Cherylanne Skolnicki

Personal Details

Bio

Cherylanne Skolnicki is an authority on work-life balance, finding your purpose, and achieving your full potential.

She delivers dynamic keynotes and engaging workshops for companies, conferences and organizations who are committed to helping women reach their full potential at work and at home.

By all accounts, she is exceptional on stage, smart, poised, eloquent, warm and funny. Her speaking topics appeal to employees, entrepreneurs, and parents alike.

She takes care to understand the unique composition and needs of her varied audiences, and she balances the well-researched information she shares with real-world pragmatism and relatable personal examples.

Cherylanne is the founder of The Brilliant Balance Company, a personal development brand that prepares women to step into their full potential - at work, at home and as thriving human beings.

She hosts the top-rated Brilliant Balance podcast that is followed by thousands and has coached hundreds of women through three distinctive coaching programs designed to help women navigate key inflection points in their lives with confidence and grace.

Her speaking clients have included Procter & Gamble, Ernst & Young, GE, Emory University Goizueta Business School, Kao Brands, The E.W. Scripps Company, US Bank, Fifth Third Bank, The Nielsen Company, Phillips Edison, Midwest Financial Group, PEP Promotions, The Junior League of Cincinnati, The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Girls on the Run.

Current position (1)

Founder

The Brilliant Balance Company

Degrees (2)

Hotel Management

Cornell

1992 to 1995

Masters in Business Administration

Emory University

1996 to 1999

Presentations

Presentations (6)

Let's Be Brilliant: Leveraging Power, Productivity and Possibility to Reach Your Full Potential

Cherylanne believes every woman can reach her full potential once she’s equipped to remove the things standing in her way. The three keys she reveals in this talk address the blocks most commonly preventing us from achieving our biggest dreams.

Cherylanne will challenge our cultural norms around success as working women and and invite you to get clear about what it will take for you to step into a life of significance and meaning.

Attendees will learn:

* Why our cultural narrative around success is outdated and needs to be rewritten

* How the duality implied by “work life balance” stops short of answering our need

* Why our cultural addiction to being busy is the single greatest detriment to our joy

* How fear blocks us from the lives we deserve

* The 3 keys we must grasp to unlock our highest potential

* How we can reimagine our lives with these 3 keys in hand

* How shaping a legacy of brilliance can keep us on track in the day to day

Winning the Modern Mom Trifecta (Work, Family, Self)

In life, there are three arenas in which all high achieving women feel compelled to compete, and it’s never enough to be good at just one of them. We hold ourselves to a high standard – we want to excel in ALL of them, and more often than not, this becomes a frustrating game of whack-a-mole.

I will break down the Modern Mom Trifecta and show you a way to balance these seemingly competing priorities to create a dynamic sense of stability and fulfillment.

Attendees will learn:

--The ‘trifecta’ for high achieving modern moms
--Chasing the traditional version of success and why it could be holding you back
--Striking a healthy balance between business and family
--Self-Care: Why YOU should always come first

Building a Balanced Business (Without Breaking Your Life)

Many women are drawn to the idea of entrepreneurship because they want the flexibility it provides.

Being able to work when you want, where you want, and with whom you want is extremely attractive. Your dream is to have a business that can grow to the size and scale you imagine without breaking your life in the process. But if you’re not careful about how you design your business at the start, you can find yourself worse off than you were back in your corporate job. I’ll share what it takes to design a balanced business.

Attendees will learn:

--An expansive question to help guide your life beyond just your business
--Why managing your energy and time is the key to maximum productivity
--How to decide which business model to choose when starting out
--How to get more focused on what you’re great at
--Training yourself to let go of work and hiring easily capable people
--Getting out of your own way to get ahead

Finding Your Way to a Future You Love - Because Success without Fulfillment is Failure

Have you ever felt like your light has been dimmed by the never-ending demands of your work and home life? That just won't do; to make an impact, you need to shine brightly instead of feeling frustrated, depleted and exhausted.

In this keynote address, Cherylanne Skolnicki will reveal her journey from success to fulfillment. This talk will challenge your definition of success and to get clear about what it will take to step into a life of significance. You’ll learn how to refocus your time on what matters to you the most and start moving with purpose in the direction of your dreams.

Attendees will learn:

-The three essential practices modern working women need to feel in balance
-How our cultural definition of success leverages fear to steer us away from these practices
-Why our addiction to being busy is the single greatest detriment to our happiness
-How we can gracefully reimagine our lives with these practices at the center
-What we can expect to experience when we do

Getting to Gratitude: How to Find and Keep the Mindset That Will Change Your Life

While most of us know we have a lot to be thankful for, it's all to easy to lose sight of it in our "more is more" culture. In this talk, we'll explore how you can ground yourself in gratitude while still striving for what's next. In fact, doing so paradoxically makes it far more likely that you'll actually get there! We close this talk with an exercise that's so powerful, people are usually still talking about months later...

Attendees will learn:

--How our cultural addiction to MORE gets in the way of gratitude
--How you can be both grateful AND ambitious without feeling conflicted
--The proven mental, physical and emotional benefits of gratitude
--Strategies for cultivating a gratitude practice of their own

Finding Your Guide: Mentorship for the Modern Workplace

Mentorship can sometimes sound like an antiquated idea, but in truth, it can greatly accelerate our professional and personal growth if we embrace it.

This talk is designed to encourage attendees to both seek out and serve as mentors based on their life and work experience and ambitions. In the end, when we build a culture in which everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student, we all move forward faster!

Attendees will learn:

--Why mentorship still matters in our modern culture
--The difference between organic mentors, paid mentors, and curriculum based mentors
--Why you likely need more than one mentor
--How to find a mentor when you need one
--How to be a fabulous mentee people will want to help
--How to be a generous mentor who is both valued and fulfilled
--How to know if a mentorship relationship is working and what to do when it’s not