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Judith Glaser

Organizational Anthropologist

Judith Glaser

Judith E. Glaser, Organizational Anthropologist, is one of the most innovative and pioneering change agents in the world of business. The founder of the Creating WE Institute and the CEO of Benchmark Communications, Inc., she combines business research with her expertise in neuroscience, human behavior and development, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and transformational social sciences. Her dynamic, interactive, and provocative keynotes and leadership summits show audiences how to discover and develop their leadership DNA

Create WE...and Thrive! Glaser is the author of two books Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking & Build a Healthy Thriving Organization and The DNA of Leadership. Both works were selected by both Forbes and Business Book Review as two of the top business books of 2005 and 2006. Translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Russian, Creating WE has been hailed as a "hard-to-put down, inspirational masterpiece" that illuminates "how I-centric work environments cause 'unhealthy thinking' to form and doom companies to failure." Creating We also won the Bronze Award as one of the top leadership books of 2008, from the prestigious Axiom Business Book Awards. The DNA of Leadership outlines how to shape a company's "genetic code" and identifies the seven vital leadership practices that can reshape an organization into a WE-centric culture.

Setting Benchmarks for Businesses and their Brands. Glaser founded Benchmark Communications, Inc., in 1980 as a firm that works with CEOs and their teams helping them focus on competitive challenges in a world of moving targets--with a direct line of sight to the customer. In 2007, Benchmark launched the Creating WE Institute to offer new partnering and research opportunities to enable clients to expand WE-centric thinking in their organizations. Benchmark's innovative Creating WE technologies helps leaders address challenges at the intersection of culture, leadership, and brand.

Glaser has appeared on the NBC Today Show, ABC World News, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, the Martha Stewart Show, and the Family Network among others. She has been quoted many times in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Crain's, Newsday, Star Ledger, New York Post, Harvard Management Review, and others, talking about her revolutionary workplace approaches. Glaser is contributing editor of Executive Excellence Magazine. In 2006, 2007, 2008 she was listed in the Excellence Top 100 Consultants, and in 2007 and 2008 she was selected as one of the top-100 thought leaders on the subject of leadership. In addition, Benchmark was selected by Executive Excellence as one of the top small consulting firms specializing in leadership.

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Vital Conversations
The quality of the culture depends on the quality of relationships, which depend on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversation. In this hands-on session, participants will "deconstruct" conversations to uncover what happens in conversations that turns us on, turns us off, and causes us to discover our potential or get stuck in the past. We will use "real-plays" to help leaders discover new ways to converse with power, influence and positive impact.

 

Deciphering the Language of Leadership
As we talk with others, we are not only talking about information/content, we are also negotiating for power and influence. Encoded in every conversation is a language of leadership--both positional and personal--that establishes a contract from which we operate with others. Learn how to see the code, change the code and create powerful partnerships in the process.

 

Needs Intelligence...Emotional Intelligence: Keep the Pulse on People, Profits and Productivity
It's easy for leaders to get so focused on the bottom line that they fail to remember that its people who produce results. What do CFOs, CIOs and other C-suite leaders need to remember to create highp roductivity environments where people produce more than expected. What are the 7 Universal Desires of Human Beings?  In this highly interactive session, leaders learn what they can do to ensure they honor our universal human needs, and get the job done at the same time?

 

How Executive Coaching Can Help CEOs Succeed
Drawn from my 25 year Organizational and Executive Coaching Practice, this highly engaging session will enlighten executives on why leaders fail, how leaders succeed and how leaders can use executive coaching to "change one thing, change everything."

 

Becoming the CEO Everyone Wants to Work With!
There is a new leaders emerging today that calls on leaders to be more engaging, less ego-driven, more facilitative than dictatorial. We all fall back into our old power-habits especially when no one gives us feedback to help us change. This highly engaging session will help leaders see the "patterns" that may be trapping them and how to break their old habits.

 

Raising Your Organizational & Emotional IQ
No work is more important for a leader than creating a culture in which all team members can contribute. That raises the collective IQ of the company and pays big dividends as the business gleans ideas for new strategies and improved processes. Before most workers will share their ideas and insights, leaders must create the environment for sharing-it doesn't happen by telling people to do it. In this highly engaging session, leaders will learn how to create "safe spaces" for healthy, innovative conversations for harvesting the wisdom and insights from their employees and team.

 

Turning Difficult Conversations into Coaching Moments
The least developed muscle in the world of business is the ability to be candid--to have a difficult conversation with someone we care about. When we are upset with someone, it's so much easier to talk through others--that is called triangulation. This highly engaging session will focus on marrying candor and caring and provide templates for having conversations that transform relationships and outcomes.

 

Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We- Thinking and Build a Healthy Thriving Organization
Our mindscape determines what we focus on, what we see, how we react and how we influence others. When we lead from a We-centric Mindset, we create environments that are more than collaborative - they are transformational. In this highly energetic session, participants will explore the nature of I and We-centric mindsets and how to create transformation in organizations.

 

The DNA of Leadership
What if we really did have leadership genes, and if we could create environments that helped leaders at all levels express their unique DNA. New research into genetics is confirming we do, in fact, have leadership genes. In a very engaging and energetic session, discover The DNA of Leadership, and how successful companies are shaping their environments to express both their organizational and individual DNA.

Is Bully Boss in Your DNA?
While we are learning that the new leadership is more about leader as facilitator than leader as boss, the real question is: do we have Bully Boss in our DNA and if so, how to manage it, handle it and not be trapped by it. In this soul-searching session, leaders will hear and explore stories of leadership from the real world, and see what the signs of Bully Boss Syndrome are so they can prevent it from eroding the organizational terrain.

 

How to handle a Bully Boss, Bully Peer and Bully Self!
Anyone who has had a bully boss knows how deleterious they are to our well being. They intimidate, they minimize, and they demonstrate aggressiveness and often choose targets to single out ? thereby creating fear in everyone with whom they work. At the same time we know that Human Beings are hardwired for alpha dominant behavior. We seek power and influence, and want and need to have important roles in our society and community: Being included, being valued are all vital to our health and well-being. When we fall into extreme needs for power--power over others--and have addictions to power--we can become the bully bosses everyone fears. This highly engaging session deals with how to handle bully bosses in the workplace.

 

Navigational Listening...The Racer's Edge
Listening is virtually the most important skill a leader can develop. Listening is more than hearing. Listening is a navigational tool leaders use to assess the landscape, create maps for what is going on inside, understand interpersonal dynamics, and clarify strategies for success. We can listen with our heart or our head or both. We "read into" what we hear and make interpretations. Listening is rarely from a neutral point of view. In this highly engaging session you will learn about listening from a new and powerful perspective--one that provides a new perspective on how to influence with power and integrity.

 

Living the Brand--Case Studies of Successful Companies
When a culture lives the brand, it means that employees are engaged with each other in understanding and interpreting the brand and executing it at every touch point with the customer. Often, when the brand is less differentiated, employees are working everyday without the sight to the customer and without the realization of how their enterprise uniquely delivers what is says it will. When employees learn to live the brand, they resonate a high level of valued expertise in concert with each other and provide outstanding service in a way not available anywhere else. In this session we'll talk about how successful companies create a "living the brand experience" in their organizations.

 

From Silos to Halos
The most destructive energy in business is exclusion and the most powerful is inclusion. We know what it feels like to be inside of a company with silos--it causes is to stop sharing, to fear others are adversaries. We hold on to knowledge, resources, and we play a zero sum game. What can leaders do to break down the silos and build a new level of respect and collaboration along the different parts of the organization? In this highly energetic, real life focused session leaders learn to assess what it takes to move from Silos to Halos.

 

Lessons from Successful Leaders
When we explore case studies of successful leaders, we often find that they have been faced with incredible challenges bigger than what they can handle alone. Creating engagement and releasing passion are vital to the success of an organization. Equally important is to balance candor and caring. In this interactive session leaders will have the opportunity to share and work on real life challenges in creating companies everyone wants to work in.

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Susan O'Malley

Former President of Washington Sports and Entertainment
First Female President of a Professional Sports Franchise

As the first female president of a professional sports franchise, Susan O'Malley is a pioneer in two fields: sports and business. Her ground-breaking business ideas and proactive approach to customer service has brought her, and Washington Sports and Entertainment, to the top of the sports business world.

Barbara Annis
Barbara Annis

Inclusive Leadership and Gender Diversity Expert

Barbara Annis is a recognized leading expert in inclusive leadership and gender initiatives.  Barbara and her associates are dedicated to removing organizational and leadership barriers by bringing the latest research and thinking on leadership, gender diversity and inclusiveness into the workplace, so that organizations can turn gender diversity into a powerful technology of success. 

Eileen McDargh
Eileen McDargh

Change, Leadership, and Life Balance Expert

Addressing universal themes of change and work/life balance, Eileen McDargh energizes and empowers participants to be resilient and encourages them to make positive improvements in their jobs and home lives.

Rebecca Shambaugh
Rebecca Shambaugh

Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of SHAMBAUGH

Coaching senior executives on crisis and change management, culture development, and corporate governance, Rebecca Shambaugh delivers trends and solutions to the latest leadership challenges. In addition, Shambaugh describes the sticky floor effect on women in the workplace and shares best practices and proven solutions for developing, advancing, and retaining woman leaders.

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