About Us: Developing Young Adult + Teen Leadership
Confidence affects everything.
Participants leave with tools to instantly radiate a confident, solid, vibrant presence – despite fear or circumstance – whenever they need it. They’ll use these tools for the rest of their life. We love empowering young adults and developing teen leadership.
What We Believe
We’re committed to developing teen leadership. True confidence can help guard against they symptoms of low-self esteem in youth.
Early learning is key: by teaching these tools to youth before their defenses set in, we have the best chances of creating happy people and a healthy world.
Everyone deserves to look and feel confident.
We’re social animals, and we all experience relief when (1) we know how to present ourselves with confidence and (2) we can stop worrying about how others perceive us.
DOORS OPEN to those who know how to present a confident and credible image. It’s not always the best, the brightest, and the most deserved who are chosen for key opportunities: it’s those who know how to present as ‘the cream of the crop’. This youth training program will teach your kids how.
These simple tools can change a life – and are truly a gift that keeps on giving.
- Developing teen leadership helps our world – and prepares teens for adulthood.
History
Both Co-Founders (profiles below) have years of experience guiding both typical and special-needs youth in community and clinical environments.
About 15 years ago, the CoFounders created the first version of this self-confidence workshop and offered portions to their private clients. Later, and in her role as Clinical Faculty in the School of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco), CoFounder Sioux Messinger offered a version of this course to her medical students. While brilliant, many of these medical students lacked the skills to “pop” outside of themselves and share their gifts in a connected and radiant way. As a result, many were being passed over for the best residency positions and felt stalled early in their careers. Sioux found that just by teaching these students tools-of-the-trade for presenting with confidence, her students reported feeling as confident as they were “pretending” to be. Of course, exciting new research suggests that power-confidence can be learned, and has extraordinary benefits including: boosted optimism, better decision-making, improved self-regulation, increased likelihood of approaching the challenges inherent in all worthy goals – and enhanced performance. The adult version of this power and confidence workshop, The Executive Presence Training has been Voted Top Leadership partner – Globally – by HR.com, is top-rated by participants, and is offered worldwide.
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About the Founders & Lead Instructors
Sioux Messinger has worked extensively with healthy adolescents and young adults, as well those in clinical residential, in-patient and outdoor educational environments. In addition, Sioux has taught young adult students in undergraduate and graduate level courses.
Sioux was Clinical Faculty in the School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco. Previously, Sioux provided group facilitation at Stanford University and more.
Sioux has over 25 years experience developing some of the world’s finest transformational leadership curriculum and has taught power and confidence in schools and universities to leaders from Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, Assurant, JP Morgan Chase, Lockheed Martin and more. But what really sets Sioux apart is this: Her uncanny ability to see in youth what they don’t yet see in themselves, and her positive, caring determination to help youth realize their hidden potential.
Dan Messinger’s early career included extensive work with building confidence with teens through youth and non-profit organizations and education non-profit organizations. Committed to youth, Dan has coached youth sports for many years (and continues to do so) with an emphasis on team-building and character development.
For twenty years, Dan Messinger has spearheaded award-winning training and organizational development initiatives for the world’s top company leaders.
Formerly VP of Learning & Development for a $5 Billion public company, Dan’s ground-breaking leadership and executive development initiatives paved the way for massive positive cultural change and documented company growth.
Fortune magazine noted Dan’s ground-breaking training contributions as one of only three factors that propelled Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants to achieve Fortune’s esteemed 100 Best Places to Work designation.
Dan brings these same power and confidence skills to youth and is committed to helping youth look and feel their rightful best.