Janet Lapp
Authority on Managing Fast Change; Author, Dancing with Tigers, Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air and Positive Spin
SPEAKER FEE RANGE: $14,000–$20,000 [FEE NOTE]
TRAVELS FROM: California
Dr. Janet Lapp is fast emerging as one of North America's most celebrated keynote speakers and trainers. She is the author of Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air , Dancing With Tigers, and Positive Spin and is the producer and host of the highly-rated CBS series "Keep Well." During her nursing career, she worked as an emergency room nurse and as a nurse manager. Also a former professor of psychology, her ideas have appeared in scholarly journals and in magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, American Health and Prevention. Specializing in change management for challenging groups, she was invited to Leningrad to help with management changes in Soviet industry. As a dynamic and entertaining speaker, Lapp focuses on accepting, creating and thriving on change, developing new thinking skills and converting daily stress into positive energy.
Former professor, researcher, clinician, and registered nurse, Dr. Janet Lapp was born and raised in Québec, Canada; her PhD is from McGill University in Montreal. Over the past 25 years, she has inspired over 2,500 audiences around the world from Russia to Argentina to Hong Kong–with clients such as IBM, AT&T, Allstate, New York Life, Toyota, and Kawasaki – to adopt a mindset skilled in leading others through disruptive change. She is a dual citizen, presents in three languages, and regularly consults throughout Europe and the Americas.
A licensed clinical psychologist and author of five books, she is founder of ChangeFit™ Leadership Labs, has been admitted to the Speakers Hall of Fame, and one year was rated by Toastmasters as one of the top three speakers worldwide. She is the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated CBS series ‘Keep Well,’ and has appeared regularly on INN, ABC, CNN, and NBC affiliates.
The Ritz-Carlton team and IBM sales used her best-selling book Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air to help create their successful transformations. She is author of four other books: Dancing with Tigers, Positive Spin, Why Won’t They Listen to Me? (pack leadership), and on personal transformation: The Four Elements of Transformation. Her forthcoming business book (Wiley, 2021) highlights the disruptive leadership mindset needed to guide others through disruptive change.
A pilot and flight instructor, Janet has flown throughout South America and Africa on medical and rescue missions. She is a long time volunteer with the Flying Doctors of Mercy in central México and the founder of the award-winning ‘Agua Limpia’, giving clean water access to the Sinaloa indigenous.
She is a 2019 National AG Triathlon champion, competes in 70.3 Ironmen races, and currently lives in southern California.
A licensed clinical psychologist and author of five books, she is founder of ChangeFit™ Leadership Labs, has been admitted to the Speakers Hall of Fame, and one year was rated by Toastmasters as one of the top three speakers worldwide. She is the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated CBS series ‘Keep Well,’ and has appeared regularly on INN, ABC, CNN, and NBC affiliates.
The Ritz-Carlton team and IBM sales used her best-selling book Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air to help create their successful transformations. She is author of four other books: Dancing with Tigers, Positive Spin, Why Won’t They Listen to Me? (pack leadership), and on personal transformation: The Four Elements of Transformation. Her forthcoming business book (Wiley, 2021) highlights the disruptive leadership mindset needed to guide others through disruptive change.
A pilot and flight instructor, Janet has flown throughout South America and Africa on medical and rescue missions. She is a long time volunteer with the Flying Doctors of Mercy in central México and the founder of the award-winning ‘Agua Limpia’, giving clean water access to the Sinaloa indigenous.
She is a 2019 National AG Triathlon champion, competes in 70.3 Ironmen races, and currently lives in southern California.
Learning Mental Strategies to Staying Focused and Productive - No Matter What
- Using Radical Change to Move to a Higher Place, with Optimism, Courage and Hope
- Stay Standing: How to Beat Stress and Survive Any Change
You want people to stay focused, optimistic and forward moving despite disruption. You need to trust that your presenter has the clinical skills to work with people in trauma and to some extent, grieving.
OUR GOALS:
1. Through survey and interview, identify current mood, activities and needs.
2. Identify the five basic change reactions and through self-administered quiz, understand one’s own and others’ reaction styles. This step increases understanding and empathy, and provides the base for a recovery roadmap.
3. Practice the same skills that successful change adaptors use to stay focused and optimistic, no-matter-what. Gauge and balance energy output, avoid burnout.
4. How to look for opportunities and possibilities in any situation. How to harness the mind onto the present, and move from “what-if” worry to a “what-is” and “what-now” action plan.
5. Develop group agreement on a common language and mindset that studies show keep a group moving forward.
6. Develop a Master Grid Plan that will lead to productive, high-value action. Starting from a new end vision or desired post-pandemic future state, work backwards into short -term goals and devise action plans that are scheduled on a daily basis. - Think Big Act Bold
Especially during disruptive change, this program is personally inspirational. However, the effects extend to the workplace … as people become bolder, more confident, take more risks, think larger - despite circumstances.
Janet brings the lessons of her experiences as a National Triathlon Champion, Ironman competitor, and pilot who’s flown through the world … to inspire you to think the impossible and do the unimaginable. Her stories highlight overcoming depths, resilient comebacks, and miraculous survivals.
You will knock away outdated pillars, blow away perceptions of what’s possible, rewrite your story and create a new set of rules. In so doing, life will be expanded as never before.
TAKEAWAYS
• Motivate yourself to push beyond.
• Rewrite old stories and old rules.
• Push back limiting blocks.
• Develop a personal Change Airbag, where nothing will get you down. - Let’s Go! How to Motivate People to Move
Your people didn’t believe it could happen to them. Then, disruptors appeared on the horizon, and now everyone has to play catch up. Up to one-third of your workforce could be actively resistant. How much faster could you move if everyone were on board? HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
This program budges people out of the past and helps them SEE that change affects everyone, there is no choice, and no hiding AND IN THE END, ADAPTING WORKS BETTER FOR EVERYONE.
TAKEAWAYS
• Summary of hard trends in your industry, how others are adapting and simple changes you can make to keep up.
• Easiest steps to an agile workforce and workplace.
• What resistance looks like and best ways to budge it.
• A take-out plan to grow skills and mindsets you’ll need to adapt to and lead fast change
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