Workshops
Designed to foster self-discovery, intentional leadership, and critical thinking in emerging and established leaders—including students, young professionals, and seasoned executives. Whether navigating professional growth or assessing potential employers, these motivational workshops equip participants with actionable insights to navigate their path with confidence and clarity.​
Workshop Facilitator:
Channa Bannis
Channa is the founder and Chief Marketing Strategist of Marketing 4 Moments. She has over 20 years of hands-on marketing experience, and spent over 9 years working for B2B SaaS companies focused on enterprise and mid-market penetration. She is also the author of, I Love the Me I See, a children’s book that weaves a story of empowerment through self-love, laughter, and learning. She recently attained her in Masters in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice and Leadership from Tufts University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and will attain her doctorate in business administration from Saint Mary’s College in 2027. Her research area lies at the intersection of marketing and diversity, and she is passionate about motivational speaking centered on self-love and empowerment.
Embrace Your Authentic Excellence
Professional Growth Elevated
This workshop is personal journey for each participant. It focuses on empowering emerging and established leaders—including students, young professionals, and seasoned executives—to cultivate self-love, map their aspirational journey, and celebrate their growth with confidence. Participants will also learn to lean into their authentic aspirations, push past limiting boundaries, and custom build their supportive community for growth and mentorship.
Practicing Self-love
This session explores self-love as the foundation for professional growth. It challenges attendees to articulate their self-perceptions—past, present, and future—empowering them to embrace their journey with confidence and intentionality. Through guided reflections and interactive discussions participants will create a customized self-reflection chart.
Conscious Building
In this interactive session participants will map out their past growth trajectory as a foundation for their future personal and professional growth aspirations. In addition, participants will also be guided through the buildout of their advisory board and committee—a must-have for their continued mentorship and development.
Celebrating Milestones
This session discusses the power of self-empowerment through the recognition and celebration of milestones. Through guided reflections and interactive discussions, participants identify key milestones they celebrated or should have, and then build their custom framework for embracing and celebrating all their milestones along the way—big and small.
Personalized Approach to Team Building
Elevate Your Authentic Excellence is a purpose-driven team workshop designed to foster individual self-reflection and growth while strengthening team dynamics. Through guided reflections and interactive exercises, participants gain deeper self-awareness, empowering them to pursue both personal and professional aspirations with clarity and confidence.
Each section of this workshop encourages team members to reflect on who they were, who they are, and who they aspire to become—creating a foundation for intentional growth. By first cultivating self-leadership, participants enhance not only their own well-being but also their contributions to their teams, workplaces, and communities.
This workshop meets individuals where they are and inspires them to build forward with purpose, while also fostering deeper connections and understanding among team members.
Key Benefits
Engaging & Interactive
The workshop includes guided reflections, interactive exercises, and group discussions that keep participants engaged and actively involved in their growth journey.
All Leadership Levels
Whether participants are students, young professionals, or seasoned executives, the workshop meets them at their current stage and helps them build toward their next level of excellence.
Sustainable Growth
Unlike one-time motivation sessions, this workshop equips participants with long-term strategies to continuously cultivate, build, and celebrate their growth.
Tangible Outcomes
Attendees leave with a clear personal roadmap, practical tools for self-improvement, and a renewed sense of motivation, positively influencing workplace culture and team dynamics.
Decoding Diversity Signals
Brand Perceptions vs. Reality
This session helps current and future leaders decipher diversity branding signals and better understand its implications for organizational culture and inclusivity. Participants will be better equipped to make informed decisions about how well current and potential employers aligns with their leadership values.
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Setting The Table
This workshop begins by defining essential diversity terminology. We will then examine the broader landscape of diversity in Corporate America and higher education spaces, including public (re)commitments, break-ups, and the increasing scrutiny on diversity initiatives.
Real-world Application
Through case studies and interactive exercises, attendees will analyze real-world diversity branding signals from corporate businesses and higher education institutions. They will gain practical strategies to assess how well an organization’s branding aligns with its actual diversity practices.
Empowered Decisions
Participants will connect their diversity branding insights to their leadership and career decision-making. Leveraging their own values, participants will develop a framework for assessing potential employers and shaping inclusive leadership practices in their own careers.
Strategic Approach to Diversity Evaluation
Decoding Diversity Signals is an interactive workshop that helps participants critically assess diversity branding in corporate and academic spaces. As organizations, regardless of their commitment to diversity, increasingly leverage diversity branding strategies, it’s crucial to distinguish between performative and authentic efforts.
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Through real-world examples, attendees will explore key diversity terminology and analyze how well an organization’s external messaging aligns with its internal culture. This insight is valuable for applicants evaluating potential employers, employees evaluating current employers, and organization leaders striving to more authentically reflect and differentiate aspirational and declarative diversity messages.
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By sharpening their ability to decode diversity signals, participants will make more informed career and leadership decisions, navigating their professional paths with greater awareness and confidence.
Key Benefits
Target Audience
Ideal for students, job seekers, corporate professionals, and leaders who want to critically evaluate employers and/or diversity branding authenticity in an organization.
Practicable Skills
This workshop provides insightful and practical strategies for evaluating diversity branding, helping participants make informed career and leadership decisions.
Relevance to Today
Participants gain insights on the current practices of how companies leverage diversity branding, regardless of their level of commitment to diversity.
Customizable
Decoding Diversity Signals workshop can be tailored for companies, universities, leadership programs, and professional development, industries,
