ENGAGING. INSIGHTFUL. ACTIONABLE.
On the stage or virtually, Arika’s message to your leaders is equally inspiring, energetic and actionable.
Arika’s Keynote Topics
Leadership Jam Session
In this high-energy keynote, Arika will inspire the audience with tactical strategies to push beyond their comfort zones at work. The audience will:
Learn to recognize and embrace opportunities that showcase their leadership strength and potential.
Discover the five shifts in mindset and behavior that will spotlight their leadership brand.
Learn to embrace and create career-defining moments that will stretch them as leaders.
The audience will leave this program ready to lead with more courage and confidence to step into their leadership identity.
The Leadership Jam Session is an alternative to a traditional keynote. The audience will determine the agenda—right on the spot— according to the participant’s most pressing leadership needs and questions.
Arika fields the questions (as many as possible, giving the amount of available time and the size of the group), and facilitates an open and powerful discussion with the entire audience. Attendees leave with an appreciation for the open dialogue and have new ideas to apply to their specific leadership challenges.
I'm Not Ready is a Lie!
-Joanne Klein, Vice President Corporate Services PETRONAS Canada
What People Are Saying about Arika
Many thanks for delivering an impactful session in such an authentic manner. We have received lots of very positive feedback from the ladies and some are already putting your guidance into action.
The session exceeded our goal and so I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you on behalf of all the participants of the PECL’s Women’s Network.
— Sophia Hoiseth, YWCA Mankato
I hired Arika to speak at a leadership conference I was organizing and Arika was timely, professional, and then DEEPLY inspiring to my attendees. I love how she worked with me to format her presentation to fit the needs of my participants, but then her pure charisma and talent made the session stand out amidst the conference. One attendee said in the post-survey "Arika has a light in her that just makes everything she says speak volume.
Thank you to our Women @ ESPN BERG for bringing the great Arika Pierce to us today. She dropped so much great knowledge, I had a few a-ha moments (am I really spending more time planning vacation or my career?!?!). Can’t wait to rewatch it! 90 minute meeting already scheduled.
Learning professionals, if you looking to increase your career focused content for your employees, Arika is your person!
-Josie Paruta McKeegan, Director of Learning & Development, ESPN
You Can’t Spell Leadership Without D.E.I.
To sustain momentum around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), organizations must have a surplus of leaders who view DEI as a business driver and understand that their success as a leader depends on it. When DEI is presented as something outside of a leader’s span of responsibility, it is viewed as an addition to their workload and is not approached with the same energy and excitement as other opportunities.
In this session, Arika will share:
How to evaluate yourself as a DEI impact leader.
Strategies to engage in DEI impact work today.
An actionable framework to set personal intentions for DEI impact.
Code Red: Why You Need to Grow Talent as if Your Business Depended on It
In the U.S., 10,000 baby boomers retire every day. Without a bench of ready-now leaders, there will be a gap when someone leaves or retires until there is a candidate to fill the leadership role, putting an organization in jeopardy. Organizations whose senior executives fail to prioritize leadership development will end up experiencing a steady attrition in talent and risk achieving strategic growth goals.
In this session, Arika shares the three leadership pipeline disasters that every leader should have on their radar along with strategies to build a culture where leaders are routinely and systematically developed. She also shares how several forward-thinking companies are implementing smart, integrated, talent development initiatives and why these types of strategies have the most significant long-term impact on business performance over anything else.
