Speaker Profile
KARLA BRANDAU
Karla Brandau is a thought leader in management and team building techniques. She trains individuals to improve their communications and thus their relationships with anyone they interface with.
She specializes in personalities, communication skills, leadership principles.
She is the CEO of Workplace Power Institute and has educated managers with her proven leadership principles in companies such as Motorola, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Panasonic, and BYD America.
She has a degree in education and is a Certified Speaking Professional, an earned designation given by National Speakers Association.
Karla’s book, How to Earn the Gift of Discretionary Effort, teaches managers how to be the leader people CHOOSE to follow, not have to follow because of their position on the organizational chart.

Karla Brandau
March 05 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Cram It All In, Become the Boss, and Triumph Over Your Task List!
By the end of the program, you will have a refined, personalized task management system that empowers you to not only conquer your to-do list but also sustain your newfound productivity and life balance in the long term. This program is more than just a time management guide; it's a transformational journey toward becoming the master of your professional and personal life. Areas Covered Th..

Karla Brandau
April 03 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Use AI and Outlook Together for Stunning Results
The overall impact of Artificial Intelligence infused into Microsoft Outlook is more discretionary time to choose what to tackle when, a reduction of stress, and higher personal productivity.AI in Outlook removes friction from daily workflows, allowing professionals to:Spend less time managing emails and more time on strategic work Optimize meeting schedules and time blocks for maximum efficiencyTurn emails..

Karla Brandau
May 07 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Project Management Features of Microsoft Outlook
This webinar is a game-changer for budget-conscious professionals and organizations. You’ll gain practical strategies to improve project outcomes while keeping your overhead low – a win-win for you and your organization.This session teaches the secrets of making Outlook a tool for exponential productivity on a personal level as well as on a project team level. When you attend as a team, all team members wil..

Karla Brandau
June 18 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
The Perennial Workplace - Five Generations Working in Harmony
The post-generational work environment individualizes the workplace by focusing on the unique preferences and abilities of each employee rather than generalizing needs based on age or generation. A benefit of the post-generational workplace is that teams are formed based on perennial skills, expertise, and project requirements versus stereotyping the individual by the decade in which they were born. T..

Karla Brandau
July 10 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Leadership Success: Six Steps to Confidence, Charisma, and Gravitas
Structured into six straightforward steps, this webinar enhances your personal competence and presence. It offers practical, actionable guidance—not just abstract theory on developing an authentic, captivating, and compelling presence. Built on the foundation of confidence, the allure of charisma, and the authority of gravitas, this program equips you to leave a lasting impression in any setting.Through pra..

Karla Brandau
August 08 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Outlook Techniques: Survive Avalanche Email
Research shows that most people with Microsoft Outlook on their desktops only use about 15% of the power of Outlook, leaving 85% unused. Some of the unused 85% includes the Inbox features of Outlook. By using these features, you will manage your productivity more effectively and “make” time for your own personal pursuits. In addition, when you are under pressure to perform, you won’t be stalled by ans..

Karla Brandau
September 12 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Learn to Sort, Prioritize and Get Work Done Right in Your Inbox
If the avalanche of email appearing in your Inbox every morning is sapping your motivation and slowing your progress toward your goals, attend this webinar and learn the secrets for stopping email from stifling your energy and suffocating your daily workflow.You will learn the right techniques to stop email from entering your Inbox and for processing the emails that you permit to enter. The techniques help ..

Karla Brandau
November 06 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Revive, Renovate and Reinvent Your HR Office with ChatGPT
If you peer under the hood of ChatGPT, technically it is a Large Language Model or LLM and is a sophisticated form of autocomplete. You are familiar with this in email when it suggests the completion of a sentence. What makes it phenomenal is that when you ask it a question, it has the capacity to form an answer from all the information on the internet and to give you sources for research.In this webin..

Karla Brandau
December 05 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
13 Outlook Features That Give You SCREAMING Productivity
Using hidden features of Microsoft Outlook to the fullest extent possible is like putting time – which is money – directly into your pocket instead of letting it trickle down the drain. You paid a great deal for the privilege of using Microsoft Outlook – why not wring every dollar you can out of it? The tips, tricks, and secrets taught in this webinar will figuratively speaking, put dollars in your pocket a..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Take a Deep Dive into Little Known Microsoft Outlook Features with HUGE Productivity Benefits
Microsoft Outlook is a powerful, comprehensive software tool because it combines email, a calendar, and tasks. The goal is to make your professional life more productive and fulfilling as you gain the ability to get more done in less time. You will conquer your task list in record time as you learn advanced Outlook techniques and how to: Use the features in the expanded ribbon in these Outlook folders: Mail..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Managing Team Workflow with Microsoft Outlook
No doubt you and your team are proficient at using Microsoft Outlook for email and meetings, but did you know you and your team are leaving about 85% of the power of Microsoft Outlook unused. Outlook is a powerful program that can simulate a programming language if you know how to use it. This webinar helps individuals customize Outlook for their personality and their job. It helps you manage those who repo..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Bringing your PowerPoint Presentation to Life
Even in today's online world, live, face-to-face presentations are still so crucial. That includes presentations of all types: training, sales, staff meetings, stock holder summaries, new company policies, church or organization meetings, fundraisers, etc. Microsoft PowerPoint is still the gold-standard of presentation tools. Because it comes with Microsoft Office and Office 365, most computers have access ..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Emotional Intelligence: The Missing Component in Leadership Success
Emotional Intelligence has several components and by balancing these components, you can be not only more successful as a leader, but you can be more successful at handling stress and crafting a satisfying life. From the leadership viewpoint, emotional intelligence gives you the ability to relate to employees and colleagues, create rapport with them, and influence their behaviors. You start with the compone..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
How Leaders Improve Workplace Results: Do you have a Gap in Delegation and Accountability?
Are the people you delegate to missing deadlines? Do the people you delegate to fail to take responsibility? Are there no consequences if the task is not completed satisfactorily? If you have experienced any of these behaviors, sign up for this webinar and learn how to delegate with clarity, give responsibility plus authority and hold people accountable. Done correctly, delegating can be the man..

Karla Brandau
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
It’s Time for Results – Time Management Strategies for Busy Professionals
Perhaps you have fallen into the trap of thinking you can be an expert time manager by “flying by the seat of your pants” or handling issues as they come at you during the day. That may work to some extent but in today’s frenetic business environment, you need tried and true time management principles that enable you to work effectively using a producer’s mindset. With a producer’s mindset, you can start ea..