Chloe Carmichael

As we prepare to return to the office, many employees are experiencing an increase in anxiety. Dr. Chloe Carmichael is a relatable, knowledgeable source offering practical and engaging tools to help your team:

• Manage social anxiety over group settings
• Learn about the healthy function of anxiety
• Apply practical tools to convert anxiety into constructive energy

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The talk will also briefly explain how to know when to seek professional help. Still, the main focus is on using self-help, normalizing anxiety, and reframe most situational anxiety as an opportunity for growth rather than allowing it to snowball into “anxiety about anxiety,” which is a common trap for many people. This talk is an upbeat way to acknowledge team members' challenges while reinforcing their strengths and self-efficacy through hands-on activities and memorable takeaways.

Leaders are typically willing and able to continuously take on new responsibilities, and they are often ready to embrace situations that take them out of their comfort zone. This can be a strength, but it can also become a vulnerability in terms of stress. This workshop helps to reframe stress as a potentially healthy opportunity for growth, while also offering practical ways to reduce or manage stress at the moment. This talk also provides strategies to put boundaries around stress and become intentional about which stressors we're willing to take on as challenges, and which ones we're better off delegating or eliminating altogether. This workshop encompasses both personal and professional stressors, and of course can be customized to be specific to the unique life situations of individual audiences.

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Takeaways:

➢ Attendees will learn techniques to relax the body and mind to combat the

unhealthy effects of stress

➢ Attendees will learn strategies to proactively manage sources of stress

and prioritize stressors that are growth opportunities while decreasing

investment in stressors that don't actually offer a good ROI

➢ Attendees will explore their relationship with stress and learn to reframe it as part of a healthy growth pattern, thereby reducing "stress about

stress"

In this signature talk based on techniques from Dr. Chloe Carmichael’s bestselling book, Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety, Dr. Chloe will outline up to nine tools with step-by-step instructions to help attendees reframe anxiety into a positive source of energy and focus that actually facilitates a more productive and fulfilling life.

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Attendees will learn:

➢ If managed properly, the nervous energy that some people label as anxiety

can actually be a welcome source of stimulation.

➢ How to direct and control excess energy positively and productively.

➢ How to increase creativity and motivation through building skills of focus

and concentration.

Many high-functioning people struggle with perfectionism. They may even be somewhat attached to their perfectionism because they associate it with a:

• Willingness to notice and correct their mistakes
• High level of conscientiousness
• Desire to deliver their best effort

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However, many high-functioning people know that their perfectionism may ironically be blocking them from learning new skills or performing best. This is because perfectionism can actually be demotivating, distracting, and drain our energy. The constant second-guessing can result in procrastination, irritability, and reduced engagement.

In an informative and entertaining session, Dr Chloe Carmichael teaches how to extract the positive aspects of perfectionism while shedding the negatives. She emphasizes how to harness perfectionism into a more productive and joyful approach to work, relationships, or anywhere else where perfectionism may hinder success. Attendees will learn new perspectives and tools to manage perfectionism (almost!) perfectly.

Networking is an essential professional skill that can bring unparalleled success in both personal and professional life. In this workshop, Dr. Chloe provides strategies and real-time activities to overcome networking nerves, and fully maximize the network you are building.

Dr. Chloe has presented on networking for various organizations including Baker McKenzie (the third largest law firm in the world), and has many inspiring stories to share about how networking benefitted her both personally and professionally. Her book, Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety offers many practical tools that are applicable to growing your networking skills. Dr. Chloe’s unique background of being a clinical psychologist and a member of the elite Entrepreneurs Organization combine for a practical and stimulating talk about using psychology to reach whatever goals may be.

We all know that we are living through incredibly turbulent times. While there is no panacea, the good news is that we absolutely can bolster our resilience by taking the time to consider our individual situation carefully; and then augmenting our toolbox of skills to navigate these unprecedented times as smoothly and wisely as possible. Clinical psychologist and former yoga teacher Dr. Chloe Carmichael, author of Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety (Macmillan, 2021) will help us learn practical tools to:

➢ Increase our capacity for self-reliance, while also making sure to maximize our support networks

➢ Stay emotionally aware of stressors so we can practice self-care, while also learning to keep stressors in perspective

➢ Set boundaries in personal relationships around conflict-laden topics, while also increasing our ability for healthy communication even in a disagreement

We become stronger when we can learn to recognize and even appreciate our individual signs of stress overload, and learn how to respond in a healthy way. Let Dr. Chloe help guide your audience through turbulent times in an insightful, goal-oriented way that facilitates growth and resilience.