LENA SCULLARD

Lena shows audiences how to take personal ownership and improve their results in work and life, by recognizing their current limitations, unlocking new thinking, and embracing the power of choice.

Expert on

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Resilience
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Goal Setting
  • Strategy

Fee Range

$3,000–$7,500

Travels from

MN, US

Biography

As a top-rated professional speaker, facilitator, program designer, and consultant, Lena Scullard is on a mission to help individuals and teams improve their confidence and sense of capability for achieving success. With this in mind, she produces live and virtual programs that inspire others to expand their awareness and take strategic action in order to improve their results. Lena masterfully blends performance and conversational delivery with interaction and audience engagement to create lasting impact. By combining this dynamic presentation style with participant centered learning principles, her programs create memorable and emotional connections that leave people excited about new ideas and how to apply them in strategic ways.

Lena’s expertise includes both personal and interpersonal skills development, which she believes are the foundations of success. Inspired by more than 20 years in hospitality and leadership, she went on to spend over a decade in corporate training where she designed and delivered custom training and facilitated programs from FranklinCovey, The Pacific Institute, Achieve Forum, and DiSC. In addition to several facilitation certifications, Lena holds degrees in Theater and English Literature. She is also an experienced emcee and event production consultant. As a keynote speaker, Lena has provided services for a wide variety of clients, including those who work in Hospitality, Gaming, Healthcare, Customer Service, Education, Administrative Professionals, Retail, Sales, and those who serve in Leadership roles across all industries.

Lena grew up in rural Minnesota, surrounded by a supportive family, despite her crazy dreams and pursuits. At the age of 8, Lena was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes, which taught her about mental strength and resilience, despite uncertainty and many other life lessons, which drive the message she shares with her audiences. In her free time, she is a youth program director for her church and often leads worship service. Among her list of proud accomplishments, she is a winner of two karaoke contests, a small-town talent show, and several local bar poker tournaments. She remains active in Community Theater, moonlights as a DJ, and loves adventure and new experiences. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and spunky dog, Moxie.

Speaker Videos

STITCH IT UP! A MANTRA FOR MENTAL RESILIENCE

Format: This program can be delivered as a keynote or workshop.

Outcomes:

  • Improve emotional intelligence and influence
  • Manage stress, change, and challenge
  • Confidently navigate change and help others do the same
  • Face the future with a new perspective

 

Stitch It Up will deliver on the following objectives:

  • Learn how to apply 4 mental stitches to any situation, life event, or circumstance.
  • Learn strategies for accepting things outside your control
  • Understand how your choices impact your circle of influence
  • Learn how your attitude impacts your outcomes
  • Commit to actions that will help you build your mental fitness

 

Stitch It Up is a personal mantra for becoming mentally resilient and overcoming adversity. It goes beyond meditation and medication to help audiences learn how to harness the power of their conscious thoughts in the wake of life’s challenges. Stitch It Up uses concepts and strategies from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to support a simple four step mental approach to take control in the moments of life you need it most.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: LEARN TO LIVE AND ACHIEVE WITH PURPOSE

Format: This program can be delivered as a keynote, a workshop, or a full seminar/retreat.

 

Objectives:

  • Discover the difference between the pursuit of purpose compared to potential.
  • Learn three steps to identifying and committing to your unique purpose.
  • Learn how to identify possibilities and strategically choose goals and the gaps to be filled to make them happen.
  • Understand the importance of prioritizing purpose in weekly planning.
  • Discover the one simple thing you should be planning everyday, but might be missing.

 

Mission Accomplished helps people discover the big picture of their lives so they can start living with clear purpose and pursuing the goals and achievements that matter most. Lena combines conventional goal setting methods and cognitive psychology theory, with strategic planning and project management strategies to deliver a life-setting, goal-setting process that truly helps people find focus, clarity, and passion in their day to day life and beyond.

IDEAL INTERACTIONS: UNDERSTAND AND ADAPT TO FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN DIFFERENCES

Format: iDEAL Interactions can be delivered as a keynote or a workshop.

 

Outcomes:

  • Build stronger relationships
  • Improve communication skills
  • Improve sales and hospitality
  • Improve teamwork and collaboration

 

iDEAL Interactions will deliver on the following objectives:

  • Introduce popular behavioral models and development
  • Identify personal perspectives, motivations, and priorities
  • Understand the fundamental differences in how people see and respond to themselves and the world
  • Learn to shift thinking to focus on others’ strengths
  • Deliver tools and strategies to help individuals adapt and strengthen relationships

 

Have you ever wondered why there are some people in your life that just rub you the wrong way? You can’t even put your finger on it, but when you are around them or working with them you just feel….”grrrr!” Guess what? There is a reason! And it’s likely just a difference in fundamental human behavior.

There are countless behavior models out there with expensive assessments that are supposed to help groups come together, but often end up fueling divide.

iDEAL Interactions is a program that combines some of the most popular behavior and personality models without the expensive assessments. Audiences will explore their own behaviors, priorities, and preferences and learn how they are alike, as well as how they think differently from others. The program also provides tools and strategies for adapting our own approach to be better perceived when working with someone opposite from us.

LEVEL UP LEADERSHIP: GUIDING OTHERS THROUGH INFLUENCE

Format: This program can be delivered as a keynote or a workshop.

 

Outcomes:

  • Know when to lead and when to manage
  • Lead with influence, regardless of titles or formal authority
  • Know how to influence the people around you to “level up” their skills, effort, and contributions
  • Grow a whole team of leaders so you have more time, more flexibility, and less stress

 

Level Up Leadership delivers on the following objectives:

  • Understand the difference between leading and managing
  • Expose the biggest misconceptions we have about leadership today in order to shift mindsets
  • Learn about the 5 levels of human motivation and how they connect to influencing others in the workplace
  • Understand the styes of leadership that should be used to guide and influence higher levels of retention and engagement from team members.

 

Lena knows leadership is not about being “the boss,” or simply driving results; it’s about connecting with people and fostering growth. When leaders put people first, improvement of outcomes, goals, and the bottom line are the natural result. Level Up Leadership shows audiences at any leadership level how to guide those around them up to higher levels of engagement and performance, one level at a time.