Deanne Gagnon
ICA Associates — Group Facilitation Methods, Transformational Strategy, Meetings That Work, Facilitating Client Collaboration
Strengths Profile Practitioner
Emotional Culture Deck Practitioner
Member of the Elleiance Network
City of Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce
Deanne Gagnon is a facilitator and leadership development consultant who helps leaders and teams communicate better, work through challenges, and move important work forward together.
Through Deanne Gagnon Dynamics, she works with organizations across sectors to strengthen leadership, build more connected teams, navigate difficult conversations, and bring people together around a shared direction. Her work ranges from leadership development and team building to strategic planning and facilitated conversations, always with a focus on practical approaches people can actually use in their day-to-day work.
Deanne is known for creating engaging, honest conversations where people can think differently, better understand one another, and tackle the things that can otherwise get in the way of working well together. Her approach is practical, down-to-earth, and rooted in the belief that how people experience working with us matters just as much as what we accomplish.
She is a trained facilitator and practitioner in several leadership and team development tools, and has worked with leaders, teams, and organizations across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.
Summit Session
The Influence Playbook: Earn Trust, Get Buy-In, and Drive Change From Any Seat
Session type: Session
Track: Careers
Time: 1:55 pm EST
Duration: 30 minutes
Description: Influence isn’t about having the loudest voice, the best idea, or the most senior title. It’s built through trust, everyday interactions, and how people experience working with you.
In this practical session, participants will explore a different approach to influence, one that focuses less on convincing people and more on being intentional about how we communicate, understanding perspective, and building trust. Using the Intent–Interpretation–Impact framework, participants will learn how to think more intentionally before bringing forward an idea, navigating a difference of opinion, or trying to create change.
We can’t control how someone else receives what we say, but we can get clearer on our intent, get curious about how our approach could be experienced, and make more intentional choices about how we communicate.
Participants will leave with a simple tool they can apply to real conversations, ideas, decisions, and changes, whether they’re an employee, leader, executive, or entrepreneur.
(limited to 180 attendees)
