SPEAKING
A different perspective can change what happens next.
Dr. Tawana L. Wiggins speaks to what happens when the goal is clear, but the outcome is not matching it.
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Through real stories, practical teaching, humor, and questions that make people look again, she helps audiences examine what is driving the gap and what may need to change.
The Outcome Matters. But So Do People.
What's Your Goal?
We often measure success by the final score, the quarterly report, or the completed project. But when the focus stays only on the outcome, we can miss what is happening to the people in the middle. Dr. Tawana examines the gap between the goal and the outcome, what may be driving it, and what needs to change to move closer to the result you intended.
FEATURED KEYNOTE
Behavior, Support & Executive Functioning
What may be driving behavior, how people process expectations and support, and the role of executive functioning in decision-making, regulation, prioritization, task initiation, and follow-through.
Engagement, Participation & Ownership
Why participation drops, what disengagement may be signaling, and what helps people move toward greater involvement, responsibility, and ownership.
Students & Youth Development
Student engagement, leadership, self-advocacy, responsibility, first-generation success, college and career transitions, and growing independence.
Culture, Systems & Implementation
What people experience inside a system, what the system reinforces, and what happens when the way something is implemented is not producing the goal or outcome intended.
Leadership & People Development
Leadership response, accountability, ownership, decision-making, team dynamics, and what happens when the way people are being led is not producing the outcome intended.
Communication & Conflict
Assumptions, interpretation, difficult conversations, recurring misunderstandings, conflict, and what changes when people get clearer about what is actually happening.
Practical conversations for real situations.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Speaking engagements can be shaped around the audience, the goal, and what may be creating the gap between where things are and the outcome you want.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Built around the audience and the goal.
Dr. Tawana speaks in rooms where people are trying to move from a clear goal to a better outcome. Engagements may include keynotes, conference sessions, professional learning, leadership sessions, student programs, workshops, and facilitated conversations. The format is shaped around the audience, what is happening in the room, and what people need to understand or do differently to move closer to the goal.