DISCERNMENT + INFLUENCE · A LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE FOR FSC
Make the invisiblecoachable.
A 45-minute virtual keynote that gives FSC leaders the language and tools to identify, coach, and nurture two essential workplace skills.
First, make the skills everyone wants easier to see.
Soft skills are easy to value and surprisingly difficult to manage. Leaders know when someone demonstrates good judgment, earns trust, or moves a team forward—but they may not have the shared language to explain why.
This keynote turns invisible strengths into observable, coachable behaviors through one repeatable leadership framework.
Identify
What does the skill look and sound like in everyday behavior?
Coach
What questions and feedback help someone strengthen it?
Nurture
What opportunities, repetition, and reinforcement help it stick?
✎ The goal isn't more abstract language. It's something useful in the next one-on-one.
Then, two skills that change how work moves.
Open each leadership lens to see exactly how the skill becomes coachable.
Discernment
Zeroing in on what actually matters amid the noise.
IDENTIFY
Look for someone who separates urgency from importance, spots the real issue, and knows when to act, ask, escalate, or pause.
COACH
Ask: “What matters most in this situation—and what might be distracting you from it?”
NURTURE
Give them low-stakes decisions to own, then review the thinking behind the choice—not just the outcome.
Influence Without Authority
Creating results and alignment without positional power.
IDENTIFY
Look for someone who builds trust, adapts to their audience, makes credible recommendations, and follows through consistently.
COACH
Ask: “What does this person need to understand, trust, or believe before they can move with you?”
NURTURE
Create cross-functional opportunities where credibility, preparation, tone, and relationship-building—not title—move the work.
Workplace etiquette isn't a separate list of rules. It's the daily practice of understanding how your behavior lands with other people.
Because the work starts after the Zoom ends.
Every participant receives a digital workbook designed to turn the keynote into continued reflection, coaching, and practice.
A behavioral guide
What strength and skill gaps look like in real workplace behavior.
Coaching prompts
Questions for one-on-ones, feedback conversations, and development planning.
Practice scenarios
FSC-relevant situations involving judgment, credibility, and alignment.
A 30-day action
One skill, one employee, and one practical opportunity to coach differently.
TRY THE COACHING PROMPTS
- What behavior did you actually observe?
- What would “one level stronger” look like here?
- What low-stakes opportunity could create a useful repetition?
- Are you coaching the person—or only correcting the outcome?
It changes how leaders show up.
The workshop re-framed our biggest problems outside our control and turned them into actionable solutions that we can control.
— RED BULL
A great opportunity to learn and reflect on the importance of skills to improve chances of getting buy-in when communicating with others.
— SPOTIFY
Incredibly relatable. It never felt dry or overly formal, just genuinely useful and relevant.
— DOORDASH
Here's the shape of it.
Now
You have this proposal in hand.
Before November 3
We gather context, language, and FSC-relevant situations to customize the session.
November 3
Grace delivers the live keynote during FSC's Annual Empowerment Meeting.
After
Leaders leave with a workbook and one concrete coaching action.
Make the invisible coachable.
45 minutes · live virtual · approximately 80 FSC leaders
- Customized keynote content
- Discernment + Influence Without Authority
- Identify → Coach → Nurture framework
- Digital participant workbook
This proposal reflects a special courtesy rate created specifically for Family Support Center of Colorado.
What I need from you.
A yes!
Final timing and Zoom details for November 3.
A little context on what FSC leaders are navigating right now.
— Grace