Training, workshops, and presentations

Give your audience more than inspiration…

Most leadership and performance challenges are not technical problems — they are human ones. They show up in how people manage themselves, lead others, communicate under pressure, and work together.

Lori Milner delivers talks, training, and workshops that go beyond motivation. Each session is designed to translate insight into action — with practical tools that attendees can apply immediately, and behavioural shifts that last well beyond the room.

Tailored to your organisation, culture, and goals

Lori approaches every engagement with one clear intention: to create meaningful connection and deliver a programme that speaks directly to your organisation’s challenges, context, and outcomes.

Whether the focus is leadership effectiveness, resilience and navigating change, emotional intelligence, time and productivity, habits and behaviour change, personal brand/leadership presence, or team collaboration — every session is tailored to your industry, people, and priorities.

Practical, engaging, and built for real impact

Beyond the Dress sessions are known for being engaging, relevant, and highly practical — supporting organisations to build cultures of ownership, mentorship, and shared accountability.

No two sessions are the same. Clients can choose between:

TED-style talks for large audiences (high energy, high relevance, big insight + immediate takeaways)
In-depth masterclasses for smaller groups (skill-building, application, discussion, and real-world integration)

Available in-person or online

All training can be delivered in person or online and is designed to remain interactive, engaging, and impactful — regardless of format.

If you want training that creates more than a momentary lift — and builds real leadership and behavioural change — let’s talk.

Topics for talks & masterclasses:

Cultivating Connection, Communication & Collaboration.

Small Steps, Big Impact: Micro-Habits for Macro-Change.

**Brand YOU:** Maximise Your Presence & Leverage the Power of Your Personal Brand.

Self-care is a verb: taking action towards your best self

Do you have a custom topic in mind? Let’s talk.

The Power of Self-Awareness: Unlocking Your Self-Leadership Potential

TED-style talks

Designed for medium to large groups, Lori’s TED-style talks are targeted to everyone in the organisation, from graduates to executives. They cover a broad spectrum of lifestyle and corporate skills, including self-leadership, work-life harmony, time management, personal branding, stress management and developing the resilient mindset.

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Masterclasses

These focused, high-impact sessions are designed for small groups (typically 8–20 participants in person, with scalable online delivery) and are suited to people managers, emerging leaders, and professionals in roles that require influence, judgement, and strong interpersonal skills.

Masterclasses are practical and outcomes-driven, creating space for leaders to step back from operational demands, strengthen leadership capability, and sharpen how they show up in complex environments.

Each programme is custom-designed to align with organisational priorities and leadership objectives, ensuring relevance and application. Topics may include:

Leadership presence, assertiveness, and confidence
Focus, prioritisation, and sustainable productivity
Leading with empathy and emotional intelligence
Resilience and stress management under pressure
Self-leadership and personal branding in leadership roles
Building better habits for sustainable change without willpower or motivation

The emphasis is on behavioural shifts that improve leadership effectiveness, decision-making, and team performance — with practical tools leaders can apply immediately and embed over time.

Masterclass design can include:

An analysis session to establish the client’s needs. This may extend to online surveys, focus groups, and one-on-one interviews with employees.
Programme design, based on feedback from the analysis session and aligned with the client’s HR strategy, to meet specific challenges and cover focus areas.
A programme plan that’s aligned to employees’ time commitments, including frequency and duration.
Feedback reporting to gauge satisfaction levels, key learnings, and challenges.
An optional follow-up session and group coaching
An optional communication campaign providing accountability assignments, useful resources and tools between sessions.

Company benefits:

Improved business performance through more productive, engaged, motivated staff
Increased morale due to a positive environment and better stress management
The ability to identify and develop internal leaders
A more positive corporate image via the genuine entrenchment of company values

Employee benefits:

Access to a toolkit of skills that enable positive professional and personal change
Improved internal relationships and decreased interpersonal conflict
Career empowerment and greater job satisfaction via ownership and accountability
Increased confidence, morale, performance, productivity, and attitude

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KIND WORDS

Testimonials

Liberty

“The brand sessions from 'Beyond the Dress took us through a journey of self-discovery as a team and enabled us to have honest and critical conversations. It enabled our team to critically look at how we perceived ourselves and how we wanted others to see us. The sessions were both informative, insightful and thought provoking. Lori's facilitation style was conversational, questioning and allowed us time to reflect on issues and factors that influenced our learning. She was able to touch our hearts and create a learning environment through questioning and coaching processes. The Friday newsletter has also become a welcome reminder of lessons learnt and an opportunity to unpack concepts further”

Lindi Monyae, Executive: Emerging Consumer Market – Liberty

Abbott Nutrition

“Thank you so much for the excellent presentation that you did for our team. I think too often people do not think of the value and importance of their personal branding. We work so diligently on our product/ company brands, investing significant time, effort and funds into them and yet all too often we forget about ourselves. People are the most important assets of any organisation and individual branding is so important.

The team really enjoyed your insights into this thought provoking topic and really enjoyed the investment in themselves. Personal branding is so much more that your appearance, physical presence & communication. It was interesting working on our personal value propositions.

I know the team really benefited from the time that we spent together and enjoyed taking the time to understand themselves a little better. Thank you so much, it was fun, interactive and enlightening.”

Angela Russell – General Manager, Abbott Nutrition

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“Lori Milner’s advice gave me the simple steps I needed to actually achieve my goals through micro wins!”

“The simplicity is empowering. Thank you!”

“A great, reviving workshop. It certainly helped to boost my self-esteem and see that I have greatness and value within. I will practice all my learning.”

“Lori is an excellent speaker, clear and friendly with a wonderful attitude and sense of humour. She is a good listener and I enjoyed partaking in this wonderful training session.”

“My key learning was creating presence. It was a wonderful session and Lori’s ability to motivate my desire to learn more was excellent.”

“An excellent Business Bootcamp. Lori was able to motivate my desire to learn. The way to handle negative situations was my key learning and I will think before responding. It was one of the best workshops I have even been to. I am unable to start applying anything to my daily routine as I loved everything Lori said.”