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From A(I) to (Gen) Z: Decoding the Alphabet of Workplace Communication
Confused about how to communicate in a workplace that spans algorithms and generations? You’re not alone!
In this eye-opening session, Colleen Hauk, Founder and CEO of The Corporate Refinery, draws from 25 years of leadership and communication expertise to unpack the most common misconceptions leaders face today—especially when navigating the rise of AI and the expectations of Gen Z.
Whether you’re automating messages or managing multigenerational teams, you’ll walk away with grounded strategies that make your communication more effective, inclusive, and future-ready.
Key Takeaways:
- Bust the Myths: Learn where communication is breaking down and how to shift from assumptions to awareness.
- Adapt with Intention: Adjust your communication style in a way that resonates across platforms and people.
- Make It Stick: Uncover your most powerful tool for building a culture of clear, confident, and consistent communication.
Break Through the Promotional Pipeline
You were once the rising star—snagging promotions, taking on big challenges, and turning heads. But now? You’re doing the work, delivering results… and still getting passed over. The momentum has stalled, and you’re left wondering: What’s missing?
It’s time to stop spinning your wheels and start making moves. In this powerful session, Colleen Hauk—Founder and CEO of The Corporate Refinery—brings her 25 years of leadership and communications expertise to the stage. She’ll reveal what’s really holding high-performers back from that next big leap—and exactly how to fix it. Get ready to shift perceptions and finally punch through that promotion ceiling.
Key Takeaways:
- Ditch outdated promotion strategies and go after the role—and recognition—you really want.
- Expose the silent saboteur that’s draining your focus and blocking your path to the next level.
- Build a bold, clear action plan to engage your manager and accelerate your climb—starting now.
Unlocking Your X-Factor
Every room you walk into—whether it’s a sales pitch, team meeting, boardroom, or community event—is a chance to make your message land and stick. But it’s not enough to be clear—you have to be compelling. You need that signature edge that gets people leaning in, nodding along, and ultimately saying, “I’m in.”
In this dynamic session, Colleen Hauk, Founder and CEO of The Corporate Refinery, fuses 25 years of executive leadership with real-world presentation mastery to help you elevate your presence and deliver ideas that resonate, influence, and drive action. Get ready to level up how you show up—and turn every communication moment into a win.
Key Takeaways:
- Stand out in a crowded field to attract new opportunities and accelerate your growth.
- Own the room with confidence to boost your credibility and elevate how others perceive you.
- Communicate with impact to instantly grab attention and gain buy-in from any audience.
The ‘And’ Life: Beating Burnout Without Quitting Your Job
Burnout isn’t just a personal problem—it’s a business risk. From rising disengagement to stalled innovation, the ripple effects of burnout are costing organizations in performance, profit, and people. In today’s always-on world, professionals at every level are feeling the squeeze. But what if there was a better way—not just to survive work, but to actually thrive?
Enter The “And” Life. After hitting burnout and nearly walking away from it all, Colleen Hauk, founder and CEO of The Corporate Refinery, rewrote the rules for success. She discovered how to thrive in both career and life—and now she’s teaching high-achievers how to do the same.
In this high-impact keynote, Colleen blends personal story, research, and real-world strategies to help high performers recover from burnout, re-energize their leadership, and reclaim their lives. Attendees will leave equipped and inspired to lead sustainably, without sacrificing ambition or well-being.
Key Takeaways:
- Pinpoint what’s draining you—and identify exactly where to ignite immediate change.
- Build a burnout-proof life by designing habits that fuel resilience and sustainability.
- Tap back into your power to perform at a high level—at work and in life.
ON-DEMAND TRAINING
Improving Your Leadership Communications
To be an effective leader, you need to learn how to communicate clearly. In this course, leadership expert Colleen Hauk, shows you how to become a precise and powerful communicator.
Colleen first explains how to set yourself up for success by knowing the basics and exploring emotional intelligence. She then provides guidance on creating a connection and tapping into the senses of your audience. She also shows how to engage in dialogue, remain curious, and align your communication to specific goals.
Finally, Colleen shares tips on effective communication in different circumstances, from one-on-one meetings, to group discussions, an d virtual meetings. Upon completing this course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to communicate effectively as a leader.
A Leader's Guide to Reducing Team Burnout
Burnout is everywhere. It’s hard to find a more pervasive problem for employees in today’s work world. So, what’s a leader to do? How can you continue to drive results when your team is completely burnt out? In this course, tenured leader and executive coach Colleen Hauk shares insights and practical advice on how you can combat burnout for your team.
Explore some of the high-level details of burnout, including what it is, why it happens, what the signs are that your team is experiencing it, and how you can step in to intervene. Discover the importance of taking care of yourself as a leader and modeling anti-burnout behaviors for your team. Colleen shows you how to better engage with specific individuals and tailor your approach to fit everyone’s unique needs. Along the way, find out how to use some of her preferred leadership tools to help support your team’s overall well-being—fanning brightness, not burnout.
Custom-tailored Programs & Workshops
We co-create learning and development solutions that align growth strategy and leadership competency with today’s real-world factors. We introduce modern methods that enhance communication and executive presence, that together drive performance and sustain excellence across the organization.
We help you build a solid leadership pipeline, retain your top-tier talent, and positively impact your bottom line.
We Deliver Solutions in These Key Areas:
- Enhancing Communication
- Elevating Professional/Executive Presence
- Presentation Coaching
- Emerging and Executive Leadership
- Embracing Change
- Creating Cohesive Cultures
- Emotional Intelligence
- High Performance
Executive Coaching
Become the leader you know you truly are inside. Do you want to improve your performance in critical areas, overcome obstacles or barriers, grow and develop your leadership skills, or amplify your professional trajectory, executive coaching is an excellent way to reach these goals. This is a space to meet one-on-one in a safe and supported yet structured to challenge you.
We will assess your current competencies, see how you’re perceived by others, clarify goals, and focus on the appropriate action steps.
5-Star Society
Accelerate your professional and personal success with the 5-Star Society, an invitation-only program that offers you the practical strategies and support from a network of other executive women in order to move beyond what you believe is even possible.
Research shows that companies with female top executives perform better. Yet, women face a variety of unique challenges that require practical strategies and a network of other professional women to navigate in today’s business world.
By using our signature process and co-mentoring community, you will elevate your professional expertise and skills, access unique ideas, expand your network, become an elite performer inside and outside the office, and accelerate results for you and your company.
Members engage in and have access to Executive Masterclasses, Implementation Labs, Society Socials, Office Hours, and a Community Platform.
NOW IS THE TIME FOR TRANSFORMATION
Schedule a meeting to discover how to deliver maximum impact for you and your organization.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Some of the improvements noticed included the team having an improved growth mindset, performing better research before approaching their line managers for assistance, admitting where they should take responsibility for an issue, and referring back to specifics in Colleen’s workshops when discussing developmental struggles. Overall, 1:1 discussions improved as everyone was now working from the same playbook and understood their own responsibility in their personal and career development instead of looking to their manager and wondering why they weren’t getting ahead. I highly recommend reaching out to Colleen to discuss training needs or concerns as she is extremely flexible and resourceful when it comes to tailoring development programs at any level. New hires found the material as engaging and insightful as did our seasoned, director level veterans.
The Team improved its leadership, communication, and collaboration skillsets.
The Team is more engaged, productive, and highly motivated with greater personal satisfaction and helped retain our valuable employees.
The training helped me design a career development strategy in collaboration with our team members tailored to their individual talent needs and stages of their careers.
The training has provided my department to build a sustainable and adaptable approach to building a talent management strategy with an engaged workforce.