I challenge attendees to embrace change, openness, and the learner mindset as key aspects of accountable leadership. Your leadership team can foster long-term cohesion and success through intentional paradigm shifts.
Keynotes
Leadership speaker Aiko gives keynotes in person and online. Topics are customizable upon request.
- Critical Curiosity: The Key Skill for Growth and Accountability
- Courageous Leadership
- Leading with a Coaching Stance
- Elevating the Impact of Employee Resource Groups
- Healing Frameworks
- Living BIG (Based on the work of Dr. Brené Brown)
- Preservation For Elevation
- Leading with Your Vales
- The Learner Mindset: A Critical Component for A Workplace of Belonging
- Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership
“Courageous leadership is speaking up while your voice shakes. It wouldn’t be courageous without the risk and uncertainty. The bravery is doing it anyway.”
-Aiko Bethea
Learn How To
- Create space to imagine and inquire to understand one another’s experiences, desires, and pressures
- Build and maintain empathy for one another and commitment to the work
- Build the resilience to speak frankly with courageous authenticity
- Demonstrate honesty and integrity while tailoring communications to meet the perspectives of various stakeholders
- Acknowledge and address power dynamics and various forms of privilege
- Know who needs to be at the table
- Ensure that voices are heard and respected
“There’s no comfort in breaking norms. You are rocking the status quo. In some circumstances, you are speaking truth to power.”
-Aiko Bethea
Benefits of Accountable Leadership
- Growing your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
- Strengthening your communication skills to understand others
- Learning how to influence without authority through building credibility and trust
I was staggered by Aiko’s resolve under fire to call racism for how it shows up and what it looks like and sounds like and to stand firm with intention against the backlash that her stand often generates online.
Kurt Walecki
SVP Design,
Intuit
About Aiko, Your Leadership Speaker
Hi, I’m Aiko Bethea
the founder of RARE Coaching & Consulting. As a leadership speaker, I speak with clarity, practical insights, and warmth. Others describe me often as generous and fierce. My goal is to support attendees in being honest about the distance between who they are now and who they aspire to be as individuals and leaders. We invite attendees to do more than be spectators but to do the work of assessing who they genuinely want to be and owning their stealth intentions and their impact. I know that “soft” skills aren’t soft but require integrity, emotional intelligence, and skills that aren’t necessarily easy. They are the key to effective and successful leadership, psychologically safe communities, and transformative organizational change.
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