Speaking

Whether your group is 30, 300 or 3000 people, Shary Raske brings so much laughter to her presentation that your participants will hardly know they are learning. She has presented to in-house audiences on specific business issues and at conferences. She presented to a MBA Association for five consecutive years. Your group will feel recharged and more resilient. She is a voice for innovation, insight and wit that often leave participants with better tools for getting better and faster results, but not at the expense of individuals’ well-being. How does she do that? Short answer: Bringing Courage into the equation. Long answer, call for more information! (314) 560-1088

Courageous Career Change / Courageous Business Change
Courageous Change programs are designed to give participants the dynamics of both the internal and external dynamics of change. Shary Raske is dedicated to helping those who are in transition get to where they want to be and get there more effectively. Courageous Change programs include the six steps to positive change that include the hope of risking, creating the ideal change state, determining feasibility, deciding next steps, courageous action, integrating the change with other life priorities. She also discusses the principles of momentum that include accountability, conceptual mastery, and emotional self-care.

Courageous Communication: Why Aren’t They Listening to Me?
Courageous Communication is designed to help participants speak the truth from a place of power and influence. Longer programs include the seven communication distortions and ways to gain clarity and understanding faster. These distortions include: perceived lack of power, historical expectations, unbending beliefs, attitude, lack of context, time constraints, and emotional charge. Optional features: teach participants how to tell who they are and what they want in less than 17 seconds. Optional features: understanding different communication styles and how to gain a greater repertoire of influence.

Encouraging the Encourager, (How to Prevent Burnout)
Encouraging the Encourager is designed to meet the needs of both Helping Professionals and Unpaid Caregivers. Shary Raske presents on six specific tools for preventing burnout that are new and innovative. Therapeutic humor is often overlooked as a tool…as is therapeutic screaming! However, if you choose screaming, please warn your co-workers first so they won’t be scared! Shary Raske was a caregiver for seven years while also working full-time as a helping professional. This program isn’t theory. It’s presented by someone who was nearly at the brink, and learned the tools to not only survive, but thrive. Now she’s passing those tools on to you!

Courageous Comedy: Laugh More! Do More!
Courageous Comedy is designed for organizations to lighten up, not to just help the culture be a more fun place to work, but to help organizations be more productive. Shary Raske demonstrates how ha-ha moments transform into ah-ha moments that convert to more options to get things done. This program may rattle the executive who thinks that the only way to show up in the world of work is to be serious. After all it is called “work”. Yet playfulness is the key for many leaders’ success. Participant leave with three new productivity tools: 1. Breaking roadblocks with humor, 2. Creative crankiness: a tool for strategic change, 3. The fusion of opposites to release untapped resources.

Courageous Leadership: The Five Million Dollar Mistake
Courageous Leadership is designed to address how overlooked assumptions and preferred communication styles can result in costly mistakes. This program is also called What Makes a Great Leader? This can be custom designed around four main areas:

  1. Responding quickly to economic / market changes
  2. Understanding why you aren’t being heard during change initiatives
  3. Managing personal & professional stress
  4. Confronting fear in the decision making process

Schedule an event with Shary by sending her a message or calling (314) 560-1088.

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“Shary Raske is a riveting and life altering speaker. She delivers powerful insights in a ways that are surprising, playful and perhaps most importantly go straight to the heart.”

Barbara Allan
Author of the bestselling book, Conquering Arthritis

“Your Why Isn't Anyone Listening to Me? from your Courageous Communications series, helped our industrial engineers be more effective in influencing operations teams to implement cost-savings recommendations. Thank you for a great presentation!”

Robert Klunk
Director of Solutions
Ozburn-Hessey Logistics

“Shary’s presentations are humorous, sensitive, thought-provoking and come from the 'been there, done that and flourished' zone.”

Kim DeMotte
President , The Kenton Group
Author, "The Positive Power of NO"