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Tessa White is the founder of The Job Doctor, a practice dedicated to building career strategies and re-engaging people in the workplace. She is a former Fortune 50 executive, and a 25-year HR executive helping companies with fast growth and aggressive merger/acquisition strategies.

 

Tessa dedicates her time to solving problems within individuals, teams, and companies through her direct concepts and playbook of solutions. She helps guide people into new ways of thinking to see and solve their issues and create stronger employees. Tessa's expertise has built trust within companies and has created open communication that recognizes and rewards individuals. She has remedies for every situation and strengthens the companies she works with. 

 

Her career began with Stephen R. Covey, an acclaimed leadership expert. She has used his principles throughout her career to create award-winning people strategies. She was recently named in Disruptor Magazine as one of the top female entrepreneurs to watch in 2021 and USA Today as one of the top speakers to watch in 2022. Her thought leadership in the modern workplace makes her a frequent guest on national television shows and in top-tier publications. She has amassed more than 1 million followers in 18 months on social media and she is ranked in the top 1% of her LIVE career sessions on TikTok. Her book, The Unspoken Truths of Career Success: What You Never Learned About Pay, Promotions, and Politics, was published by HarperCollins in February of 2023.

Speaking Topics

Resisting the Urge to Run: How to Thrive During Company Change

Companies going through change have a similar set of characteristics that often drive individuals to leave a company Yet the skills one can develop during this time can exponentially increase their promotability. Learn the adjustments to help you thrive during company “red zones” and the benefit of getting to the green zone that awaits.


Trust Transformation: Reinvention from the Inside Out by Transforming Our Companies and Ourselves

This presentation delivers insights, strategies, and techniques to work through company reinvention and change. Learn the four components of organizational trust, and put into place communication strategies to help you collaborate better,  get clear in conversations, and navigate through conflict without putting your job or work relationships at risk.  Identify your trust wobble to supercharge your plan to become a trusted business partner.

Trust Talk: Vital Communication Strategies in a Cancel Culture

We often think that it’s our company or manager who can’t communicate, but often we are part of the communication problem. Participants will learn how to engage in respectful dialogue – the kind that allows for differences of opinion, diverse points of view, personality variances, and colliding objectives. The ultimate effect will be a surge in effective problem-solving between individuals and teams. Access new communication skills and strategies to foster honest conversations when conflict first begins and address difficult conversations in a way that builds, rather than breaks trust.

The Unspoken Truths for Career Success: What You Never Learned about Promotions, Politics, and Your Power in the Workplace

This presentation lifts the covers on workplace issues in a way you’ve never heard before. Learn how to work with, rather than against your company. And change the way you interact with the workplace altogether. Develop a career strategy that leaves you energized, rather than drained, and gives you the keys to becoming a more promotable person. Every individual will leave understanding how to implement a self-directed growth strategy and a path to reclaim career satisfaction.

The Truth You Need to Build the Career You Want

Everyone in the workforce has a plan, a dream, an ideal for their career. This is as true for the young person in their first job at a fast-food place as it is for the C-Suite angling for advancement and greater recognition. Reframe your own beliefs about the workplace with someone who has seen the conversations behind closed doors about your career. Learn the 5 Stages of Career Growth and the skills you’ll need at each growth marker. Learn the fatal flaws that stall out careers as well as the Gateway skills that help you gain entry into a trusted business partner status. You’ll learn that you are the maker and shaper of what happens to you, and walk away with the tools and freedom to shape your future.

The Modern Leader: Leading During the Great Resignation

A war for talent is raging and employees are harder to find and keep. How do leaders create the conditions to re-engage their people and make them true partners in the business? Every leader in today’s workplace will need to know how to pivot from old top-down leadership models to humane leadership. Find out the secrets for bending the curve on employee loyalty and the adjustments every leader will need to make to make every individual a partner in the business's success.

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Tessa has a special ability to express concepts that inspire people to action. I can remember what she teaches far beyond the event and her words come back to me even years later.

Tessa is remarkable. She has developed programs like I've never seen before that are designed to reward people for succeeding, rather than catch them failing. I've carried her ideas into other organizations I"ve led and shared her concepts with many other leaders.

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