"Gen X / Zoomer cusper" Cheryl Cran is a sought after consultant on trends in the workplace. Her firm, Synthesis at Work, is a generational leadership consulting and training company with high-profile clients across the nation.

Her research on generational leadership led her to write the popular business book The Control Freak Revolution - Make Your Most Maddening Behaviors Work for Your Company and to Your Advantage.

Cheryl worked her way through the ranks of leadership during two recession-like environments. While in banking she watched people lose their homes to 22% interest rates; moving to insurance the company was downsized - she was asked to stay and manage additional layoffs. From there she headed up a mortgage program for a major credit union and oversold the mortgage portfolio in ten months. She then started her first business in another economic downturn. Cheryl knows how to thrive during tough times.

A sought after expert on workplace trends Cheryl has been a guest commentator on Fox's "The Mike and Juliet Show" and "The Fanny Kiefer Show." She has been interviewed and written articles for a wide range of publications including Profit Magazine, Reader's Digest, Metro New York, The Globe and Mail, Selling Power Magazine, Small Business and Builder Woman Magazine. Watch for her next book Who Is Really in Control? 101 Ways to Make Gen X, Y and Z Happy at Work.

• Lead Gen X, Y and the Zoomers in Turbulent Times - The future success of your organization is dependent on the people you have on board. A seasoned guide, Cheryl Cran, will show your team that, while differences of opinion are the rule, the gaps between their perspectives aren't as large as they think. Using her trademark humor, relatable examples and interactive elements, Cheryl motivates business audiences by providing real-world techniques that equip your group to face the challenges of inter-generational communication in the workplace.
  
  This keynote, based on Cheryl's soon to be released book, Who Is REALLY in Control? 101 Ways to Make Generation X, Y and Z Happy at Work, is designed to educate your group on generational traits and to provide everyone in your organization with the means to unite members of different generations in achieving extraordinary results. In it, Cheryl reveals how to lead and work effectively with coworkers of multiple generations and differing personalities.
  
  
• Lead to Attract - Lead So They'll Stay - Leadership for the Future - What is the one thing that leaders must do to succeed? Boldly look to the future! Being bold is recognizing opportunities to evolve your team, move them forward and helping every individual to full personal accountability for their success. This energetic, forward thinking and candid program is designed to inspire focused, assertive action by leaders of all types and styles to prepare us for the exciting future workplace.
  
  The fun of the keynote comes from Cheryl's dynamic presentation, her pull-no-punches delivery and the infectious audience response. The content is filled with trends, case studies and practical tools for success, all guaranteed to provide value to your teams. Whether or not you think you lead, it's a fact that we all must demonstrate personal leadership. This keynote looks at everyday leadership decisions through a humorous yet practical lens and then provides steps to create greater success at work and in life. Employees who are stifled with bland leadership aren't likely to stick around for long. Cheryl's bold and forward thinking leadership style encourages audiences to act with passion, conviction and confidence attracting similar people of action. Lead to attract them - lead so they stay!
  
  
• Say What You Mean: Connect to Communicate - How to Thrive in the Social Media, Multi-Generational and Fast-Changing Workplace - Welcome to the communication age. Thanks to the internet, social media and email, everyone is on information overload. The new currency is people skills and communication is cash. Advanced communication can mean the difference between having award-winning individual departments and having a Fortune 100 company. Communication is often touted as a necessity by executives and leaders...and left at that. The reason the topic of communication surfaces repetitively is that, even though it is universally acknowledged as important, people don't always communicate in the most effective ways.
  
  Cheryl Cran presents the solutions in this program:
  • How to communicate with connection, purpose and positive outcomes
  • What to do with the differing generational approaches to work
  • How to improve communication between high tech and low tech teams
  • How to set up systems within teams to ensure open communication and focus on project success
  • How to blend social media communication with traditional face-to-face phone and email communication
  • How to increase interaction, understanding and information sharing among ALL of the generations