Rocket Scientist, Global Speaker, #1 Best-Selling Author, Inventor, Award-Winning Teacher,
Fortune 500 Executive, Multi-Sector Engineer, College Athlete, World Traveler

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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.

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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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Embrace confidence and thus become more willing to tackle challenges, leading to increased efficiency and higher quality work.
  • Be more empowered to share your ideas and take risks, fostering your own creativity and ability to innovate.
  • Actively contribute more ideas and collaborate more effectively with others, resulting in stronger teamwork and innovative solutions.

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn 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!

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Identify the comparison habits that quietly undermine confidence and hold back contribution
  • Apply a practical framework to shift from comparison to confident action
  • Walk away with personalized tools you can use immediately to contribute more, speak up sooner, and lead with greater confidence

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Recognize the role feedback plays in building confidence, accountability, and performance
  • Increase trust and reduce defensiveness during difficult conversations
  • Apply a practical five-step framework for delivering feedback effectively

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Understand the key elements of confident and effective presentations
  • Apply persuasive communication strategies that increase influence and buy-in
  • Apply persuasive techniques that move an idea from presented to approved

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Understand exactly how priorities, communication, and decision making shift in a leadership role
  • Identify where they are most at risk of stalling in an individual contributor mindset
  • Leave with a personalized action 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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Identify the specific time drains costing them the most productivity each week
  • Build a system to protect their highest value work time without working longer hours
  • Apply at least one new productivity habit immediately following the session

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Win more agreement without overconceding or compromising their position
  • Understand the real wants and needs behind a counterpart’s ask to create more value
  • Identify their own negotiation leverage and how to use it with confidence

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Turn feedback conversations into goals employees actually understand and own
  • Apply a framework that drives follow-through after the conversation ends, not just during it
  • Build accountability into goal-setting so progress is visible, not assumed

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Recognize their own unconscious biases in a safe, judgment-free environment
  • Understand how micro-messaging shapes inclusion, often without anyone noticing
  • Apply specific techniques to reduce micro-inequities and increase micro-affirmations

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.

Outcomes

Participants Will Learn To:

  • Define the core elements of a strategic plan that earns buy-in at every level
  • Learn how to translate strategy into action your team actually understands
  • Walk away with a clear approach to developing and communicating their own vision

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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Dr. Trego is a powerful and engaging speaker and teacher. She delivered leadership lessons with deep insight and compassion, and was able to make an immediate impact on my leadership team she worked with

Alex H., Director
The Leonardo

Using concrete and attainable examples, Dr. Trego connected concepts to application and engaged someone possessing minimal training in project management.  She is an entertaining and knowledgeable expert!

Jason D., President
Utah National Society of Professional Engineers

Great insight into a relevant topic for today’s companies.  Made me think how I can change and how my company will benefit.

John D., Project Manager
BioFire Diagnostics

The logical flow of information is admirable. Each idea is associated with a larger concept, and each successive idea builds upon those which came before

Chelsey R., SCOT facilitator
Utah Valley University

I’ve had the opportunity to hear Dr. Trego present at two different events and I appreciated the different insights she shared as well as the team activity. She brought awareness of unconscious bias and techniques to remove them in an engaging and insightful way.  She also shared her unique experiences being the sole female on many engineering teams and the strategies she used to be successful which was helpful.

Lorie L., Information Security Analyst
DigiCert

Angela was motivational, engaging and provided useful skills that I could immediately use to help my business.
Angela easily read the energy of room, and even though the room was full of people, when she spoke I felt like she was speaking directly to me. She is captivating, relatable, and funny. I was lucky enough to get to spend time with her after her keynote and I have to say, Angela is the real deal.
I will be inviting her to speak at my next engagement.

Nate O., Event Coordinator
MeridianLink

Dr. Trego created and taught a brand new course for AIAA to help young and mid-career professionals further their engineering careers.  The course was highly engaging and practical, filled with real-world lessons and examples.  Dr. Trego’s passion shone through, for both the material and helping professionals reach their full potential.

Jason C., Director
AIAA

Angela has a plethora of real life experience with an academic resume to match.  She shares her ability to navigate through life’s challenges in a very realistic and organized way.  We thorough enjoyed our time with Dr. Trego!

Karla R., Director of Programs
South Valley Chamber

As always, I appreciated the balance of case studies (how other orgs are doing this) to the practical information!

Natalie S., Technical Manager
Zions Bancorporation

Angela is a well-educated trailblazer and natural teacher! We met several years ago, and I have followed her career since. Most recently, I purchased tickets for my entire team to listen to her speak on “Imposter Syndrome”. As per usual, I walked away feeling inspired, as did my colleagues. Angela’s brilliant mind, professional experience, passion to positively contribute to the success of both businesses and people make her a unicorn when it comes to professional speaking, training and consulting.

Tina H., CEO
The Spectrum Solution

Dr. Trego was extremely responsive to our needs and customized her training to accommodate our budget and our current goals. She got to know our business and helped move us forward with her engaging teaching style. Her teaching helped launch our Project Management Organization and it’s been growing ever since. Angela is a talented and devoted instructor and easy to work with.

Sally Jo Z., Director of Research
University of Utah

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