Transformational.   Playful.  Power-packed storytelling.  Daring.  Authentic.  Riveting.  “So engaging participants actually put their phones away.” This is how event players and participants often describe Sarah’s presence. Through empathy, vulnerability, and her ability to dance in the moment, Sarah has the rare ability to connect with audiences live and virtually at a deeper level.  Sarah is a sought-after creative thought leader on vulnerability and resilience, trained in all of Dr. Brené Brown’s curricula, who leaves her audiences with clear action steps to craft a life they love, minimize regrets through bold strategic action, and to achieve professional excellence in the midst of uncertainty and division. 

During the pandemic Sarah worked on a COVID healthcare unit and knows in her bones the resilience that is needed to stare down stress, fatigue, and fear and do what needs to be done.

“Sarah Ciavarri was the perfect addition to our Minnesota Organization of Leaders in Nursing (MOLN) conference! Her ability to bring humor into her message and stories was a surprise and very much welcomed! Hands down her deliverance was engaging, relatable, and left the group with tools to help in all aspects of our lives. Sarah overall was an absolute joy and would be highly recommended!” - S. Fulton, Event Organizer

Sarah’s programs help you and your team:

·       Develop Resilience

·       Unleash Kindness and Curiosity to Transform your Culture

·       Harness the Power of Authentic Vulnerability

·       Tap into Dr. Brené Brown’s Research on Leadership and Courage

·       Learn How Empathy Drives Sales

·       Move from Surviving to Thriving

All of Sarah’s keynote programs are customized to each audience through a pre-event call to learn your organizations goals and what success looks like for you.  Sarah does her research on your industry!  Each program can be tailored to be delivered virtually, hybrid or in person.  Most of these programs can be presented as a keynote, ½ day, or full-day workshop. 

Sarah’s Virtual Experience:  We got this!  Sarah has facilitated hundreds of virtual events so you can trust your virtual event will go off without a hitch.

Most Requested Programs:

Passion, Purpose, and Paychecks: Unveiling the Heart of Employment!

Join us for a playful and insightful journey that will leave you feeling re-energized and ready to fall in love with your job all over again. In this engaging keynote speech, we'll explore actionable resilience steps that will help you thrive in your role and connect to what drives you to do your best work. Discover how to bounce back from challenges with a spring in your step, reignite your passion for public service, and find deeper purpose in your work. Prepare to laugh, learn, and love your job like never before as we delve into and uncover the true magic behind combining passion, purpose, and those ever-important paychecks. Don't miss this opportunity to reignite love for what you do  and become a more resilient employee.  Pssst, this also helps you get more done with less effort!!

So Over It:  Overcome the Overload and Overwhelm with Resilience

Most of the time you love what you do helping people.  But sometimes the routine feels . . . well . . . routine.  And you are just so over it!  This keynote gives practical strategies for injecting excitement into the everyday and reigniting your sense of purpose.  Your contribution matters.  Learn how to harness the power of resilience to weather challenges, adapt in change, and remain upbeat so the next time you say, "How may I help you?"  you don't dread the answer.

Putting the Kind Back in Human
With the pressures of our modern world and frayed nerves from the pandemic, we could all use a little more honest-to-goodness kindness in our lives. More of ‘we are in this together’ and ‘we can get through mistakes and setbacks,’ more genuine interest and concern. Learn actionable practices to support your team, self-compassion practices to support yourself, and unleash the power of curiosity to use when in hard, heated, or horns-locked conversations, and the three-step process for healthy conversations.

The Seven Lies Leaders Believe and How to Let Them Go
Based on Sarah's book, this session gets real real fast. Do you have people on your team that don’t believe they are good leaders? Do you struggle to set clear boundaries and expectations because you want to be nice? If so, the lies about leadership just might be working overtime in our thinking. Lies that say you must please everyone, you must have all the answers, you must avoid judgment, and you somehow tricked the people who hired you. You get the idea; all the thoughts that isolate us. But here’s the secret: those lies aren’t true. Learn what the lies are, how to catch them, and practice accessible tools to grow as a leader in emotional intelligence, interpersonal skills, and self-awareness.

Courageous Cultures:  Digging Into the Best of Dr. Brené Brown’s Research

Based on Dr. Brené Brown’s newest research on leadership learn how comparison and judgment keep us hustling and hiding, how our brains get hijacked when too much stress is present, and how to not only manage but effectively move through these barriers to living and leading with more purpose, joy, meaning, and connection. You will leave with new tangible tools.  Courageous culture are created and you’ll learn how!