Speaking

Keynote presentations and conference workshops include:

  Building Optimism for You and Your Team
  Inspiring Leadership in Times of Change
  Neuromanagement of Change & Performance for You and Your Team
  Raising an Optimistic Child

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Building Optimism for You and Your Team

Flexible, realistic optimism is a key factor in the sustainable success and resilience of individuals, teams and organizations. Using fun, mood-enhancing exercises based on the latest research in brain science and positive psychology, Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry walk you through five key principles of optimism and how you can maintain energy and enthusiasm and counter stress.

Learn proven leading-edge strategies and tips for enhancing effectiveness, including how to:

  Generate a positive outlook in yourself and others
  Enhance meaning and fulfilment at work
  Empower yourself and others to have more control over work life
  Quickly build trust and improve communication
  Attract and retain clients and high-performing staff

Inspiring Leadership in Times of Change

Transformational Leadership, which engages and inspires employees and enables positive change, is the most effective leadership style for sustainably increasing employee performance and company profitability, according to the majority of research. Providing powerful, practical tools, this workshop will help executives and managers greatly enhance their effectiveness as leaders and catalyze positive behavioural and cultural change. Facilitated by world-wide leadership experts and authors, this unique learning opportunity clearly translates the latest research in leadership, positive psychology and neuroscience into practice, empowering participants with proven leading-edge strategies they can adopt immediately.

This intensive workshop will help participants:

  Assess their capacity as a Transformational Leader
  Incorporate Transformational Leadership behaviours into their leadership style
  Understand why people resist change and what really motivates them
  Articulate an inspiring, compelling vision and gain buy-in from top management and teams
  Develop people who can contribute positively and drive change
  Build committed, mutually supportive relationships with stakeholders and teams

Key concepts and techniques featured in this workshop can also be delivered in a shorter workshop format.

Neuromanagement of Change & Performance for You and Your Team

New understandings of how the brain actually works is transforming business and has generated the popular term "neuroleadership". Presented by world-wide leadership experts and best-selling authors, Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry, this unique learning opportunity clearly translates the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology into practice.

Learn proven leading-edge strategies and tips for enhancing effectiveness, including how to:

  Foster positive change and learning in yourself and others
  Influence others to accept your ideas and feedback
  Improve performance and innovation
  Make better decisions
  Quickly understand people and what motivates them

Raising an Optimistic Child

Flexible, realistic optimism is a key factor in the success and resilience of individuals, families and even organizations. Using fun, mood-enhancing exercises based on the latest research in brain science and developmental psychology, best-selling authors Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry show how to build a resilient and harmonious family and learning environment for children and minimize the impact of work stress.

This highly practical talk will help parents, educators and carers model optimism and use effective relationship-building skills that nurture life-long resilience in young children and teens.

Learn proven strategies and tips, including how to:

  Create a supportive, interdependent family
  Prepare children to face life challenges and adversity with an optimistic outlook
  Encourage children to communicate honestly and with empathy and respect
  Make friends with your adolescents
  Give skilled feedback and hard messages while building children's self-esteem
  Stimulate children's curiosity and develop broad and balanced thinking