Connect Your Team.
Improve Communication.
Increase Productivity.
Workshops, keynotes, facilitation, and coaching designs to move you into action.
CORE FOUR: A VALUES GAME
- Immediately applicable
- No prep required
- Immediate action without a to-do list
- Self-awareness - understand your unique contributions to a group
- A fun challenge: becoming truly self aware of your values
Why am I so upset when people are late to a meeting or slow to make a decision?
Why is my colleague distant when we propose a change in plans?
Core Four is a simple, fun, and immediately applicable card game. Each individual will challenge themselves to identify their core values. In one hour your team will have an understanding of themselves, what makes them tick and what keeps them motivated.
No follow up needed. Your team will unsolicitedly discuss this game and their values in their personal and professional lives.
BRIDGING THE GENERATION GAP
- Interactive workshop
- Actionable takeaways
- Historical overview and context
- Tailored for your team
Understand and respect the differences amongst the generations. Learn the genesis of each generation and why growing up in a specific decade determines how we think, act, and work.
Create mutual respect as each generation's input and experiences are critical to a high performing team. Learn how to capitalize on these differences and leverage each other’s strengths.
Remove assumptions and uncover everything from communication styles, stereotypes, and what’s next for Generation Alpha. Developing a greater understanding of your team will bridge the generation gap, increase respect, and as result, productivity in the workplace.
ONE-ON-ONE COACHING
Reflection and communication is crucial to growth and fulfillment.
- Find your “why”
- Get unstuck
- Maximize productivity
- Retain employees
Our Differentiator
We are results-focused, interactive, and tailored to the needs of our clients. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to development so we take the time to set individualized plans with each of our clients which includes data-driven follow-up meetings, access to resources, and actionable plans for your continued growth and success.
We don't believe in "one and done" facilitation.
About Us
Director and Founder Kate Hickey, M.Ed. is an Amazon best-selling author of the book "Have Fun, Be Safe, I Love You" a guide to life and happiness beyond high school. She's worked in corporate facilitation for brands like Unilever and L'Oreal and she's in her 11th year as a high school educator.
She spent 5 years in Spain and her family was featured on "House Hunters International".
Hickey's passion is for empowering and inspiring. Action Academy is founded on the idea that we need only action, not perfection, to live a fulfilled and successful life.
Testimonials
I had the pleasure of working with Kate in preparation for her TEDxOldHickory talk and was blown away by her message. I walked away thinking, "every student deserves a teacher like her and every educator needs to hear this talk!"
What stands out most about Kate is her ability to provides tactical solutions to problems that seem overwhelming. While her talk was from a teacher's perspective, the same mentality to observe, relate, analyze, and act could be applied to any organization, making her a true value to teams and leaders everywhere.
Reggie D. Ford
RoseCrete Wellness Company
Best Selling Author
It was an absolute joy to work with Kate at Symbia; she is an example to follow; positive, flexible and super talented at facilitating. I´ve reported to Kate for the last year; she is an example to follow; professionally she is always willing go the extra mile and help employers, clients and other professional contributors.
Thanks so much Kate for your hard work, for your daily motivation and for your personal advice.
Facilitator
I had the pleasure of working with Kate in preparation for her TEDxOldHickory talk and was blown away by her message. I walked away thinking, "every student deserves a teacher like her and every educator needs to hear this talk!"
What stands out most about Kate is her ability to provides tactical solutions to problems that seem overwhelming. While her talk was from a teacher's perspective, the same mentality to observe, relate, analyze, and act could be applied to any organization, making her a true value to teams and leaders everywhere.
John Woerner
Owner/CEO J Squared Systems
Kate is an amazing person and professional! I'm proud to work with her at Symbia, she is a real leader and a charming personality. She's also an outstanding facilitator, sessions that she delivers are one of my favorites (though my task is to assist her technically, I just can't help but taking notes of what she's telling 😁). She's really good at interacting with participants, she always gets the highest scores in participants feedback, her content is really engaging and people have a lot to learn from Kate. It's a pleasure and an honor to work together.
Project Coordinator
Brad Goodwin
Co-Founder, Malcontent Marketing
Kate is an absolutely powerful presence in any setting she enters. This translates very well to her masterful speaking ability on stage where she delivers a graceful yet powerfully moving presentation in a way that inspires the audience to engage without distraction, and brings back a sense of gratitude and respect to her ability to command the stage, the classroom, and the written word.
Ben Collier
Vice President/Commercial Lender
