Did you enjoy the session?
You showed up at SHRM Indiana. You hung out with Jamie, learned five simple hacks to help your managers become empowering leaders, probably laughed a few times, and maybe realized we’ve been putting managers in the cockpit without teaching them how to fly the damn plane.
Here's the problem...
Most people leave a conference with several pages of notes, a handful of good intentions, and at least one idea they genuinely plan to use. Then you got back to the office - the emails are piled up, someone scheduled another unnecessary meeting, and a new “urgent” priority appeared - and before long, the conference is a distant memory and you haven't implemented any of your great ideas to make your managers suck less.
Don’t let that happen!
Below you’ll find the session slides and a bonus tool to help your managers keep building the habits of empowering leadership.
Here's the problem...
Most people leave a conference with several pages of notes, a handful of good intentions, and at least one idea they genuinely plan to use. Then you got back to the office - the emails are piled up, someone scheduled another unnecessary meeting, and a new “urgent” priority appeared - and before long, the conference is a distant memory and you haven't implemented any of your great ideas to make your managers suck less.
Don’t let that happen!
Below you’ll find the session slides and a bonus tool to help your managers keep building the habits of empowering leadership.
🚀 WANT MORE STUFF TO MAKE MANAGERS SUCK LESS?
🔹 Manager Masterclasses - Practical, interactive sessions that help managers become better leaders using evidence-based tools they can actually apply at work.
🔹 Bring This to Your Organization - If you’re thinking, “our leaders need this” - you’re right! We partner with organizations to deliver keynote presentations, leadership development programs, workshops, assessments, and coaching grounded in brain science and designed to create real behavior change—not just another training everyone forgets by Friday. 👉 Interested in learning more - let's talk ([email protected])
🔹 Stay Connected - If you like smart, science-backed, slightly inappropriate takes on leadership, change, workplace psychology and how our brains quietly (or loudly) sabotage us… follow Pixel Leadership Group and Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD on LinkedIn.
🔹 Manager Masterclasses - Practical, interactive sessions that help managers become better leaders using evidence-based tools they can actually apply at work.
🔹 Bring This to Your Organization - If you’re thinking, “our leaders need this” - you’re right! We partner with organizations to deliver keynote presentations, leadership development programs, workshops, assessments, and coaching grounded in brain science and designed to create real behavior change—not just another training everyone forgets by Friday. 👉 Interested in learning more - let's talk ([email protected])
🔹 Stay Connected - If you like smart, science-backed, slightly inappropriate takes on leadership, change, workplace psychology and how our brains quietly (or loudly) sabotage us… follow Pixel Leadership Group and Jamie Lewis Smith, PhD on LinkedIn.
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The Art + Science of Productive Conflict: Understanding Styles, Strategies, and Team Impact [Sept 29, 2026 12:00 - 2:00 EST] - VIRTUAL
During this 2-hour LIVE session attendees will learn what makes conflict productive or destructive, the various conflict styles, and the science-backed skills you need to navigate conflict successfully. We will provide a process for resolving a wide variety of workplace tensions and turning conflict into collaboration.
Scale Your Impact: Become a Delegation Dynamo! [Oct 22, 2026 12:00 - 2:00 EST] - VIRTUAL
This 2-hour LIVE masterclass gives participants the opportunity to learn effective delegation techniques, best practices, and the skills necessary to implement them. Participants will create a personal action plan to improve their delegation practices and will receive tools and readings to continue their learning after the session.
Free Resource: Making Feedback a Habit Hacks
Empowering leaders don’t save all their feedback for an annual performance review — or wait until something has gone terribly wrong. The Making Feedback a Habit Hacks Tool includes practical strategies managers can use to make feedback more frequent, useful, and far less awkward. Because when employees regularly know what’s working, what needs to change, and how they can keep growing, they gain the clarity and support they need to perform at their best.
Download the tool, choose one hack, and start making feedback part of how work happens — not a dreaded event everyone tries to avoid.
Download the tool, choose one hack, and start making feedback part of how work happens — not a dreaded event everyone tries to avoid.
| Managers Cheat Sheet - Making Feedback a Habit Hacks |
Session Slide Deck:
Forgotten which hack involved meaningful meetings — or whether you were supposed to foster inclusion, create clarity, connect people to purpose, invest time, or focus on strengths? No judgment. Your brain had an entire conference to process. Grab the slides to revisit the five hacks, share them with your managers, and start putting the tools into practice.
| Indiana SHRM 5 Empowering Leadership Hacks Slides |
