Tiffany Dufu Leadership Luminary, Founder & CEO The Cru, Author of DROP THE BALL

How to ignite and sustain women’s ambition in pivotal times. Women in the middle are the most critical senior leadership pipeline for companies. Yet women leaders are leaving their companies at higher rates than ever before. Tiffany shares proprietary insights from The Cru about mid-career women’s goals and what they need from their managers and environments to feel valued and engaged. She’ll also share best practices on how to manage the overwhelm that can lead to opting out. Walk away with a deeper understanding of what mid-career women need in these times, and simple practices to nurture their path to leadership.

How to leverage the current challenges, trends, and opportunities to advance female talent. Tiffany walks executive leaders through the social, cultural and workplace barriers to women’s advancement and shares the Top Ten innovative strategies to overcoming them that she’s learned from working with Fortune 500 companies on their diversity and inclusion initiatives.

How to awaken your passion and purpose to successfully motivate yourself and others. In every job Tiffany has had, regardless of sector, industry, or job description, she has relentlessly pursued one goal: A world in which women’s gifts and voices are fully harnessed for the benefit of all of us. Tiffany explores the correlation between passion, purpose and leadership success. She explains why most people don’t know what their purpose is, and how each of us can not only discover it, but unleash it to motivate ourselves and others.

The Drop the Ball Reading is a live window into one woman’s painful and hilarious journey from the overwhelm of managing everything at work and at home to discovering the secret to success: in order to have it all, we can’t do it all.

The live book reading includes:
• 40-minute curated Drop the Ball Reading + commentary OR Fireside Chat
• Book Signing
Total Time: 1 hour
Inclusive Book Buy Cost (for companies who pre-purchase a minimum of 150 copies of DTB). 

How working in a company founded and run by millennials has changed my life, and learning to maximize them can change your business. Thought you knew millennials? Think again. Tiffany shares her journey of being a Gen Xer working in a company founded and run by recent college graduates. They sleep in, do yoga in the office, and speak in hashtags. They’ve also build the fastest growing network for young professionals that is supported by everyone from Warren Buffet to Sheryl Sandberg and Sarah Silverman. You’ll leave Tiffany’s talk with a new mindset and new tools for harnessing the millennial talent that has changed her life...and is already changing the world.

How to advance your leadership in the workplace and in life. Tiffany shares the three most critical aspects of leadership success she has observed after coaching and training thousands of women and how individuals can execute their own personal success equation. This keynote has a gender lens but has frequently been adapted for various employee resource groups including African Americans, Latinos and LGBTQ.

How I learned the art of achieving more by doing less (and how you can too). Tiffany shares her hilarious and painful journey from being the queen of domesticity to not knowing her kids’ shoe sizes today. And she offers new insight on why the leadership movement has stalled: Our cultural expectations about gender roles hasn’t kept pace with our economic reality. This is an inspiring and practical talk for overwhelmed women (and the men who love them) who need actionable advice on how to clarify what matters most and prioritize their to do lists so that they can flourish at work and in life.