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Get up to speed on neuro-leadership while never being bored.

Most managers and leaders know what it takes to improve employee performance: Engage! Motivate! Communicate! Collaborate! But the problem is – how? And, can the ‘how’ be quickly learned and applied? Using humor, stories and the latest in management science, Linda shows managers how to simplify the mysteries through easy-to-remember formats and tools. Her talks are always interactive and fun, the information leading edge.

Choose any bothersome management issue. Find out what lies beneath.

Samples of topics include:

“Let’s start at the beginning: connect with employees’ emotions first and then try reason”.

“How to motivate need not be a mystery”.

The resilience factor: employees don’t like uncertainty so how do you get them to embrace change?”

“The sparks for innovation are more than brainstorming”.

Walk away with practical and proven tools.

Linda is an award-winning facilitator, speaker, and designer of interactive learning environments. McMaster Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) named Linda Instructor of the Year in 2010. Her design of CCE’s leadership program for staff won five programs awards.

She is an adjunct instructor at McMaster and Brock Universities and owner and president of Pickard & Laws, which specializes in strategic planning and leadership development.

Linda holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology.

Check out what others think

Linda is an interesting and passionate speaker: great interaction with the group, entertaining, very informative, and relevant to dealing with diverse personalities and lots of interesting ideas to apply in the future.

– Comments by delegates at the 19th World Conference on Disaster Management.

Linda left me wanting to learn more on my own. Linda was very engaging and informative.

– Participant at workshop, Brock University, Faculty of Business

“As a facilitator, Linda is intelligent, creative, professional and engaging. Her curriculum is well-researched and consistently interesting to a professional audience. Her delivery style is thoughtful, deliberate and spirited.”

– Jenni Allerton, Program Manager, Custom Corporate Training & Professional Development Programs, McMaster University, Centre for Continuing Education

“Linda exemplifies devotion to her passion (leadership). I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with Linda in co-delivering leadership programs. Through Linda’s support, guidance and understanding of how learning works, we developed a real-life, interactive and emotional leadership case study for my session. I have seen firsthand the satisfaction of the attendees and the loyalty of her partners.”

– Norm O’Reilly, Ph.D., Former Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Associate Professor of Sports Business, University of Ottawa.

Linda has the ability to narrow in on the heart of the problem as opposed to just symptoms and then provide actionable solutions.

– Grant Armstrong, Manager of Organization Development, Region of Niagara.

Linda is funny and down to earth. You get a consistently great session every single time!

– Susan Rankin, Director of Stewardship & Donor Relations, McMaster University.

I learned to become a better communicator. I now appreciate the qualities that make a great leader.

– Paul Casey, G.I.S. Analyst, City of Hamilton.

For more information, contact Linda Pickard @ 905 824-2446.