Business Speaking Engagements
As Head of Leadership at RBS Corporate and Institutional banking I was responsible for coaching management and leadership best practice in a fast-paced business. I combine this experience with my work as an executive and career coach to help my audiences build the skills for success in the fast-paced, competitive world of business.
As a professional business speaker I offer a range of talks and keynote presentations across leadership, resilience and personal growth.
Speaking Engagements: Personal Branding
Your personal brand is all about who you are and what you have to offer. Just like a business, if you want people to buy into you or your ideas you need to actively manage your personal brand. In this engaging and interactive Masterclass, you will learn what makes up your personal brand and how to communicate your brand to others to achieve career success.
What does the talk cover?
In this highly engaging and interactive Masterclass as we examine:
The importance of personal brand in achieving your career goals
What your personal brand is and how to change it
The different ways of communicating your brand to others
Dressing for success - how to use your clothes to improve your credibility
Emilie came to talk to us about Personal Branding for our LEAD network opening masterclass. Emilie made everyone feel at ease and opened up the room to collaboration. She had
us all hooked with her compelling facts and audience empathy. I have had lots of requests to bring her back for more talks and to do the same for other locations.
— Letizia Pepe, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Speaking Engagements: Growth Mindset
Having a growth mindset is a key indicator in career success, longevity and resilience in the face of challenges and stress, and yet most people don’t know if they have a Growth Mindset or how they can grow their mindset muscle. Drawing on my own journey from anxious graduate to a confident leader I break down the simple processes to adopt and continuously develop a growth mindset to achieve career success and live your best life.
Bringing a holistic approach, I also incorporate the latest research on brain health and performance to keep your brain young and performing at its best.
What does the talk cover?
What makes up a Growth Mindset and how to build your Growth Mindset Muscle
How to develop resilience in a gentle and manageable way
How to embrace challenge to achieve a more positive outcome
The essential foods to include in your diet to optimise brain health and slow down mental ageing
How building new neural connections can improve your memory and brain power
Simple practical exercises you can take to retrain your brain and reverse the ageing process
Drawing from my own journey from anxious graduate to a confident leader, I break down the simple processes to adopt and develop to achieve career success and live your best life
— Emilie West
Speaking Engagements: Leadership
I understand what it takes to be a leader and how individuals can tap into their own leadership style. My leadership engagements include:
Brand You: How to brand yourself as a leader
Your personal brand is all about who you are and what you have to offer. Just like a business, if you want people to buy into you or your ideas, you need to actively manage your personal brand. Join us in this highly engaging and interactive workshop as we learn what makes up your personal brand.
Communicating with Confidence
To be an effective leader you must be able to communicate confidently, persuasively and sometimes in front of a large audience. So many people who are great at their day jobs undersell themselves through their communication. In this masterclass, I unpick how to speak with confidence to any audience, any time and positively influence your audience, whoever they are.
Authentic leadership: How to lead authentically from your own values
Nowadays, Leadership is no longer about copying your bosses leadership style, which was a copy of their boss before them. Instead we are expected to bring our authentic selves to work and develop our own leadership style. In this workshop we will walk through what this means in practice and how to use your individual skills and traits to be an effective and authentic leader.
Emotional Intelligence: The secret ingredient to unlocking performance
Emotional Intelligence is a set of emotional and social skills that collectively determine how we perceive and express ourselves. Emotional intelligence has been proven to be a key indicator of human performance and development and is the secret to playing to your strengths and getting the best out of your team. In this workshop we will breakdown the key composites of Emotional Intelligence, help you identify your blind spots and how to develop your Emotional Intelligence to become a more effective leader.
The Resilient Leader: How to Thrive in a high-performance environment
Being a senior leader can be highly rewarding, however it comes with significant challenges in terms of people management, strategic thinking and resilience. In this workshop you will learn how to develop a Growth Mindset to adapt and learn from the challenges you face, as well as building your own Resilience Toolkit to thrive as a leader in a high-performance environment.
Meet Emilie West
Recognised in the Brummel’s ‘Ones to Watch, Top 30 under 40’ city list, Emilie has coached over 200 clients in the banking, legal and service sectors. Before launching Alchemy Coaching in London, Emilie worked for over 14 years in Investment Banking, including senior roles at RBS. Emilie holds a degree in Economics from Warwick University, is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and an accredited Emotional Intelligence Coach for Multi Health Systems EQi assessments.