We scope the room
Who is in it, what they are carrying, and what has to be different when they leave.
Workshops & Leadership Development
Speak. Workshop. Or build the whole academy.
Three ways to bring real leadership development into your organization, from a single keynote to a full leadership academy built on a proven curriculum. All of it operator-tested, none of it off the shelf.
How I show up
Pick the size that fits.
Bring me in for an hour, a day, or the long haul. Same operator’s point of view, scaled to what your people need.
Day
Workshop
A practical session with shared frameworks, discussion, and next steps people can use immediately.
Plan a workshopLong Haul
Academy
A deeper leadership-development journey built around your team, your stage, and your goals.
See the curriculumWhat audiences leave with
A clearer way to lead what happens next.
- Language leaders can use immediately
- Frameworks people remember
- Practical next moves, not inspiration alone
How a program comes together
Built for your room, not off a shelf.
Every session starts from what your people are actually wrestling with. The curriculum bends to the room, not the other way around.
I shape the material
I pull from a deep library of leadership content and tailor it to your people, your language, your stage.
We run it, then reinforce
Live facilitation, then the follow-through that keeps it alive after everyone goes back to work.
What I teach from
Proven frameworks, taught by a certified facilitator.
Blended and tailored to your room, never delivered straight from a binder.
Themes I teach from
Each theme can run as a keynote, a workshop, or a full program. The Leadership Arc is the backbone underneath it all.
Have a date, a group, and something you want to move?
Let’s build it
Popular topics
Rooms I love to be in.
A few of the talks and workshops groups ask for most. Each one comes from having done the job, so the room gets judgment, not slideware.
Every room can lead somewhere, a workshop series, an academy, or one-on-one coaching for the leaders who stood out.
Getting out of the day-to-dayHow leaders step out of every decision without the business wobbling.
Feedback that actually landsA simple, repeatable way to say the hard thing and keep the relationship intact.
Turnover is a leadership problemWhy good people leave, and what changed to take turnover from 32% to 8%.
Delegation that actually worksHow to hand off real ownership instead of just handing out tasks.
The second-in-commandWhat it really takes to lead as the operator behind the CEO, from someone who has.
Let’s talk
Bring me into your next room.
Tell me about your group, the date, and what you want people to walk away with. We’ll shape the format together, a talk, a workshop, or a full academy.
Connect
linkedin.com/in/tess-honan
Where
Based in Greater Orlando, delivering anywhere