Anne Grady

The ability to adapt in a rapidly changing world is no longer optional — it’s a survival skill. EvolvAbility is the cultivation of skills needed to navigate change and uncertainty—and it’s one of the greatest predictors of our success, happiness, and well-being.

This session delivers science-backed strategies, inspiring stories, and actionable tools to help you not just survive change—but grow because of it.

Feel It 

Change isn’t just a logistical process; It’s an emotional one. Learn to harness the power of emotions to build trust, reduce burnout, and improve decision-making.

You’ll learn to:
• Unlock your brain’s ability to adapt and thrive.
• Build self-awareness and uncover blind spots.
• Lower anxiety, manage stress, and improve clarity in high-pressure situations.
• Create environments where people are safe to share ideas, take risks, and innovate under
pressure.
• Improve empathy, communication, collaboration, and trust.

Frame It 

Define core values to cut through distractions, make intentional choices, and stay grounded during change. You’ll learn to:

• Clarify values that drive decisions and guide daily choices.
• Translate values into observable behavior.
• Create shared expectations and accountability.
• Make decisions through a values lens.
• Empower others and engage them in the process.

Fuel It 

Optimize your limited resources of time, energy, and attention.

You’ll learn to:
• Reduce cognitive overload and decision fatigue.
• Develop habits and routines that improve focus and performance.
• Protect your time, energy, and focus by setting boundaries.
• Practice active rest and recovery.
• Improve mood, cognitive function, and resilience.

Anxiety, stress, and burnout are at an all-time high, and if we don’t take time to reset, the physical and psychological results can be catastrophic.

Resilience is more than the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down. Resilience is the ability to use the adversity in your life as a catalyst to get stronger. Fortunately, resilience is a set of skills, beliefs, and behaviors that can be learned and cultivated. Used together, they help turn adversity into a catalyst for growth.

More and more organizations are turning to resilience training to help their employees manage stress, navigate change, and overcome obstacles and setbacks. Research has found that organizations that provide resilience training have employees who are more productive, more engaged, higher performing, and have greater well-being as a result. Learn how to take back control, make stress work for you, and cultivate a resilient mindset, skill set, and the ability to reset.

Mindset

Understand your brain, habits, and belief systems that support and sabotage resilience.

Skill Set 

Learn to cultivate positive emotions, make stress work for you, and engage in activities that proactively build resilience.

Reset

Step out of reactivity to focus on what is most important, resetting your nervous system, priorities, and perspective.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Practice brain-based strategies to offset your negativity bias.
• Shift the way your brain interprets and responds to stress.
• Develop a toolbox full of resilience-building skills.
• Utilize mindfulness to reset your nervous system.
• Build emotional reserves to prevent and combat burnout.

The ability to embrace uncertainty, navigate ambiguity, and use adversity as a tool for growth are the new leadership currency and the fastest path to resilience. Resilient leaders adapt to changing circumstances while encouraging others to do the same, and they have teams with higher productivity, engagement, and a greater sense of well-being as a result.

Resilient leaders personalize their approach, tapping into the unique strengths and motivators of team members. They cultivate emotional intelligence and strong relationships, and they facilitate learning and personal development through everyday experiences. More importantly, these exceptional leaders create a culture of psychological safety, the number one predictor of high-performing teams.

Using the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, this session provides a road map to developing resilient teams and organizations.

Mindset
Develop emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.

Skill Set 
Develop practical tools to improve team performance and well-being.

Reset
Tap into individual strengths and motivators to build engagement.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Create a culture of psychological safety.
• Leverage emotional intelligence to build connection, credibility, and trust.
• Improve personal and team engagement and well-being.
• Gain alignment on expectations and priorities.
• Foster a growth mindset culture.

The way we think about learning, challenges, and obstacles changes the way we learn. Mindsets are a set of conscious or unconscious beliefs that affect how you think about your abilities, how you behave, and how you relate to others. Your mindset impacts the way you view failure, navigate uncertainty, and manage setbacks.

Mindsets fall on a spectrum. Understanding what triggers you toward one end of the spectrum or the other allows you to consciously develop habits that turn adversity into opportunity and failure into learning. Fortunately, your mindset is nothing more than a belief system, and beliefs can be changed.

Learn to assess your current mindset, identify self-limiting beliefs, and adopt specific strategies to build a growth mindset.

Mindset
Embrace challenge, change, and adversity to build strength and grit.

Skill Set
Identify self-limiting beliefs and adopt specific strategies to combat them.

Reset
Build growth mindset habits to unleash your performance and potential.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define characteristics of fixed and growth mindsets.
• Uncover self-limiting beliefs that may be sabotaging your success.
• Identify personal fixed mindset triggers.
• Develop strategies to shift from a fixed to growth mindset.
• Build skills to improve creativity, problem solving, and decision making.

Leadership is the art of positively influencing the attitudes and behaviors of others, and it occurs at every level in an organization. Regardless of title, great leaders are emotionally intelligent, communicate effectively, and engender authenticity and trust.

While workload, deadlines and shifting priorities are stressful, it is our relationships with others that cause most workplace challenges. Conflict can easily turn into combat, and we often communicate to be right, rather than to get it right. Building the skills and habits that promote effective communication and collaboration is what separates good leaders from great ones.

Learn to grow self-awareness and emotional intelligence, improve communication and influence, and tap into the strengths and motivators of others.

Mindset
Learn the neuroscience of influence, credibility, and trust.

Skill Set
Gain tools to personalize your influence strategy to inspire others to action.

Reset
Build relationships and bring out the best in others.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Build connection, authenticity, and trust with emotional intelligence.
• Assess, identify and modify communication style for maximum effectiveness.
• Tap into individual motivators and strengths.
• Learn brain-based influence strategies.
• Create a collaborative environment that drives results.

Information overload, constantly changing technology, and increasing demands to do more with less require us to work differently, more intelligently, and more efficiently. And that was before a global pandemic!

Our personal and professional lives have blurred together to the point where it feels like we are no longer working from home. We are living at work. We have lost the ability to disconnect, and according to a recent Gallup study, over two thirds of full-time workers feel burned out and exhausted because of it.

This session dispels the myth of work life balance and instead helps you to define success and focus on what’s most important. Learn to proactively manage your stress response, identify high-payoff activities, and develop habits that will help you improve focus, energy, and attention.

Mindset
Identify habits that are supporting and sabotaging your productivity.

Skill Set
Set clear boundaries and gain alignment around high payoff activities.

Reset 
Identify your top priorities to live a life of purpose, on purpose.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Break out of reactivity to think strategically.
• Identify personal and professional high-payoff activities.
• Develop an integrated personal and professional goal setting model.
• Create strategies to minimize interruptions, fires, and emergencies.
• Cultivate mindfulness as a productivity tool.

Emotional Intelligence (EI) or Emotional Quotient (EQ) is the ability to recognize, understand and manage your own emotions, identify the emotions of others, and use that information to guide how you think and behave.

EQ is comprised of skills that give you the ability to harness the power of your emotions to navigate change and uncertainty, strengthen relationships, and positively influence the people around you. Emotional intelligence is the single biggest predictor of success in the workplace, and the strongest driver of leadership and personal success.

While IQ may get you hired, EQ is what will determine your performance, engagement, and success. Learn the critical skills needed to accelerate your emotional intelligence to maximize your performance and potential.

Mindset
Cultivate the mental habits that build emotional intelligence.

Skill Set
Use emotional intelligence to build trust and improve relationships.

Reset
Practice emotional intelligence to build physical and mental health.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Assess your current levels of EQ.
• Understand the role of emotions in your personal and professional success.
• Practice science-based strategies to regulate and manage emotions.
• Build self-awareness and uncover blind spots.
• Utilize mindfulness to build EQ.

Increasing workload, less physical contact, and working remotely have added new complexities to an already difficult workload, taking a toll on both your physical and mental health. Burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion that results for poorly managed workplace stress, and 3 out of every 4 knowledge workers are experiencing it.

Demands on our time and energy are not going to decrease, so we must develop skills and habits to address chronic stress.

This session is an opportunity to assess your current level of burnout, cultivate skills to proactively manage burnout, build mental and emotional reserves to combat it, and recognize the signs of burnout in others.

Mindset
Create optimum conditions for your brain to work at its best.

Skill Set
Develop tools to address stress and burnout.

Reset
Practice prevention strategies to take back control of your health and well-being.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Assess your current level of burnout.
• Identify causes and symptoms of burnout.
• Build emotional reserves to prevent and combat burnout.
• Shift from activity to outcome.
• Create clear boundaries to protect your time and energy.

Eighty-five percent of our personal and professional success is attributed to our ability to effectively communicate and maintain healthy relationships. Each of us has a unique style in which we communicate, yet the best way to connect with others is to identify their style and preferred approach.

Managing relationships, projects, and every day responsibilities requires skills and awareness that help us understand the perspective of others, tailor our message to our audience, and become aware of the blinds spots that may be getting in our way.

Whether collaborating in person, virtually, or in a hybrid environment, this session is an opportunity to learn more about the characteristics of each behavior style, identify the styles of others, and to learn how to consciously modify your style to become a person of influence.

Mindset
Build credibility, authenticity, and trust

Skill Set
Learn to assess and identify communication behavior style.

Reset
Minimize stress and reactivity.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Complete a communication style self-assessment.
• Modify your behavior style for maximum communication effectiveness.
• Identify individual motivators and de-motivators.
• Find common ground to improve decision making and problem solving.
• Develop 3 levels of listening.

Thousands of scientific studies have documented the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of practicing mindfulness—lower blood pressure, better sleep, improved mood, stronger relationships, better immune function, and reduction in stress, anxiety, and depression, just to name a few. And you don’t have to sit in a full lotus and find your Zen to do it.

Mindfulness allows you to break out of reactivity, reset your nervous system, and recognize emotional patterns that may be sabotaging your success. It is a tool in your resilience arsenal that trains your brain to direct its attention where you want it to go, rather than where it goes on its own, making you less likely to hit the panic button. This session delves into the neuroscience of mindfulness and is filled with specific mindfulness practices.

Mindset
Use mindfulness to help your brain work for you, not against you.

Skill Set
Cultivate specific mindfulness practices.

Reset
Reset your nervous system.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn to read your nervous system.
• Recognize thoughts and emotions without getting carried away by them.
• Use your mind to change your brain.
• Practice mindfulness exercises.
• Integrate mindfulness into everyday activities.

There is no shortage of negativity in the world right now, and our resilience is being tested like never before. Fortunately, there is an antidote…Gratitude.

Gratitude has been found to be the #1 predictor of well-being and a strong determinant of resilience. Gratitude affects your brain at a neurological level, having a positive impact on sleep, mood, decision making, problem solving, optimism, and productivity. It also lowers stress, risk of cancer, high blood pressure, and depression, anxiety, and diabetes, while improving your immune system and cardiovascular health.

This session is filled with specific gratitude practices that will change your brain and your life.

Mindset
Change the structure and function of your brain.

Skill Set
Develop specific gratitude practices.

Reset
Calm your nervous system.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn the science of gratitude.
• Use gratitude to offset your brain’s negativity bias.
• Develop specific gratitude practices.
• Practice gratitude with your family and team.
• Integrate gratitude into daily activities.