The most fun you can have while talking about burnout, communication woes and workplace culture! This isn’t just another personality test. What a win.
Keynotes | Workshops | Team Building
Personal & Professional Development
Helping leaders & teams build stronger connections, healthier habits, and a workplace culture people love! Hi there, I’m Manda Riley (she/her), keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, social worker, and founder of Ice Cream Social Work. I help teams fix burnout and communication breakdowns with easy to implement strategies
— no brain freeze, just breakthroughs! Here's my take:
✨Workplace wellness is achievable through simple, everyday actions.
✨Understanding how people communicate is the key to better teamwork and less burnout.
✨Small shifts in culture can create big, lasting impacts on morale and productivity.
✨EVERYONE has a role in creating healthier, happier workplaces. I am all in for: keynotes, workshops, conferences, team building, retreats and off-sites, leadership and professional development programs. In-person or virtual, I am here to support you!
✨ Signature Keynote: Workplace Wellness: It’s Like WiFi...When It’s Down, Everything’s a Struggle ✨
A refreshing, real-world approach to workplace wellness. With humor, heart, and plenty of practical tools, we will explore simple, culture-shifting strategies organizations can use to reduce burnout, increase connection, and build healthier, happier teams — no budget-breaking initiatives required! Audiences leave with real tools, fresh perspective, and a renewed sense of what’s possible when wellness becomes a shared responsibility — not just a buzzword.
✨ Signature Workshop: Shapes for Effective Communication ✨
A triangle, a squiggle, and a circle walk into a meeting… I help your team make sense of what happens next. This interactive, high impact workshop uses the PsychoGeometrics® "shapes" model to decode how we communicate, handle stress, and collaborate at work. It’s a research-backed, instantly applicable, exceptionally fun-to-learn tool for fixing miscommunication, improving collaboration, and turning personality differences into team strengths. After this workshop, your colleagues will leave with:
✨ A clear understanding of their own communication style
✨ Tools to flex and adapt when working with diverse personalities
✨Actionable strategies and a shared language for team collaboration
✨ Fresh insight into how stress impacts behavior — and how to respond productively
TLDR; your team will be more connected, more productive, and way more fun to work with. Book me to speak!
🤓 Bachelor of Social Work | Master of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
⚡PsychoGeometrics® Certified Facilitator | 🧠 Mental Health First Aid® Instructor
05/06/2026
Ice Cream Social Work has officially landed in Colorado!
Im so grateful (and very excited!) to connect with such an incredible group this week.
Bonus wins: safe travels, fresh air, and mountains. Always the mountains!
More soon, but for now, just soaking it in 🥰
04/16/2026
Next stop: Crested Butte, Colorado!
I am so excited to be keynoting for the Colorado Association of Financial Aid Administrators. It is a joy to spend time and support the incredible people who keep so many students’ futures moving forward every day!
Ice Cream Social Work keynotes and workshops focus on practical workplace wisdom you can start using on Monday morning. The goal is to make the work you are already doing feel more connected and a little lighter.
Also… if you have any local gems in Crested Butte, I would love your recommendations!
See you soon, Colorado 😊
04/14/2026
Ice Cream Social Work
If your conferences, retreats, team building, or PD days need more “this was useful and fun” and less “we survived that,” I’ve got you!
Keynote & Webinar - The I'm Fine Fix: Practical Habits for Happier Workdays. We’ll celebrate everyday wins (like sending that email without rewriting it five times) and consider realistic ways to function better and feel better (one small win at a time)!
Workshop - They Said What?! Shapes for Effective Communication. Ever wondered why you click instantly with some coworkers and struggle with others? You can use shapes to learn why! 〽️🟢🔺🟦 Bonus: Connect, delegate, motivate and collaborate more effectively. Extra, extra bonus: Fun to learn, easy to remember, realistic to implement. Your team will refer to shapes for years to come!
Soooo if you're thinking right now "my team does something like this every year!" or "we really need something like this!" I would love to tell you more. Let’s connect! 😁
A very special thank you to Barrett Photography for her amazing video and photo skills!
04/13/2026
Behind the scenes: new speaker reel in progress! 😁
A lot of Ice Cream Social Work looks like micro-joy, connection and workplace culture... But occasionally it looks like "I don't know what to do with my hands!"
New speaker reel coming soon!
01/14/2026
I am so grateful to do what I love and speak in places as magical as this.
NYC, you have a piece of my heart!
01/05/2026
Ice Cream Social Work has officially landed in the Big Apple!
Tonight I had the opportunity to connect with so many brilliant, talented undergraduate leaders from across the country. They are all here to explore new possibilities for their future careers... How cool is that!
Tomorrow morning I’ll be joining a cohort of 40 of them for thoughtful conversation, questions, and a shared space to kickstart their three-day externship experience.
Stay tuned for photos, reflections, and a few behind-the-scenes moments from our NYC adventures with Ice Cream Social Work!