Peggy Klaus

In today’s competitive business environment, confidence is an essential leadership attribute. Research consistently shows that women, regardless of career level, often display significantly lower confidence compared to their male counterparts, despite possessing equivalent qualifications and achievements. This confidence gap—shaped by socialization, cognitive biases, and systemic factors—poses a significant barrier to performance and career progression/advancement.

As organizations strive to succeed in an increasingly complex and dynamic marketplace, it is critical to unlock the full potential of the entire talent pool. This workshop directly addresses the confidence gap, equipping women with practical strategies to enhance self assurance and, in turn, drive their professional growth and contributions to your organization’s success.

HERE’S WHAT YOU WILL LEARN DURING YOUR UNSTOPPABLE JOURNEY:

1.  Understanding the Confidence Gap: Analyzing the psychological, social, and biological factors that impact women’s self-confidence and performance in the workplace.
2. Leveraging Your Strengths: Identifying, celebrating, and strategically utilizing your unique skills to cultivate enduring confidence and maximize professional capacity.
3. Overcoming Barriers to Success: Addressing common obstacles such as imposter syndrome, perfectionism, bias. and organizational practices that may inadvertently undermine women’s confidence.
4. Enhancing Executive Presence: Developing key strategies to project confidence, gravitas, and poise-under-pressure in high-stakes situations.
5. Strategic Confidence Development: Creating actionable 30-, 60-, and 90-day plans to build, measure, and sustain confidence at all levels of leadership.
6. Building Resilience in Leadership: Strengthening the mindset and capabilities needed to maintain resilience and lead with authority in times of adversity and challenge.

The stage is set.
The audience is ready.
This is your moment to motivate, inspire, and captivate.

To truly make an impact, it’s essential to deliver your message in a way that resonates across cultures, genders, and generations. “Mastering the Art of Executive Presence” is a dynamic, hands-on workshop designed to help you command any room—whether you’re pitching a client, leading a meeting, or presenting to your board.

Participants will leave equipped with powerful communication skills, from dynamic storytelling to managing challenging audiences. Exude executive presence, and bring your best self into the room—whether you’re speaking to two or two thousand.

A few of the many offerings include:

1. Conveying a Positive First Impression
2. Analyzing your Audience/Setting the Stage
3. Becoming a storyteller: turning “dry content” into interesting & entertaining stories
4. Handling even the toughest, snarkiest questions with confidence
5. Managing Presentation Anxiety
6. Performing Techniques for Virtual and In Person Communications
7. Managing Difficult Conversations

“BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It” is an immersive, high- impact workshop designed to teach you the refined art of self-promotion with a perfect balance of warmth and confidence. Participants worldwide have secured coveted jobs, promotions, bonuses, and clients by mastering the art of graciously and effectively touting their achievements.

By joining a BRAG! workshop—featured on platforms such as 20/20, The Today Show, and in esteemed publications like The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal—you too can harness this powerful skill and elevate your career with poise and authenticity.

1. Dissecting Brag’s Negative Perception
2. Overcoming cultural, organizational, and personal barriers to effective self-
promotion
3. Mastering the art of elegant self-promotion, professionally and personally
4. Identifying the optimal moments and contexts for self-promotion
5. Navigating and mitigating “Bragging Bias”
6. Delivering impromptu, impactful self-promotion (Bragging on the Fly)

As top talent rises within your organization, many high-performers struggle with imposter syndrome, doubting their place despite their accomplishments. This can limit both their potential and your company’s success.

This workshop will help you:

1. Silence the inner critic.
2. Amplify the voice of true leadership.
3. Implement proven strategies to build Unstoppable Confidence.
4. Cultivate a culture of artful self-promotion and achievement recognition.
5. Leverage collective expertise to elevate your organization.

For women in the workplace, it takes practice, confidence, and courage to navigate the challenges of cultural bias. Many careers are stalled due to these barriers. Learn to change your trajectory by traversing this tightrope with political savvy and authenticity.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

1. Accepting and Understanding The Tightrope Reality (and not taking it personally)
2. Identifying Communication/Behavior do’s and don’ts
3. Navigating Company Culture with Executive Presence
4. Overcoming cultural bias

Here’s the hard truth. There’s nothing “soft” about soft skills. Many professionals
struggle not due to a lack of technical expertise, but because of insufficient soft skills (emotional intelligence). In today’s politically charged environment, mastering these skills is more vital than ever. Based on Peggy’s best-seller, The Hard Truth About Soft Skills, this high-impact workshop equips you with strategies, tools, and insights to navigate workplace challenges and embrace critical soft skills.

Like all of Peggy’s programs, this too will be designed for your group’s needs. Here are just a few of the topics that can be included:

1. Designing the Career You Want
2. Building Your Brand
3. Bragging Artfully
4. Enhancing Executive Presence
5. Conquering Imposter Syndrome
6. Navigating Office Politics with Integrity
7. Managing Up, Not Out
8. Thriving in a Multigenerational Workplace
9. Handling Critics with Confidence

Today, everybody’s got a brand, so yours must be readily identifiable and elicit a strong emotional response to differentiate you from your competitors. Enhance your unique brand and learn how to market yourself and your business in ways that exponentially increase visibility to give you an edge in today’s market.

You’ll learn the secrets that successful people and companies have known for years; how to capture the hearts and minds of your audience.

1. Assess your current brand
2. Define and Elevate your Brand’s Essence
3. Craft a Compelling Narrative to bring your brand to market.
4. Reassess and refine its effectiveness
5. Live your Brand: turn promises into actions.

In this workshop, learn to set rock-solid boundaries and voice your needs with honesty and compassion. Whether you’re handling a disgruntled employee, a difficult boss, or an inconsiderate coworker, the way you react impacts you and your relationships. If speaking your truth (and standing up for yourself) leaves you stuck in fight or flight, this course has got your back.

In it, you’ll learn these life changing skills to:

1. Tame your anxiety and reset expectation
2. Level set your Emotional Temperature
3. Craft your conversations with clarity, conviction and compassion
4. Rehearse your response until it feels natural
5. Own your role unapologetically
6. Stay curious and Listen actively to connect