The EQ Edge: Using Emotional Intelligence to Unlock Team Performance

The EQ Edge is a 4-hour, hands-on training that helps professionals understand what emotional intelligence really is, why it’s the single most important skill for leadership and relationship success, and how to strengthen it through specific, learnable habits. Through energizing activities and candid dialogue, you’ll describe and assess the four core EQ competencies, map your EQ strengths and blindspots, and apply practical tools to translate awareness into behavior that builds trust and impact. You’ll leave the session with your own EQ Edge Plan to sustain your growth after the session ends.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe and assess the four EQ competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management
• Map your EQ strengths and blind spots across self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
• Practice tools to manage stress, build empathy, and strengthen difficult conversations
• Build Your EQ Edge Plan: Commit to one habit and accountability check-in to sustain your growth

Whether you are an individual contributor, people leader, or simply someone who wants to grow, this session offers a powerful shift: emotional intelligence as a skill you can build — and the foundation for stronger relationships, communication, and impact at work.

Margie (Thirlby) DuBois, CPC, helps organizations build confident leaders, emotionally intelligent teams, and cultures where people want to stay. As a leadership trainer, speaker, facilitator, and coach, she blends research-backed tools with practical strategies to teach the human behaviors that drive belonging, performance, and retention.

Margie is the creator of the 7 Habits of Confident Humans™ and The Five Star Manager™ frameworks, used by individuals, people leaders, and HR professionals to develop self-led employees who strengthen workplace culture through everyday leadership behaviors. Her learning experiences are known for being interactive, emotionally resonant, and immediately applicable. With 14 years of executive leadership experience (including leadership roles at Rebuilding Together Reading Partners), along with lived experience navigating workplace bullying and cognitive diversity, Margie knows what it means to lead with resilience. Her experiences sparked a lifelong commitment to helping others lead with courage and integrity. Today, she partners with companies across industries to make confidence and human-centered leadership teachable skills and cultural advantages.

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