The Impact of Presence
Learn to lead by inspiring.
A live learning experience on the leadership skill of the future
Systemic distraction and global stress have stolen our ability to focus.
Yet – being present is crucial to build trust, to connect, and to resolve our challenges.
Welcome to an engaging experience that opens minds and nurtures the skills needed in the emerging world.
“This talk was highly potent, inspiring, and so relevant for our leaders’ current challenges!”
– Executive at Marriott Hotels International
I love uplifting the entire room with my brightest energy. 🧡
“A huge win! It helps with relating to one another – empathy, understanding; and it gives us a sense of agency.”
– Professor Robert MacKalski, University of Nebraska
“I thoroughly enjoyed your session, you were captivating from the moment you started speaking.”
– Luke Warren, CEO, Kinetic (a Volaris Group Company)
Book this talk today and start feeling it!
A joyful live experience to bring back Presence in your leadership group
Presence is your ability to be fully engaged and available in the moment and in interaction – even when there’s 1000 things on your mind. It creates trust, fosters clarity, and is deeply satisfying.
Presence empowers leaders and teams to inspire profound, positive impact in their work, life and relationships. Let us take you on a storytelling journey to demonstrate and practice it. You will learn one quick, simple hack to upgrade how you engage, collaborate, and influence others.
Delivering authentic human connection
Joelle’s exceptional quality of presence fosters real human connection with and among participants. With wits and passion, she transmits deep perspectives rooted in human reality. In these volatile, complex and uncertain times, she teaches an efficient way to defuse daily tensions, develop self-mastery, and create positive and productive relationships.
Why it matters
Research is clear: Presence is the #1 skill of inspiring leaders. But global stress and chaotic change have degraded our ability to be here and now. We need to be fully present to resolve engagement, communication and well-being issues. Presence is the gateway skill to mastering all other human skills – courage, empathy, creativity, self-mastery, etc.
A unique concept at the intersection of inspirational storytelling, practical workshop and human connection experience.
A real talk on life and leadership
Joëlle’s real-world stories stem from 52 weeks of stepping outside her comfort zone, offering relatable wisdom on presence, leadership, and connection. These transversal skills are crucial to building more profitable and sustainable businesses and relationships.
Joëlle brings participants together through her own realness, vulnerability, and a few belly laughs. You will walk out a different person – a little more yourself, feeling a little more free.
Amplify your power to impact
Every interaction you have impacts others. How much time is wasted repositioning, justifying, repairing? Authentic relationships exponentially boost efficiency and personal/professional influence. The Impact of Presence equips you with an immediate foundation to get you out of your own way.
Your training starts right away
To enhance relational efficiency, strengthen the supporting muscles. The Impact of Presence introduces a simple yet potent habit, creating room for possibility in tense interactions. Bypass ingrained reactions and choose responses that yield positive outcomes. Stop & Drop practical training begins during the event, delivering instant results.
Actually… your training starts right in our intro call. Book it below.
Joëlle Parent-Proulx
Speaker and Founder, Two Steps Out
Been wanting to send you a note to express my gratitude for attending our U.S. & Canada Field Marketing Leadership team meeting. We all left Montreal energized and inspired, and much of it is thanks to you! We chose you as a speaker because what you offer is so unique, fresh, relatable and actionable. Your stories were eye-opening as inspiring, and the team loved your presence. Several of us have started applying Stop & Drop, and are seeing great benefits!
You will walk away with the ability to:
Cultivate meaningful relationships
Partial or distracted presence creates real barriers to communication.
Practice an essential key to cultivate healthy and authentic relationships. Enhance team bonding while stepping up in personal and professional leadership.
Create possibilities in the face of adversity
In front of stress and uncertainty, fight-or-flight reactions keep us in unproductive loops.
Adopt a powerful reflex to bypass old patterns and transform chaos into harmony.
Become a positive transformational agent
Influential leaders stand out with their presence and energy. They attract, energize, and inspire trust.
Elevate your genuine presence to uplift everyone around you.
I had the pleasure of attending one of Joëlle Parent-Proulx’s workshops and was instantly impressed. She gently and fascinatingly engaged the audience with her appreciation of metaphysics to instantly create change in all of us. Through her guidance, I experienced the power of how a heightened sense of managing oneself can positively impact future decisions, behaviours, and relationships.
Joëlle Parent-Proulx, MBA
Entrepreneur, leader creator
Change agent, facilitator
After a corporate career in business development and the launch of her first business which she later sold, Joëlle heard The Call… or what other entrepreneurs might know as the “midlife turning point”.
Inspired, she found a healthy way to seek for change and more meaning. She began a journey of 52 weeks of experiences outside of her comfort zone. As she gained in leadership and observed her positive impact on others, she realized the transformational power of certain types of experiences.
Joëlle designed the Two Steps Out journey, a structured experience-and-science-based program to create positive change in work + life. The program stands on three pillars: Play, Self-Exploration and Connection.
Two Steps Out brings leaders and their teams to elevate their work & life for positive impact and meaningful relationships. The program is delivered through workshops, speaking engagements, team journeys and one-on-one journeys.
Through Two Steps Out, Joëlle has dedicated thousands of hours transforming bold actions into meaningful experiences. She also completed a one-year certificate in transformational leadership. She now shares these simple and profound, universal learnings, which have the power to change the life of everyone she touches.
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A short excerpt of this interactive presentation captured in action.
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Instant integration and ongoing benefits
The Impact of Presence loosens up and opens up. Skillfully designed to springboard connection among the group, this epic talk is perfect to:
– supercharge a team-building day
– kick-off a group offsite
– invite your clients to an original get-together and nurture your business relationships
– offer your team in-person engaging training
Joelle conveys eye-opening truths with humour and gentleness, bringing about immediate transformation with a lasting impact.
After the event, you can keep practicing together, bring it home, and use it in your next meetings.
Why now?
Our work culture values the need to be productive. When things are moving too fast, our field of vision narrows. Our over-stimulated attention fails to see the nuances, and we react impulsively.
Then, tensions accumulate and create situations that we need to rush to resolve. Creativity dwindles. Patch solutions don’t hold. Leaders and colleagues feel disconnected and become disengaged.
The Impact of Presence rekindles your connection and elevates your actions.
It’s a simple yet profound way to create positive impact and harmony.
It happens here and now.
FAQ
Where/when should I host this interactive talk?
- This summer or fall – in your offices, on your rooftop terrasse, in nature at your off-site! 😎
- At the office
- At a management team retreat
- At the start of a new cycle
- For a celebration event
- For a client and partner event
- In the midst of a period of intensity
- To prepare a space for open discussion
*Available for travel outside the Montreal, Canada region.
How long is it?
This intimate presentation can last 60 – 90 minutes, depending on:
- participation level (interactions are encouraged)
- time allowed for discussion between participants
- participants’ questions
Want to go deeper? Workshop add-ons are available for a longer experience.
Can I combine it with another workshop?
The Impact of Presence fits perfectly with other workshops or experiences from the Two Steps Out approach.
Two Steps Out inspires leaders and their teams to matter in their work, life & relationships with a hands-on approach to evolve in personal leadership.
You want more? Yes, that’s the spirit! Book your call.