GROW YOUR BUSINESS BY ENGAGING WITH DIVERSE COMMUNITIES

Themes: DEI, Empowerment, Team Building, Culture

 Emmy award-winning journalist, Tomeka Jones incorporates her 20 years of storytelling into an informative and powerful presentation for professionals seeking to grow their business and build a diverse client roster. Tomeka has engaged luxury travel advisors on behalf of the elite global network Virtuoso, about the advantages of exerting their power to diversify.

During this empowering presentation, Tomeka’s genuine and personable approach helps participants better understand the benefits of promoting an inclusive culture along with tactical diverse marketing and advertising strategies to help each with more insight to scale their business.

Highlights:

• Benefits of promoting an inclusive culture
• 5 ways to recruit clients with diverse backgrounds
• Tips on how exert your power to diversify

Think Like a Journalist: Unlocking Opportunities Through Storytelling

Themes: Motivational, Leadership, Mindset, Diversity and Inclusion

Even you’re a journalist at heart, telling stories are a part of what we do daily. Now what about your own story? Think about how the who, what, when, where, why, and how to persuade decision makers that next opportunity is for you. 

Highlights:

• Crafting Your Narrative - identifying your angle, interview yourself, and find the hook
• Identify Your Storytelling Style – is your style more of a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. How about conversational? That’s engaging your audience. Or perhaps, descriptive by adding more images to your narrative.
• Your Story, Tell it, Share it – do your due diligence to make sure your story aligns with the values and needs of each opportunity.   Now leverage Your story and share it at networking events, job interviews, and other professional environments.  

Adventure Mindset: Building the Courage to Chase Your Dreams 

Themes: Determination, Belonging, Resilience, Culture

It’s not always easy hop on a plane to foreign country or change career paths the older you get, but with enough courage and determination. You can rack up passport stamps and new career talents.

Highlights:

• Navigate discomfort – step out of your comfort zone by allowing discomfort to become a companion instead of distraction.
• Conquer Peaks of self-doubt – getting on skis for the first time or taking a trip to a new country, it all involves some up and downs of self-doubt. One step forward helps build resilience and courage.
• Surfs up to uncertainty – ride the wave of uncertainty with an adventure mindset. You know you’ll encounter challenges learning how to surf and hitting that first wave, but you keep at it until you ride out the wave successfully.

Destination Focused: How to Stay on Path to Reach Your Goals 

Themes: Leadership, Determination, Future of Work, Inspirational  

Traveler: “SIRI, can you give me directions to my next destination?” Siri: “You will take a right turn away from fear, a left turn towards success, a stay straight on focused road, no u-turns allowed, a right turn away from self-doubt, and you’ve arrived at your destination of success”  

Highlights:

• Define Your Destination – Do you clearly know the goal(s) you want to achieve? You need a vision for your goals like a traveler needs a map for directions which ultimately leads to a destination. 
• Embrace the Detours – Life challenges and detours are inevitable so consider embracing them as opportunities to grow and discover hidden gems. 
• Travel Light, Let Go of Baggage – It’s not always easy for travelers to pack light, but it helps make the experience lite and easier. Remove unnecessary baggage like self-doubt and fears to more freely to your achieving your dreams.