Clare Kumar inspires and guides busy professionals to sustainable performance and successful work-life integration. Her focus now is supporting organizations on the redesign of work, customizing the work experience, and successfully leading remote teams.
Clare's fifteen-year corporate career includes leadership roles spanning marketing, business development, finance, internal communication and culture change, sales support, and product development. She has served in start-ups to leading multi-national companies both in Canada and abroad, working flexibly in several cultures with everyone from front-line staff to the C-suite. Since starting her own company, Streamlife®, Clare has become one of Canada's most renowned organizing and productivity thought leaders offering insights, inspiration, and support to leaders, employees, and, entrepreneurs.
She is proud to have served a variety of sectors including education (University of Waterloo, Niagara College, Ryerson University, MaRS, Ontario Centres of Excellence), professional services (Crowe Soberman Chartered Accountants LLP), technology (Facebook Canada), banking (TD Canada Trust), health (Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Institute of Health Services), food (Mars) and non-profits (the MS Society, Developmental Services Ontario).
Frequently sought after for her organizing and productivity expertise, Clare has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living and Reader's Digest. A regular on lifestyle and news television she has appeared on The Social (regular), The Marilyn Denis Show (regular), e-talk, Breakfast Television, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The Morning Show and CityNews. Drawing on her marketing experience and love of performance, Clare has served as a brand ambassador or spokesperson for brands such as Intel, Canadian Tire, Ford, Whirlpool, Acco Brands, Staples, Honeywell, Rubbermaid, and Neatfreak.
Clare co-created the patented and widely distributed clothing organizing system, Pliio®. She has also written The Organized Family – Planning Calendar, and The Balanced Life Wall Calendar.
Clare is proud member of CAPS - the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, NAPO - the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, and is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Clare Kumar inspires and guides busy professionals to sustainable performance and successful work-life integration. Her focus now is supporting organizations on the redesign of work, customizing the work experience, and successfully leading remote teams.
Clare's fifteen-year corporate career includes leadership roles spanning marketing, business development, finance, internal communication and culture change, sales support, and product development. She has served in start-ups to leading multi-national companies both in Canada and abroad, working flexibly in several cultures with everyone from front-line staff to the C-suite. Since starting her own company, Streamlife®, Clare has become one of Canada's most renowned organizing and productivity thought leaders offering insights, inspiration, and support to leaders, employees, and, entrepreneurs.
She is proud to have served a variety of sectors including education (University of Waterloo, Niagara College, Ryerson University, MaRS, Ontario Centres of Excellence), professional services (Crowe Soberman Chartered Accountants LLP), technology (Facebook Canada), banking (TD Canada Trust), health (Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Institute of Health Services), food (Mars) and non-profits (the MS Society, Developmental Services Ontario).
Frequently sought after for her organizing and productivity expertise, Clare has been featured in publications such as Fast Company, Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Living and Reader's Digest. A regular on lifestyle and news television she has appeared on The Social (regular), The Marilyn Denis Show (regular), e-talk, Breakfast Television, Canada AM, CBC Radio, The Morning Show and CityNews. Drawing on her marketing experience and love of performance, Clare has served as a brand ambassador or spokesperson for brands such as Intel, Canadian Tire, Ford, Whirlpool, Acco Brands, Staples, Honeywell, Rubbermaid, and Neatfreak.
Clare co-created the patented and widely distributed clothing organizing system, Pliio®. She has also written The Organized Family – Planning Calendar, and The Balanced Life Wall Calendar.
Clare is proud member of CAPS - the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, NAPO - the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, and is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
Understanding & Embracing Neurodiversity
Format: 45 min - 2 hours
This program is perfect for:
- organizations looking to expand inclusivity to include neurodivergent ways of being
The audience will leave with:
- a better understanding of neurodiverse ways of being
- strengths and struggles of neurodivergent minds
- designing spaces and cultures to support...
Leadership Skills for a Hybrid World
Having navigated through the pandemic for months, it has become clear that new skills are required to support not only our own well-being and performance but that of our employees. We can celebrate employees stepping up and arranging their schedules and home offices to accommodate working from home when everyone is at home...or sometimes when no one is. The richness of successful work-life...
Work From Home Success - for Individuals
A 90 minute interactive discussion to share strategies and invite action for a better work from home experience.
- Setting intentions for the work from home experience
- Nurturing the mind
- Nourishing the body
- Working well with others
- Communication more effectively
- Setting up safe workspaces
Your team will be engaged and involved, each person taking away specific actions they will want to take to improve their...
Work From Home Success - for Leaders
Build on Work From Home Success - for Individuals with this leader-specific session.
Engage in meaningful conversation to uncover what's working for your team and what's not.
- Explore the required leadership skills to successfully lead a remote team
- Articulating a vision for your remote team
- Whose responsibility is motivation?
- Where does compassion fit?
- How to communicate more effectively?
Be prepared for honest...
Productivity CPR - a holistic model for sustainable performance
With study after study revealing a lack of employee engagement, concerns arise around lost productivity and the high costs of turnover. But it doesn't have to be this way. In this modern-day antidote to burnout learn what you and your workforce need to enter a state of "flow" through Productivity CPR™, a model for sustainable performance, so everyone in your organization can make their biggest...
The Four Step P.L.A.N. to Get Organized and Stay Organized
Inspiring audiences for over ten years with this proven approach to getting organized and staying that way, Clare will bring the P.L.A.N. to life with stories and examples of practical ways to restore order.
P - prioritize - your space and your calendar
L - liberate - let go of the things that do not serve your priorities
A - arrange - place activities and items to maximize the return on your resources
N - nurture - build behaviors to keep your system working...
Working with Highly Sensitive People
Format: 60 - 90 minutes
This program is perfect for:
- HR
- Talent management
- Leaders
The audience will leave with:
- an understanding of the trait of high sensitivity
- strengths and struggles of a highly sensitive person
- accommodations of value to a highly sensitive person
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