Megan Korns Russell.
Megan Korns Russell
A visionary driver across strategic planning and marketing communications,
and a motivational speaker
and consultant for leaders at all levels.
Through 20+ years of global work across a variety of disrupted organizations, Megan brings a unique edge to inspire teams across corporate, nonprofit, and higher education sectors.
Let Megan help you break free from discontent and complaints-- and move toward empowerment-- through actionable plans that drive change and unleash your full potential.
About Megan
Megan’s career is grounded in Hollywood entertainment technology roles at Warner Bros. and Activision, where she drove global campaigns for major brands like Batman, LEGO, Call of Duty, Space Jam, Crazy Rich Asians and The Lord of the Rings through major business disruption and change.
Megan pivoted to higher education and is Executive Director of External Relations at the Neeley School of Business and an Instructor at Texas Christian University (TCU).
In her early career, she worked in the healthcare and nonprofit industries. Megan holds an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business.
Megan's Talks
I pride myself in working with bookers to make our experience smooth as we inspire and empower your audience. Whether you’re a business, conference or college, I’d love to discuss how we can work together for your next event.
Keynote or Session:
Turning Discontent Into Empowerment
Teach Your Teams to Leverage Complaints,
and They’ll Solve Your Biggest Problems
Disruption and change are near-constant in workplaces today, and so are casual complaints and conversations about them among colleagues and customers.
We all seem to love talking about what’s not working, and why.
But what if you encouraged those conversations in your leaders and teams to shift from recurring complaints, and instead use them as a baseline to drive toward collaborative solutions and recommendations?
All the solutions to your problems are already there within your leaders and teams-- you just have to empower them to unleash the potential.
They want to know that you want to hear from them, and the discontent will flip to empowerment.
Leaders and Teams in the Audience Will Learn:
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Research behind why leaders and teams like to complain together.
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Why it’s good business to turn off the negative culture from complaints that create conflict.
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4 Steps to take so employees understand recommendations are valued and welcomed, and start confidently speaking up with a solutions-oriented mindset.
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A 4 Step formula to craft recommendations that drive for ROI-based solutions.
Workshop:
Build A Game Plan to Change the Status Quo at Work
Design Your Custom Path to Avoid a Default Future
Not many employees know how to recommend change effectively without sounding like complainers or squeaky wheels, and they end up feeling stuck and discouraged.
BUT change and disruption are near-constant requirements for continued success in today’s business landscape.
Companies desperately need valuable employee-driven recommendations from insiders who know the day-to-day good and bad.
This workshop empowers employees to consider key changes they want to see in the workplace, then teaches concrete steps to effectively drive toward desired outcomes as they influence management, peers and/ or staff from a sound, ROI-based foundation.
Employees from every level or function can design intentional recommendations and game plan steps, and will be equipped to begin advocating effectively to challenge the status quo, in order to avoid a default future that they—and their company’s leadership teams—might not like.
This actionable workshop will provide audiences with the steps on how to:
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Evaluate frameworks to consider key changes they want to see in the workplace.
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Leverage tools and metrics when recommending change to management, peers or teams – including source references for data!
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Create a written, outlined path forward for recommending change, including first steps on the journey and a set timeline for personal accountability.
Consulting | Advising | Executive Storytelling
Consulting: Megan offers consulting services for strategic planning projects around marketing operations, content strategy, business resource forecasting for marketing and communications and more. Please email mkr@mkrengage.com to book a discovery call, discuss your unique needs and receive a quote.
Advising: Megan books Advising sessions of 45 minutes up to multiple hours, or a series of sessions, at a per-session rate. Please email mkr@mkrengage.com to book.
Executive Storytelling: Through listening to your executive journey in a series of conversations, Megan can help craft your executive story for brand building, brand elevation, speaker circuit ambitions or other goals in your expert, thought-leadership journey. Please email mkr@mkrengage.com and book a discovery call to discuss your personal path and receive a quote.
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I teach frustrated leaders solid frameworks to transform complaints to change, so they can increase employee ROI and unleash maximum potential for their organizations.