Business Education Webinars
Welcome to Menttium’s Business Education Webinar Series, where leadership meets learning in impactful, actionable ways. These exclusive monthly sessions are designed to equip mentees and mentors with cutting-edge strategies and insights that drive personal and professional growth.
Each business education webinar features renowned leadership experts and Menttium’s exceptional mentors, creating a dynamic environment where real-world stories and expert guidance converge. Participants gain valuable tools, inspiration, and strategies to enhance their leadership journey and unlock their potential.
Ground Yourself
Growth begins with a strong personal foundation. Authenticity, resilience, and self-awareness are essential traits for thriving in today’s fast-changing workplace. This quarter equips participants to lead themselves first; reconnecting to purpose, strengthening adaptability, and making intentional choices that align with their values and impact.
The Safari Way to Extraordinary Leadership
January 8, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
What can the African safari teach us about mentoring, leadership, and growth? Plenty.
In this engaging 30-minute session, Steve Fredlund brings The Safari Way Roadmap to life—a powerful model for cultivating courage, clarity, and connection in every professional relationship. Through captivating safari stories and practical insights, Steve explores how thriving leaders and mentors help others find direction, overcome fear, and embrace change.
Whether you’re a mentee, mentor, or mentee manager, you’ll walk away with fresh inspiration and actionable strategies to strengthen connections, spark growth, and lead with greater intention.
Harness the Fire
Building Strength and Resilience in Times of Change
February 5, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
In a world where change is constant and rapid, resilience becomes an essential skill for both individuals and leaders. In this webinar, you’ll work with executive coach, dragon boat racing gold medalist, and award-winning author Jacquelyn Fletcher Johnson to explore strategies for adapting to ongoing shifts, cultivating mental and emotional strength, and leading others through uncertainty. You’ll leave with the most powerful actions you can take to make yourself and your team fireproof.
Awareness-Based Decision Making
March 5, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
Led by Dr. Ramón Pastrano, this session offers a practical and actionable framework for awareness-based decision-making under pressure. Grounded in the 4I Model: Identity, Integration, Intrinsic Motivation, and Influence—participants will explore how self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and cultural humility strengthen leadership effectiveness. Through reflective exercises and real-world techniques, mentees will learn to recognize and interrupt unconscious bias, regulate emotional responses, and apply intentional strategies to make more conscious, values-aligned decisions in complex and fast-paced environments.
Amplify Your Voice
After establishing a strong personal foundation, the next step is learning how to communicate with clarity, presence, and influence. This quarter equips participants with essential communication skills that strengthen credibility, build trust, and inspire action; whether navigating high-stakes conversations, engaging diverse stakeholders, or leading through change.
Think on Your Feet
April 9, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
Think on Your Feet: Handling Q&A and Impromptu Meetings When you’re asked a question you’re not expecting, or called on in a meeting with no script, do you freeze, falter, or take charge? In this high-impact session with Karen Laos, you’ll learn how to speak clearly and confidently when the spotlight lands on you. You’ll walk away with practical tools to:
- Buy yourself thinking time gracefully, avoiding awkward pauses or rushed responses
- Structure coherent, compelling answers under pressure
- Turn surprise moments into opportunities to build credibility, influence, and impact
Whether you’re participating in a large meeting, fielding challenging questions from stakeholders, or simply need to respond on the fly in a crowded agenda, this session will help you step up, show up, and shine when the moment arises.
Elevate Your Presence
May 7, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
Elevate Your Presence Your presence, both online and in person, shapes how others perceive and engage with you. Whether you’re building a strong professional presence to influence key stakeholders or enhancing your online persona to expand your reach, mastering both is essential for success.
In this session with Kelli Schutrop, you’ll learn how to create a compelling online presence that enhances your personal brand, opens doors, and positions you as a thought leader. We’ll also explore how to strengthen your professional presence in the workplace to make a lasting impact.
Communicate with Confidence, Power, and Presence
June 4, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
When you speak with confidence and presence, people listen – and this session, Heather Whelpley will show you how. You’ll walk away with tools to speak up, influence others, and build executive presence, whether you’re having a one-on-one conversation, sharing ideas in a meeting, or presenting to leadership. You’ll learn practical strategies you can use immediately to:
- Influence with confidence and clarity
- Read the room and adapt your style to get results
- Create connections and build trusting relationships
- Calm nerves and speak from a place of grounded power and confidence
Strengthen Your Connections
Leadership impact is built through strong relationships. This quarter centers on strengthening the connections that drive performance and engagement—within teams and across client and stakeholder relationships. Participants will explore how to create psychological safety, model culture through everyday behaviors, and apply greater self-awareness to build trust and accountability. Together, these sessions equip leaders to foster environments where people feel valued, supported, and motivated to do their best work.
Creating Psychological Safety
The Foundation of High-Performing Teams
July 16, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
In today’s fast-paced and complex work environments, the highest-performing teams are not just the most intelligent or the most skilled—they are the ones where people feel safe to speak up, take risks, and be vulnerable. This Business Education Webinar, facilitated by Jill Hauwiler, explores psychological safety, a concept pioneered by Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson. Participants will learn what psychological safety is, why it matters, and how to cultivate it within their teams to enable learning, innovation, and performance.
Through research-backed insights, real-world examples, and reflective exercises, participants will walk away with practical tools to assess and improve psychological safety in their own teams.
Culture in Action
The Everyday Behaviors That Shape Teams
August 6, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
Culture isn’t defined by values on a wall—it’s shaped by everyday behaviors, decisions, and interactions. In this fireside chat–style conversation, Menttium leaders and seasoned mentors explore what strong team culture looks like in practice, how trust is built (and repaired), and the small leadership moves that create accountability, connection, and results. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can apply immediately, regardless of role or title.
The Science of Understanding Ourselves and Customers to Create Stronger Connections
September 10, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
As hybrid work increases, the need to build stronger connections with clients is imperative to individual and organizational success. In this engaging and informative session, Dr. Bray shares the foundation of recognizing, understanding, and managing behaviors and emotions in both ourselves and our clients. He shares practical tools and brain science to help participants better understand how emotional intelligence impacts customers and peers. Dr. Bray also shares how to build connection and strengthen relationships virtually.
Shape What’s Ahead
Sustained growth requires curiosity, adaptability, and intentional career ownership. This quarter challenges participants to think forward—developing digital curiosity, strengthening their leadership brand, and proactively shaping their career path. Participants will gain practical tools to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving workplace, anticipate change with confidence, and take ownership of what comes next rather than simply reacting to it.
Digital Curiosity
The New Leadership Superpower
October 8, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
Artificial intelligence continues to reshape the way we work, think, and innovate. In this webinar, Marco Ryan explores how leaders and professionals can harness the power of AI to create meaningful value in their organizations and careers.
Dive into the intersection of Digital Curiosity, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Intelligence Quotient (IQ), and Digital Intelligence (DQ) to unlock AI’s true potential. Learn how generative AI can enhance decision-making, foster collaboration, and amplify creativity while showing measurable value in your work.
Future Proof Your Career
The Power of your Personal Brand
November 5, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
In today’s fast-changing workplace, your reputation travels faster than your résumé. The way others experience you – your results, relationships, and reputation – can be your greatest career accelerator or your biggest blind spot. In this interactive session led by Jen McCuen, we’ll explore how to future-proof your career by strengthening your personal brand and leadership shadow. You’ll learn practical strategies to align how you’re seen with the impact you want to make, so you not only keep pace with change but stand out in the future of work.
Own Your Career
December 10, 2026 | 10am – 11am CT
The career lattice is a new approach to career advancement that offers professionals more opportunities for growth and development than the traditional career ladder. This webinar will provide a framework for participants to:
- Explore how to approach the career lattice
- Identify their unique value proposition, analyze skill gaps
- Create a customized career plan
- And enlist support to achieve their personal and professional goals
Whether you are just starting your career or looking to make a change, this session, led by Stephanie Farias, will help you navigate the evolving landscape of modern career development.
Why Join Our Webinars?
- Relevant Topics: Focused on leadership, resilience, communication, and inclusivity to address today’s workplace challenges.
- Expert Facilitators: Learn from best-selling authors, top leadership voices, and seasoned mentors.
- Actionable Insights: Walk away with practical tools to implement immediately in your work and life.
Whether you’re building resilience, refining communication skills, or embracing innovation, each session provides an immersive experience to help you lead with confidence and authenticity.
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