Shasta Nelson Friendship Expert, Author, Media Resource, and Keynote Speaker

This program is designed for leaders and organizations who want to know how to foster the relationships that will decrease turnover and increase employee fulfillment. Shasta’s other leadership focused program is “It Can’t Be Lonely at the Top: Fostering the Connection Every Leader Needs” can be found above.

Did you know that employees who have meaningful relationships at work are seven times more likely to be engaged in their job, treat customers better, miss work less often, have fewer workplace accidents, share their opinions and collaborate more, and feel more committed to their current company?

Creating an environment where friendships are encouraged and nurtured benefits both the company and the employee. Meaningful friendships at work are effective solutions for employee retention, increased engagement, customer service, and increased revenue. Employees who have friendships at work (where they spend more time than any other place) show an increase in good health and overall happiness in all aspects of their lives.

But how can we apply the science to our workplaces and our teams? This fun and interactive presentation provides us a framework for what we can do to evaluate, repair, and deepen the bonds on our teams.

Customized for each audience, attendees will:

• Discover the latest research on how relationships at work impact employee engagement and retention

• Identify the three requirements of all healthy relationships and how they work together in our organizations

• Decide which of the three requirements would make the biggest positive difference in your organizational culture.

This program is designed for leaders and organizations who want to provide their leaders a gift in self-reflection and inspiration as they take the time to assess their personal relationships and learn how to foster more support in their lives. Shasta’s other leadership focused program designed to help leaders facilitate connection for their teams (“From the Great Resignation to the Great Retention: How to Foster the Connections at Work that Matter” ) can be found below.

We frequently talk about how lonely it is “at the top,” and yet we’ve almost resigned ourselves to believing that’s the way it has to be. As a workforce we need to sit with that and inquire whether we really want to create a world where the people who are making the biggest decisions and casting the vision for the rest of us are being expected to do that from a place of disconnection and loneliness. If there’s anyone we want feeling supported, it is you, our leaders.

Feeling connected and supported is crucial to your resiliency through crisis, your longevity and health, your happiness, and your job satisfaction. The more good friendships you have— both at work and outside of work— the more successful you’ll be in every way!

While everything we learn in this fun and interactive time together will apply to your teams, we invite you to focus first and foremost on yourself today. Shasta Nelson, a relationship expert, and author of the book, The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of Our Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time, is going to not only teach us how we can assess the health of every relationship in our Iife, but also make sure we know how to deepen the ones that matter most to us.

Feeling disconnected is as damaging to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day; twice as harmful as being obese; and is the equivalent of being a lifelong alcoholic.

Research continues to show that the most significant factor to our longevity, mental health, disease prevention, and happiness is our relationships – and yet the health industry continues to focus largely on diet and exercise.

This inspiring keynote will energize the audience with research, stories, and Shasta Nelson’s groundbreaking work on how to increase the depth in all our relationship.

As a result of this program, attendees will:

• Learn what science is showing us about the damage of loneliness and the benefit of relational health

• Identify what constitutes as loneliness and why all of us should be concerned

• Acknowledge their own need for greater relational health

• Identify the three requirements of all healthy relationships and how they work together

• Choose the requirement that will make the biggest difference in their personal life

Designed to be the Opening Keynote for a Conference— this program sets a tone of connection for the entire event!  In addition to offering practical and life-changing take-aways, Shasta will leave your attendees feeling hopeful, connected, and excited for all that is to come.

How connected you feel—in our industry, in your work, in your personal life—is one of the most important factors for your physical health, mental health, happiness, and success. The more each of us feels like we belong here (and you do!), the more we can innovate, learn, collaborate, and network in meaningful ways. 

Join Shasta Nelson, a relationship expert and author of the book, The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of Our Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time, as she sets the tone for our time together. You will learn how the science of friendship can improve all your relationships once you know the 3 non-negotiable requirements. This inspiring keynote will give you practical tools for making the most of the relationship-building opportunities during the conference, plus will leave you feeling more empowered in all your relationships. Understanding how people bond can increase retention, sales, employee engagement, team resiliency, and creativity. Come ready to be inspired and to meet some new friends. 

Designed to be the Closing Keynote for a Conference—this program integrates the content and connections from the whole conference! In addition to the key relationship learnings, Shasta will facilitate reflection and connection in a way that gets everyone excited to follow-up with people they met and motivates them to return to participate in your next conference event! 

Did you know: 

• 70% of your happiness is dependent on how connected you feel in life? 

• Employees who have best friends at work are 7x more engaged in their jobs and more satisfied in their work? 

• Your friendships correlate more to longevity than exercise, diet, or smoking? 

Whether it’s happiness, job satisfaction, or health that motivates you, your relationships hold the secret to success. Everything else we’ve talked about at this conference—whether it’s retention, sales, employee engagement, team resiliency, or creativity—is correlated to our ability to help people feel bonded.

When you leave this conference with a few new friends, along with a plan for how to stay connected afterwards, you will not only better benefit our industry and build our community, but you will double your individual chances of success in integrating what you’ve learned here. So we’re ending our event focused on that which matters most to our individual and collective success: our relationships with each other. 

Shasta Nelson, a relationship expert, and author of the book, The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of Our Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time, is going to help us end our time together making sure we all feel connected to ourselves and each other in meaningful ways. You will learn the 3 non-negotiable requirements of all healthy relationships.

So come gather one last time, meet a few new people, integrate your conference learnings, and leave feeling connected.