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Personal Development and Career Services

Keynotes and Customized Programs

Dr. Kanchier gives keynotes, seminars and workshops to varied professional, business and service groups. Topics listed below are designed to help participants take charge of their career and personal lives in our changing world. They are tailored to meet the needs of specific groups.

Sample topics

What's Your Purpose -- Your Reason for Being? — Discusses the importance of purpose in attaining meaning, direction, inner peace and satisfaction. Shows how to clarify your purpose and translate this into goals in harmony with the real you.

Aligning Personal and Company Missions
— Having person-organization fit results in a 'win-win' for both parties. Shows how individuals and organizations can clarify their missions and bring these into harmony to attain individual and corporate goals resulting in greater motivation, compatibility and productivity.

Positive Attitudes Make a Difference — Illustrates how to strengthen optimism and turn crises into opportunities. Demonstrates how to identify barriers to grpwth, eliminate self-defeating attitudes and behaviors and capitalize on strengths.

Take Charge of Your Career -- and Life — Provides a refreshing, holistic overview of lifelong decision making, and describes the winning qualities of Questers, that enable them to flourish in a dynamic world.

Questers -- New Career Attitudes — Discusses the winning attitudes and behaviors of Questers, resilient achievers who adapt and triumph in a changing world. Meet optimistic, self-reliant Questers from all walks of life who dare to risk and follow dreams. Discover Quester traits you possess and strengthen others.

Use Your Intuition for Personal and Professional Decision Making — Learn to trust your "gut." Provides an overview of the basic principles of intuition and shows how to identify and use intuitive tendencies to access your limitless creative potential.

Develop the Courage to Risk — Describes personal risk taking and discusses strategies that enhance your will to risk. Assess your level of risking, identify barriers that impede risk, and acquire proven strategies to overcome obstacles and attain desired goals.

Crucial Steps for Attaining Desired Goals — Focuses on identifying goals in harmony with your purpose. Learn key elements of effective goal attainment, and leave with a personal action plan to begin realizing a desired goal.

How to Set and Attain Personal and Team Goals — Focuses on identifying goals in harmony with your purpose as well as that of your team. Learn key elements of effective goal attainment, and leave with a plan to attain team goal.

Dare to Dream Big — Shows how to develop the mental, emotional and spiritual qualities necessary for personal and professional success and satisfaction. Learn how to achieve lofty goals by capitalizing on strengths and programming desired beliefs and behaviors in your brain.

Redefining "Retirement" — Provides a refreshing life cycle approach to the "retirement transition." Identify myths of aging and issues related to ageism and aging. Use your power to build a desired life.

Beat Job Burnout — Discusses the causes and symptoms of burnout and demonstrates how to remedy this stress syndrome. Recognize stressors at work and in other life components, and acquire strategies to minimize stress and regain energy and enthusiasm.

Make Change Work for You — Acquire knowledge and strategies to prepare for and manage change. Understand stages of change, learn how to identify and overcome limiting beliefs, and enthusiastically welcome change. Strengthen qualities needed to manage transitions.

How Satisfied Are You With Your Job? — Demonstrates how your feelings about your job are related to your lifelong mental and physical health. Identify job satisfiers and dissatisfiers, and learn innovative strategies to enhance your current work situation and explore compatible options.

The Career and Life Cycles
— Discusses how the stages of the career and life cycles are related to employee confidence, job satisfaction, productivity and job change. Explores ways by which organizations can use this knowledge to stimulate employee well being, satisfaction and effectiveness.

How to Make Decisions Wisely — Describes a tested career decision-making model which uses both rational/cognitive and intuitive strengths.

Career Plateauing: Crisis or Opportunity? — Shows how career plateauing can become an opportunity for continuing personal and professional growth. Generate exciting career and other life alternatives, and clarify and attain desired goals.

It's Never Too Late to Learn — Describes ways in which you can continue lifelong mental, spiritual and psychological growth.

Notifying Employees of the Layoff — Discusses how to downsize effectively. (See Outplacement and Counseling and Coaching.)

How to Get and Keep Questers in the Workplace — Discusses how to hire the right people and reasons good employees leave. Shows how to identify, manage, motivate and retain peak performers. (See Consulting)

Managing Organizational Change — Attain knowledge and techniques to understand, inspire and manage people through change, and build a motivated, productive work force. (See Consulting)

What Do You Want to Do for the Rest of Your Life? — Provides a refreshing, holistic overview of lifelong career decision making. Learn where you fit in the career and life cycles and readiness for change. Use innovative strategies to clarify purpose, assess other personal qualities and explore compatible options.

Additional topics

The Contemporary Workplace — Illustrates ways to create a harmonious, healthy workplace. Topics include:

Workplace Essentials — Addresses employee satisfaction, morale and productivity. Topics include:

Performance Boosters — Discusses issues affecting work motivation and performance. Topics include:

Empowerment Skills — Presents topics related to personal and professional growth and revitalization. Topics include:

Advanced Level Workshops

In-depth coverage of topics are provided for participants who want further elaboration.

Individual Career Counseling and Coaching

Counseling is offered to individuals who desire a more personal and/or in-depth approach. (See Career and Personal Development Counseling and Coaching.)

What Others Say About Customized Programs

"Thank you for a fabulous four weeks on learning and exploring career issues. The materials and exercises were very appropriate for our culture and the case studies helped to humanize current work situations employees are facing." Irma M, Levi Strauss.

"Thank you for making the National Consultation on Vocational Counseling a success. Comments on many evaluations indicated you provided a unique, inspiring perspective." Program Coordinator.

"The evaluations from the Intuitive Edge course are very positive and reflect a very high level of participant satisfaction with content and presentation style. Thank you." Diane C, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta.

"Thanks for the very inspiring and informative presentation on goal attainment. It lifted participants' morale." Linda M, Cisco Systems.

"Thank you for the stimulating day. You gave us much to reflect upon. All participants agreed the day was an outstanding success." Deela M, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

"We thoroughly enjoyed your engaging presentation on purpose. It extended our horizons and gave us much to think about." Robert F, Program Coordinator, Unity Church, Palo Alto.


To obtain additional information or to book Dr. Carole Kanchier for an informative, inspiring presentation:

CONTACT: CAROLE KANCHIER
Tel: 1.888.206.0108
Email: carole@daretochange.com
Do you dare to change?