Emotional intelligence is the golden ticket for effective leadership, regardless of industry or expertise. This highly interactive session will highlight the key components of emotional intelligence, explain its relevance to effective leadership, and provide key tips on how to improve this core competency. If you're in an executive leadership position, aspiring to ascend the corporate ladder, or simply want to improve your leadership efficacy, this is one session you simply cannot afford to miss!

Participants will:

• Learn the fundamental definition of emotional intelligence
• Distinguish between IQ and EQ skill sets and their application in the workplace
• Discover key strategies for improving EQ

Karima is a leading authority on executive leadership development and organizational performance management. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed and 2019 NAACP Image Award-nominated leadership guidebook, Poised For Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan), which launched at the United States Military Academy at West Point.