Dr. Warren most frequently speaks on personal development, empowerment, and relationships. Dr. Warren’s most requested keynote and workshop titles are:
- Lies We Tell Ourselves: Why Self-Deception Keeps you Stuck and How to Change
- Authentic Leadership: Understanding Yourself Benefits Everyone Around You
- Looking in the Mirror: Self-Deception, Body Image, and Eating
- Triggered: Using Emotional Reactivity to Understand Yourself
SPEAKING TOPICS:
Lies We Tell Ourselves: Why Self-Deception Keeps You Stuck and How to Change
This talk is for anyone wanting to improve their current situation in both business and in life. Self-deception keeps you stuck—it keeps you from growing and from creating your ideal life. It affects your career success, your relationships, your happiness, your income, and even your physical health. Because you can’t change something you can’t admit. And at the end of the day, self-deception can leave you with tremendous amounts of regret.
Drawing from her book, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception, this talk teaches listeners how and why people lie to themselves. As they see how their own self-deception, Dr. Warren challenges them to change. Using the 3 A’s to Authenticity—Awareness, Assessment, and Action—the audience will leave with the tools and encouragement to improve their lives by choosing to be more honest with themselves.
The audience will leave knowing:
- Common ways we lie to ourselves
- Detecting how we lie to ourselves and where it keeps us stuck
- Understanding why we lie to ourselves and how it hurts you
- How to become more honest using the 3 A’s of Authenticity
- Using honesty empowering yourself to create your ideal life
Authentic Leadership: Understanding Yourself Benefits Everyone Around You
What is the key to being an admired and effective leader? Authenticity. This talk is tailored for businesses and organizations interested in improving the culture of the work environment and relationships within your company. Why is it so critically important to focus on relationships to be an effective leader? Because as a leader, you are the model. Being yourself and deliberately choosing how to interact with people based on boundaries, power dynamics and knowing how to handle those interactions is critical to organizational well being. Leaders who aren’t aware of their effect on relationships will create a culture of chaos and discontentment. The more we understand ourselves and work to change unhealthy or unwanted patterns in ourselves, the more productive and esteemed we will be at work. In This talk, Dr. Warren explains how from family and friends to colleagues, employees, and bosses, understanding how to work with people is essential to success. Whether you are on a team or work individually, Dr. Warren helps you to understand people around you so you may have a productive and profitable work environment. The more you understand your yourself, the better leader you will be to everyone around you.
The audience will leave knowing:
- The importance of self-awareness to authentic leadership
- Common ways we lie to ourselves in relationships
- The enormous costs of lying to ourselves about in our relationships
- How to use interpersonal interactions to understand yourself
- Why choice and responsibility is critical to creating healthy, meaningful relationships
- Effective interpersonal communication techniques
Looking in the Mirror: Self-Deception, Body Image, Eating, and Your Health
As an expert in eating disorders, Dr. Warren argues that we are in the midst of a health crisis in this world. In the United States, the majority of our population is obese or overweight; we have the highest rates of diagnosed eating disorders in history, and almost no one is happy with their physical appearance. This talk is focused on how self-deception interacts with health-related thinking and behaviors. From our eating to addictive behaviors (such as shopping, drinking, gambling) to debasing self-commentary about the way we look, this talk engages audiences in a cultural commentary about health and how to make choices that make us healthier.
The audience will leave knowing:
- Common lies we tell ourselves that affect our health
- How culture affects the lies we tell ourselves
- The costs of lying to ourselves about in our eating, weight, and body image
- Specific steps to change our thinking to promote our health
- Specific steps to change our health-related behavior
- Why choice and responsibility is critical changing unhealthy behaviors
Triggered: Using Emotional Reactivity to Understand Yourself
Many of us spend a large amount of energy trying to get over someone or something that happened to us. Perhaps we had a traumatic childhood; are going through a tough divorce; have challenging relationships with family, friends, and romantic partners; or are struggling to take care of our physical body because of an addiction to food, alcohol, or drugs. As challenging as emotional reactivity can be, it is also an amazing opportunity to understand ourselves better. Because our emotions give us a great deal of information about what is hard for us to admit, which will lead us back to our self-deceptive tendencies. This talk focuses on seeing emotions as a reflection of who we are in some way; and, using our reactions as an opportunity to understand how we contribute to undesirable aspects of our lives. Once we see our role, we become empowered to change our emotions by changing our thinking and working through unresolved issues.
The audience will leave knowing:
- The role of emotions in processing information
- How emotional reactions are connected to our thinking.
- The costs of lying to ourselves on our relationships
- How to use interpersonal interactions to understand yourself
- The importance of choice and responsibility to creating healthy, meaningful relationships