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Speaking
Engagement Topics
All titles
and topics below can be presented in a variety of formats including:
- Keynote
Speech
- Half
Day Seminar
- Full
Day Seminar
Organization
Leadership Speech Topics
Accelerating
Community Collaboration
This topic explores how we work together for the sake
of benefiting our community. David Womeldorff presents "The Seven Agreements"
as a foundation for thinking, interacting and taking action within the
collaborative framework. The first of the seven agreements is to focus
on what you want, not the problem. Focusing on problems results in anxiety.
Focusing on what you want provides passion and enthusiasm to take the
next step towards your goal. All seven agreements are outlined and discussed.
Creating
Powerful Partnerships
Collaboration is essential for healthy, vibrant, and effective groups,
organizations, and communities. At the heart of collaboration is the discipline
of making and committing to agreements about how to work together to achieve
results. This presentation covers "The Seven Agreements for Accelerating
Collaboration," as a foundation for thinking, interacting and taking action
within the collaborative framework. These agreements are the result of
over 30 years of study, observation, and application of tools and techniques
to increase our ability to collaborate effectively.
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Public
Leadership
Keeping
Your Vision for Public Service Alive
As
a former Oregon State Legislator, Donna Zajonc understands the challenge
today's public leaders face to keep alive their vision and inspiration
for public service. In this speech she will help you rekindle your passion
for public service and outline tips she has learned as a professional
leadership coach. Sharing from her book "The Politics of Hope", she will
unveil the Four Stages of Public Leadership and provide you with the keys
to maintaining your energy so that you are a successful leader at work
and in your community.
Healing
Post-Partisan Depression
We hear from the media every day how divided and polarized political process
has become. The challenge is to view the polarization as an opportunity
to reframe our cultural divide, inspire hope for a possible future, and
provide tools and frameworks for civic re-engagement. This speech will
illustrate new ways in which to transform the deadlock of political polarization
into new ways of working together.
The
Four Stages of Political Leadership
The Four Stages of Political Leadership help us make sense of American's
political breakdown and points us toward the qualities necessary for our
next generation of political leaders. The Four Stages offers a unique
model for viewing current leadership qualities and challenges all leaders
to grow into a new model of public inspiration and collaboration. In this
presentation, participants will:
- learn
the Four Stages of Political Leadership and how these stages point the
way for the new breed of leaders
- hear
Donna's personal stories about her experiences in elected political
office and journey through the Four Stages of Political Evolution.
- learn
about the five essential collaborative skills necessary to lead during
the chaos and complexity of the 21st century.
Authentic
Public Leadership:
Harnessing Passion, Purpose and Power in Service to Society
This speech is primarily targeted to those in public service (elected
and/or professional staff) and challenges audiences to shift their focus
of service from rescuing to empowerment. The audience will discern ways
to move from a problem-focused way of serving to creating passion-based
outcomes for themselves and their community by drawing on the "Four Stages
of Public Leadership," The Power of TED*, and the "Seven Agreements
for Accelerating Collaboration."
Creating
Powerful Partnerships
Based on David's nearly 30 years of observing and applying the lessons
of collaboration in all kinds of organizations, participants will learn
the about Seven Agreements for Accelerating Collaboration that form the
basis of powerful partnerships capable of producing sustainable results.
This presentation and/or seminar focuses on ways of thinking, interacting
and taking action that create outcomes and build healthy and productive
working relationships.
Other
Popular Titles Include:
- Healing
America's Polarization
- Changing
Perspectives on Masculine & Feminine Leadership Types and Why We Need
Both
Custom
Topics Available
Donna is happy to create custom topics or reformat existing topics to
meet the needs of your group. Example titles include:
- When
the Lone Ranger Rides Into the Sunset... Where Will All the Leaders
Come From?
- Renewing
Your Passion for HealthCare Leadership
- Building
Bridges: Leading Beyond Political Polarization
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Self
Leadership
The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment
Dynamic)
TED* is a fun, easy to understand metaphor for how to
make a BIG transition in individual lives and groups. The key message
is simple, yet the effects are dramatic. TED* teaches you how to shift
your worldview from Victim to Creator. What does that mean? It means changing
your focus from one in which you react to problems (therefore allowing
the problems to control and define your life) to one in which you focus
on goals. This shift puts you in the driver's seat, making you the Creator
of your life.
Q:
What would happen if EVERYONE, you and me, co-workers and employers, community
leaders and key systems operated out of the creator mindset instead of
from the role of victim?
A: Our lives, families, work culture, communities and world would
be transformed. We would shift our focus to what WE WANT and let go of
"what's wrong" and "who's to blame". We would have a different focus for
a different result and the possibility to transform the world.
Creating
Cultures of Empowerment
Creating Cultures of Empowerment requires much more than delegating responsibility
and authority. It demands a particular orientation to work - and life
- that cultivates relationships which create high fulfillment and peak
performance in serving clients and customers. This keynote address will
inspire and challenge you to shift your ways of thinking and taking action
and point the way to harnessing "The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)" in your
organization!
TED*:
The Cure for the Epidemic of Victimhood
Victimhood is a form of self-identity and a way of being that has reached
epidemic proportions in our organizations, our communities and, indeed,
our world. TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) challenges Victimhood by providing
a compelling alternative to the daily drama that so often characterizes
our relationships in our personal and professional lives. Audiences will
learn how to begin to make the shift from Victim to Creator and to encourage
the same in others!
Applying
"The Power of TED*" at Work - A New Leadership Dynamic
Traditional perspectives on leadership set up an unrealistic expectation
that leaders will emerge as heroes to rescue followers from whatever the
problems of the day may be! The audience will be challenged to shift their
focus of leadership from reacting to problems to creating outcomes in
service to the mission and purpose of the organization. Leaders will discover
ways to enhance their roles as Creator, Challenger, and Coach and begin
to move from an Heroic to a Collaborative style of leadership. (Keynote
Speech or Seminar)
Rekindling
Your Fire
This
speech challenges audiences to reclaim their passion for their profession
and service to society. Participants will discern ways to move from a
problem-focused way of serving to creating passion-based outcomes for
themselves and their clients/customers. By learning how to harness The
Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), participants will rekindle
their passion for their chosen profession. (Keynote Speech or Seminar)
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