Member since February 2024
A strong HR leader and Gallup-certified Strengths coach, Breanna is passionate about talent development, succession planning and developing strong people and culture strategies that are innovative, sustainable and inclusive. Her background lies in designing and implementing HR solutions that facilitate learning and development, talent strategy, employee engagement and managerial counsel. Breanna enjoys empowering audiences to create individual development plans that help them become the professionals they want to be by activating what she calls ‘office confidence.’
Office confidence is to unapologetically articulate your professional brand, value and strengths in the workplace to improve your career well-being.. Breanna encourages her clients to learn more about what they naturally do well and how to leverage that uniqueness in the workplace as a culture add and way to maximize relationships with colleagues and leaders. Breanna’s commitment to strengths-based learning and development earned her a 2022 Excellence in Learning & Performance Award (TiER1 Performance) and feature in Powerhouse Speakers Dominating 2023 Magazine with Lisa Nichols, Trent Shelton, Gloria Mayfield Banks and Dr. Cheryl Wood.
Breanna graduated from Hampton University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and Communications and in 2017, received her MBA from Concordia University (Portland, Oregon).
I am passionate about helping individuals and teams understand what they naturally do best and how to articulate that to maximize their interactions with colleagues and leaders. Being able to do this well helps people develop confidence that fuels them to do work well and appreciate who they are and their unique contributions.
While getting work done matters, the container in which the work happens matters even more. Healthy, thriving employees are not simply the result of individual resilience or personal strategies—they are shaped by the intentional actions of people leaders who work to dismantle outdated systems and policies that cause more harm than good. Confidence Needs Cover explores the shared responsibility of creating and sustaining inclusive, psychologically safe workplaces. Leaders play a critical role in setting the conditions for safety and trust, and individual contributors also have agency to shape spaces where they—and their colleagues—can do their best work.
During this session, participants will:
Content Best Suited for: People leaders (Front line through Executive levels), HR Leadership
Driving for results in an organization is essential to maintaining a successful business. The best way to achieve those results comes from a committed and engaged workforce, but we often settle for committed employees alone. Maybe because the level of productivity seems to overpower the threat of disengagement or perhaps the process to overhaul the current culture of not checking in beyond the work to be done seems too time consuming. Either way, the health of the organization suffers when employees are not engaged. This workshop focuses on how adding the equitable lens of strength-based development can positively impact employee engagement and help build a committed and engaged workforce.
In this session, participants will:
Learn how a strengths-based approach can increase engagement and help people feel they belong
Connect strengths-based conversations to inclusive and equitable leadership
Practice building trust by better understanding what motivates their colleagues and how they work best
Content Best Suited for: People leaders (Front line through Executive levels), HR Leadership
Recognizing your innate abilities as natural sources of talent leads to a deeper sense of engagement, higher productivity and more confidence. When one takes time to learn more about how to cultivate their strengths, interactions in the workplace among colleagues and leaders improve. Not because people receive you differently, but because you begin to see yourself differently. When you see yourself differently, your brilliance is unearthed, you become unstoppable and find yourself saying 'I've got this' before stepping into any room.
During this workshop, participants will:
Review Strength-based theory (Don Clifton/Gallup, CliftonStrengths)
Explore indicators of talents and strengths
Begin or continue their journey to better articulate their professional brand
Content Best Suited for:Business Resource Groups, Early to Mid-Careerists, Professional Associations
There are some who operate as if nothing scares them at all. They raise their hand fearlessly, ask questions without second guessing themselves and project this air of self-assuredness with ease. But what if everything is not as it seems? What if the almost effortless nature is actually a display of calculated sequences; a script rehearsed to near perfect performance? True confidence is not a single act, but a lifestyle..and when employed at the workplace, it’s called ‘office confidence.’ The higher your office confidence, the more likely you are to experience a stronger sense of career well-being.
After attending this session, participants will to able to:
Define office confidence and explore strengths-based development as an alternative to traditional deficit-focused approaches
Apply a four-step framework for building confidence at work
Clarify and communicate individual value as part of a professional brand
Content Best Suited for: Business Resource Groups, Early to Mid-Careerists, Professional Associations
While getting work done matters, the container in which the work happens matters even more. Healthy, thriving employees are not simply the result of individual resilience or personal strategies—they are shaped by the intentional actions of people leaders who work to dismantle outdated systems and policies that cause more harm than good. Confidence Needs Cover explores the shared responsibility of creating and sustaining inclusive, psychologically safe workplaces. Leaders play a critical role in setting the conditions for safety and trust, and individual contributors also have agency to shape spaces where they—and their colleagues—can do their best work.
During this session, participants will:
Content Best Suited for: People leaders (Front line through Executive levels), HR Leadership
Driving for results in an organization is essential to maintaining a successful business. The best way to achieve those results comes from a committed and engaged workforce, but we often settle for committed employees alone. Maybe because the level of productivity seems to overpower the threat of disengagement or perhaps the process to overhaul the current culture of not checking in beyond the work to be done seems too time consuming. Either way, the health of the organization suffers when employees are not engaged. This workshop focuses on how adding the equitable lens of strength-based development can positively impact employee engagement and help build a committed and engaged workforce.
In this session, participants will:
Learn how a strengths-based approach can increase engagement and help people feel they belong
Connect strengths-based conversations to inclusive and equitable leadership
Practice building trust by better understanding what motivates their colleagues and how they work best
Content Best Suited for: People leaders (Front line through Executive levels), HR Leadership
Recognizing your innate abilities as natural sources of talent leads to a deeper sense of engagement, higher productivity and more confidence. When one takes time to learn more about how to cultivate their strengths, interactions in the workplace among colleagues and leaders improve. Not because people receive you differently, but because you begin to see yourself differently. When you see yourself differently, your brilliance is unearthed, you become unstoppable and find yourself saying 'I've got this' before stepping into any room.
During this workshop, participants will:
Review Strength-based theory (Don Clifton/Gallup, CliftonStrengths)
Explore indicators of talents and strengths
Begin or continue their journey to better articulate their professional brand
Content Best Suited for:Business Resource Groups, Early to Mid-Careerists, Professional Associations
There are some who operate as if nothing scares them at all. They raise their hand fearlessly, ask questions without second guessing themselves and project this air of self-assuredness with ease. But what if everything is not as it seems? What if the almost effortless nature is actually a display of calculated sequences; a script rehearsed to near perfect performance? True confidence is not a single act, but a lifestyle..and when employed at the workplace, it’s called ‘office confidence.’ The higher your office confidence, the more likely you are to experience a stronger sense of career well-being.
After attending this session, participants will to able to:
Define office confidence and explore strengths-based development as an alternative to traditional deficit-focused approaches
Apply a four-step framework for building confidence at work
Clarify and communicate individual value as part of a professional brand
Content Best Suited for: Business Resource Groups, Early to Mid-Careerists, Professional Associations