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About Janet Lapp - Expert on Change and Employee Motivation:

Dr. Janet Lapp is a change expert who helps people and companies to adapt to change in a positive and productive way. A former University professor, researcher, clinician, and registered nurse, she was born and raised in Canada, and her PhD with Honours is from McGill University in Montreal. A licensed clinical psychologist and author of five books, she has been admitted into the CPAE Speakers Hall of Fame ... the Oscar of Professional Speaking, and one year was rated by Toastmasters as one of the top three speakers worldwide.

Dr. Lapp translates clinical and academic knowledge into down-to-earth, humorous and powerful messages that inspire and encourage others to adopt the mindset to change and adapt to whatever forces and challenges there are in their specific arenas. For over 25 years, from Russia to Argentina to Hong Kong, she has presented professionally in English, French or Spanish to over 1,500 government agencies and Fortune 100 clients.

Her CBS-series Keep Well, of which she is creator and host, has been nominated for local Emmy Awards, and has appeared regularly on INN, ABC, CNN, and NBC affiliates. She is author of five books: Dancing with Tigers, Plant your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air , which is a change management book used by both Ritz-Carlton and IBM sales for their change efforts, Positive Spin, Why Won’t They Listen to Me?, which focuses on leadership, and Lead at the Edge of Change, which is about adapting to fast change.

A former air race pilot and current flight instructor, Janet has flown her airplane throughout South America and Africa, and as President of the Flying Doctors of Mercy (Ligainternational.org), she created a Home Care program and developed Mexico’s Mujeres Sanas, Mujeres Familias program for women.

What Janet Lapp Talks About:

As a specialist in areas of fast personal and cultural change, Janet Lapp is well known to audiences around the world for her challenging, in-your-face ideas and her endless humour, energy and ability to connect with audiences. Her presentations outline bold, innovative strategies and practical guidelines for excelling in rapidly changing, intensely competitive times.

Janet Lapp's Topics Include:

Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air
Management is dead. Motivational leadership is passe. Every major system is in the process of a major shift. Leadership in this new era requires the ability to think and lead others in new ways. Drawing on her 25 years of pioneering work with international leaders and peak performers in all fields, this inspirational business program will give you up-to-date information on new trends impacting your world.

These days, everyone is the company can develop and use leadership skills. Do not wait to be told what to do. You know your company's values and mission. Make decisions based on those, and you cannot go far wrong. The worst thing you can do is to sit back and do nothing, with the excuse that you were not told. The most important activity during fast change is to keep moving forward, and the worst thing you can do when things are uncertain is to stop completely.

This program is designed to help people discover opportunities in rapid change rather than focus on problems; see the positives in current change, thus keep their team morale high; and develop personal and team accountability.

Guilt in One Hand, Briefcase in the Other
How much do high stress levels and work overload cost your company in lost work days, employee burnout, and decreased productivity? The workplace is so busy that very few have the time to take care of themselves, stay fit, and balance their multiple roles. This high-energy, fun presentation will provide the latest research findings on stress, how to keep fully charged and full-speed ahead without getting off-road or out of fuel. Although real balance may not be possible these days, most people are playing the fool's game of trying to keep up; they doing too much and are unable to discriminate high payoff from low payoff activities.

This program will leave people with permission to let go of low-payoff activities, of knowing what is realistic and doable, and provide tools for focus both at home and at work. They will learn state-of-the-art information on how to stay filled with energy, keep their relationships humming, learn fast but effective ways to fight stress, and improve their performance overall.

How To Take Risks, and Win under Pressure
Conventional thinking can't keep up with exponential change. Many people have become complacent in their jobs (and their lives), and have stopped pushing themselves into new areas which may be uncomfortable for them. This is the best program when you want your people to leave with new tools and ways of thinking that will create a mindset not of passivity and followership, but of activity and leadership. Creativity and innovation occur at the edge of discovery, when one is pushing oneself into new behaviors and ideas. Giants turned into extinct dinosaurs by playing by the old rules when the game had changed. This program is a wake-up call to the future, and is especially meaningful for incentive winners who, even though they are already top performers, need to keep raising the bar and not rest on the winner's pedestal.

The Edge of Change: How to Lead the Field During Uncertainty and Ambiguity
In this program, Dr. Lapp shows us:

• What companies (and people) have done to break the mold, to push the edges in leadership and innovation, and create significant and positive change in their companies or associations, and in their personal lives.
• The mindset and behaviors needed to break the mold and push the edges in leadership and innovation.
• How to discover opportunities and positives in rapid change rather than to focus on problems or losses.
• How to reinvent yourself as an individual professional, team, a department or a corporation

People leave these sessions not only with energy, enthusiasm and laughter, they will know the mind and skill sets needed to adapt to change, be more likely to discover opportunities rather than negatives in the process, be more likely to keep team morale high, and take more personal responsibility and accountability.