Process.
We know every forum is as unique as each individual. There is not a one size fits all of forum whether hosting a retreat, a forum launch, fundamental/leadership trainings or up-leveling the basics to create an even more incredible experience. Emma's process is designed with each unique forum in mind.
01
Explore
Initial introduction into working with Emma is an exploration call with the moderator or retreat planner to understand more about the forum, members, history, desired outcomes, current challenges, etc. This is an opportunity for any clarifying questions or thoughts on the overall process.
02
Connect
Because every forum is different, and each member may have differing experience, Emma spends 30 minutes with each member to build connection, trust and understand their experience within the forum. These pre-retreat interviews extract alignment opportunities and inform custom agenda creation.
03
Customize
Whether a half day refresh or 3 day retreat, informed from the insights of the pre-session interviews, as well as forum health survey, Emma custom creates an agenda for your time together. In this agenda includes pre-thought work for the forum to maximize our time together.
04
Facilitate
Learnings, usage and analytics will tell us how to best optimize to continuously reach your customers and maximize your growth potential.
05
Support
We know no event is "one and done" and believe you should be supported as such. Emma is available to the forums she supports post retreat for questions, clarifications, celebrations, challenges, etc.
We would like to commend Emma for the sessions during our retreat. She was exceptionally well-prepared, ensuring that the session ran smoothly and efficiently. Her focus was evident throughout, as she navigated the discussion with clarity and precision. Most importantly, her professionalism and demeanor instilled a strong sense of trust among all participants. We felt confident and supported. We were given several tools and tips to help us navigate through our forum meetings which is helpful given how new our group is to both YPO and forum. Thank you for facilitating such a productive and engaging session.
Meet Emma.
Emma Garrison, YPO Certified Forum Facilitator, is a human behavior expert and serves CEOs and executive teams around the world in strategic growth through psychology of leadership. She has devoted her career to supporting organizations in fully understanding the human aspect of the business. She’s an expert in exploring the “why”s of human behavior including decision making, conversations and the overall impacts in the workplace environment to take organizational effectiveness to new heights.
In her consulting and coaching business, Emma works with leaders on both external, tangible tools, as well as assessing internal, belief systems/patterns that may be unintentionally preventing moving the needle on desired outcomes. Her specific methodology takes her clients through processes that allow them to gain awareness of their surroundings and subconscious belief systems, and to ultimately experience a mind, body and soul connection, where life flows freely.
In addition to her vast experience working with executives, Emma has participated in YNG forums (and has been around YPO her entire life!) and is currently an active member of Entrepreneurs Organization where she is in a forum, herself.
She is a Nuero Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner, Certified Master Coach, trauma-informed coach and lover of life long learning. She has served as faculty at Elementum Coaching Institute and has worked with and learned from the industry's best. Her formal education is in Human Development and Family Studies and Psychology. Emma resides in Southern California, and enjoys daily walks on the beach with her two pups Charlie and Gibbon!
For more information about consulting services with Garrison Growth, visit www.garrisongrowth.com.
Emma's thoughtful approach is grounded in data and experience. She met all of us where we were and created a very positive collective experience that also met individual needs.
TOOLS & KNOWLEDGE
- DISC Assessment & Trainings
- Five Dysfunctions Assessment & Trainings
- Working Genius Assessment & Trainings
- Non Violent Communication
- Attachment Theory
- Somatic Experiencing & Poly Vagal Theory
- NeuroLinguistic Programming
- Enneagram Self Discovery
- Positive Intelligence informed
- Internal family systems informed
- Trauma informed
- Forum launches/seeding
- Game Changing Organizations Survey (team evaluation)
- Style flexing based on real time feedback/in session learnings
QUALIFICATIONS
- Seasoned leader and consultant with 8+ years of experience with executive teams and facilitation, focused on leadership development and driving buy in organization wide
- Fully customized retreats, trainings and experiences for 1:1 coaching clients, forums, teams and executive groups to maximize ROI on time and value
- Trained as Master Coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Blends leadership best practices with forum best practice to create a multi-faceted value add experience with tangible take home tools to apply today
- Traditional education in Human Development and Family Studies, as well as Psychology
- Personal experience in EO member forum, as well as YNG forums
Retreat Topics:
TEAM
- - Game Changing Organizations Model: What Research Shows About Highly Effective Organizations and how to apply it today!
- - Psychology of Leadership: How to discover the unsuspecting best practices and leadership mindset to drive buy in and enhance company culture
- - Navigating Healthy Conflict in a Team Environment: How to effectively reinforce engaging in conflict to drive even greater results
- - Giving and Receiving Feedback: What it is, what it isn’t and how it can drive trust to impact overall organizational results
- - Leadership Assessment: Patrick Lencioni’s 5 Dysfunctions assessment and what to do with it!
- - Understanding Retention and Motivators: Taking a deeper look at what keeps our best leaders around, including a survey real time feedback
- - Cascading Communications: How to take your purpose, strategy, values to the next level (literally and figuratively)!
- - Transitioning Forum Benefits to the Workplace
- Note: Because of Emma’s leadership consulting background, every forum experience is filled with leadership tools and best practices, if desired, as so much of forum health and business health overlap
PERSONAL
- - Life Visioning: Defining and gaining clarity on your unique vision pillars and uncovering subconscious roadblocks to creating the life you value most
- - Exploring Life Transitions: How to know what the next might be, and if it’s the “right”choice
- - Killing the Snake: How to stop playing whack a mole with life’s challenges, and uncover the deeper root cause and solution for an unleveled life
- - Navigating Healthy Conflict for Better Relationships: Personal, professional and everything in between! Gaining self awareness of ineffective patterns, as well as tactical tools and best practices to navigating conflict in a more effective way
- - Creating a Healthier Relationship to Self: How to support being an even better partner/parent/leader
- - Reparenting the Inner Child: gaining self compassion and grace, and deeper understanding of self
FORUM
- - Exploring Creative Forum Best Practices to deepen meeting to meeting
- - Tools for Accountability: Taking our forum experience to the next level by integrating best practices on supporting one another with personal/professional/familial goals
- - Updates to Reflections: Redefining updates for a deeper self exploration, and enhanced level of vulnerability, commitment and value from every forum experience
- - Refining Forum Best Practices: including next level updates, creative presentations, etc.
- - Psychological Safety: a deeper discussion of how to go deeper as a forum
- - Diving Deeper: various connection exercises to bring an already healthy forum to the next level
Emma was intuitive and professional. She adapted to the needs of our group and delivered exceptional value.