Maria Pressentin

Building High-Trust Collaboration Among Teachers : Strengthening Communication, Psychological Safety & Professional Alignment

Synopsis

Teachers thrive when trust thrives. Yet many teams struggle with miscommunication, feedback hesitancy, or fear of conflict—especially across different levels of seniority. This workshop helps teachers and HODs address these challenges by using the SCARF Model to better understand how social triggers like status or uncertainty impact collaboration. Educators will also practise building trust using a proven framework centred on competence, integrity, and compassion. With structured tools like Feedforward and Stop/Start/Continue, participants will learn to give meaningful feedback and clarify intent before impact. The result? Stronger teams, clearer expectations, and safer spaces for meaningful conversations and collective growth.

Target Audience

Leaders responsible for guiding teaching teams, facilitating collaboration, and resolving conflicts. Educators seeking to enhance teamwork, give and receive feedback effectively, and build stronger professional relationships.

Key Benefits

Trust is built daily: Participants will rethink collaboration as a daily practice built on safety, intentionality, and open dialogue—not just shared goals. Safer in hard conversations: Teachers will feel more confident navigating difficult conversations, knowing how to speak with compassion and clarity. Shift from silence to structure: Educators will practise and embed feedback tools that move the team forward with alignment and mutual respect.

Leading Students with Confidence & Connection: Empowering Teachers to Boost Student Motivation and Classroom Engagement

Synopsis

This half-day workshop helps educators tackle one of the most persistent classroom challenges—student disengagement. Using the Skill/Will Matrix, teachers will learn to identify varying levels of motivation and competence in their students and adapt teaching strategies accordingly. The session introduces Socratic questioning and peer-facilitation models to move away from passive, one-way instruction. The 3E Engagement Framework™—Empower, Energize, Elevate—provides a simple yet powerful guide to make every lesson feel more relevant, lively, and rewarding. With practical exercises and classroom reflection, this workshop equips educators with both mindset and method to transform participation, improve critical thinking, and spark lifelong curiosity.

Target Audience

Educators who want to re-energize their classrooms, engage diverse learners, Heads of departments, curriculum coordinators, and instructional coaches who mentor teachers in improving engagement and pedagogy.

Key Benefits

From teaching to facilitation: Teachers will shift from content delivery to learning facilitation, allowing students to become co-creators of their educational journey. Confidence in engagement tools: Teachers will feel more confident using a flexible toolkit to create engaging, inclusive, and motivating classroom experiences for all learners. Rethink daily lesson design: Educators will redesign lessons using 3E strategies, adapting approaches based on student readiness and interests.

Communicate to Connect: Enhancing Trust, Clarity, and Collaboration in Schools - Maria Pressentin

Synopsis

“Communicate to Connect” is an interactive and science-based session designed to transform how professionals communicate, collaborate, and build trust. Using proven frameworks such as the Skill/Will Matrix, the SCARF Model, and the Building Trust Framework, participants learn to navigate communication challenges with agility and empathy. The program explores how to align diverse personalities, handle difficult conversations, and create psychologically safe spaces where ideas and feedback flow freely. Through real-life scenarios and practical exercises, attendees develop actionable tools to strengthen relationships, reduce conflict, and drive collective success in dynamic, multicultural work environments.

Target Audience

Business leaders, managers, and team members seeking to strengthen communication and collaboration. Cross-functional professionals working in diverse, fast-paced, or multicultural environments.

Key Benefits

From Transactional to Relational Communication: Participants will see communication as a strategic leadership skill that drives culture, not just an exchange of information. Confident and Connected: Attendees will feel more confident navigating difficult conversations and fostering mutual understanding in diverse environments. Listen, Adapt, Build Trust: Leaders and teams will apply active listening, empathy, and trust-building tools to enhance clarity and collaboration in every interaction.

Wealth, Harmony & Renewal: A New Blueprint For Legacy, Health And Happiness In Your Prime Years

Synopsis

In a world where success never stops, “Wealth, Harmony & Renewal” offers a timely reset for high achievers. This keynote dives into the psychology of performance, exploring what happens when professional success outpaces personal fulfillment. Through research-backed frameworks and real-world insights, participants discover how to shift from stress-driven achievement to purpose-driven performance. Dr. Maria Pressentin, a global leadership scientist and executive advisor, reveals actionable tools to manage chronic stress, reconnect meaningfully, and redesign legacy with intention. This is not about slowing down—it’s about evolving into a version of success that’s balanced, connected, and deeply sustainable.

Target Audience

Business leaders, high-net-worth professionals, and family business owners seeking balance and renewal. Senior executives and investors looking to sustain success while deepening personal fulfillment.

Key Benefits

Redefine True ROI: Participants will expand their definition of return on investment to include joy, health, and legacy as measures of long-term success. Grounded in Clarity and Purpose: Leaders will feel reconnected to meaning, experiencing calm confidence that comes from balance, not burnout. Integrate, Reconnect, Renew: Attendees will apply daily renewal practices that enhance focus, restore energy, and deepen relationships both at work and home.

Reciprocal Excellence: Pride Shared Is Service Amplified

Synopsis

Exclusivity attracts discerning clients, but culture makes them stay. Luxury brands, premium hospitality, and membership-based organizations all face growing pressure as employee aspirations for growth and meaning risk drifting from client expectations. Dr. Maria Pressentin shows how to close these gaps using the GEM framework (Growth, Excellence, Meaning) and the ARC bridge (Alignment, Reciprocity, Culture). Grounded in neuroscience, trust building, and motivational science, this keynote delivers live exercises and practical methods to turn employee pride into client loyalty. Leaders will gain actionable skills to coach, empower, and recognise teams, ensuring exclusivity is sustained not by policy but by a living culture of brilliance.

Target Audience

Senior executives and board members of luxury brands, premium hospitality, or membership-based organizations seeking to elevate client experience. Service-industry leaders responsible for aligning employee pride with exceptional, high-touch client interactions.

Key Benefits

Culture sustains exclusivity: Leaders will see culture as the engine of lasting client loyalty and sustainable growth rather than an optional extra. Pride replaces pressure: They will feel energised to champion trust, recognition, and purpose, turning daily service demands into shared pride. Embed leadership rituals daily: They will implement coaching conversations, adaptive empowerment, and recognition practices that lock in cultural excellence.

Building Resilient Leaders for a Burnout-Free Future: Integrating Gen Z Without Compromising Well-Being

Synopsis

Gen Z is transforming workplace expectations with a demand for authenticity, flexibility, and emotional well-being. But traditional leadership models—built for control and output—are clashing with this generation’s core values. The result? Rising burnout, disengagement, and turnover. In this compelling keynote, Dr. Maria Pressentin unveils a resilience-based leadership framework designed to harmonize productivity with purpose. You’ll learn how to align organizational culture with Gen Z’s expectations, prevent burnout through intentional leadership, and cultivate high-performing, well-balanced teams. As Gen Z becomes a dominant workforce force, this isn’t just a leadership upgrade—it’s a survival strategy for the future of work.

Target Audience

Senior Leaders, People Managers, HR Professionals

Key Benefits

Well-being drives retention Leaders will realize that Gen Z loyalty is earned through empathy, authenticity, and cultural alignment—not authority. Empowered to lead differently They will feel confident in leading with greater emotional awareness and adapting their style to meet Gen Z needs. Redesign leadership and culture They will apply the resilience framework to redesign leadership development, support systems, and team culture with burnout prevention at the core.

Leading Across Generations: NLP Strategies for High-Trust Leadership

Synopsis

Today’s insurance leaders are navigating teams that span six generations—from digital-native Gen Z to legacy-building Boomers. One-size-fits-all leadership no longer works. In this high-impact session, Dr. Maria Pressentin introduces actionable frameworks rooted in behavioral science and NLP to bridge generational divides. Through the A.L.I. Leadership Shift and Trustfluencing™ models, leaders will walk away with language tools, mindset upgrades, and a 30-day blueprint to lead with empathy, accountability, and clarity—tailored to each generation’s needs and aspirations. If you want to recruit, retain, and elevate your multigenerational team, this is your edge.

Target Audience

Mid-to-Senior Insurance Leaders, Agency Managers

Key Benefits

Generational Awareness Upgrade Leaders will reframe generational differences from being challenges to becoming strengths—unlocking cross-age team collaboration and understanding. Empathy and Trust Activation Leaders will feel more connected, confident, and equipped to handle emotional and behavioral nuances across generations. Tailored Action in Recruitment & Retention They will begin adapting their leadership style, messaging, and coaching approach to better recruit and retain across age brackets.

Strategic Networking for Influence & Impact: Target. Trust. Track.™

Synopsis

In today’s hyperconnected yet disconnected world, networking is no longer a numbers game. It’s a strategy. This highly interactive masterclass reframes networking as an intentional practice that elevates influence, trust, and impact—especially across cultures and roles. Designed for professionals navigating complexity, this session introduces proven frameworks like LAMP, the Trust Formula, and the Social Script Stack to target the right people, build rapport quickly, and sustain meaningful follow-ups. Whether you're introverted or extroverted, this experience will help you lead with presence, not performance. Participants will leave energized with a practical roadmap to build high-trust relationships and amplify their professional visibility.

Target Audience

Corporate Professionals , Emerging Leaders, Consultants, Coaches, BD Executives

Key Benefits

Strategic Networking Mindset Participants will replace random outreach with a targeted, strategic view of networking as a long-term professional advantage built on trust and value. Empowered and Authentic Participants will feel more confident and authentic in networking settings, knowing they have tools that suit all personality types—not just extroverts. Consistent Follow-Up Habits Participants will implement a structured outreach system and intentionally nurture connections with clarity, consistency, and purpose.

SHIFT HAPPENS™: The Inner Edge of Mindset, Adaptability & Resilience

Synopsis

Most organizations don’t fail because of change—they fail because their people never learn how to change well. In this high-impact keynote, Dr. Maria Pressentin introduces SHIFT HAPPENS™, a transformative, science-based framework to unlock mindset agility, real-time adaptability, and sustainable resilience. Through powerful stories, practical tools, and deep insights from neuroscience and behavioral science, Maria helps leaders and teams move from resistance to ownership, and from fear to flow. Participants will learn how to regulate, reframe, and recommit—leading personal and collective transformation from the inside out. This keynote doesn’t just inspire change. It equips you to be the change.

Target Audience

Mid-to-Senior Corporate Leaders, People Managers, HR/L&D Professionals

Key Benefits

Mindset shapes your reality Leaders will realize transformation doesn’t start with systems—it starts with the internal lens through which we process change. Empowered and agile inside Participants will feel energized, hopeful, and ready to face change with courage and clarity—not fear. Lead the next shift They will implement self-leadership tools and start leading adaptive change within themselves and their teams immediately.