Harnessing Emotional Intelligence: A Key Skill for Founders
With SpinUp partner TalentRise and speakers Kristen Fox & Laura Barker.
Webinar Description: In the dynamic world of startups, where innovation meets uncertainty, technical expertise is just the starting point for effective leadership. What truly sets exceptional leaders apart is their ability to connect, inspire, and navigate the complexities of human emotions.
Join us for an engaging webinar where we’ll delve into the transformative power of emotional intelligence (EI) in leadership. Discover how mastering EI can elevate your leadership style, enhance team dynamics, and drive innovative solutions in the startup environment. Through compelling insights and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to harness your emotional awareness to foster collaboration, resilience, and a thriving workplace culture. Gain practical, immediately applicable techniques to assess and enhance your emotional intelligence so you can lead with empathy and effectiveness.
Specifically, you will leave this webinar knowing the:
Required soft skills needed for tomorrow’s leader;
Fundamentals of emotional intelligence;
Ways to cultivate emotional intelligence as a founder and leader in the startup environment.
* Please note this webinar series is open to members of the University of Toronto, University of Toronto Entrepreneurship (UTE), and IDEA Mississauga communities only.
TalentRise is an executive search, coaching, and leadership development firm based in Chicago. Our purpose is to discover leaders and elevate organizations for a people-centered tomorrow. An industry player since 2008, TalentRise provides flexible, customized leadership and organizational solutions to early- to mid-market employers primarily based in the professional services, healthcare, consumer and industrial manufacturing, technology, financial services, and retail sectors. TalentRise, an Aleron Company, is connected to several sister-companies who provide global workforce solutions for over sixty years. We specifically support early-stage and high-growth businesses through our emerging enablement solutions business, Viaduct, and at TalentRise where our business is leadership.
Meet the Speakers
Kristen Fox leads TalentRise’s Coaching and Leadership Development Practice. Bringing a dynamic, personalized, and well-balanced approach to coaching, Kristen focuses on building leaders’ mental agility and improving their ability to authentically meet the moment.
Kristen has served as a Talent Consultant and Leadership Coach for TalentRise since 2019. Most notably, Kristen developed TalentRise’s Fast Start Coaching program, a three-month executive integration coaching program that dozens of TalentRise executive placements have participated in and benefited from. Fast Start Coaching provides incredible value to newly onboarded executives and leaders as they navigate a new culture, engage their teams, and build relationships during their first 90 days on the job.
As a coach and mentor partner of CEOs and leadership teams of venture-backed and founder-led companies, Kristen leverages almost two decades of experience as an HR leader in the financial services, private equity, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, and legal services industries. Kristen’s work focuses on leadership and team transformations that leverage the power of Positive Intelligence, Predictive Index, and Hogan Assessment Systems.
Kristen received her Bachelor of Arts from Bradley University and her Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship and Finance from DePaul University. She is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and holds several other professional coaching and HR certifications.
She recently served as the President of the ICF Charlotte Area Chapter. A Chicago native, Kristen currently resides in Matthews, North Carolina with her son and whoodle.
Laura Barker has 20+ years of business experience in HR and project management, including compensation and benefit program design and review as well as talent management and performance improvement programs. She has extensive international corporate experience in cultural transformation especially related to mergers and acquisitions.
She has worked with small, mid-market, and large national and international companies in the pharmaceutical, hospitality, employee engagement, supply chain, and food manufacturing industries.
Laura focuses on leadership coaching, specifically, steering with purpose, developing key leadership skills, and gaining clarity to maximize personal insight and professional growth.
Laura holds a B.A. from McGill University and is coach-certified with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Co-Active Training Institute (CTI). Laura is also a PCC and CPCC Certified Coach. She is Past Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Member of the Board of Governors for an independent school in Toronto, and is Co-Founder of 100 Women Who Care’s Toronto West Chapter.
