Dr. Celina Peerman currently serves as an organizational psychologist with over 27 years of experience from front line to senior level positions, in a wide range of industries and organizations. She is passionate about engaging our human resources in new ways to achieve even better organizational results. Celina is a strategist with a sense of humor and a love for building capacity in organizations.

She has presented at numerous conferences for local, state, and national audiences. Celina’s work in Southeast Asia, Canada and Central America gave additional operations experience, further developing her desire to listen, learn and lead conversations while walking alongside different types of companies, exploring challenges, and pursuing opportunities to drive performance.

Celina holds a Ph.D. in Psychology, a master’s degree in business, with undergraduate degrees in psychology and international studies. She is a two-time TEDx presenter, podcaster, and writer. She usually sees over 250 groups a year or about 6000 people, including large and small groups with many one-on-ones.  Her content is aimed at helping teams maximize potential for an even more positive impact on those around them.  

 

Topics:

LEADING FORWARD – THE CHANGING FUTURE

Can you imagine a future where all shoes were free in the future? That you would pay employees in multiple types of currency? What do you predict we will need to be ready for in the next ten years? Dr. Celina will share research and real stories to bring vision and enthusiasm so we can plan for a future organization in uncertain conditions. Let’s create our next best realities and lead with expertise and confidence as we help others grow. Gain new insight into what it takes to move forward with confidence even in when the unknowns lurk ahead.

Format: 60-90 minute keynote or 60-120 minute break out with additional interactive futurists thinking exercises

This program is perfect for:

  • Leaders who need to think more strategic during change
  • Early career leaders who need to expand their scope and awareness of impact across organization
  • Teams that want to be more change ready

The audience will leave with:

  • Insight how signals in changing external environment can help us be more change-ready internally
  • Application of specific tools can increase strategic expanded thinking 
  • Action steps to implement when stuck and need to get out of tunnel vision or change resistance

IT IS ALL ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS

Format: 60-90 minute keynote

This program is perfect for:

  • Diverse audiences
  • HR professionals
  • Leaders at all levels

The audience will leave with:

  • Identify key points about building relationships as a leaders/HR business partner/professional
  • Recognize patterns that inhibit relationships and reduce effectiveness
  • Apply tools to address needs and opportunities with team members

Relationships drive our work – who we are and how we do it…together. Bringing data, humor, and real life examples, this upbeat keynote will focus on what is coming to us next and how we will both show up for and lead through it. Change will continue to happen yet being change ready is what today’s [HR/audience] professional is uniquely positioned for to take our teams to the next level of effectiveness.

 

THE CULTURE OF “WE”

Format: 60-90 minute keynote, workshop or breakout 

“Culture of We”

Leveraging our strengths and building on excellence remain critical for our future. In this upbeat interactive session, we’ll examine how we build our desired future through everyday actions. We’ll review best practices on building relationships, connected to values, and through ways of working better together, especially during change. Find new ways to increase your motivation, draw on your best, and drive results for the people who have placed their trust in us.

This program is perfect for:

  • Team members who need to work better together beyond their own department and across the company
  • Early career leaders who need skills to work with other departments collaboratively
  • Senior leaders who are coaching others to work across silos/lanes for alignment

The audience will leave with:

  • Increased understanding about how they impact climate and culture in every day actions
  • Focused effort on being intentional to work across silos/departments in the organization
  • Tools for intentional communication up, over and across teams
  • Customized and adapted for onsite, hybrid, or remote teams

MEETING IN THE GAP: THE POWER OF ALONGSIDE

Format: 60-90 minute keynote

This program is perfect for:

  • Staff, Coworkers, and Colleagues who want to work better together
  • Leaders at all levels who want to be more effective with their teams

The audience will leave with:

  • Insight into isolation, ingroup/outgroup, and lack of inclusion
  • Framework to meet others where they are and honor the space
  • Tools to journey with others through the gap to what comes next

 

ON MY LAST NERVE: REFRAMING CONFLICT & DIFFICULT BEHAVIOR

Format: 60-90 minute keynote, 2 hour workshop, 60-120 minute breakout

This program is perfect for:

  • New supervisors who need to build skills in conflict resolution
  • Senior leaders who are conflict avoidant or coaching others to address conflict
  • All employees who want to navigate difficult behavior better (coworker, team, leader, customer)

The audience will leave with:

  • Recognition that conflict is necessary and provides growth opportunities
  • Tools to understand root cause of difficult behavior and potential conflict
  • Ideas to know when to avoid, address, and intervene with conflict and/or different behavior on teams