Able to customize her speeches on a wide range of personal and professional development topics, some of her recent speeches include:
 
   ●  Selecting and Developing Leaders throughout Your Organization
   ●  The Courage to Lead
   ●  The High Performance Organization

What’s the Single Most Important Leadership Skill? Clear Sight
 
Often it’s not the things we see, but the things we don’t see that can make a difference in our leadership abilities. According to psychologist and leadership expert Claudia Shelton, “The single most important leadership skill is the ability for Clear Sight about ourselves and our organizations. It is the ability to see ourselves without judgment, focusing on the one or two things we are in a position to influence in our behavior. Clear Sight helps leaders to continually adjust course to make a difference in their leadership effectiveness.” 
 
Clear Sight is made even more difficult in today’s quick-paced, multi-tasking business environment.  As managers relentlessly push toward tough goals and tight deadlines they can zone into robotic, repetitious responses—the breeding ground for Clear Sight. These are the behaviors that every body else sees about us that we can’t see for ourselves. High performance work environments create the stresses that make Clear Sight even more visible to everyone else, and more invisible to the leaders who own them. Unfortunately these unrecognized behaviors can also derail leadership potential.
 
Lifting Clear Sight takes hard work, which Shelton illustrates through stories of successful executives. Following her Focusing process, these leaders demonstrate the results of Clear Sight: 

   ● More effective business relationships
   ● Expanded strategic vision
   ● Greater personal and professional flexibility
   ● More vital and resilient organizations

Shelton is remarkably optimistic about the ability of today’s leaders to meet these challenges: “Fundamentally Clear Sight is a result of being totally honest with ourselves to bring the best of what we have within us into positive, constructive action.”
  

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Sustaining Top Performance: Reduce Blind Spots with Clear Sight
Today’s highly competitive, quick-paced, multi-tasking environment presses each of us to meet tough goals, tight deadlines and constantly escalating performance demands. It can be exhilarating. It brings out the “fire in the belly.” But, let’s be honest. It can also be exhausting. We can sometimes move through the paces unconsciously, finding ourselves in a robotic state of repetitious responses--like the experience all of us have had of driving down the highway and suddenly realizing 10 minutes have passed and we’re not quite sure where we’ve been. Operating in this unconscious zone can slowly erode our performance.
 
How can we keep our edge? We’ve got to replace our Blind Spots with Clear Sight.  Blind Spots are ineffective behaviors that we cannot see in ourselves, that are visible to everyone around us. Under stress and pressure, these behaviors become accentuated and can undermine our ability to reach a goal, strengthen a relationship or sustain problem solving. Gaining Clear Sight means we find a way to uncover these hidden behaviors and modify them. Often, just small behavior adjustments can have substantial impact on helping us accomplish whatever it is that we set out to do.
 
Drawing from 20 years of work with high-achieving people, Claudia Shelton presents a practical 5-step approach called Focusing to uncover Blind Spots and modify our plan of attack. The resulting Clear Sight gives us the ability to see ourselves without judgment, knowing specifically what we can do for greater effectiveness. It’s really a common sense way to bring the best that is within us to positive, constructive action.

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Finding a Balance: Leadership Styles of Effective Women
Psychologist and leadership expert, Claudia Shelton identifies 5 major objectives woman need to focus on in finding a comfortable and authentic way to express both authority and collaboration. First, know that the Game totally changes as you move from high, achieving individual contributor roles to leadership positions where you must engage other people to follow you. Second, find your Blind Spots, those subtle, personal behaviors that come out particularly under stress that can undermine effectiveness. Third, get Clear Sight about your own plan to make the most of your natural personal strengths and weaknesses in the way you lead. Fourth, know you Emotional Purpose, one of the greatest motivators of effective leadership performance. And fifth, be honest with yourself about the Balance of personal goals for your life.
 
It takes courage to face and answer each of these objectives--just the kind of courage, which women leaders are bringing to today’s challenging work environment. It comes from their strength of character, their persistence and their confidence in finding solutions to the most perplexing business and personal challenges.