KEYNOTES
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The VAST Institute is a leadership, performance, and personal development consultancy that equips visionary leaders to leverage their true genius. Through a suite of offerings that range from bespoke coaching to online courses, we help people apply learned knowledge and deploy emotionally intelligent business practices that both enhance their professional reputations and generate profitable results.
Through our keynotes, workshops, articles, and bespoke coaching, we help people accomplish great things in all areas of life with grace, ease, and generosity. The skills and perspectives they gain allow them to dramatically reduce their stress, improve their work-life balance, and increase profit.
Contact Us to schedule a custom keynote for your next team, or group meeting or review our curated list of keynotes below.
Leadership Genius
The SME Guide to Conscious Commerce - Creating Your Best Life and World through Business. The global economy offers a unique opportunity to concurrently profit and improve the planet with proven best practices and helpful hints to get you started.
Tales of Inspiration for Professional
Woman of Influence
Learn to develop and leverage the impact of your influence throughout your professional world through inspired examples and dazzling best practices.
The Practical Optimists’ Guide to I.D.E.A.
(Inclusion Diversity Equity and Access)
Practical optimism provides elevated levels of problem solving and resiliency during times of change. This skill set, when cultivated, dramatically improves the quality of your personal and professional outcomes. Learn how to tap and remember the good, more easily, during times of cultural healing and transformation.
Legendary Talent Engagement
How to Profit from Treating People Well. As the global demand for technical and specialized talent intensifies, how do you retain top tier talent? Explore three ways to optimize the human capital under your care and provide psychological safety.
Coaching as a Healing Art and Spiritual Practice
Introduction to the VAST Institute Personal Integration Model for Physicians, Therapists, Healers and Wellbeing Specialists. This program provides a toolkit to promote authenticity, resilience, optimism, positive imagination and self-cherishment; elevating yourself and your clients to the next level of fulfillment.
Banishing the Bully Within and Beyond
Bullies are uncomfortable people. Learn to command an ingenious, respectful approach to handling negative and intimidating colleagues. Join Michelle Sherman, as she empowers you to banish the bullies in your life. Learn to identify, assess and neutralize abuse of personal power.
Spark the Illumination of
Humankindness in your Life
Peace is a verb, takes skill and can be encouraged into being. Hear how you can contribute to peace each day by making a few simple choices. Become a vital part of humankind’s ability to experience and create peace in real time, and in your world.
Embracing Intimacy
How to Conquer Our Greatest Fear. There are a steps that you can master to be close and feel safe with another human being. Many of us are unskilled in these ways. Learn a proven method that creates relationships in which you a free to learn, grow and thrive as your unique and lovable self.
Client Comments
“Have you ever had a moment of clarity that was so clear, it was astonishing?
Maybe it happens once in a blue moon, if you are lucky.
So, imagine that these moments are common, regular events.
It’s like finding gold nuggets lying on the ground, and all you have to do is pick them up. That’s what working with Vast is like.
Hunting and finding nuggets of clarity – that are truly precious, and of immeasurable value. I am pretty good at finding the right words, but Vast takes it to the next level, bringing clarity and delight with ease.
Thank you, Michelle, for all that you do. The wisdom you share, your expertise in coaching, and your giving nature. You are an outstanding human being, at the very center of the Vast Institute.
Overwhelmingly appreciative”
Bryce Matsuoka - CEO Above Cloud Cybersecurity
“Working with Michelle Sherman, founder of the Vast Institute had uncovered strengths and ‘next-time-opportunities’, I did not know I had. Gaining insights about being courageous, about trusting the process of growth and being courageous in speaking my truth, has given me clarity.
Practicing her methodology of how to assess situations, people and policies has given me confidence that influence is more powerful than control.
With clarity and confidence, I am demonstrating more creativity in my field of work, than I have in years. What differentiates VAST is that the sessions allow you to uncover your true, kind-hearted self, which is what our organizations and our world needs”.
Michelle Purnell- Hepburn - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director
Seattle Foundation
“The Vast Institute imaginative approach boosted my confidence. It helped me to redefine success on my own terms and in ways I could not have imagined on my own.
With the clarity I gained working with Vast I was able to start a successful solo practice, leaving behind the unsupportive environment of law firms.
I am forever grateful for the inspiration and fresh perspective, professionally and personally that my affiliation with Vast has afforded”.
Maggy Bailly - Bailly Law Firm
“Thank you for showing me an example of strong energy and the opportunity to translate it differently than I had before. You helped me to dislodge fear that was previously attached to strong energy. You were an Integral part in my understanding of stronger energy and how not to be afraid of it. A very important and beautiful part and I am grateful to you for this.
I see you, you are beautiful and thank you for what you have done and what you continue to do consciously and unconsciously to help the light. Keep singing sister, keep singing the song of love.
Sing it sister!”
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Tami Bensen - Intuitive Artist
"I can tell you that wherever you are now, you can go much further with Michelle's support. She has spent a lifetime focusing on what works, and not only practices, but lives by what she teaches. She's got the tools if you'll bring the intention. Put these together and truly inspired action is essentially inevitable."
"Michelle is the real deal. I've known her a long time. In addition to having been a great support to me and my own endeavors, I've seen her support many, many others in their success, over and over. You're in good hands."
Jonathan Van Valin - Spiritual Guide and Healer
“Over the time I have worked with Michelle she has helped me use my imagination to create a consultancy where I build upon my passions, knowledge and experience to help others. VAST has given me the clarity, tools and confidence to take my work in education and experience, accessing services for students with multiple learning needs, to create an inclusive place where all stakeholders are encouraged to create opportunities to improve our world through education.
The Passionate, Educator Advocate Mom platform is a comprehensive approach to enriching education services for all. From mentoring and inspiring young teachers to develop their own toolboxes of strategies to educate and nurture our children during it is important to create anew during these unique times to helping parents advocate for services to address individual learning styles,
The personalized and supportive approach of VAST kindles the fire within all of us”!
Staci J. Weile - Passionate Educator, Advocate Mom
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