An interactive workshop for teams, leaders, movers & shakers.
What would happen if you gave your team the opportunity to reignite trust, creativity, and connection to their work in a critic-free environment? You’re about to find out.
What it is
Unmute Your Team is an interactive workshop for teams and leaders designed to build trust, strengthen morale, and improve the nature, tenor, and skills of communication.
During this unique and engaging workshop, your team will be led through an experience that has the power to shift the way they think and talk about their work—and to each other.
You’ll have the opportunity to:
- Experience an approach to work that fosters creativity, connection, and confidence
- Practice speaking up in a group to share ideas and give critic-free feedback
- Demonstrate and explore your skills and talents in a competition-free environment
- Empower and connect with each other in a way you might not have time or opportunity to do in the normal course of business — and which will resonate long after the event itself
This approach is informed by best practices drawn from neuroscience and management research, public speaking, creative writing, storytelling, and even stand-up comedy—and draws on practices written up in the pages of Harvard Business Review.
I’ve been leading these workshops with people of all backgrounds and experience—from business owners to top executives, admins, and teams at companies like L’Oreal, Google, Wells Fargo, and more.
Give your team the chance to explore their individual excellence and contributions—and be validated in the moment of creation (when we’re often most vulnerable).
This can profoundly change the way you and they see their work, their contribution—and themselves.
How it works
The workshop itself is part teaching, and part doing/interacting. I’ll lead you through a process based on what’s called The Gateless Method designed to quiet the critic and tap your creative insights and ingenuity—all while cultivating an atmosphere of positivity and trust. To maintain the safety of this container, we adhere to certain rules, and bear witness to one another without judgment.
The size of the group doesn’t matter, virtual or in person. All they’ll need is a notebook or their laptop (either is fine).
I will work with you to ensure that our workshop agenda fits your timeframe and group size!
Next steps
If you’d like to get this on your team’s calendar, we’ll zip over an agreement and invoice for the deposit, and get our pre-event strategy session on the books.
**Please note that we can hold dates up to 10 days without a contract and deposit before the dates are released.**
About Terri Trespicio
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Terri Trespicio is an award-winning writer, speaker, brand advisor, and the author of Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster, December 2021).
Her TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has surpassed 7 million views, and she was named by Hubspot as one of the “Top 18 female speakers who are killing it,” and one of the world’s leading creatives by Creative Boom magazine.
A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and The Anderson Cooper Show. Her work has been featured in Oprah magazine, Marie Claire, Prevention, Business Insider, Forbes.com, and Inc.com. Certified in the Gateless method for capturing creative genius, she leads workshops and retreats all over the country to help professionals of all stripes take their stories and ideas from page to stage and beyond.
An in-demand speaker who presents at conferences across the country, she was rated the #1 speaker at Barron’s Top Independent Women Advisors Summit and How Design Live. On the heels of her first TEDx talk, she was invited to give a second, “It’s About Time We Rethink Happily Ever After.” Terri is also a stand-up comic and has performed at famous Manhattan venues including Caroline’s, Dangerfield’s, Gotham, and New York Comedy Club, and was a quarter finalist in the She Devil Comedy Competition.
Terri earned her BA in English from Boston College and a MFA in Creative Writing in 2002 from Emerson College, where her thesis, a collection of poetry, won the Graduate Dean Award. A finalist for the Iowa Award and Glimmer Train, her literary work has appeared in The Greensboro Review, New Millenium Writings, and The Baltimore Review, where she won first place in their 2016 creative nonfiction contest. Terri lives in Manhattan. More at territrespicio.com.
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What people are saying
“Terri is masterful at creating a space where you will again remember what it feels like to play, to lean into expansiveness and reclaim innate strengths you may have forgotten you have. She shines a spotlight on gifts you did not know you had.”
Jeanne Layne, PhD, Licensed Psychologist and founder, Summit Psychology PLLC
“I can always count on Terri to wow the audience with compelling, entertaining and actionable content. She is uncannily versatile and her presentations have that magical combination of being both motivational and actionable. Plus, she’s hysterical!”
Ilise Benun, Programming Partner for HOW Design Live, author and national speaker
“I've invested in a lot of business coaching in my professional life and I have never received such rapid-fire, crystal-clear perception and wisdom as I did from Terri. The time I spent with her is priceless.”
Andrea Nakayama, Functional Nutritionist and Founder/CEO of Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab
“I’ve never met anyone who can make an idea or topic as compelling as Terri can. If you’re looking to stand out—on stage, in the media, or really anywhere else, she’s your woman.”
Farnoosh Torabi, personal finance expert, host and creator, So Money Podcast
“If you have the chance to work with her, do it.” Laura Belgray, copywriting expert, founder, Talking Shrimp
“We engaged Terri to give us a fresh, out-of-the-box perspective of our firm. And the speed and accuracy that she demonstrated in evaluating our business was nothing short of impressive.” Joseph W. Montgomery, CFP® AIF®, Managing Director - Investments with Wells Fargo Advisors & Barron's Top 100
“The investment I made in the work we did with Terri on our brand messaging was the single best investment I’ve made in my business since I started.”
David B. Armstrong, Managing Director, Monument Wealth Management
Recent Engagements
Google
L’Oreal
Toyota
Barron’s Top Advisor, Team, Top Women, and Top Independent Summits
Emerson College
Institute for Interior Design Association (IIDA)
How Design Live conference
TEDxKC
TEDxLSQ
TEDxStLWomen
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship
Ernst & Young
Wells Fargo Advisors Pinnacle Event
Massachusetts Society of CPAs Women’s Leadership Event
Energetic Women Conference
Women Authors of Comedy Night | NYC