Experience the power of great leadership and communication

Nancy energizes her topics of leadership excellence, high performing teams and communication through engaging stories and insights from years of work both in corporations and through her private practice.

Her message is appreciated by seasoned executives, leaders at any level, management teams, and anyone who is wanting to improve their leadership and communication skills.

Nancy’s passion for her topics is contagious. Her belief in the potential of people to make a difference is up-lifting and refreshing. And her focus on communication truly demonstrates how everyone can elevate their performance and success in life – both professionally and personally.

She delivers tools and strategies that are grounded in her years of work with clients. She’s engaging, knowledgeable, thought provoking, and gets to the point. Audiences will leave with practical, memorable and easy-to-use strategies that they can immediately implement in their workplace to level-up their performance.

Keynote Topics

Game Changing PerformanceTM

Your leadership blueprint for your high performing team

Today’s leaders and teams must be functioning at their peak in order to maintain a competitive advantage. Leaders must know what it takes to position their teams to meet the ever-increasing changes and challenges that arise in our world economy and environment.

Nancy shares insights and tools gleaned from years of coaching “C-Suite” and senior leaders, distilling the principles that successful leaders and teams have in common. This keynote takes the audience through these essential concepts backed up with engaging organizational examples.

Nancy draws together insights, humor and practical tips to provide participants with the blueprint to create high performing teams and great leaders.

Audience takeaways:

  • Skills to enable agile and responsive leadership
  • Critical communication skills for high-functioning teams
  • Using vision, mission, values to drive the team’s focus and performance
  • Easy to use framework to apply when challenges emerge
  • Creating accountability for teamwork
  • Setting a stage for high-performing culture

This keynote is ideal for leaders that want to take their leadership to the next level. It is also essential for emerging leaders as they will identify the do’s and don’ts to fast track their leadership skills.

Nancy understands the importance of customization and will tailor her keynote concepts to maximize benefits for the audience.

If you’re looking for a game-changing speaker who will inspire a higher level of leadership at your next event, book Nancy today.

High Impact Communication

The missing link in life, leadership and teams

Of course you can communicate! The question is – how effectively?

Leaders and their teams are always on the lookout for what will take their performance to the next level. Often, the place to start is by looking at how everyone is communicating. It sounds simple yet, without exception, every leader and team will experience surprising results from improving on the basics of communication. 

Nancy draws on her experiences from the corporate world and coaching leaders and teams from a variety of industries and disciplines. She has distilled the critical elements of great communication into simple yet powerful concepts.

Drawing on real life examples, finding the humor in communication faux-pas (that are more common than you would think) and inviting audience participation results in an engaging and memorable keynote.

Audience takeaways:

  • Identify the annoying communication habits you didn’t realize you had
  • Take a simple self assessment to know your own communication style
  • Refresh and relearn critical communication skills for high-functioning leaders and teams
  • Discover new approaches to handle those difficult conversations
  • Understand how communication can advance your career and build deeper relationships
  • Learn the neuroscience behind building trust through communication
  • Apply the easy to use framework Know Yourself, Know Others, Know HowTM

This keynote will appeal to leaders and teams who want to experience game changing performanceTM by leveraging what they already do well and enhancing their communication skills. Organizational teams find this keynote of particular interest as learning together creates great synergy and results in a culture of open dialogue.

Nancy understands the importance of customization and will tailor her concepts to maximize benefits for the audience.

This content can be delivered as a keynote or as a breakout workshop either in person or virtually.

If you’re looking for a fun and straight-up speaker who will inspire and challenge the audience to take their communication to the next level, book Nancy today.

About the speaker – Nancy Loraas

Nancy has been involved in business and leadership throughout her life. Growing up with entrepreneurial parents provided daily lessons on how to make a business work. Her Dad’s success in business dictated the life the family would lead. In fact, this early exposure to business is what led Nancy to her degree in Finance and subsequently an MBA.

Nancy first found herself in front of audiences during her career in finance and Investor Relations. Whether it was internal senior executive meetings, analyst meetings or conferences, Nancy quickly became attuned to the importance of offering an engaging message.

Nancy’s passion and focus on communication continued to be a key theme as she began her coaching and facilitation career. Whether Nancy is working one on one or delivering a keynote, you will see the importance of what we all take for granted – communication – and how small changes will deliver big results.

Nancy’s keynotes and facilitations come to life through her amazing client stories. Audience members can relate and see themselves in her down to earth examples. And participants leave with tangible strategies to take action in their own lives.

If you’re looking for a game-changer speaker who will inspire a higher level of leadership and provide a template for exceptional performance, let’s talk.

About the speaker – Nancy Loraas

Nancy has been involved in business and leadership throughout her life. Growing up with entrepreneurial parents provided daily lessons on how to make a business work. Her Dad’s success in business dictated the life the family would lead. In fact, this early exposure to business is what led Nancy to her degree in Finance and subsequently an MBA.

Nancy first found herself in front of audiences during her career in finance and Investor Relations. Whether it was internal senior executive meetings, analyst meetings or conferences, Nancy quickly became attuned to the importance of offering an engaging message.

Nancy’s passion and focus on communication continued to be a key theme as she began her coaching and facilitation career. Whether Nancy is working one on one or delivering a keynote, you will see the importance of what we all take for granted – communication – and how small changes will deliver big results.

Nancy’s keynotes and facilitations come to life through her amazing client stories. Audience members can relate and see themselves in her down to earth examples. And participants leave with tangible strategies to take action in their own lives.

If you’re looking for a game-changer speaker who will inspire a higher level of leadership and provide a template for exceptional performance, let’s talk.

Rave reviews

"A few months in advance of getting this job, CEO of EnCana Corporation, I hired a coach… The coaching helped me a great deal in recognizing my impact on others, which is something you don’t think of as you are going up in the organization. The biggest thing I learned was giving that little extra thought when I approach a subject – being aware of the unintended consequences."
Randy Eresman, former CEO of EnCana Corporation as reported in Canada’s Globe and Mail Newspaper in an article April 16, 2007.
In 2007, EnCana won a “PRISM” award from the International Coach Federation, Calgary Chapter. This award is given to organizations demonstrating excellence as a result of coaching.
"Nancy has a strong, action oriented approach to her coaching and consulting services. She builds rapport quickly and demonstrates an air of confidence while interacting with all levels of leadership. Having worked in corporate/business environments she has a strong sense of the context in which her clients operate. This helps her to quickly build credibility and to provide support in a way that is meaningful and pragmatic."
Coaching Client, Oil & Gas Company
"I began my coaching work with Nancy with the intention of changing some habits and working on communication. Coaching has provided great insights on these topics and more. I now feel more connected and engaged with my team and am excited to continue my leadership coaching. Team coaching has enabled us to deliberately work on creating our desired culture and explore key elements of a successful team. This work has certainly been well received throughout the entire team."
Neil Robertson, Vice-President & Comptroller
"Nancy's presentation on 'High Performing Teams' was enlightening. Nancy is a very polished and professional speaker. The presentation was very interesting and Nancy's interaction with the audience made the session very enchanting. Nancy is a very down to earth person and very easy to work with."
Meghana Dholabhai, 2010/2011 Programs Governor, Institute of Internal Auditors Calgary Chapter
"You are truly an amazing facilitator. You are very polished and professional as well as being a lot of fun in a classroom. I really appreciate all your suggestions and ideas for my situation."
Training Consultant, SAIT Polytechnic
"As a direct result of your coaching, I made significant changes to the way that I approach leadership. Using results from a 360 review and interviews with leaders in my company, we developed an effective leadership plan focusing on specific areas of development. This provided me with a concrete plan to improve leadership capabilities, qualities and focus. In addition, I was fairly new in my role and was facing a number of significant changes in my department and company. Our work was invaluable in helping me navigate these changes while setting me up for success."
Hildebrandt Kurtis, Director, Enmax, Regulatory Applications
"As we approach the conclusion of our coaching engagement, I want to thank you for your time, wisdom, insight and encouragement. You have guided me through a process of self-exploration and have provided access to ideas and tools that I have already put into practice. As I look ahead, I feel more confident, more capable and more connected to myself, my job and my purpose. I thus feel not that we are at the end of something, but at the beginning of a new and exciting phase of my career. Whatever the finish line may look like, I'll always appreciate how you've helped me get to the starting line. I'm ready for the gun. Thanks, Coach!"
Rod Garossino, Senior Community Investment Advisor, EnCana Corporation

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