Rocket Scientist, Global Speaker, #1 Best-Selling Author, Inventor, Award-Winning Teacher,
Fortune 500 Executive, Multi-Sector Engineer, College Athlete, World Traveler
Your people are capable. Self-doubt is often what holds them back. Whether it shows up as imposter syndrome, reluctance to speak up, or hesitation to lead, it costs organizations in performance, retention, and culture. Dr. Trego helps organizations close that gap with practical, customized confidence and communication training that translates directly into results. Every engagement is built around your team’s specific language, challenges, and goals. No scripted delivery. No generic content. Participants practice the tools in the room and carry them out the door as confidence that they can actually use. Explore your options below.
Keynotes
SQUASHING THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME: Embracing Your Confidence
Have you ever felt like a fraud, like someone is about to discover you don’t actually deserve to be in the room? You’re not alone. Even highly capable people struggle with imposter syndrome, especially when stepping into new opportunities, leadership roles, or high-pressure environments. Through personal story, interactive discussion, and immediately applicable strategies, this session helps participants quiet self-doubt, recognize their value, and contribute with greater confidence. Confidence is not something you’re born with. It’s something you build. This session gives audiences practical tools they can use immediately to strengthen confidence in themselves and the people around them. Want to learn more?
BUILDING OTHERS BY BEING A CHAMPION
The most powerful thing a leader can do is help someone else believe in themselves. This keynote explores how championing others creates a ripple effect of confidence, growth, and organizational success. Through real stories of career transformation, you’ll discover how small acts of advocacy ignite talent and inspire people to reach further than they thought possible. You’ll leave with concrete actions to uplift the people around you and foster a culture that unlocks everyone’s unlimited potential. Want to learn more?
Workshops
Squashing the Imposter Syndrome: Contribute More. Compare Less.
One of the quietest confidence killers isn’t failure. It’s comparison. When we measure our behind-the-scenes against everyone else’s highlight reel, we talk ourselves out of opportunities we’ve already earned.
This interactive session goes straight to the heart of that habit. Through case studies, guided practice, and real conversation, participants identify the comparisons keeping them stuck and build personalized tools to break the pattern.
The goal isn’t perfection or pretending comparison never happens. The goal is to contribute with more confidence, more clarity, and less hesitation.
Practical. Hands-on. Immediately useful. This is confidence-building as a skill, not a pep talk.
Confident Conversations: 5 Steps to Feedback That Actually Lands
Mastering the art of constructive feedback is one of the most vital, yet underutilized, skills in leadership. While organizations recognize that feedback is critical to survival, many leaders avoid it due to the perceived “negative” weight it carries. In this session, we reframe feedback as a tool for performance enhancement and professional development. You will learn how to de-escalate the tension around difficult conversations, increase team productivity through clear communication, and build a culture of trust. These skills will not only improve organizational performance but will foster resilient, positive working relationships across your entire team.
Mastering the Art of Presentations: The Anatomy of a Murder?
An engineer may have the greatest design or piece of analysis in the world, but if you can’t communicate it to the right people in the right way your design will never be realized. How do you do that? What happens if you need to present to a coworker? A manager? A CEO? A customer? Each of these requires slightly different approaches. These skills will help you not only be a better engineer, but also help you in your career advancement as you learn how to present information in a more meaningful manner.
Leadership Transitions: From Technical Expert to Confident Leader
The skills that make someone a great individual contributor are rarely the same skills that make them a great leader. Many new managers find themselves caught between doing the work and leading the people doing the work. The result is frustration, burnout, and stalled growth.
This highly interactive workshop helps participants navigate the critical transition from technical expert to leader. Participants learn how priorities, communication, decision-making, and accountability change as leadership responsibilities increase and leave with a personalized plan for leading with greater confidence and impact.
Five-Course Results on a Dollar-Menu Schedule: 7 Keys to Smarter Time Management
Everyone gets the same 24 hours. The difference is how intentionally those hours are used. This session provides seven practical strategies for maximizing productivity without working longer hours. Participants learn how to identify time drains, protect their most valuable work time, and create sustainable systems that improve performance while reducing stress.
Confident Negotiation: Practical Tools for Better Outcomes
Negotiation is not reserved for contracts and sales deals. It happens every day in conversations about priorities, resources, deadlines, budgets, and expectations. This session provides practical, ethical negotiation strategies that help participants advocate for themselves while building stronger relationships. Participants learn how to negotiate with greater confidence, reduce conflict, and achieve outcomes that benefit everyone involved.
Ready, Aim, Go: Using Goal-Setting to Drive Team Accountability
Most leaders believe the feedback conversation is the hard part. In reality, the harder challenge is what happens afterward. Without clear goals and ownership, even great feedback rarely leads to meaningful change. This session provides a practical framework for turning conversations into action by helping employees create goals they understand, own, and commit to achieving.
Seeing with New Eyes: Unpacking Unconscious Bias for an Inclusive Culture
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 mixture 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. We then move into micro-messaging and how to improve your interactions with others. Start your journey of understanding your own unconscious biases.
Aligning Your Organization through Strategic Planning
It is more essential than you think that you have both a strategy and that your organization understands your strategy. How do you create a strategy with buy-in and motivation as well as alignment for every level of your organization? Learn skills and techniques necessary to achieve this goal. This interactive session will allow you to come away with the ability to successfully develop your strategy and vision with a new attitude.
Consulting
Sometimes a keynote or workshop is just the beginning. If your organization is looking for something more sustained or customized, I work directly with teams and leadership to create lasting change.
- Individual Coaching & Mentoring
- Increasing and Retaining Women and Under-Represented Populations
- Reducing Unconscious Bias in Your Processes
- Increasing Retention of Your Employees
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