Keynote
Below is the keynote from the 2025 Winter Symposium that took place January 23-24, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA.
Friday, January 24 | Proactive Accountability: Enhancing Responsibility Without Eroding Empathy
Presented by Dr. Liane Davey
Represented by Speakers Spotlight
Area of Interest: Personal Growth and Professional Development
Recent upheavals, including the pandemic and the great resignation, shifted the power balance in manager-employee relationships. Now, managers know they need to boost results, but worry they have to trade off productivity in service of being compassionate. It’s time for a reset. We need a new era of greater personal accountability within your team, but you can’t afford an overcorrection that risks creating a toxic workplace. The secret is helping leaders understand that accountability and empathy aren’t mutually exclusive.
In this session, audiences will learn practical techniques to increase accountability and drive results in a psychologically safe way. You’ll discover new ways to position members of your team for success, how your attitudes, choices, and behaviors are affecting the dynamic of your team and more.
About Liane Davey
Known as the “teamwork doctor,” Liane Davey knows how to create high performing teams. Having worked with businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, from across the globe helping teams from the frontlines to the boardroom, she has developed a unique perspective on the challenges that teams face — and how to solve them. Her mission is to transform the way people communicate, connect and contribute. Using her expertise in strategy and group dynamics, she delivers the perfect combination of education and entertainment that leaders and teams need to make an immediate impact on their organizations.
New York Times bestselling author of "You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along and Get Stuff Done," Liane has worked with a variety of renowned businesses including Amazon, Walmart, TD Bank, RBC, Bayer, KPMG, Aviva, Maple Leaf Foods and SONY Interactive Entertainment.
She is also a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and is sought after by media outlets, including CNN, NPR, USA Today, The Globe & Mail and Forbes for her expertise on increasing productivity, enhancing engagement, developing leaders and as one client put it, “dealing with the damn drama!”
Liane has a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo. She is also a passionate advocate for mental health and served for 12 years on the board of governors of Strong Minds, Strong Kids.