Biography
The founder of Illuminate PMC, David is a keynote speaker, consultant, and trainer specializing in helping organizations improve their leadership and culture, combat burnout, and design meaningful work. David combines decades of leadership experience with the latest psychological research to help you attract, retain, and motivate top talent. David holds his bachelor's in human resource management from Colorado State University and his master's in industrial / organizational psychology from the University of Maryland – College Park. He is a current doctoral candidate in business psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where he is studying the interaction between meaningful work and burnout. David is NOT your typical academic - as a scientist / practitioner translator, David makes leadership theory & business psychology accessible, implementable, and fun through the use of humor, stories, and 'real-world' examples.
Speech Topics
Building a Kinder Kind of Workplace
Stress, burnout, turnover, and interpersonal conflict are occurring at epidemic levels within the workplace. But YOU can change all of that! In this keynote, Shar uses the power of story, humor & interactivity highlighting the latest research in Industrial / Organizational Psychology, social psychology and positive psychology to explore tactics and benefits of creating a workplace culture of kindness. Shar will have you rethinking how you view workplace conflict, empathy, and the incredible power each individual has to impact their workplace culture.
Combating Burnout: Reignite Your Flame
Nearly 50% of American workers report having experienced burnout in their career. In the helping professions, those numbers are significantly higher! Burnout impacts everyone - employees, management, customers / clients / patients!
The Science of Employee Selection: Using Psychological Principles to Build a More Effective & Diverse Team
We all known the exorbitant cost of turnover to our businesses. That cost has increased exponentially in the current labor market, as it has become increasingly difficult to find great talent. In this seminar we will learn how to strengthen our selection process while increasing diversity, through the utilization of some of the latest research in I/O Psychology. We will discuss the validity of various selection methods and we will debunk common myths and misconceptions about the selection process.
Working with Purpose - Impacting the World from 9 to 5
As a society, we have lost sight of the value of work. We view work as a means to an end - merely a way to pay the bills. We talk about work as punishment from original sin, we count down the days to retirement, we talk about work-life balance as if we are not living when we are at work. As a result, annual employee turnover in American private industry is approaching 50%! Businesses are struggling to motivate and retain employees! SO many of us feel empty and depressed! But what if work was about something greater than a paycheck? What if work is not an impediment to living a fulfilled life, but that rather, a meaningful life begins with meaningful work? In this talk we will explore the concept of meaningful work and work as a calling as David Shar shares his personal journey managing young adults from inner city Baltimore, coupled with his research in meaningful work and burnout.
Leadership & Culture Training
David Shar offers custom half-day, full-day and multi-day trainings on a wide variety of workplace topics.
Leadership in the new COVID-19 Reality: Creating Light in the Darkness for You and Your Team
COVID-19 is rapidly changing the world we once knew. For businesses to succeed during and after this CoronaVirus pandemic they must adapt to this new reality and effectively lead their teams through this storm. At the end of this webinar, participants will: -Understand how to provide appropriate amounts of oversight, support and autonomy for a newly teleworking team. -Understand the 3 main elements of burnout and how to build a burnout proof culture in these challenging times. -Connect with their work's deeper meaning and learn to use it for internal fulfillment and external success. -Understand survivors guilt and how to support their teams through challenging times.
Building a Burnout-Proof Work Culture
Infusing Meaning & Preventing Burnout in a COVID-19 World & Beyond - Stress, burnout, turnover, and interpersonal conflict are occurring at epidemic levels within the workplace. As organizations manage the new demands and uncertainty of business in a COVID-19 reality (and beyond) it is more important than ever to infuse meaning, gratitude, and support into your work culture. In this keynote (or virtual) presentation, burnout & meaningful work expert, David Shar uses the power of story, humor & interactivity highlighting the latest research in Industrial / Organizational Psychology to explore tactics and benefits of creating a supportive and mission-driven workplace culture. Learning Objectives: The audience will learn to: •Build a burnout-proof work culture. •Prevent burnout before it starts, by going way beyond “resilience training.” •Learn to initiate change from anywhere on the org-chart. •Understand negativity bias & how to override it.
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Speakers Like David Shar
Oluwaferanmi Okanlami, MD
Dr. Oluwaferanmi Okanlami is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Urology at Michigan Medicine, and the Interim Director of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) and Director of Adaptive Sports & Fitness within the Division of Student Life at the University of Michigan. He also serves as the Director of Adaptive Sports in the Michigan Center for Human Athletic Medicine & Performance and is the Spokesperson for Guardian Life in their Equal & Able Partnership.
Fee Range: $14,000–$25,000
Travels From: MI
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins is a dynamic speaker, author, scholar, a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. Jenkins is appointed within the School of Nursing, the School of Social Policy & Practice, and The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He is also the director of the Interpreting Attitudes toward Minorities in Medicine (I AM) Research Group.Jenkins, who is two-time award winner national journalist examines the influence of race, racism, and psychosocial stress within medicine. Jenkins is also an authority in the field of institutional inclusion and diversity, specifically in medical and academic industries. He intertwines innovative research with his personal journey through sports and higher education to examine an organizational change in the areas of inclusion and diversity.
Fee Range: $10,000–$15,000
Travels From: PA
Daryl Davis
“How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” As the only Black Cub Scout marching in an otherwise all-White parade, Daryl Davis formed that simple yet powerful question after he was pelted by rocks, bottles and soda pop cans by a handful of White spectators. This was his first encounter with racism at age ten. Pursuit of an answer led this career performing musician on a surreal journey stemming from a chance encounter with a man who turned out to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Seeking to understand, not to change minds or judge, Daryl actually built bridges with leaders from a group that professed hatred for him. Some came to quit the Klan and gave Daryl their robes and hoods when they did. In the process he has unearthed truths about conflict, hate, intolerance, and communication that are valuable today. His extraordinary journey is chronicled in his first book, Klan-Destine Relationships and the documentary about his encounters, Accidental Courtesy. As a speaker, Daryl’s impact on audiences is profound – his TEDx talk has over 10 million views.
Fee Range: $15,500–$18,500
Travels From: MD
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