Kendel is on a mission to empower women to find their strength and live the life they deserve. As a certified life and career coach, Kendel empowers women to boldly look at their fears, name them, and avoid letting them control their future success.

As a past client of Karen Laos, Kendel shares how she learned to communicate effectively and speak up with boldness. She also explains her own journey of growing up in a male-dominated military family and how she came to find her own voice. Listen and be inspired to step out and speak up in all circumstances.

Tangible Takeaways:

• People can’t read your mind!! Learn how to effectively communicate in order to express what you need.
• Communicate with intention: be clear on WHAT you want to say and HOW you want to say it.
• Avoid waiting for the perfect moment to speak up: instead, create your moment.
• When speaking, imagine you’re having a coffee with a friend! That’s how you want to communicate.
• Resist the urge to speak quickly to get it over with: pause instead! 
• Don’t do this alone. Find your tribe to journey with you.
• Be willing to be rejected so you can be accepted.

About Kendel:

Kendel Paulsen is a Certified Life and Career coach and speaker. She helps women at all stages of life and career to define success on their own terms, discover their life’s purpose, and to lead a life with vision and strategy. With more than 30 years of experience in corporate, non-profit, and Kendel brings a wealth of practical knowledge to his/her coaching work. 

Kendel received her BA degree from the University of Mary Washington and her MA from University of Phoenix. Kendel earned her Board-Certified Coach (BCC) certification from the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE) and her Associate Coaching Certification (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She also holds a certification in Career Development Coaching Services (CDCS) from the Institute for Life Coach Training.

Kendel lives in Northern Virginia with her husband of 30 years, and she is the mother of 3 adult children. When Kendel is not working, you can find her hiking or planning for a visit to her children. Kendel can be reached at [email protected] or www.kendelpaulsen.com.

Connect with Kendel:

Website: www.kendelpaulsen.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kendel-paulsen  

About me:
Karen Laos is a keynote speaker and leadership coach equipping women to stand out with unshakable confidence. She specializes in communication: executive presence and compelling messages. Karen champions female business leaders to own their value and find their voice so they can be seen and heard. She also works with teams to create cultures of trust and function at their best.

Karen has coached leaders at Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, Sephora, Sony, Microsoft, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Trip Advisor, Bacardi, Levi, and more. Karen’s style is fun, encouraging and results-oriented. She immediately moves past the “fluff” and gets straight to the issue (just ask her clients).

Connect with me:
Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosconsulting

Facebook: Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karenlaosconsulting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlaos/

Clubhouse: @karenlaos

Episodes also available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos

Karen Laos, Communication Expert and Confidence Cultivator, leverages 25 years in the boardroom and speaking on the world’s most coveted stages such as Google and NASA to transform missed opportunities into wins. She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond. She guides corporations and individuals with her tested communication model to generate consistent results through her Powerful Presence Keynote: How to Be an Influential Communicator.

Want to see how you score as a confident communicator? 

Take The Confidence Cocktail Assessment: https://karenlaos.com/confidence-cocktail-fb/

Get my free tips: 9 Words to Avoid & What to Say Instead: https://karenlaos.lpages.co/words-to-avoid/

Connect with me:

Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosofficial 

Facebook: Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karenlaosconsulting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlaos/

Episodes also available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos

My book “Trust Your Own Voice”: 

https://karenlaos.com/book/