Leading with Positivity & Authenticity

Aurelie Litynski

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSession rating: 4.2/5 from 35 participants
Leading with Positivity & Authenticity
Aurelie Litynski
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Aurelie Litynski

Aurelie Litynski is a TEDx speaker, author of the book 100 Ideas for a Positive Work Culture, as well as a certified Chief Happiness Officer and Chief Wellbeing Officer. In addition, she has received training from leading global experts and obtained multiple certifications in positive psychology, change management and neuroplasticity.

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Session Summary

Studies clearly show that leaders have a huge influence on employees’ well-being and performance. This interactive session gives leaders the knowledge and hands-on tools they need to support their employees in being happier and more productive.

With our new way of working, we need trusting teams more than ever. Being an authentic leader is a crucial skill for constructing powerful and successful teams. Leaders will learn how to create a positive work culture where people are engaged, feel valued and deliver their best.

Interaction

During the expert session, Aurelie Litynski engages the audience through interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app, Q&A sessions, and live demonstrations on emotional intelligence and its role in effective leadership. She encourages participants to reflect on their emotional experiences, share personal stories, and practice mindfulness techniques for self-awareness and emotion regulation.

Aurelie emphasizes authentic leadership and open communication as essential components of a positive work culture, and offers resources for further learning on the topic.

Key Learnings

Cultivating Self-Awareness

Recognizing and understanding your own emotions is the foundation for effective emotion regulation and building stronger relationships at work.

Practicing Empathetic Listening

Active listening skills, including silence, validation, and nonverbal communication, are crucial for creating a positive work environment and fostering strong team dynamics.

Building Positive Work Culture

Prioritizing emotional intelligence in the workplace through self-awareness, empathetic listening, and open communication can lead to increased productivity, happiness, and overall success for individuals and teams.

Detailed session description

During this session, Aurelie Litynski explores how leaders can create a positive work culture by combining emotional intelligence, authenticity, and positive psychology. She explains why happiness at work is a driver of engagement, resilience, creativity, and performance, and encourages leaders to recognize the impact they have on their team's wellbeing.

Rather than focusing solely on results, she shows how self awareness, emotional awareness, and meaningful human connections help leaders build trust and navigate change more effectively.

Litynski introduces the four core domains of emotional intelligence: self awareness, self management, social awareness, and relationship management. She shares practical techniques to strengthen each area, including emotional check ins, stress management strategies, box breathing, empathy, and coaching conversations.

Throughout the session, she emphasizes that emotional intelligence is a skill that leaders can develop over time and that it enables them to communicate more effectively, manage challenges with confidence, and inspire stronger collaboration within their teams.

To conclude, Litynski explains how authentic leadership helps create psychologically safe, high performing teams. She encourages leaders to move from being a boss to becoming a coach, lead with empathy as well as clarity, embrace feedback as a two way conversation, and develop active listening skills.

She reinforces that positive leadership begins with personal wellbeing and emotional self management, and shows how small, intentional actions can strengthen relationships, foster trust, and create a lasting positive impact across an organization.

According to participants

What people said afterwards.

From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.

Very inspiring and thoughtful session, I'm very glad that I opted out a couple of meetings to join it. Will recommend the recording to my colleagues that couldn't attend. Thank you!
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Very good, clear presentation, excellent examples on topics, good questions and examples
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
I really appreciated and enjoyed this session! Thank you! Looking forward to seeing the recording of Aurelia’s last lecture
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Continue the interaction with audience, I liked menti, thank you
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
This was a good reminder to keep my positivity as I am navigating through toxicity and negativity in the team. I will continue to try to inspire other people to be more positive by leading by example.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
The speaker was able to put a lot of useful and practical content on the short session.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Not sure I learned much (I've studied positive psychology extensively) but it served as a good reminder.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
Great speaker, very well organized.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Before you book

Questions about Leading with Positivity & Authenticity

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

Studies clearly show that leaders have a huge influence on employees’ well-being and performance. This interactive session gives leaders the knowledge and hands-on tools they need to support their employees in being happier and more productive. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Is Aurelie the right expert for this?

Aurelie Litynski is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 433 responses, and rate Aurelie personally 4.5 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Aurelie, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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