Dr. Kyla L. Tennin | Inspirational and Motivational Adversity Speaker

Dr. K is a survivor of homelessness, domestic violence, and familial abuse while gaining academic degrees and building global corporations as a way out of and to overcome adversity, including economic recessions. This talk is positioned to empower attendees and then with professional stories, strategies, and resources on how to progress, launch businesses, overcome challenges, and drive career growth and companies forward, including the DURING COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Outcomes -
1.  How to establish your entrepreneurial (gig-economy) niche. A variety of resources are provided. Some of the resources are also "hands-on" (e.g. includes niche quizzes; bring a pen and paper to take notes).
2. How to develop products and services, set pricing, and quickly get up and running to accept payments from customers. (e.g. a piece of content taken from my "The Business Success Journal" workbook).
3. Best practices for working remotely via entrepreneurial work (e.g. your own business).

Perfect for Corporate/Association, College/University, Exposition, Conference, Women's Events, and Summits focused on Business, Entrepreneurship, Change Management, Poverty, Personal Finance, Overcoming Adversity, Religion/Spirituality, Faith-Based, Panels, Turnaround Stories, Relationships & Family, Careers, Goal Setting, Women Today

This session/talk is 45 minutes, but can take up to 1.5 hours and is presented in story style format then lecture.  The talk is based on how I survived homelessness for years.

Dr. Kyla L. Tennin, DM, MBA is a renowned international inspirational and motivational speaker. Her overcoming adversity story by using resilience is a story of courage and how she survived excruciating circumstances. Not for days, weeks, months, or one or two years, but for a decade, without relief of adverse pressure.

Her story is about how she not only overcame adversities wrapped into one large adverse circumstance, but how she advanced while going through intense emotional, spiritual, and physical abuse. Physical due to limitations on being able to eat and practically living in winter weather in her car, which she discusses in detail.

Dr. Kyla L. Tennin

Dr. Kyla has been speaking professionally for several years to tell her story, but began speaking voluntarily for audiences in 2008 “while in” her crises. Starting with local churches, nonprofit organizations, and two universities, including a local nonprofit who had an internal speaker’s bureau. Later realizing her story, even coupled with her professional background skills, talents, and abilities, and later a doctorate degree, applies to corporations and nations, not just individuals, who go through crises, adversities, unprecedented times and need to recover.

Dr. Kyla has addressed international audiences in countries like the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Her aim to “teach people and organizations how to not wait to follow their dreams and accomplish things now because timing will never be perfect and how to not let people or situations rob you of peace, joy, happiness, opportunities, and even your NEXT in life and/or business” led to overwhelming response throughout nations and to the development of her “Inner Peace Model™”. A model she developed as a resilience strategy to survive her crises. Nonprofits and even youth organizations with chapters throughout various counties began to locate Dr. Kyla on social media, asking her to speak and develop trainings and certification programs. Audiences soon began to span schools/ schoolteachers, professors, police station employees who work with policemen and women, hospitality leaders, universities business schools, entrepreneurship centers and women’s departments, political leaders, 1^st Woman Presidents of various nations, and major businessmen and women.

Dr. Kyla L. Tennin

Prayer, perseverance to succeed, and a positive outlook on life (P3) allowed her to advance to her next level in life and transform a painful experience, with enough content for several books and a major motion picture, into something great and global. Although tempting to be embarrassed or ashamed, Dr. Kyla purposefully looked at opposition as an opportunity for advancement. Her refusal to be a victim because of what she experienced continues to inspire and motivate people, organizations, and employees all over the world.

In November 2009, Dr. Kyla’s severe familial abuse and homelessness journey began when she lost everything she owed due to an economic recession. In the face of adversity and people abusing her using various strategies to try to stop her from advancing because of her potential for greatness, she became a doctor with no formal mailing address. She also secretly built global corporations while sleeping in a borrowed old car, getting ready for the day at gas stations and retail stores, surviving winter weather, working in “coffee shops”, and sometimes fast food restaurants as her "office" for the day, and developing patents and other intellectual properties she was unaware she had, triumphing anyway.

“No matter the situation, do not let external calamities get on the inside of you to control you…” Audiences of both men and women sit in awe as Dr. Kyla speaks about how she triumphed while in adversity. Her message teaches the importance of continuing to advance in life, while in adversity, so you don’t lose access to time and opportunities to succeed at things or follow your dreams because timing to accomplish things will never be perfect.

Dr. Kyla is renowned for delivering action-based messaging that integrates resilience, empowerment, and even entrepreneurship as a vehicle for personal and professional advancement and is now teaching others how to do the same.

Learning Outcomes -
1. The first half of the talk is served in "story" format.
2. The second half is a presentation of strategies on how to overcome for the specific topic; personal strategies applied to survive and thrive. For example, key audience take-aways of:

• Why wait? Follow your dreams NOW. Doors, once in a lifetime opportunities, chances, times, seasons, and moments may never come around again.
• Linking personal growth and professional advancement.
• Harnessing opposition as an opportunity & adversity for advancement.
• A framework for long term success (The Inner Peace Model™).
• Perseverance to succeed and a positive outlook on life.
• BONUS: Accountability through group connection (in her coaching programs)

3. Hands-on Activity Pitch: 8-week Signature Coaching Program for Women Entrepreneurs on how I built global corporations, intellectual property, and more while in crises. A women's empowerment entrepreneurship bootcamp (mentorship program) to work with me to build their businesses, start to finish, to get up and running now, generate revenue, thrive in epidemics and pandemics, setup governance paperwork and more to protect what they build, and get to their next level in life.

Perfect for Corporate/Association, College/University, Exposition, Conference, and Summits focused on Business, Entrepreneurship, Change Management, Poverty, Personal Finance, Overcoming Adversity, Religion/Spirituality, Faith-Based, Panels, Turnaround Stories, Relationships & Family, Careers, Goal Setting, Women Today

This session/talk is 45 minutes, but can take up to 1.5 hours, presented in presentation style format. Dr. Kyla discusses various times and seasons in her life where she experienced personal and professional adversities, over 15 years, non-stop and she overcame. Resilience was key. Additionally, she developed an "Inner Peace Model" framework to survive and now shares its components with organizations globally. Attendees of past conferences, events, workshops, keynotes, and training's of Dr. Kyla were psychologists, nonprofit organizational leaders, school teachers, parents, university students, and even police officers.

**Note: This keynote can be used as a workshop or training, which it has been done for in the past, parts of the talk. For example, a customized training was crafted and completed for the CEO of Global Peace Institute, HQ London for attendees from Europe, the Middle East, and USA.

Learning Outcomes -

1. What does resilience mean?
2. Qualities of resilient people and how they tap into resilience during adversity.
3. Features of resilience.
4. Features of a resilient mindset.
5. Why self-efficacy, social connections, laughter, physical health, and other factors contribute to [support] the ability to be resilient.

6. Reframing situations strategies.
7. An example of internal peace during external chaos vs. internal chaos while in external peaceful environments.
8. Employee Assistance Providers (EAPs).

9. Seminal and current peer-reviewed research.
10. How to practice resilience when not in a crisis or challenge, to prepare for crises, adversity, violence, or challenges.
11. Resilience myths.
12. Personal stories of severe adversities for years. For example, domestic violence, familial abuse, corporate betrayals, friendship betrayals, homelessness, and developing an extremely strategic personality.

1. What does resilience mean?
2. Qualities of resilient people and how they tap into resilience during adversity.
3. Features of resilience.
4. Features of a resilient mindset.
5. Why self-efficacy, social connections, laughter, physical health, and other factors contribute to [support] the ability to be resilient.

6. Reframing situations strategies.
7. An example of internal peace during external chaos vs. internal chaos while in external peaceful environments.
8. Employee Assistance Providers (EAPs).

9. Seminal and current peer-reviewed research.
10. How to practice resilience when not in a crisis or challenge, to prepare for crises, adversity, violence, or challenges.
11. Resilience myths.
12. Personal stories of severe adversities for years. For example, domestic violence, familial abuse, corporate betrayals, friendship betrayals, homelessness, and developing an extremely strategic personality.

Perfect for Corporate/Association Women's Events, Senior Management Groups, Entrepreneurs, Chambers of Commerce, Conference, and Summits focused on Business, Entrepreneurship, Change Management, Organizational Development, Leadership, Workforce Effectiveness, Overcoming Obstacles