Professional Speaking
Cheryl Mann is a nationally-known speaker who gives your audience practical
tools, resources and information they can use immediately. She
leaves your group not only inspired, but with a specific plan and
commitment to taking action so the participants will benefit from the
seminar long after it is over! See below for a few client comments!
Cheryl’s Upcoming Public Speaking Events
Note: events sponsored by private corporations are not listed
"Take Back Your Life: Become a More Effective Project Leader by Achieving Your Ultimate Work-Life Balance"
Project Management Institute – Silicon Valley
Note: event is open to non-members!
Wednesday, May 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Sunnyvale Community Center – Sunnyvale, CA
Many project management professionals are burned out from the pressures of their projects, daily organizational life and competing priorities. As a result, PMs are working longer hours and feel like they can’t keep pace.
In this interactive session, attendees will learn simple steps to:
- Measure their current state of balance
- Develop strategies to overcome obstacles standing in the way of that balanc
- Say “no” to “shoulds” with confidence, and renegotiate deadlines on their projects
- Begin developing a personalized “balanced life action plan” with specific goals
- Become more effective project leaders by being more balanced
For more details and registration information, please see PMI-Silicon Valley Event Calendar
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"Buy-In, Accountability and Metrics: Lead Your Revenue Cycle Team to Success"
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) – Annual National Institute (ANI) Conference
Note: event is open to non-members!
Sunday, June 24 from 8:00 am to 11:30 am (pre-conference session)
Mandalay Bay Resort – Las Vegas, NV
Get tools and processes for revenue cycle leadership to enhance cross-functional team results, including team agreements for a common vision and shared accountability, plus methods to leverage positivity and cross-functional diversity of knowledge, perspectives, and process improvements. Use measurement tools to leverage team strengths and identify weaknesses to enhance performance.
After this interactive and experiential session, you will be able to:
- Create and leverage team agreements with shared accountability and an aligned vision to drive revenue cycle team communication and performance
- Optimize cross-functional team results by enhancing relationship dynamics, gaining buy-in, and creating ownership at all levels
- Measure team strengths/weaknesses and integrate key performance indicators into a strategic plan to maximize revenue cycle success
For more details and registration information, please see HFMA ANI Conference
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Speaking Topics
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Leading High-Performing Cross-Functional Teams
Leaders have a big challenge today - they must effectively lead cross-functional teams toward greater productivity and success! The leader who recognizes the importance of using new and proven tools to create alignment with accountability and drive optimal performance based on a shared vision can learn how to lead his/her team to greater results, even amidst the challenges inherent to cross-functional teams.
This session helps participants learn to:
- Leverage high-performing team communications tools that drive optimal performance for cross-functional success: team agreements with accountability, navigating conflict, and a shared vision that goes beyond the charter
- Optimize cross-functional team results by enhancing relationship dynamics, leveraging team diversity, celebrating team successes, and increasing awareness of potential pitfalls
- Measure, review, and create a plan for team’s specific strengths and weaknesses and focus on and use the rarely addressed “positivity” factors that are key to motivating cross-functional teams to greater productivity
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Turn it up During a Downturn – Lead Your Team to Increased Productivity Despite Budget Cuts!
It IS possible to improve productivity, even during times of budget cuts. This session helps participants learn to:
- Improve productivity by recognizing the crucial connection to optimized team relationships
- Discover hidden blocks to team productivity and learn stress reduction techniques that shift mindsets from fear, pressure and survival to long term success mode
- Develop skills to lead teams to “do more with less” with newly discovered leadership skills
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Who Moved My Stress? – 9 Steps to Transform Stress/Pressure Into Peaceful Productivity
Workplace stress is one of the most significant contributors to blocking productivity. This session helps participants:
- Discover the connection between reducing stress and highly productive teams
- Unlock the secrets to creating less stressed, more relaxed team interactions that yield better team results, especially during times of change
- Create and deploy a specific “peaceful productivity plan” to turn their vision for a less stressed and more productive team into reality
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The New Leadership Paradigm -- Strategic Leadership of Team Dynamics to Maximize Productivity
Leaders must strategically align individual talent into a cohesive collective effort to maximize the fullest potential of their teams. This session helps participants:
- Uncover the real underlying and hidden reasons as to why their team is not performing well
- Create a step-by-step plan to lead their team to maximum performance by enhancing relationship dynamics and, as a result, productivity
- Design creative strategies to maintain momentum and fully-functioning team dynamics
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Take Back Your Life: Become a More Effective Leader by Achieving Your Ultimate Work-Life Balance
Managers who create effective work-life balance have less stress and improved health, leading to greater satisfaction, capacity and productivity as a leader. This session re-energizes participants by helping them:
- Define and de-stigmatize the obstacles keeping them in that high stress, “stuck on a treadmill” place to break free from the log jam that’s keeping them from reaching their true leadership potential
- Develop strategies to overcome the obstacles preventing them from “getting it all done” with balance
- Create a personalized strategic plan to create greater balance and become more effective leaders
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Beyond the Project: 5 Critical Success Factors for Your Team’s Success
Project teams typically focus on project deliverables, often at the expense of the team’s dynamics. This session helps participants learn to:
- Optimize results by focusing on relationship dynamics
- Create effective communication tools for success, including team agreements
- Measure, discuss and create a plan to address team’s strengths and weaknesses
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Riding the Waves of Change
These are tumultuous, uncertain times for many teams and organizations, so it’s critical to help your participants learn to:
- Enhance their leadership skills to manage daily stressors
- Enhance communication skills to help their teams manage change more effectively
- Effectively lead team members who are resistant to change
- Realize the connection between personal responsibility, daily choices and actions
A Few Client Comments About Cheryl's Speaking Events:
"“Thank you for your participation at CHA’s Post-Acute Care and Health Care Reform seminar. Your warm presentation style and knowledge of leadership and team management pulled in strong evaluation scores. We are extremely pleased that your presentation was so highly valued by our attendees. Thank you again for your efforts!”
Pat Blaisdell - Vice President, Post-Acute Care – California Hospital Association
Liz Mekjavich - Director, Education – California Hospital Association
"“We were lucky to have Cheryl Mann facilitate a truly wonderful “Work-Life Balance” workshop designed to help all of us achieve our highest potential with greater work-life balance. The turnout and overall feedback from this session was tremendous - all participants gave nothing but rave reviews!”
Michele Cappel, Los Angeles-Orange County Steering Committee,
Johnson & Johnson Women’s Leadership Initiative
"Thank you for speaking at Meta Health’s User Group Meeting in Phoenix! Your keynote presentation was VERY well received, and participants commented on how timely and valuable they found the information to be. Thank you again for your contributions!"
Eli Nahmias, President of Meta Health Technology, Inc..
"Cheryl, thank you so much for your wonderful presentation as our Keynote Speaker at our recent Western Regional Users Group (WRUG) Conference in Portland. You did a great job!
Your topic, "Who Moved My Stress", was relevant to our membership, as I am sure it is to all working adults. I heard a number of positive comments from session attendees. They appreciated the tools and examples of changes they could make to improve team dynamics and the quality of their life. Your concept of a "team agreement" was clever and one of many audience takeaways. It has been a pleasure to work with you, Cheryl!
Cliff Skinner, Vice President for Agenda Planning, Western Regional Users Group for GE Healthcare
:Cheryl delivered an excellent speech on "Riding the Waves of Change" to the PMI- Silicon Valley membership. The speech was informative, entertaining and apt for everyone, especially, Project and Program managers. She received very positive feedback from all those attended. I would like to personally thank Cheryl and would recommend her to anyone looking for a great speaker!"
Eashwar Iyer, Director of Evening Programs - Project Management Institute-Silicon Valley
"Work-Life Balance is a subject that as professionals, we secretly know needs attention, but is one that rarely is verbalized. Cheryl empowered our association members to share personal experiences and tactics used in their attempts to balance their lives while sharing her proven insightful tips and suggestions to improve upon those personal journeys to make them successful. Cheryl managed to tap into and draw out the personal aspects of daily life from a varied array of healthcare executives in a fun and interactive way. She made a difference!"
Rick Swanson, Vice President - California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG)
"Thank you to you and your assistant who came all the way from California to speak at our 1st Annual NW Biotech Expo in Bellevue, WA. Cheryl, your organization and professionalism genuinely displays your competency in giving advice on business success. You were such a pleasure to work with and your speech was very timely and effective for the audience. It's great to work with a speaker that is one step ahead of me and everyone else! It was such a pleasure to work with you! We received many compliments about your session from our attendees after your speech. It was very helpful for them to hear all of the positive and helpful advice that you bring to today's business people. We definitely recommend your speaking services to anyone that is putting together a business seminar, conference or anything else that needs a great public speaker!"
Taraneh Moll, Finishing Touch Events
"We want to commend you for the very entertaining, informative "Riding the Waves of Change" seminar you brought to our company. It came at a very pivotal point in our company business. I so appreciated your understanding for our employees' needs and the tools you brought to share with them. The positive feedback that we have received from the participants includes comments regarding how helpful and knowledgeable you were personally. That, coupled with your friendly presentation style has helped to equip them with the necessary tools to transition through the stresses of the upcoming company merger. Thank you again for sharing your time and golden nuggets!"
Jean Long, Occupational Health Manager, Chiron Corporation (now Novartis)
"Thank you for the remarkable presentation you made to our company. The clever techniques revealed to our team were extremely effective. Your presentation skills were first rate, the content was exactly what we wished for, and the results achieved were quantifiable. In fact, our February sales were the highest year over year since we started our company - the proof is in with results like that! We look forward to more interaction with you and your company. "
Jeff Gidre, President, O2 Marketing + Design
“In a room made up of over 50 percent of self-employed business women in many age groups and from a multitude of backgrounds, Cheryl managed to keep everyone focused on the specific aspects of success. Cheryl was able to deliver hands-on tools that could be applied the next morning in their work environment. Everyone would have stayed an extra hour just to glean more of her hands-on experience and encouragement. Thank you, Cheryl, for your commitment and honest delivery of today's success tools through the presentation and the one-one individual coaching."
Melissa Haines Shults, Regional Executive Director - Western States - eWomenNetwork.com
and Communication Management Consultant - Sacramento, CA
Recent Public Speaking Engagements and Workshops
Note: events sponsored by private corporations are not listed
10/26/11
Aligning Your Revenue Cycle Team for Success: Maximize Your Bottom Line With Accountability
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) – Annual MAP Conference, Miami, FL
10/5/11
Reduce Project Stress and Complications: Critical Communication Factors Beyond the Project Plan
Project Management Institute – Silicon Valley – Sunnyvale, CA
9/13/11
Be the Change: Lead Your Team to Health Care Reform Success
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) – Southern California Fall Conference, Long Beach, CA
6/11/11
Lead Your Team From Stress to Success
Project Management Institute-Sacramento Valley Chapter (PMI-SVC), Sacramento, CA
4/28/11
Be the Change: Lead Your Inter-Disciplinary Team to Health Care Reform Success
Post-Acute Care and Health Care Reform — Preparing for Change Seminar
California Hospital Association, Walnut Creek CA
3/31/11
The Many Faces of Leadership
Women Health Care Executives of Northern California, Oakland, CA
3/22/11
3 Critical Tools for Your Team's Success
Bio2Device, Sunnyvale City Council, Sunnyvale, CA
10/28/10 - 10/29/10
Leading High-Performing Cross-Functional Teams
Healthcare Businesswoman's Association (HBA),
Annual Leadership Conference, Philadelphia, PA
10/23/10
Maximizing Health-System Pharmacy Efficiency: Leveraging Team Dynamics in the New Leadership Paradigm
California Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
Seminar 2010 - Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
10/21/10
Who Moved My Stress? 9 Steps to Transform Project Stress/Pressure Into Peaceful Productivity
Project Management Institute – Silicon Valley Chapter – East Bay Technology SIG, San Ramon, CA
10/7/10
Who Moved My Stress? 9 Steps to Transform Project Stress/Pressure Into Peaceful Productivity
Project Management Institute – San Joaquin Valley Forum - Modesto, CA
8/18/10
Reduce Project Stress and Complications: Critical Communication Factors Beyond the Project Plan
Project Management Institute – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter - Newark, CA
5/20/10
Who Moved My Stress? Transform Stress/Pressure Into Peace and Productivity
Project Management Institute – Central Valley Forum - Fresno, CA
2/1/10
Beyond the Healthcare Project: 5 Critical Success Factors for Your Team's Success
Project Management Institute - Sacramento Valley Chapter - Healthcare Conference - Sacramento, CA
12/10/09
Who Moved My Stress? Transform Stress / Pressure Into Peace and Productivity!
Project Management Institute – Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, CA
11/19/09
Turn it up During a Downturn – How to Lead Your Team to Increased Productivity Despite Budget Cuts
Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association – National Leadership Conference, San Francisco, CA
10/3/09
"Who Moved My Stress? Transform Project Team Pressure Into Peace & Productivity!
Project Management Institute, Silicon Valley
6/26/09
"How To Take Back Your Life and Become a More Effective Leader by Achieving Your Ultimate Work Life Balance"
California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) - Annual Conference, San Diego, CA
6/14/09
"The New Leadership Paradigm: Using Team Dynamics to Maximize Productivity"
Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) - Annual National Institute, Seattle, WA
2/10/09
"The New Leadership Paradigm: Using Team Dynamics to Maximize Productivity"
New Years Leadership Webinar Series
Professional BusinessWomen of California
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