“Terri is always one of the highlights of our City Speaker Series. Terri is a fantastically high energy and dynamic speaker, as well as being super smart. She provides fascinating insights into the trading floor environment, and is an inspirational figure for all our students, particularly the young women.”
Speaking Topics
Empowering you and your career: Take ownership of your career and your purpose
Terri’s career path has been non-linear, non-traditional and has involved several reinventions. Terri will give a lessons learned talk on how to manage your own career as well as what she’s experienced about corporate behavior that we can all work to change. Career management is rarely taught but is so crucial to everyone's success. Terri will give practical advice on how to make big career decisions and how to think about non-traditional and non-linear careers. At the same time, there are global issues in the world that concern us all. Connected with taking ownership of your career is doing it with purpose. Terri will give clear advice on how to make an impact at every level of an organization.
“It was a great, high-energy and engaging session with some tangible advice offered for their future careers. I spoke with many of the attendees after the event and they were certainly inspired by your apparent determination, focus and ability to effectively balance the home/work challenge. Furthermore, they appreciated the questions back to them which ensured they were actively and not passively listening!”
Reinvention – the future of success
Terri has reinvented herself a few times. Today, she sits on large boards and gives career talks to thousands of employees and students each year who often ask for career advice at different stages of their career. What is clear from all these conversations is that many of us are already grappling with the idea of a major career shift but don’t know where to start. This talk provides a simple approach to start down the path of reinventing yourself. Terri provides clear guidance for how to get to the other end and excel in your professional career. All without succumbing to the self-doubt that can drag all of us down when we’re trying to forge a new path for ourselves. This talk will address key issues of career switching, taking a career break and how to strike back with a new zeal in a constantly changing world. In a nutshell, this talk is for anyone who finds themselves at a crucial decision point in their career and needs to figure out what next.
Tailoring: e.g. To Return to Work programs or Military transition programs
“I have already had a flood of messages of thanks - full of praise for your warmth, humor and honesty!”
Dream Big, Fail Fast and Never Give Up
From a Math degree at MIT to a derivative trader on Wall Street to an entrepreneur, author, board member and Oxford University Associate Fellow. Terri is a role model who is prepared to put herself out there and share not the highs of her career, but the lows. The points where she learned the most and the points which make her successes seem achievable by all. She talks about Dreaming Big, Embracing Failure and Never Giving Up in this inspirational and motivational talk.
"Left the session feeling extremely motivated"
Pathways to Success for Women and Minorities
You can’t be it if you can’t see it. As a result, Terri shares her story and lessons learned about forging a path in traditionally male dominated industries. From studying Math at MIT to trading derivatives on Wall Street to being an entrepreneur, board member and Associate Fellow at Oxford. She talks about the Meritocracy Myth and the unconscious and conscious biases that we all face along the way. She believes that forewarned is forearmed. But the landscape is not all gloom. She gives practical advice on how to move forward with a successful career and why you’re not alone on this journey.
“Thank you so much for your time earlier today. The session was absolutely spot-on and was so well targeted to the audience. This will give them a really timely dose of self-belief, career ownership and career vision.”
Forging a path to the boardroom
Terri took a non-traditional path to the boardroom which required clarity in her value-add, an understanding of the traditional path, and an understanding of how to fill the skills gap. These insights and more will help everyone start planning now.
Finding direction in an ever-changing world
In a post COVID world of rapid digitalization and an increasing focus on sustainability, where does that leave us as individuals? How do we figure out what direction in a world that is constantly changing? Terri will talk about some of these big themes and then give practical advice on moving forward for all of us.
Workshop
What to do next?!
An interactive workshop with clear steps for all. Whether you’ve just lost a job, can’t stand going in every day or want to make a significant change, this workshop helps work through key decisions and plan steps forward.
Seminars
Empowerment for you and your career
How to take ownership of your career and your purpose.
Keynotes
Inspiration and motivation on a variety of topics tailored to your audience including:
self-empowerment,
risk and culture,
financial innovation,
diversity and inclusion
Testimonial
"Terri's talk was inspiring, empowering, educational, full of energy and humor. She is able to engage the audience, deliver a powerful message and give useful tips on all questions asked. While we invited her because of her interesting background and interesting talk topics, we would invite her next time because of her energy, sense of humor and ability to really inspire and empower women to go after the job they want! The main lesson we learned: Failure is okay, it is a sign that you try hard and are not afraid to go for your full potential."