experiences that are enjoyed and retained by students and participants
Incorporate active learning into course design to engage students and participants.
Build team learning experiences that support interpersonal and group dynamics.
Sample Videos
Employee Performance
LGBTQ+ EQ and Returning to Work
The Cost of Getting DEI Wrong: LGBTQ+ Costs
Out & Equal Global Summit: Ways to Build Resilience
Organization Development Conference: Formal Mentor Program : Apprenticeship Program at Simon Pearce
MindEdge Learning Symposium: Neuro Coaching and Creativity
What People Are Saying…
“I'm extremely lucky to have seen Sarah speak a couple of times over the past few years. Her most recent session on Neuro Coaching and Behavior Change in Organizations for the Central Mass Association for Talent Development (CMATD) chapter was an absolute masterpiece. Sarah was interactive and engaging throughout the course of the program and the information she shared was relevant, interesting, and immediately applicable to my work. In setting up the session, Sarah was organized and easy to work with. I highly recommend partnering with Sarah if you have the opportunity.”
- Ryan Rosiello, President, Central MA Association of Talent Development
“Sarah gave a presentation on Optimism, Resilience, and Grit to our SHRM Chapter Group - HR Assoc of Southern Maine. Sarah was a pleasure to work with throughout the planning part of the presentation, as well as well prepared and a wonderful and knowledgeable speaker. She was engaging and dynamic and got the whole room involved on a topic that is very important! We had a great discussion and thoroughly enjoyed welcoming Sarah to our chapter. We hope she'll be back! Thank you, Sarah!
- Lucy Peterson, SHRM-CP, HRASM Programming Committee Leader
“Demonstrated expertise, shared resources that we of utility. Sarah is an engaging speaker. Sarah designed and facilitated an engaging session full of novel, effective strategies for leading mentorship programs. I appreciated how these ideas were coupled with real examples of metrics used to demonstrate ROI.”
- 2021 Organization Development Network Global Conference Participant
“Sarah’s expertise in leadership development, coaching and change management, combined with her authentic and open sharing and storytelling makes her an amazing speaker and partner. Experience, honesty and candor, and authenticity made Sarah’s engagement in our LGBTQ work an incredible asset.”
- Guillermo Gutierrez, Former Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Medline Industries
“Sarah Scala recently presented on Building Performance with Optimism, Resilience, and Grit to our Greater Merrimack Valley Human Resource Association membership and it was fantastic. She is highly energetic while presenting, the presentation was engaging, everyone attending could relate and it received rave reviews from our membership community. Sarah is an amazing speaker who we have enjoyed working with over the years. We look forward to working with her again with future programs.”
- Amy Sabato, Vice President, Operations, Borislow Insurance, President of Greater Merrimack Valley HR Association
“I just wanted to take a moment and thank you, and tell you how much I enjoyed your presentation at Tuesday's GNHRA lunch. The topic was something I believe all of us in HR hold near and dear to our hearts - but beyond that, the presentation itself was very engaging. A good presenter/speaker can make the most boring of topics interesting, and although your topic was not boring, I believe you could do just that. An optimistic attitude, resilience and grit were the 3 primary components to my "survival" -- you clearly hit the nail on the head!”
- Becky Henderson, Participant, Greater Nashua HR Association