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Real Solutions. Relatable Stories. Relevant Strategies.
Roxane Battle leaves audiences energized, inspired, and joy-filled. She is a Keynote Speaker, Panelist, Moderator, and Emcee. Roxane uses a blend of personal stories, humor, audience engagement, and practical advice to prepare her audiences to tackle life… and win!
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Empathetic Leadership: Keys to Workplace Well-Being and Human-Centered Pockets of Joy
*This program is perfect for:
- Empathetic Leadership
- Emotional Intelligence
- Psychological Safety
- Individual and Team Professional Development
- Workplace Well-being
From the rapid adoption of AI to a multiple generational workforce, where, how and why we work is in a constant state of change, creating ambiguity and stress.
A recent Gallup poll shows, since 2020, nearly half of all workers polled- close to 45% –feel like they know what their leaders expect of them.
Whether you’re a C-suite executive or individual contributor, or just want to be a better boss or co-worker, this presentation provides practical, easy-to-grasp tools you can put into practice immediately to lead with empathy and clarity and create business cultures built to weather uncertainty.
By developing skills that balance technology with empathy, and prompts with people-centered strategies, leaders and their teams can navigate change, and position themselves for long term success.
*Customized talking points to fit your team’s specific needs; includes team photos, awards and recognition, deep dive into key areas of interest!
The audience will leave with:
- What empathetic leadership is and is not
- Easy approaches toward the development of emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and minimization of leadership blindspots
- Ways to help your team beat burnout and stay motivated
- Simple ways to boost social intelligence and foster greater collaboration.
- How to handle conflict and cancel culture
- How to address failures and re-engage for the win.
- Understanding of appreciative inquiry and its impact on innovation.
- How to have fun…and why it’s a non-negotiable!
- Inspiration and a vision for the future
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Antidote to Burnout
D.R.E.S.S. for Success
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY & TEAM DEVELOPMENT:
Exhausted to Energized: Beat Burnout and Find More Pockets of Joy
*This program is perfect for:
- Burn out
- Workplace Well-being
- Psychological Safety
Whether it is the Great Disruption, Great Resignation, Quiet Quitting, Return to Office, or wave after wave of record layoffs, the way we work has changed.
Recent research shows workers are detached, exhausted and downright miserable. Burnt out. Something the World Health Organization calls an ‘occupational phenomenon’, creating trillions of dollars in lost productivity.
Clearly the way we work is no longer working.
As an executive inside Fortune 5 UnitedHealth Group, the largest healthcare corporation in the world, Roxane has real-time expertise on what it takes to thrive in tumultuous times. In this inspiring presentation Roxane shares answers to today’s most pressing questions: how can we make work fun again? How can we build trust, and belonging? What are some steps we can take right now to improve our mental well-being and find joy both at work and in our personal lives?
Through her natural and engaging storytelling, Roxane shares stories from her own struggles with stress and anxiety, and offers key transformative coping strategies, which can be implemented immediately to create thriving work environments and more happy and productive teams.
*Customized talking points to fit your team’s specific needs; includes team photos, awards and recognition, deep dive into key areas of interest!
The audience will leave with:
- Practical steps to create safe spaces
- How to reduce stress and feel less exhausted
- Ways to discover purpose, meaning and fulfillment
- How to create sustainable self-care habits
- An understanding of emotional agility.
- Precise words and phrases to say to ease conflict and build relationships
- Ways to minimize anxiety while navigating difficult conversations
- A personable approach to fostering cultures of belonging
- How to have fun…and why it’s a non-negotiable!
- Inspiration and a vision for the future


CHANGE AND TRANSITION/WORK-LIFE MERGE:
Lesson from the Monarch: Finding Pockets of Joy in Change, Loss and Transition
Imagine if… change could make us better, happier.
This is Roxane’s story.
Her true story of building back and finding joy after losing it all.
Whether it’s a layoff, loss, or difficult life transition, Roxane shares from her lived experiences and tumultuous transition away from a high-stakes television career into a new and fulfilling life as an in-demand speaker and bestselling author.
It’s a journey of fear turned into fortitude, unhappiness into joy.
Caterpillar into Monarch.
Through candor and engaging storytelling, Roxane goes deep, with takeaways your audience can implement right now, and through the power of choice, begin to see change not as an obstacle, but an opportunity to experience authentic pockets of joy.
- Acceptance – an effective process that can reduce anxiety and lead to effective problem-solving.
- Authenticity – embracing your true self, crafting a life plan for happiness.
- Alone Time – the difference between loneliness and solitude, and how to harness alone time to find joy.
- Attitude – is indeed everything especially an attitude of gratitude- how to overcome a challenge and find lasting joy.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:
Courageous Conversations: The Right Words to Create Belonging and Pockets of Joy
Once considered a soft skill, effective communication is now considered a top hard skill by employers and team leaders. Yet, public speaking is also a number one fear.
Roxane has spent her entire adult life in front of audiences. A gifted communicator and master in the art of public speaking, in this presentation, she walks you through how to say “no” and mean it, how to navigate tough conversations, and the secrets of giving a really great talk.
- It’s how we’re wired – why public speaking is a #1 fear and how to overcome it.
- Behind every “no” is a “yes” – how to communicate and respect boundaries.
- Difficult conversations – keys to navigating conflict.
- Words to say – precise words and phrases and when to say them.

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