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Teresa speaks with the calm conviction of someone who's lived this work.

Teresa Quinlan doesn't deliver feel-good inspiration or corporate platitudes. She delivers the uncomfortable truth that most leaders need to hear: your emotional blind spots are silently sabotaging your leadership.

With a tone that doesn't coddle, but clarifies, her talks challenge audiences to take radical personal responsibility and provide practical frameworks to do it.

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Signature Topics

FIND YOUR FAULT: Radical Personal Responsibility for Leaders. The uncomfortable truth about why your leadership isn't working and how to fix it from the inside out.

Transform your relationship with accountability, conflict, and decision-making. Learn to recognize emotional disruption, trace it to its source, and reclaim your power to choose a different response.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN TODAY'S WORKPLACE: Skills that provide the scaffolding for a landscape of AI, Change, and Disruption. Confront the reality of today's workplaces and why letting your emotions take the driver's seat is causing your demise.

Move beyond limiting beliefs that emotions make us soft. Learn to lean into emotional self-awareness, emotional expression, flexibility and stress tolerance in order to be appropriately tough in today's workplace.

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TAKE BETTER CARE: The Power of Empathy. Throw out your limiting beliefs about empathy and why your wellbeing and leadership is failing without it.

Shake up your social definition that is interfering with your willingness and ability to flex empathy as a powerful skill for impact and influence. Learn how to transform your empathy beliefs to enable tactical skills and practical habits that elevates accountability and performance.

"Teresa Quinlan was an exceptional facilitator for NextUp’s Leadership Edge Program. Across three in-person sessions, she brought thoughtful expertise, practical insights, and an engaging presence that resonated deeply with a diverse cohort of leaders from Fortune 500 companies across industries and sectors. Her ability to connect leadership concepts to real-world experiences gave these leaders actionable tools they could immediately apply in their roles.

Teresa created an environment where participants felt comfortable engaging, reflecting, and challenging their thinking. Her sessions consistently sparked meaningful conversation and helped leaders think more intentionally about how they show up, influence others, and create more inclusive and high-performing teams.

Her impact was reflected in participant feedback, with 90% of participants giving Teresa’s sessions

a 5-star rating.

We are grateful for Teresa’s partnership and the lasting impact she made on our Leadership Edge participants. Her expertise, authenticity, and ability to engage experienced leaders made her a valued part of the Leadership Edge experience.

 

Kristin Lee, EdD, Head of Learning & Development Operations, NextUp

What Makes Teresa Different

She's lived the work. Teresa's frameworks aren't theoretical, they're forged through her own journey from emotional reactivity to radical responsibility.

She doesn't coddle. Her compassionately confrontational approach cuts through noise and gets to the heart of what's really happening.

She makes it practical. Every insight comes with concrete tools and strategies leaders can implement immediately.

She focuses on responsibility. Rather than dwelling on problems, she empowers leaders to own their part and change their trajectory.

Signature Workshop Topics

  • Foundations of Emotional Intelligence. Lean into the discomfort of why a lack of self-awareness and self-mastery is destroying workplace civility. 

  •  Command & Connect. Leading through difficult conversations with emotional intelligence. Finding your composed confidence and mastery of influence through 3 highly sought after EI skills: independence, empathy and assertiveness.

  • Feisty Feedback! Join me for a complete 180 on this leadership competency as we explore the value of upstream practices to downstream success.

  • Mastering Accountability and Performance. Discover why empathy and assertiveness are the dynamic duo for laying a strong foundation that makes navigating any difficult conversation, easier.

  • Strong Teams: Teamwork and Teaming. The truth about why teams are failing and the simple habits, practices, and emotional intelligence skills needed to build strong teams that excel through any type of disruption, disagreement, and discomfort.

**Workshop experiences around all emotional intelligence skills and leadership/workplace competencies are available.

Bundle any workshop topics to create a tailored corporate experience that hits all the right notes for you.

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Ready to challenge your audience to take responsibility for their leadership?

Teresa works with organizations seeking transformation, not just information. Her talks are designed for leaders who are ready to get uncomfortable in service of getting better.

PODCAST GUEST LIST

Teresa's been a guest on a number of podcasts sharing insights on emotional intelligence across a broad selection of topics. 

Click the link below for a printable list with links.

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