Speaker Demo Reel | Global | September 2019 | Created by Sarah Gavin

From Harvard -> Happiness -> Healing
From a young age, I didn't ever feel like I was enough. A people pleaser grew inside of me, stronger each day, gathering evidence that my narrative would be, "I am not enough." Whenever I got rejected, whenever I lost my way, whenever I was in doubt, my inner people pleaser would say, "See, I told you so. You are not enough."

As an adult, my inner people pleaser soon found out that if she got certain grades, won awards, did well in school, she could feel like she was enough. She experienced this feeling most notably after graduating from Harvard.

Surely, she would feel like she was enough.

No, still not enough.

She gave a TED Talk. Still not enough.

She became a global happiness speaker/coach. She was sometimes the only Asian female speaker on stage.

Still not enough.

She wrote a book.

Still not enough.

Then when her mom got diagnosed with early onset dementia, she completely fell apart. Not knowing how to help herself (even though she was a global happiness coach), she decided to go to Bali. While there, she met a mysterious energy healer who would change her life for good. Looking back, it was the healing she needed to set her on her ON GROWING journey towards Enough.

It was never about her mom. It was about her (my inner people pleaser). It was about me. That's when MY healing journey began.

Are you ready to begin your healing journey WITH us?

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Hello awesome human!
​My name is Kyla.

I could tell you that I graduated from Harvard where I won a prestigious teaching award. I could tell you that I gave a TED Talk (yeah, the one on this page). I could tell you that I was a professor for 7 years and won multiple awards for teaching. I could tell you that I have trained and inspired high-level executive clients from all over the world who work at Chevron, Merck, Microsoft, Samsung and several startups around the globe. I could tell you that I have delivered and developed my own workshops in 16 countries across 3 continents and traveled to 49 countries thus far. I could tell you that I was voted "51 Most Fabulous Global Happiness Leaders" for 2020 by World HRD Congress. I could tell you that I have worked WITH clients across 4 continents. Finally, I could also tell you that I was asked to join the Forbes Coaches Council in 2020.

I would rather tell you that shortly after my 40th birthday, I realized that I am an overcomer of workplace bullying - something I touch lightly upon in my TED Talk. It took me 5 years before I could actually go back to Boston where it occurred; it took me 8 years to be able to talk about another bullying incident (in my TED Talk Prequel filmed in Finland) and finally another 8 years before I created my very own antidote to workplace negativity and bullying called The Happiness Workshop. I would rather tell you that when I found out that I was voted "51 Most Fabulous Global Happiness Leaders" for 2020, I searched for every excuse as to why I shouldn't be chosen (Imposter Syndrome)--a similar feeling I experienced when I got accepted to Harvard.

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And that's not all. I decided to go even deeper with my work on happiness on both a personal level and a professional level.

I became a certified life coach, certified happiness coach, and a certified Theta Healing® practitioner and instructor. As a result, I have had the tremendous opportunity to impact over 3,300 amazing individuals and give them the tools/strategies they needed so they can overcome any kind of workplace negativity/life negativity around the globe.

Ohhhhh and I turned my TED Talk into my first book! You can read more about my workbook and books here. 

​I work WITH and empower corporations, organizations, institutions, individuals to succeed by creating a WITH lifestyle. The latest research shows that in order to be successful, you have to create a psychological safe environment first in which teams can be vulnerable and reach purpose; teams with high EQ (more than IQ) succeed more than their peers; diverse teams in terms of gender/race/ethnicity out perform homogenous ones; and ultimately happy workers are more productive, efficient, motivated (the list goes on!) which then impacts ROI.

I am particularly passionate about women's rights and the visibility of Asian women around the globe. I have made it a personal and professional mission to inspire young Asian women to speak up, succeed in their jobs, rise to executive levels, and be seen more. During my time at Harvard, I worked WITH countless women who had overcome domestic violence and/or human trafficking. I was left feeling inspired and empowered by their stories of courage and strength.

I am a 
SpeakHER.
InspireHER.
HealHER.
And more...

So nice to meet you. If there is anything I can do to help you, you're ready to start feeling like you're enough all the time, I'd love to communicate WITH you!

TED@SEOUL | South Korea | 2012

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