Keynote Speaking

Kimberly’s edgy style and heartfelt delivery makes her a popular keynote speaker, webinar speaker, and workshop facilitator. An engaging presenter, Kimberly has been invited to speak on a wide variety topics for government agencies, universities, social organizations and corporations. She’s an unforgettable live wire! Her high levels of audience interaction make sure everyone’s wide awake and engaged. Please contact her if your team would benefit from being touched by what some people have called the ‘Kimberly Magic’.

“If you can replace my event with a video, I have failed you!” – Kimberly Wiefling

Some Possible Keynote Themes – VIRTUAL or IN PERSON

(customized to your event)

• DARK SIDE:
  • Power Poisoning. A bit dangerous given the current political situation.
  • Dealing with assholes . . . bosses, colleagues, etc.
  • Dysfunctional Organizations . . . how can we get so many smart people together, but the organization has the IQ of an insect?!
  • Employee engagement . . . pathetic at 30% average, and 60% among Gallup’s greatest?!!
  • Avoiding stone age practices in a digital world
• LIGHT SIDE:
  • Examples of functional organizations.
  • Inspiring case studies.
  • How to fix the above nonsense.
• GENERAL:
  • Leadership
    • The Difference Between Leadership & Management
    • Self-leadership: Overcoming the Roots of Self-induced Ineffectiveness
    • 1:1 Leadership
    • Team Leadership
    • Organizational Leadership
    • Global Leadership
  • Employee Engagement: Creating Work Environments that Engage People & Connect to Purpose
  • Team effectiveness – Remote Teams that ROCK!
  • Criticism vs. Feedback: Giving & Receiving Feedback Effectively
  • Sensible Program & Project Management:  Making Common Sense → Common Practice
  • Organizational Culture/DNA – Creating Organizations That Don’t Suck Your Will to Live
  • Creativity/Innovation/Design Thinking
  • Catalytic Mechanisms – Emergent Behavior – Effortless Ways to Transform Things for the Better
  • Inclusivity in Teams – Increased Emotional Intelligence Through the Enneagram, and other Enneagram workshops
  • Introduction to Virtual Communication (mostly Zoom, but other platforms possible)

“Impossible”

• How to Achieve What Seems “Impossible”, But is Merely Difficult
• Impossible Isn’t – Everything Seems Impossible Until Your Competitor Does It!
• The Possibilities Toolbox: 12 Keys to Seemingly Impossible Results and an Unstoppable Team
• WorkSHOCK Therapy: An Alternative to Training That Actually Changes Behavior & Delivers Results.

Employee Engagement and Corporate Culture

• Inclusivity in Teams – Increased Emotional Intelligence Through the Enneagram
• Overcoming the Global Pandemic of Dysfunctional Workplaces and Disengaged Employees
• Discovering Your Corporate DNA
• Designed to Fail: The Shocking Truth About Workplace Dysfunctionality
• Holacracy Doesn’t Mean Chaos! Designing Dysfunctionality Out of Our Organizations
• The Million Piece Puzzle: Overcoming Dysfunctionality and Psychic Vampires
• Catalytic Mechanisms: Effortless Ways to Change Behavior for the Better . . . for a Better World
• Transforming Your Culture Through Employee Engagement
• The Stories We Tell: Creating and Perpetuating Your Corporate DNA
• Avoiding the 7 Deadly Sins of Global Leadership Development Programs

Sustainability

• Mission Control for Planet Earth: Envisioning a Sustainable Silicon Valley that Inspires a Sustainable World

Women in Business

• Scrappy Women in Business – Living Proof That Bending the Rules Isn’t Breaking the Law

Japan

• Recovering from the Lost Decade – What’s Working in Japan that can Transform American Business?

Team Effectiveness

• Better Together – Extraordinary Results Through Highly Effective Teams
• Global Team Effectiveness – Transform a Group Into a Real Team
• Organizational Greatness Through Team Effectiveness
• Global Communicator Program – Transforming a Diverse Group into a Team
• Mindset Toolkit – Expanding Possibilities by Transforming Ourselves

Global Leadership

• Becoming a Truly Global Human Being
• Global Businesses – Solving Global Problems Profitably
• Leading in a V.U.C.A. World

Leadership

• Catalytic Mechanisms – Effortless Ways to Change Behavior for the Better
• Leading from Any Chair in the Organization: Results-driven Leadership for People Who Must Make the Impossible Happen!
• Transformational Leadership – Leading Change in Teams and Organizations
• How to Get Out of Your Own Way: Leadership and Communication for Breakthrough Results
• How to Get Out of Your Own Way: Optimism as a Strategy
• Accelerated Team Development for Breakthrough Results
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Global Business Leadership Development Programs
• Leading Change

Creativity & Innovation

• Design Thinking: Way Better Than Problem-solving and Lots More Fun!
• Scrappy Design Thinking: Simple Rules, Practical Tools
• Business Creativity and Innovation in a Web 2.0 World
• Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Work Environment
• Diversity and Innovation as a Competitive Advantage
• Creating Your Entrepreneurial Vision
• The Possibilities Toolbox: 12 Keys to Seemingly Impossible Results and an Unstoppable Team
• Creating Breakthroughs Through Creative Thinking

Communication

• Speaking Globish: How to be Understood Across Language and Culture
• Negotiation Would be Easy If We Only Realized We Were Doing It
• Nobody Ever Told Me I’d Have to Be a Sales Person, Too!
• The Art of Conversation – 7 Simple Ways to Start a Conversation w/Anyone
• Conversations for Breakthrough Leadership
• It’s Worse Than I Thought! The Global Scarcity of Rational Human Beings

Scrappy Project Management – The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces

• Priorities – Heart – Lungs – Kidneys!  If Everything’s #1 Then NOTHING Is!
• Stakeholders – Who are these people and what do they want?
• Success Criteria – If you don’t know where you’re going, then any road will do.
• Roles & Responsibilities – Why does it always seem like the problems are caused by “the others”?
• Communication – Why can’t we just do everything via email? We have REAL work to do!
• Schedules – Most projects are late.  Wishing and hoping are not a strategy.
• Risk? What could possibly go wrong?!
• Lessons Not Learned – Can’t we make new and more exciting mistakes this time?
• Attitude of Gratitude – Recognition and appreciation practices that actually improve performance.

Product Development

• Product Development: A Common Sense Lifecycle Approach that’s Agile and Effective
• How to Build the Right Product – Faster, Better, with Fewer Resources
• Building Product Life Cycle (PLC) Excellence

Naturally a video can’t fully capture the energy that has earned her the label “A force of nature”, but here’s a little bit of what Kimberly delivered for Cisco in 2011:

Check out this brief video about meeting effectiveness as an example of Kimberly’s approach.

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