Sylvia Lafair PhD, President of Creative Energy Options (CEOinc), is a senior leadership educator, executive coach, speaker, and author. She is an internationally recognized expert on workplace relations and organizational conflict with a strong focus on team collaboration that leads to increased creativity and higher productivity. Her Total Leadership Connections Program has won awards from HR.com. She has been named in the top 30 leadership gurus for the past 8 years by globalgurus.org and was recently named in the top 200 thought leaders to follow in 2021 by peopleHum.com.