
Build Relationships
When we approach our professional relationships with authenticity and vulnerability, we create a more loyal, committed, and engaged workplace community.
Contact SalesKeynote Details
Length
Up to 90 minutes (inclusive of Q&A)
Price
From USD $15,000
Recording
30-day access to a recording of the experience (licensing included)
Preparation
A pre-engagement alignment call with the speaker ahead of time
Q&A
Optional Q&A
White glove service
Available in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Option for our team to host virtually if needed at no additional cost
About This Keynote
When we come to work, we are often told to leave our “personal life” at the door. While work-life balance is important, why do we make people feel as if coming to work means pretending to be someone they aren’t? When we approach our professional relationships with authenticity and vulnerability, we create a more loyal, committed, and engaged workplace community.
In Build Relationships, leadership coach and author of Permission to Screw Up, Kristen Hadeed, shares how to create genuine relationships within a team and how these relationships allow us to accomplish more together. Kristen spends her time helping leaders, teams, and organizations around the world to embrace their humanity, so that together, we can build a better world through courageous, compassionate leadership.
Key Takeaways
- Learn how to create deeper relationships with better communication.
- Identify techniques to enhance your listening
- Understand the power of in-person communication
- Discover ways to make team meetings more effective and engaging
- Explore how to be more authentic and how to encourage authenticity in others
Meet Your Instructor

Kristen Hadeed
Author, Leadership Consultant
Kristen Hadeed believes that authentic, human leadership can change the world. At 19, with hardly any leadership experience, Kristen started a cleaning business called Student Maid. She never expected it to be her career; it was simply a way to earn money while she was in college. But before she graduated, her company received a contract to clean hundreds of apartments, and it changed her path forever.Kristen hired 60 people to help her and, within days, 75% of the team had quit. That’s when Kristen’s obsession with learning how to be a leader began. Over the next 14 years, Kristen learned a lot by screwing up. But most importantly, she learned how to lead from her heart. Doing so helped her take Student Maid from a small cleaning company to a business known globally for its culture of belonging, its focus on people, and its purpose of building leaders.
Today, Kristen spends her time helping leaders, teams, and organizations around the world embrace their humanity. She’s worked with just about every industry with one purpose behind it all: to build a better world through courageous, compassionate leadership.
Kristen’s work has been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX, Inc., NBC, TIME, and Forbes. Kristen’s book, Permission To Screw Up, has sold more than 37,000 copies worldwide. Her first TED Talk has more than three million views on YouTube.
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