Demi Knight Clark

No One Approved Your No: How to Take On Your Year/Career/Goal w/Boundaries!

In our personal and professional lives, it’s easy to say “no, I can’t do that.  SHE or HE can, but not me.”  We distance ourselves from big goals because it’s safe to dismiss our power. Demi Knight Clark learned this early in life – how to be smaller to “fit in” to male-dominated spaces in construction and technology.  Her incredible journey – from summitting mountains to Guinness World Records and leading a construction company & trade nonprofit – teaches the journey from “no” to “yes with boundaries”!  It’s about training muscle memory from the “no” and unpacking those whys – and how to navigate the boundaries when you’re ready to say yes to your goals or team challenges.

SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

• Steps to “burning away” limiting beliefs & the “nos” that hold us back from starting something amazing
• Action plan for goal setting
• Understanding what to walk away from, when & where to laser-focus on your dreams
• Tactics to ignite your passion and design your journey with your own permission

TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Imposter Syndrome, Motivation, Positivity, Resilience, GRIT, Achieving Big Goals, Overcoming Obstacles

From Fearless to Unf*ckwithable: Stop Auditioning

Women welding engineering know how to throw sparks, & it comes with a “fearless” moniker.  Demi Knight Clark built a career on being cleaner, stronger, faster, better as she rose through the ranks of leadership & entrepreneurship.  She understands the challenges women+ face when climbing the ladders, & it’s time to set paradigms free.  It’s not about being “fearless,” but channeling that natural, innate fear of ignition by transforming it into determined, force-of-nature “unf*ckwithable” energy.  This energy helps create healthy boundaries, be curious about opportunity & harness goals.  We’ll never be 100% ready – it’s about learning your cues to calculate risks on when to jump.  Demi not only ignites an audience – in-person and virtually – with her energy and memorable stories, she punctuates hard-learned lessons with tactics that can be used to quickly adapt to the forces of change impacting your organization. This presentation is perfect for audiences navigating uncertainty, new regulations, unparalleled market forces, or looking to accomplish audacious goals. Give your group the necessary boost to come together as a team and innovate quickly and confidently.

SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

• Drop the “audition” of credentials, degrees & accreditations so your team can work ON the business, especially women+
• Fail forward & create group trust through pointed exercises
• Set actionable group/individual goals in paradigm-driven spaces
• Recognize and harness the skills and talents of everyone around you
• Demolish Imposter Syndrome & replace it with Unf*ckwithability

TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: DEI, Imposter Syndrome, Women’s Empowerment, Change, Inspiration, Overcoming Adversity, Innovation

DEI at Any Seat: Spark Sessions to Ignite Any Team

The ultimate permission to START WHERE YOU ARE. This is about coming together and deciding what we can do as an organization to create an equitable culture for employees, stakeholders, and customers that serves all involved. Everyone, from every seat, has to feel a voice, a safe space & an opportunity to have “crucial conversations” to push the team forward in trust & accountability.  These psychologically safe spaces create norms for productive, needle-moving conversations & inclusion in any environment.   Demi Knight Clark was one of the only females in the room in construction for 25 years – creating equitable spaces & voices for both allies and marginalized populations in companies, trade associations & nonprofits. These “Spark Sessions” will help your team grow, connect & converse on any topic with ease – helping break through any challenge with emotional intelligence.

SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

• Safe space creation template to enable authentic conversations
• Checklist for navigating where you are individually or in companies
• How to prevent toxic barriers & interactions
• How to ensure conversations over silence & acceptance over mitigation
• Create a culture that values and respects all team members

TAILORED TO THESE THEMES: Psychological Safety, DEI, Organizational Culture, Workplace Diversity, Teamwork

Igniting Negotiations for Women+ - Creating Sparks of Mentorship, Sponsorship & Launched Career Trajectories

Women+ must have a “high moxie level” to negotiate and advocate for themselves.  Organizations need to identify & cultivate these cultures so it doesn’t sit on the shoulders solely of women+. Drawing on a distinguished career in construction & entrepreneurship, Demi Knight Clark facilitates the discussion on mentorship, sponsorship & negotiation tactics for women+ & allies.  It takes both sides of the table!  When is sponsorship appropriate (getting women+ in the room) vs. mentorship (tactical career training & help?)  How can women+ use the resources around them & “scale their squad” to launch longer-term career trajectory conversations and negotiations?  In this discussion/facilitation, your team from both sides of the fence will be able to come together with a plan – and a psychologically owned, safe space to discuss even the scariest of needs. Through compelling storytelling, case studies & an action plan, Demi Knight Clark will inspire & ignite the sparks that matter in you or your team!

SAMPLE TAKEAWAYS

• Create a negotiations checklist/plan of collaboration for both sides of the table
• Sponsorship & mentorship checklists
• Sparked conversations about open negotiating circles
• Role-played open discussions propelling women+ forward
• Normalized “money talks” tactics