Kathy Caprino: Leadership Speaker
Kathy Caprino is a women’s leadership expert and keynote speaker who helps professionals build confidence, overcome challenges, and create meaningful, purpose-driven careers.
Quick Facts:
- International keynote speaker on women’s leadership and career development
- Senior contributor to Forbes
- 30+ years of combined experience in corporate leadership and coaching
- Creator of the “Find Brave” career and leadership philosophy
- Formats:
- Keynote Speaker and Women’s Leadership Expert
- Audiences:
- Women leaders, corporate teams, HR professionals, leadership programs, and organizations focused on career development, diversity, and inclusion
- Outcomes:
- Increased confidence and clarity in career direction
- Strategies to overcome professional challenges and barriers
- Tools to build purpose-driven, impactful careers and leadership presence
- Travels from: Stamford, CT
- **Fee range: On Request
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Keynote Topics:
The Most Powerful You
Close Your Power Gaps And Reach Your Highest, Most Thrilling Potential
This transformative program is designed expressly for professional women of all levels (and the men and women who lead and manage them) who wish to address and close the 7 damaging power gaps that hold professionals back today from achieving their highest and most thrilling visions and goals for their work and careers.
Drawing on Kathy Caprino new book — The Most Powerful You: 7 Bravery-Boosting Paths to Career Bliss (HarperCollins Leadership and Murdoch Books, July 2020) – this power-growth framework has been honed and developed through Kathy’s 16 years of coaching, consulting and leadership training with professionals across 26 countries and 6 continents – and through her work as a senior Forbes contributor, media source and speaker.
Based on experience as a senior executive in the corporate arena and her years as a marriage and family therapist and career & leadership coach — Kathy’s Power Boost framework and model for change helps professional women around the world access more strength, influence, authority and impact so they can reach their highest potential and make the positive difference they long to.
In this program, Kathy Caprino explores what she has found to be the 7 most prevalent power gaps women face, where they came from, and offers specific strategies, solutions and tips for closing those gaps once and for all.
The Key Takeaways from this program are:
- What are the factors that contribute to women developing these 7 power gaps
- How are these gaps different for women vs. men and how do they keep us from happier, more successful lives and careers?
- What are the most effective strategies for building more power and confidence in our work and our lives?
- How do women address the push-back they receive when they are demonstrating true confidence and assertiveness?
- How can we communicate with authority and power while retaining our authentic style and approach to managing employees and other work relationships as we wish to?
- What is the ONE most important step we can take today to access more power and influence, and why is that step so essential to our success?
- How can we build stronger relationships and support to help us reach our highest and best visions and goals?
Finally, how can we identify our true purpose and leverage that purpose through our existing talents and abilities, to be in service of others and make the difference we long to?
5 Core Ways To Lead
Work and Motivate More Powerfully Today
In this program, Kathy Caprino, M.A. – dubbed “America’s Breakthrough Coach” for women — shares critical information culled from her 13 years of research and work with professional women, as well as her work as a Senior Contributor on Forbes, a top media expert on career issues, a former corporate VP, a marriage and family therapist, and career adviser.
Drawing on her in-depth qualitative and quantitative research, and career advising and teaching with over 13,000 women around the world, and her Amazing Career Project courses, Coach Certification training, and leadership development work, Kathy Caprino shares the 5 critical steps that will lead professional women to bravely stand up for who they are, and honor their values, style and priorities more effectively, to achieve the leadership and professional visions they dream of.
And she sheds light on what’s necessary in our cultures, families and organizational systems to foster courage and strength, and build braver and more flexible, diverse and innovative cultures.
Kathy Caprino shares powerful learning too as one who left her unhappy professional identity behind, and totally transformed her own life – forging a totally new path that allowed her to honor her unique passions, talents and values, and a build a thriving business around it.
The role of bravery in leading, managing and inspiring others in powerful and positive ways towards common goals
How true bravery is often suppressed and misunderstood in standard leadership training today
Why intense bravery and commitment is needed to address the challenges of your organization in terms of equality, equity and fairness
The five most damaging blocks to bravery and how to overcome them
How our cultural beliefs suppress bravery and sabotage our authentic goal-setting and communication processes
The 6 dominant action styles and how to recognize and honor your own while embracing diversity of styles in your organization
How bravely leading your own life is an essential precursor to effective organizational leadership
Powerful strategies for accessing more bravery, authenticity and empowerment in your work as a leader and inspiring change agent
Talent Short Bio
Kathy Caprino, M.A., is an internationally recognized women’s career and executive coach, leadership expert, writer, and keynote speaker dedicated to helping women build fulfilling and impactful careers. With over 30 years of combined experience as a corporate executive, therapist, and career coach, she brings a powerful blend of business insight and emotional intelligence to her work.
Kathy spent 18 years in corporate leadership roles before transitioning into coaching, where she has spent more than 15 years guiding professionals through career growth, leadership development, and personal transformation. Her work focuses on helping individuals “find brave” — her signature philosophy centered on unlocking confidence, purpose, and the courage to pursue meaningful work.
As a Senior contributor to Forbes, Kathy shares widely read insights on leadership, career advancement, and workplace challenges. Her research on women’s careers has helped illuminate the barriers many professionals face, while offering practical strategies to overcome them.
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