It's All About Engagement

Your employees are the lifeline to your business.

Without employee engagement, your success suffers.

You’ve spent time selecting the right people. You’ve invested both money and energy into your staff.

Now it’s time to invest in their future, your future.

About the Speaker

Kari Schwear is a 7-x career path conqueror, turned professional Executive Coach, Speaker, and Corporate Trainer. She also co-authored the #1 Bestselling book, The Successful Mind, Tools for Living a Purposeful, Productive, and Happy Life, published in 2020.

Kari’s professional career spans from hospitality to banking, business development to real estate, the medical field, and the luxury automotive brand, Porsche. 

Kari started GrayTonic and the Question the Drink® movement in 2018 after her own experience led her to the service of others. She specializes in the gray areas of life, and is certified and trained in: Neuro Linguistic Programming, Motivational Interviewing, Life Coaching, and several trauma courses through the NICABM. Kari is also an active member of the National Speakers Association in Virginia.

She resides in Richmond, VA with her husband of three decades, her very spoiled rescue Pitbull mix pup, and her 13 yr. old Persian kitty that rules the house. Kari is also the proud Momma of two grown sons that she adores dearly.

Services Offered:

Workshops

Workshops are my specialty and carefully crafted for each specific audience.
The primary focus is to energize, uplift and strengthen teams through interactive breakout sessions and activities. Participants will leave with actionable takeaways and a renewed sense of direction.
Workshop sessions range from 60 minutes to 4 hours.

Seminars

Excited for you to attend one of my motivating seminars! Topics include:

How to Turn Imposter Syndrome into Fuel
How to Stop Settling for Average and Start Thriving
Supercharge Your Life to Win!

Lunch and Learns

Crunched for time? A Lunch-n-Learn is the perfect choice.
In as little as 30 minutes, your team will take away key strategies that will keep them energized and inspired throughout their day. This equals activation!

Keynote Speaking

Hire me for your next keynote speaking position. Let's address the many gray areas we all have in life where we are running on half empty and settling for mediocrity.
Favorites include:

Attack Your Day Like a Ninja
Goodbye Exhaustion and Burnout - Hello Productivity and Positivity!
Supercharge Your Performance, Profits and Engagement
Living in Full Color with Excitement

How can we help?

GrayTonic’s Methodology includes:

High Performance habits that stick
Focused Employee Engagement (FEE)
DECIDE Program – designed to create action with implementation
Discovering Limiting Beliefs with Redirection
Learning the Power of Clarity – Crystal Clear Vision
Implementing Empowering Decisions that are GAME changing
The SABER Method – an effective tool to move from protective-negative thinking to expansive thinking.
Breathwork exercises
Power of Meditation – How just 5 minutes of meditation can produce hours of quality work.
Visualization for Professionals
Importance of Grounding – staying present
Setting Boundaries and Containers
Organization of Surroundings
Self-Care and Self-Appreciation Exercises
Question the Drink – A program designed to disrupt habitual patterns.

*We can build customized employee wellness training programs together to meet your needs.

As a Certified Guide with GiANT Worldwide, Kari also offers workshops specifically for teams and business owners regarding leadership and team building. Kari will lead by using the following:

The 5 Voices

Altitude Training

The Peace Index Training

Testimonials

-Alex Murdock with BC Wood Products, Richmond, VA

Kari Schwear was our speaker at the annual retreat for our CEO forum in October of 2021. She had a tough job ahead of her because she was walking into a room of established CEOs and business owners and had to make an impression in just a short amount of time. She did that amazingly well. Kari was able to break down everybody’s barriers and was able to connect with the room immediately. She came off extremely relatable and made quite the impression on the group.

Our group meetsonce a month, and we are still talking about her today! She equipped us with tools that we even talked about during our follow up sessions that we’re still all applying and using in our day to day lives. I would highly recommend Kari Schwear going forward. And if you nail down a date, you’re lucky to have her!

Alex Murdock

BC Wood Products

Mark Smith

I’m a member of the Virginia Council of CEOs Forum D. We have an annual retreat, and for our retreat in the summer of 2021, our guest speaker was Kari Schwear. Kari came in well prepared with some really creative content. Some very interactive programs, very engaging ideas. The feedback afterwards was great! She had everybody in our forum talking about her content for months.

I certainly anticipate inviting her back for round two for our forum retreat later this year. I cannot say enough about how engaging, dynamic and how familiar with a topic she is. I highly recommend her and would put her anyplace, anytime.

Mark Smith

Midas of Richmond

Bob Clark

“Anytime you are still chewing on what was discussed several days ago, it was time well spent. Really enjoyed our time with you!”

Bob Clark

Workshop Participant

Dale Fickett

Kari provides an insightful overview of alcohol abuse and its implications in the workplace. Her personal passion and deep expertise are compelling.

Dale Fickett

President & Co-Founder of RVA Works

James Grevas

Kari went the extra mile to join in on all of the extra events we held for the weekend of her workshops. She connected with audience members before and after each workshop. Meeting them at these additional places were important to them. Her authentic message, combined with the genuine connections she made with individuals, made a great impact. Our attendees needed her.

James Grevas

Actio Marketing for Choice Hotels Owners Council