Liane Davey

Liane Davey, Ph.D. is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of YOU FIRST: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. Liane combines her expertise in strategy with her deep insight into group dynamics to create powerful change in top teams.

Early on, Liane found industrial assembly lines fascinating. When she settled on psychology as a field of study, it was with the realization that human teams are the assembly lines of the modern business organization. Get the processes and connections right and you will have highly productive teams.

Get teams wrong and things bog down. Toxic teams are bad for organizations and result in lost productivity and nasty dynamics. The solution isn't more team building. Liane's Vital Teams™ and Team Inoculation™ programs help team members take personal accountability to change their team for the better.

A dynamic keynote speaker, Liane shares her practical yet profound ideas at conferences and management retreats. She works with executives of some of North America's leading financial services, consumer goods, high tech, and healthcare organizations. In addition, she writes an ongoing blog on Team Effectiveness at changeyourteam.com and is a regular contributor to PsychologyToday.com and HBR.org.

NEW BLOG FROM LIANE DAVEY | Conflict Strategies for Nice People

Do you value friendly relations with your colleagues? Are you proud of being a nice person who would never pick a fight? Unfortunately, you might be just as responsible for group dysfunction as your more combative team members. That's because it's a problem when you shy away from open, healthy conflict about the issues. If you think you're "taking one for the team" by not rocking the boat, you're deluding yourself. (Continue Reading...) 

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Karen Wright

On a promising career path in a Fortune 500 company, Karen Wrightfound herself transplanted to a different country and reported to four bosses in eight months as the company changed and churned around her.

With no clear role mandate and no mentor to guide her through challenging organizational territory, she decided that the message was clear - time to go. The field of professional coaching was just emerging and it seemed like an intriguing way to leverage her business experience and fascination with human behavior, so she ventured into uncharted territory.

Karen intuitively understood that coaching, done well and under the right circumstances, had the potential to transform individuals and their impact on and in organizations. She took an early leadership role in the formation of professional standards and skill development in the field of coaching and has trained and mentored globally for almost two decades as one of the profession's acknowledged and certified masters.

Karen quickly established herself as credible, practical and committed to the success of her clients, both in the context of their work roles and in their lives. Working at the most senior levels in organizations, she began to see trends and patterns amongst high achievers and now offers insights about executive health, career management, legacy and happiness resulting from engagements with hundreds of clients across dozens of organizations.

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Daniella Levitt

Empowerment & Leadership

Daniella blends her global perspective, large corporate experience, entrepreneurial experience, and unique andinnovative subject matter with her energetic and motivational style to create and deliver keynote speeches that are tailored to the needs of your organization. She also runs workshops and facilitates panel discussions. Daniella will inspire your audience with a program that gets them highly engaged and sets them on a path of taking ownership of how women are moving forward and upward in their organization, holding themselves accountable for their own and other's career success, and increasing the pace of change regarding women being represented in management and executive ranks.

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