Speaking Topics

Invite Dr. Sheila Margolis to inform and inspire your organization. Speeches are customized to meet the needs of each audience. Below are sample speeches that she has given in the areas of organizational culture, managing change, employee engagement, and the human side of mergers and acquisitions.

Discovering the Three Ps of Organizational Culture

Learn how to define your organizational culture

To strategically manage culture, you must first define it. As the culture and change steward, the HR professional leads this effort. In this interactive session, practice the steps for defining the unique principles of your company’s culture that are linked with the organization’s strategic goals. Be a valued leader for your organization. Make it simple–discover the why, the distinctive and enduring how, and the strategic how of your culture–that will deliver business results.

Define and Manage Your Organization’s Culture: Tools to Make HR Practices Strategic

Discover how to define your organization’s culture and align HR practices to culture and strategy (This session has received Strategic Credit by HRCI.)

Culture is your organization’s hidden asset. It should motivate and drive employees to achieve, produce, and excel. But what is culture and how do you harness its power? During this interactive session, discover innovative and practical tools to define and shape your culture and then align it with your HR practices. Be strategic in how you hire, develop, communicate, and manage performance so that you reinforce the distinctive culture of your organization and position it for success.

Managing Change from the Inside Out

Discover an innovative way to lead a change effort in your organization

Is productivity low? Are you merging cultures? Are you changing leaders? Are employees not united by vision and values? If you are experiencing any of these challenges, then discover how to successfully lead a change effort in your organization. Learn this research-​​based solution for managing change. This step-​​by-​​step process begins at the core of your culture and integrates change from the inside out using a systematic audit and alignment process. Meet your organization’s challenges with a fresh approach to managing change in your organization.

Using Organizational Culture to Select the Right Employees

Improve engagement, retention, and the bottom line by aligning your recruitment and selection practices with your organization’s core culture

Companies want productive, committed employees. People want meaningful work. So how do you create such a workplace? This session offers a fresh formula for screening for culture fit. You will learn powerful and practical tools to map your organization’s core culture and audit the alignment of your hiring practices with the culture. Build a workplace where employees understand the culture, personally connect to it, and want to live by it. Play a strategic role in your organization by managing your organization’s valuable asset–its culture.

Managing Organizational Culture: The New Human Resource Competency

Discover how to be a culture and change steward for your organization

Do your HR leaders have the skills to be an effective Culture and Change Steward? This HR competency is vital for preserving the core beliefs of your organization and ensuring that everyone is living by the strategic values that will guide your organization to achieve success. Being able to manage culture and change is the second highest predictor of performance of both HR professionals and an HR department. Having these skills puts HR in the role of providing a strategic contribution to the organization. Discover how to define and shape your culture. Use culture to help your organization sustain its distinctive character and position it to compete. Learn a simple alignment and planning process to ensure that employee activities promote a thriving culture. Use the power of workplace culture to drive change and enhance your firm’s performance.

Engage, Retain, Prosper: Building a Culture of Engagement

Discover what you can do to increase employee engagement in your organization

Employee engagement is an emotional connection between the worker and work. Engaged workers are committed to the company and willing to put forth extra effort to deliver superior performance. Discover the six key questions that must be answered to increase employee engagement. Use the Employee Engagement Audit to assess your company’s level of engagement and develop your Employee Engagement Action Plan. Engaged workers can and do have a profound impact on your company’s success.

Making Training Strategic

Align training with the culture and strategy of your organization

Do you align your training with the culture of your organization to ensure that your work is strategic? Discover how to define your core culture and then align your training activities with the principles and values that will drive change and enhance business success. Ensure that the prime principles that distinguish your organization and that position it to thrive are central to your training efforts. Create your plan for making training an instrument for change in your company.

The Five Ps: Harnessing the Power of Organizational Culture for Effective Change

Understand the Core Culture principles and organizational alignment using the Five Ps

Survive and Thrive with Culture Change

Understand the change process and the questions employees must answer as they experience culture change in their organizations

The Steps to Strategic Planning: Thinking From Inside Out and Outside In

Understand the strategic planning process that starts at the core of your culture and unifies members around defined goals and metrics

Mapping and Understanding School Culture

Apply the Core Culture principles and change management to a school setting

The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions

Discover a process to conduct cultural due diligence for mergers and acquisitions

Making the Match: A Job-​​Seekers Guide to Finding a Workplace to Call Home

Learn techniques for evaluating a workplace for culture fit

The Identity-​​Image Reflection: Create the Image that Mirrors Your Culture

Ensure that the image your organization projects is aligned with the Core Culture of the organization