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Workshops

Built for real workplace moments.

Practical sessions that turn emotional intelligence into everyday behaviours people can use in conversations, meetings, pressure moments and team relationships.

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Who this is for

When the old leadership playbook stops working.

Something has shifted in the way teams work together, and most leaders can feel it before they can name it. Distributed teams. Multiple generations in the same meeting. People who joined the business without ever meeting each other. The small, everyday moments that used to build trust in an organisation have quietly thinned out.

The specifics look different in every business. The underlying question is the same one. How do you lead people well when the conditions that used to hold a team together are no longer there?

This work is built for you if:

  • You're leading a mix of generations, locations or working styles, and what used to work no longer does.
  • You've been asked to build a more human culture, and the usual tools aren't shifting it.
  • You feel less connected to your own organisation than you did a few years ago.
  • Strong individuals keep joining the team, but they aren't becoming a strong team.
  • Engagement scores, retention or results are starting to reflect it.

This is the work Connection Intelligence™ was built for.

Also available as a keynote — or book Cara to speak at your event.

Sessions built around your team.

The Connection Lab

A practical workshop on the small moments that shape trust, visibility and belonging at work. Built around Cara's Connection Intelligence™ approach, it uses live exercises, reflection and real workplace scenarios to help people read the room, start better conversations and follow up with intention, so they're remembered, trusted and included.

  • — Read the room before you lead it
  • — Start conversations that build real connection
  • — Become memorable without performing

Emotional Intelligence for Managers & Leaders

A flagship development programme for managers who carry the weight of performance, pressure and change. Four focused live modules, self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, communication & influence, supported by coaching, an EQ diagnostic and a practical manager's toolkit. Small cohorts, in person or virtual. Next cohort launches February.

  • — Lead well under pressure
  • — Handle the conversations teams avoid
  • — Create the conditions where people thrive

Develop Workplace Emotional Culture

A hands-on, interactive session for teams who want to move past values posters and tick-box exercises, and actually shape the culture they work inside. Together the team names the emotional climate they have today and co-creates the one they want to build.

  • — Surface the culture you actually have
  • — Co-create the culture you want
  • — Turn shared insight into everyday behaviours
How it works

Engaging sessions. Lasting habits.

Every workshop is shaped around the room. No theatre, no scripts, no abstract theory.

Just practical emotional intelligence, real conversations and behaviours people can use straight away.

Work with Cara

Bring Connection Intelligence™ to your people.

Keynotes and workshops that turn everyday interactions into trust, visibility and stronger performance at work.

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