Speaking

Dr. Trego loves engaging participants through both motivational elements and teaching practical skills which can be applied immediately for increased results. Every presentation is customized for your specific activity and audience.  Once an initial consultation has occurred to determine your program needs you will receive a written quote.  Offerings include:

  • Keynotes
  • Workshops
  • Trainings
  • Lunch n Learns

PROGRAM OFFERINGS:

Women in STEM

Keynote:  SQUASHING THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME: Culture, Confidence, and Your Unlimited Potential

Many technical professionals suffer from impostor syndrome – a crippling anxiety that they are not “good enough” or “qualified enough” to do the job they currently have. This impacts individual, team, and organizational performance as fear of failure replaces confidence. This leads to increasingly “safe” choices that hinder innovation and output. 

Through her own story as the sole female on a team of engineers working on highly technical projects, Dr. Trego brings audiences along on her journey to overcome the impostor syndrome. This program not only inspires, but also educates audiences about how technical organizations can foster a culture of confidence in their staff.

Participants will
  • Gain a greater sense of confidence in their own abilities to succeed
  • Gain a better understanding of how the culture of technical organizations often works against innovation
  • Become inspired to recognize and support peers who may be struggling with self-doubt
Who Should Attend?

Both men and women in their early stages of their technical careers or just promoted into leadership positions.  Senior managers who have direct reports who might be suffering from the impostor syndrome and wish to gain a better understanding of how to help.

Follow-on Breakout and Workshop Opportunities

Gain Confidence by Squashing the Impostor Syndrome

Want to learn more and dive deeper into developing tools that will guide you into how to overcome, or help others overcome the impostor syndrome?  Schedule an interactive one-hour breakout or half-day workshop that allows participants to explore case studies, internalize, and practice key concepts to increase their confidence and ability to reach their unlimited potential.

Women in STEM – How to Get Them & How to Keep Them

Diversity in the workforce has been shown to produce better, more robust products and research – it even affects your bottom line! Learn about unconscious bias and micro-messaging techniques.  Discuss topics associated with methods to recruit and retain women in your organization.

Bias:  It’s Time to Start Assessing Ourselves

We all have them, but often we have no idea that we have them!  What is unconscious bias?  How can we genuinely try to be unbiased?  Through a mix of short presentations and lively activities, we explore some harmful side effects of how our brains naturally perceive, categorize, and draw inferences about the world, including other people.  Start your journey of understanding your own unconscious biases.

Implementing a Wow-Factor in STEM to Recruit High School Female Students

An outreach program for high school women in STEM is beneficial when created collaboratively between academia and industry and is amplified when a wow-factor or hands-on interactive activity is included. Collaboration on STEM outreach programs for women and other under-represented populations creates a visible pathway filling the STEM pipeline. This workshop discusses a method and benefits for academic and industry collaboration.  It entails an event with high school female students utilizing a hands-on format with company workshops, an interactive display area, and a design challenge event with industry mentorships. 

Contact Dr. Trego for additional offerings, and customization with any additional questions.

Education

Keynote: CREATING IMPACT: How To Fall In Love With Teaching Again

How can you create an impact on students so that what you teach, like Newton’s law, stays in motion even when the initial impact is gone?  Learn techniques to support creating lifelong learning desires, confidence, and motivation in your students. 

Outcomes

This course equips participants with tools that enable them to:

  • Review the need for creating an impact
  • Identify methods to create impact
  • Understand how to implement creating an impact on students
Who Should Attend?

Faculty in the engineering fields who are looking to be more than just a teacher, but to leave a positive lasting impression on students by increasing both student’s and faculty’s motivation.  These courses also address ways to increase the recruitment and retention of women students in your programs.

Follow-on Breakout and Workshop Opportunities

3 Engagement Principles to Reduce Workload and Increase Student Motivation

It’s a fact:  faculty members are responsible for doing it all.  Finding ways to get students motivated to learn and be active in class typically requires an effort we just don’t have time for even though we desire the best for our students.  Learn three engagement principles that you can walk out of the half-day workshop and immediately use in your next class which will reduce your overall teaching workload while increasing student motivation.  Come ready for an engaging working session!

Making a Difference Through Engineering

Don’t be fooled that being an engineer means you are just a boring person sitting in a cubical. Learn that it is not the things that you make that are important but rather, it is the impact you make. Look at case studies to see what a real difference being an engineer can make on the world.

Implementing a Wow-Factor in STEM to Recruit High School Female Students

An outreach program for high school women in STEM is beneficial when created collaboratively between academia and industry and is amplified when a wow-factor or hands-on interactive activity is included. Collaboration on STEM outreach programs for women and other under-represented populations creates a visible pathway filling the STEM pipeline. This workshop discusses a method and benefits for academic and industry collaboration.  It entails an event with high school female students utilizing a hands-on format with company workshops, an interactive display area, and a design challenge event with industry mentorships. 

Contact Dr. Trego for additional offerings, customization, or with any additional questions.

Leadership Soft Skills for Technical Individuals

Keynote:  BUILDING OTHERS BY BEING A CHAMPION  – NEW FOR 2024!

It takes a village to be successful, so how can that village help someone be successful, even more successful than they could imagine?  See how you can help others become successful no matter what stage of life you are in by developing a champion mentality.  Look at specific actions and skills you may already possess to take action and build others.

Outcomes

This course equips participants with tools that enable them to:

  • Identify how to be more than a mentor but a champion to someone
  • Learn how to think differently about your own life’s events to support others
  • Realize that your potential may be greater than even you think!
Who Should Attend?

No experience required!  Whether you are a technical individual just starting college or a seasoned executive this keynote provides valuable perspective and skills required to help others, at any level, be more successful.  The breakout and workshop opportunities are best geared towards technical individuals who have recently been promoted into management or those who just want to increase some of their soft skills. 

Follow-on Breakout and Workshop Opportunities

Feedback as a Survival Skill:  5 Steps to Improve Giving Feedback

One of the toughest things to do is give constructive feedback.  Organizations recognize that feedback is critical to their survival.  We will explore how to help improve your employee’s performance and motivation.  Learn how to remove the negative connotation of feedback to increase productivity.  These skills will improve organizational performance and help build strong positive working relationships amongst your team. Schedule an interactive one-hour breakout or half-day workshop that allows participants to explore case studies, internalize and practice key concepts to improve their skills in providing feedback to others. 

Mentoring Methods:  Best Practices

Developing people and retaining employees is important but how do you do that with so much on everyone’s plate already?  Learn the few critical elements necessary to create a program that helps your employees achieve their unlimited potential. 

Leadership Transitions – But I’ve Never Done That Before?

I used to be the expert, now I’m the boss – help!  You’ve been successful in your area of expertise as an individual contributor and have been promoted to the next level – managing and leading those you just worked with!  Eck!  These areas include work values, time allocation, and capabilities.  Learn how to rise to become a leader who can motivate and enliven attitudes in your team.

Contact Dr. Trego for additional offerings, customization, or any additional questions.