Keynote Speaker

Best Audience: for businesses and everyone

Lonnie + Sara serendipitously met in the fall of 2020 through “red shoes” and “red heels”. What started as a friendship landed them on stage together after realizing how aligned they are in work + life. Lonnie has been using his five-step framework of bringing “Red Shoes Living” into businesses since 2006 / 2007. Red Shoes Living builds company cultures where people feel like they’re doing work that matters. It builds leaders who hold teams accountable while giving individuals the space to develop their strengths, facilitating flight, and guaranteeing the organization’s success. It builds customer loyalty through meaningful and personalized interactions. And above all, it builds a life where you show up and put your best self forward every day. The framework for Red Shoes Living is:

1. Awareness: Witness the good. Choose to participate in a better world. Be present, and see your employees and customers as human beings first.
2. Gratitude: Studies show that an attitude of gratitude brings more happiness into the workplace and helps teams build the confidence to reach their goals.
3. Everyone has a story: Everyone has a story. When you take pause to understand where someone is coming from, you can connect with them in a more meaningful way and motivate them to show up as their best self.
4. Respect and kindness: An employee will give their all for a leader who sees the potential in them, holds them accountable to it, and also treats them with kindness and respect.
5. Put yourself out there: What if you treated every interaction as a chance to stand out like a pair of red shoes? Get out of your comfort zone. Take action on your dreams. Become an advocate for an employee or go that extra mile to delight a customer.

Sara has been carrying red heels to the top of mountain summits and taking pictures with them since 2016. After experiencing multiple traumas and starting her life over at age 40 as an entrepreneur and single mom, Sara decided that she wanted a symbol, something for her, which would show the world that a woman does not have to be put in a box. She wanted to show that we can do our nails and summit a peak on the exact same day. We can hike trails, climb boulders, and still come home to put on a dress and heels. We can embrace, love, and honor all sides of ourselves.

In order to live our best life at home and in business, we have to step into the person we are meant to be. That means addressing our mental health, emotional well being, and viewing life difficulties from new perspectives. Sara is a trauma and life coach who guides clients to rewire and reframe their thoughts by “dropping into their heart.” The framework Sara uses is:

1. Truth: Your truth is your truth, and it deserves to be heard. Always speak your truth from a place of love—not malice.
2. Inspiration: Find a moment of inspiration every day on your life journey. Inspiration is a form of gratitude, and gratitude leads to joy.
3. Hope: Your internal hope is your true north in life. Having hope guides you to your dreams.

Combining Lonnie’s powerful framework for business and life, and Sara’s ability to speak to the trauma and difficult experiences that people hold onto, those in attendance will see themselves through their stories and leave with tools to expand in the workplace and in life.

We all need more diversity, equality, and inclusion woven into our businesses and life. In order to create and empower our community, we need to see our commonalities through our differences. Red represents courage, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love. Wearing Red Shoes in Business and Life delivers all of that .. and more.

This keynote has the potential to be a powerful half- or full-day workshop. Lonnie and Sara are open to discussing all ways of creating a deeper, more intimate, and rewarding personal experience for attendees.

Time:

• Up to three hours. One hour keynote, two hours interactive workshop.
• Up to six hours. (2) One hour keynotes (morning + afternoon), (2) two hours interactive workshop (morning + afternoon)

Outcomes:

• Clear a path for better living and a healthier lifestyle
• Create better performance by igniting personal transformation
• Have awareness and acceptance of our personal story, and the stories that others are walking in every day
• Feel universally connected to your community
• Understand how important you are within the workplace, your community, and this world