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STEP UP

How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader

In Step Up, Ash Beckham presents eight pillars to become an everyday leader—Empathy, Responsibility, Courage, Grace, Individuality, Humility, Patience, and Authenticity. For each pillar, she shares engaging stories of her own journey from isolation and anger to a place of greater openness and connection. She then provides eye-opening research on what it takes to build these essential qualities, coupled with practices to mindfully change the way you relate to yourself and the people in your life.

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  • Lockheed Martin logo
    Ash’s session was amazing!

    Exactly what we were hoping for when we reached out to you. She was engaging, tailored a bit to the brainy Lockheed crowd, and did a lot of chatting with attendees at lunch. We were so thrilled to have her as part of our event.

    Gretchen Peacock, Senior Manager of Collaboration in Corporate Engineering and Program Operations, ​Lockheed Martin

  • Micrtosoft Windows logo
    We’ve had great feedback from our customers!

    They thoroughly enjoyed her talk and found it inspiring. Thank you!

    Elizabeth Loveday, Corporate Marketing PM, Microsoft

  • GameStop logo
    Everyone was better for it!

    When it comes to addressing the things that matter most to any company’s diversity and inclusion efforts, adding an Ash Beckham TED Talk video is not just an effective supplement to your core message. Ash Beckham’s words are your core message that you can then build a workshop or presentation around. Ash beautifully arranged these separate stories to drive and support each major point she was making as her slides progressed. Even better, Ash did all this without sacrificing any of her authenticity. We trusted her and she trusted us.

    Erik Henriksen, Director of Compensation and Benefits, GameStop

  • RO initials logo
    It was a smashing success!

    Ash truly did such an amazing job and her presentation really resonated with so many people, even folks I thought would be a bit resistant! She came to our social event on Tuesday night and I introduced her around to some of our leadership and employees posted around the world – the next day in her presentation she threw in so many little details she’d gleaned from conversations the night before. This showed to so many that she made an effort to understand the organization and our people and framed her presentation in a way that connected to the audience. She also sat through quite a few of the morning presentations (to include a very detailed and legal heavy hour-long presentation) – again showing she really wanted to get to know the organization. I had many participants and quite a few of our leadership come up to me after the event to tell me they were so grateful I was able to book Ash for this. We hope to have her come back for the next leadership forum in two years!

    Rachelle Olinger, Staff Assistant

Manifesto  |  Why is Inclusive Leadership so important?

Because the power to change the world is in all of us.
Because ally is a verb, not a noun.
Because leadership is a mindset not a job title.
Because inclusion is a feeling not a data point.
Because everyone has a story.
Because if we can’t laugh we won’t grow.
Because you don’t have to be one of to stand with.

Ash Beckham - Become an Everyday Leader

Meet Ash Beckham

Ash Beckham is a bold, dynamic presenter who speaks about empathy, respect and the power of having real conversations. Online videos of herTEDx talks “Coming Out of Your Closet” and "Owning Your Duality" and her Boulder Ignite speech “I am SO GAY” have gone viral with more than 15 million YouTube views. Ash Beckham reaches people every day as her inspiring speeches are experienced in classrooms, boardrooms and auditoriums around the world.

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