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Talks on listening, leadership, and what happens when we stop performing long enough to be honest.
Most gatherings are built around information — what to know, what to do, what to implement next. These talks are built around something else.
Beth speaks to leaders, teams, and communities about deep listening: what it is, why it's so rare, and what becomes possible when people are genuinely heard. Audiences leave with language for something they've felt but couldn't name, and with a practice they can actually use — in a staff meeting, a hard conversation, a marriage, a congregation.
TopicsEach talk can be adapted in length and depth for your audience.
The Loneliness of Leadership
The higher you rise, the harder it becomes to find spaces where you can simply be human. This talk names the quiet cost of leadership and opens a conversation about what changes when leaders are given permission to stop performing and start listening — to themselves and to others.
The Art of Asking Better Questions
Most of us were taught to respond, advise, and fix. But the most transformative thing we can offer — in our teams, our families, our communities — is a well-placed question. This talk explores what it means to move from a fixer to a listener, and why that shift changes everything.
Listening Across Difference
In a world fractured by political, theological, and cultural division, deep listening may be one of the most countercultural acts available to us. Drawing from doctoral research and work with communities in conflict, this talk offers a practical and hopeful path forward.
The Practice of Listening to Yourself
We spend a lot of time looking outward for answers. But what if the most important voice in the room is the one you've been too busy to hear? This talk invites audiences to slow down long enough to listen to what is already stirring within them — with the same curiosity and compassion they would offer someone they love.
Presence Over Productivity
We live in a world that rewards doing, fixing, and moving forward. But some of the most important things — healing, connection, trust, transformation — can't be rushed. This talk is an invitation to slow down and reconsider what it actually means to show up for the people in your life.
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"Dr. Beth has a sincere heart and soul for people to become more aware of who they are and how they navigate their personal and professional lives. Beth fills any room, physical or virtual, with gracious space. At the same time, do not misunderstand her kindness as weakness as she is of clear and concise discernment in her listening and question asking skills I have experienced Beth’s teaching, question asking and discernment on the facilitation team of the Kairos University spiritual direction training. She will be a guide in your discernment and lean into “trusting the process” of making space for being people to be seen and heard as well as teams becoming community for one another."
— Susan Reese, EdD, Professor of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction / KAIROS University
Beth Broadbooks is a
Listening Professional in Sioux Falls
She holds a Doctor of Ministry, and her research examined the role of deep listening in bridging division within the Christian church. Through one-on-one sessions, cohorts, and trainings, she works with business leaders, nonprofit executives, and clergy on the practice of deep listening.