Bio

Leadership in a Mission Critical High-Risk Environment

Angela Mondou is a former Air Force captain and marketing executive whose unique and unconventional career has taken her from worldwide military operations to top-ranked high-tech companies, most recently Research in Motion, the creators of BlackBerry™.

As a military officer, while working for NATO in West Germany, Angela successfully developed the strategy to deploy the largest United Nations Peacekeeping contingent in history in 1992 into former Yugoslavia. While under fire and in just 10 days! She was also responsible for the rapid mobility planning and global logistics for the Canadian Forces Fighter squadrons during Operation Desert Storm.

After nine years in the Air Force, Angela moved on to the high-tech industry where she worked in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As a global team leader she was responsible for numerous 'rapid results' initiatives including: dynamic marketing programs, channel development strategies and product and team launches for some of the most exciting wireless technology this decade!

Now an entrepreneur and chief creator of ICE leadership, Angela has taken her unique leadership experience to a whole new level. She is a powerful national speaker on leadership and career strategies, delivers leading-edge workshops and is in the midst of writing a unique leadership book.

Stay tuned for Angela's upcoming leadership guide for those new business leaders and entrepreneurs who dare to lead!

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If a high-energy and dynamic presentation style packed with powerful real-life anecdotes are what you need, then Angela’s keynote presentations will have the impact you are looking for!

Angela is a dynamic, high-energy motivational speaker and proven leader in a mission-critical environment. A former Air Force captain, Angela’s career has taken her from worldwide military operations to some of the most leading-edge, high-tech companies, most recently Research In Motion, the creators of BlackBerry™. Whether she is leading high-risk military missions for the United Nations or fast-paced high-tech projects, Angela draws on her unconventional and exciting experience as an officer and an executive to demonstrate how entrepreneurs and business leaders can integrate best-in-class leadership principles into their work and personal life to achieve their goals.

Leadership is ubiquitous! Angela presents to a wide variety of industries,
on a number of different topics.

Angela engages audiences with fascinating leadership examples and inspirational messages from her adventurous and exciting leadership experience, working around the world. Her intriguing projects, both as a military officer and a corporate executive, Angela provides powerful insight into thriving in today’s fast-paced, changing and complex business environments. 

Keynotes

Mission Critical Leadership: Thriving in the Hot Seat!

As entrepreneurs, business leaders or project managers, your environment today is fast-paced, dynamic and complex! You require extreme leadership skills to manage beyond normal projects and make it in a world of tight timelines and limited resources. You are leading in the hot seat and there is little time for consensus management to gain buy-in across the many teams and partners you deal with. There is no question – it’s a project driven and mission-critical world! Leading successful projects today is similar to managing the fast-paced intense missions common to the military and other high-speed businesses. This keynote will focus on those tried true leadership strategies and principles.

Highlights:

• It’s all about execution…but think “flawed” execution.
• Keep your big picture and front lines connected.
• Plan. Then plan on changing your plans.
• Tie your team to the mission.
• Own the mission and all that goes with it – be accountable and expect accountability!

Keynotes

Master Your Destiny: Seize The Decade!

How do you go from combat boots and war-zones to humanitarian missions or super-exciting high-tech projects…Ask yourself where you want to go today? Tomorrow or even this decade? This keynote delivers a high-energy, high-impact message that resonates with all audiences: how to lead your life and achieve what you want in your career. Find out what it takes to Master your destiny and seize the opportunities that come your way!

Highlights:

• Have a plan. Then execute it!
• “You gotta want it more than the next guy!”
• Push your envelope. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
• Re-invent yourself!

Keynotes

It's all about execution

You’re launching new products, changing your customer service strategy, building a new business or writing a book. Whatever your mission, success comes down to turning plans into reality. Angela shares her lessons learned through high-impact anecdotes and mission-critical leadership strategies for executing projects on the fast-paced front lines of business. Learn how you can execute plans in your own challenging environment to make it happen!

Highlights:

• Situation. Mission. Execution.
• The ICE Strategy for Success (Integrate – Communicate – Execute)
• Tie your team to the mission
• Communicate ‘2 Up 1 down’
• Execute with a plan!

Keynotes

Get Leading Now! Powerful Leadership Principles for Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders to Seize the Day.

In this fast-paced business world, the people who thrive are those who constantly adapt their skills, knowledge and experience to create and seize new opportunities. In this keynote, Angela shares details of her high-profile United Nations missions as a military captain and lessons learned from fast-paced projects as a high-tech executive to provide insight for entrepreneurs and professionals on how to transform fast-changing situations into opportunities for growth.

Highlights:

• Spark creative explosion.
• Re-invent yourself and your team.
• Create a spider web.
• Leaders need co-leaders. Get a “2 I/C.”

Keynotes

Project Leadership… SWAT style!

Successful project management today is less about the science of using Gantt charts and more about leadership. You are managing in a fast-paced business environment – tight timelines, cross-functional teams and tough deliverables need to be well integrated for success. In this keynote, former military leader and high-tech industry executive Angela Mondou focuses on applicable leadership principles and balances these with accepted project management methods to form a new breed of high-tech tested “Project Lite” tools for today’s front-line and executive leaders.

Highlights:

• Leadership versus process. The balance.
• Leadership doesn’t have to be fancy!
• Connect your big picture and the front lines.
• Communicate the Plan: What’s your strategy?
• Executing: pulling it all together

Testimonials 

Angela provides a fun and innovative method of engaging participants in learning about traditional managerial subjects. Her course is not about lecturing or taking notes - it's about active participation in scenarios devised outside of typical manufacturing examples, which makes the training content more interesting, but which have direct application to our daily work environment. This course is a great alternative to the "same ol'" way of teaching managerial skills!

- Plant Manager, Campbell Company of Canada

• Participation in Angela Mondou's leadership workshop was very eye-opening. The whole experience was akin to waking up and realizing where and how we function as leaders in today's fast-paced environment. The approach to the workshop was multidimensional and each module I found to be both revealing and useful. I walked away from the program with a better appreciation for team dynamics, rapid decision-making, fast paced communication, and working in a mission critical environment. The tools and techniques presented in the workshop are both practical and highly relevant to our company's projects. This program should be part of any serious management training program.

- Andrew Pace, Director Business Development Pace Consulting Group Inc.

• As part of our CBET Outreach program, we are in the process of developing a ‘Strategic Leadership Certificate’ program for business leaders in the region. As part of this initiative, we have partnered with Angela to develop a unique and exciting leadership workshop: Mission-critical Leadership: Thriving in the Hot Seat! Using unique ‘mission-based’ leadership simulations, all participants in the program go away with leadership experience. With a focus on execution, her program is targeted at leaders in any industry with a focus on practicing key leadership strategies, including team integration, effective communication strategies and execution planning. The program was successfully launched this spring and will continue to be part of our Strategic Leadership program offering into 2006. Of note, the workshop has been approved by CMA for eight (8) learning credits.

- Cam Scholey, Associate Director University of Waterloo Center for Business, Entrepreneurship &
  Technology (CBET)

Keynotes

• "Angela captured the audience’s attention with a high energy intro. Her unique and high-profile experiences gave her the credibility to have a meaningful impact with the principles on leadership that she shared. Angela integrates timely principles on leadership and makes them applicable for ambitious professionals and entrepreneurs."

- Jeremy O’Krafka, National Manager Canadian Association of Career Educators
  and Employers (CACEE)

• "Angela is an inspiring, dynamic, creative and energetic speaker. Angela encourages young people to take on bigger challenges and push themselves to their full potential. She inspires students to reach for the top, and seek opportunities in areas that they find personally challenging. Having Angela Mondou as the keynote speaker for The 2005 Link Leadership in Business Conference Gala Evening was a perfect fit.”

- Darren Quinton, Director The LINK Leadership in Business Conference 2005 Wilfrid
Laurier University