Linda Edgecombe, BPE.
Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Humorist

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“Life Perspective Specialist”

Biography

Linda Edgecombe is an internationally renowned, award winning Speaker Hall of Fame Inductee, trainer and consultant. She is a best selling author who energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh.  Her audiences are motivated and shown how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves.  Change has never been this painless!

As a professional, with a degree in Physical Education, Edgecombe brings over 20 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, Lifestyle and Corporate Consulting experience to her programs and her clients. She was a consultant for PARTICIPACTION promoting healthy living to North Americans and is known for being one of the country’s most popular Speakers.  She was featured in The Wall Street Journal as an expert in “Shifting Perspectives”.

Linda’s newest book, “Boost, Powerful Tools to Re-Energize and Re-Engage You and Your Team in Crazy Times”, provides easy-to-follow, fun, seven-step plan, Edgecombe shows managers and entrepreneurs how to do more and do it better while having fun, and how to give themselves and their teams the “boost” they need to accomplish the goals they’ve set for themselves. In the fast-paced and always changing world of business, everyone needs an edge. Entertaining and inspiring, this book shows how to get it.

Inside all the laughter, Edgecombe’s audiences are inspired to find the meaning in what they do and let go of what’s not working.  Her message is as welcome as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror.

Topics

BOOST – Powerful tools to Re-engage and Re-energize You and Your Team in Crazy Times

Get ready for an Energy Boost?  Through her humorous stories, relevant research and honest questions, Linda works with audiences to deliver strategies and goals for living a more happy, and productive life, while increasing successes in your work teams.

You and your team will come away with:

• Key steps to move towards accountable teams and attitudes

• Keys to creating a healthy 'change resilient’ LEADERS and Teams

• A plan for 'shifting perspectives', 'facing your fears' and ˜dumping excuses' in the face of change.

• Strategies to live a “Just Do It Plan” vs. a “Perfection Plan”

• Strategies to Re-Energize Yourself, Your Team, Your Family

Shift or Get Off the Pot… Simple Truths about Getting a Life!  Batteries Included

From Linda's best-selling book of the same title, this presentation is filled with ideas and solutions for "Getting a Life". Linda will get you thinking about how accountability affects your home and work life.  Come away with great tips on how to take your life back, get energy to burn and start creating new stories tomorrow.  

You and your team will come away with:

• An honest snapshot of themselves and how their energy affects their work and home life.
• An understanding of the motivation behind the perfectionist so many of us are striving for.
• 5 Keys to increase your personal, family and co-workers Energy Levels.
• An honest look at the Balance in your Life.
• Steps to get you moving towards a more balanced, energized work and home life.
• Clear vision of their own "Personal Recipe for Happiness"

Shifting to the New Reality......Building Change Resilience During Uncertain Times

With Linda's humorous life experiences and activities you will laugh out loud while you move to 'accountable thinking'. In this upbeat, highly interactive session, Linda will explore a variety of aspects of what it means to be a leader today, the realities of our times and how we can become change resilient no matter what the challenges are. Here's your chance to unleash your Leadership Potential! LEADING Change Ready Cultures has never been this painless!

This is an informative and energizing presentation that will leave the participants with a renewed perspective on themselves and their work. This session will cover:

 You and your team will come away with:

• An understanding of change, why we love it and dread it
• Ideas about how to change negative drainers in their lives and produce more positive outcomes.
• A sense of what TEAM efforts can accomplish.
• Inspiration, optimism and feeling recharged.
• The ability to break out of Limiting Thinking and become “Accountable Perspective Specialists".

Testimonials

As a meeting planner it is always a great relief to have speakers that are easy to work with and provide exceptional content and value to your conference. Linda was that and more! The attendees at IFMA’s World Workplace 2010 conference and expo “LOVED” Linda. We offered Shift or Get off the Pot in a Power Speaker series twice for our nearly 5,000 conference attendees and we had participants attend the session twice “it was that good.” Moreover her book SOLD OUT in our onsite bookstore within minutes. Linda did an amazing job for us and we will definitely bring her back.

International Facility Management Association 

The feedback from our Conference was absolutely amazing. Thank you for exceeding all expectations and delivering the perfect message to our delegates. While we were uncertain whether a person of your gifts and talents would be fully appreciated by our audience, you were definitely the right choice at the right time. We were especially pleased by the positive feedback received from the family members who joined us for your closing remarks. It is very rewarding to know that we have helped improve the lives of our members and their families – THANKS A MILLION!

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 

Keeping them laughing in Orlando

Linda succeeded at motivating a large group highly educated business consultants/coaches along with their spouses. Her approach was refreshing and fun, especially for a group used to facilitating and leading their own client session. Linda engaged everyone with her enthusiasm, quick wit, great storytelling skills and ability to make us all laugh and think about our own work/life balance acts. She captured our interests then left us to reflect upon our own circumstances. Linda’s session was inspiring, very professionally delivered and well done! If you want to re-energize your group at your next conference-call Linda!

RLG International, Inc. 

Resources (Books)

BOOST, Powerful Tools to Re-energize and Re-engage You and Your Team in Crazy Times!

Do you need to give yourself and your organization an energy boost? What do you need to help you re-focus, re-energize, and re-invent how you and your team see life and work? Do you want to see your team? Increase efficiency and creativity? Increase endurance with energy to spare? Feel revitalized and positive? Be extraordinary with your clients? Be driven to be outstanding in the field? BOOST! offers a six-step plan to improve engagement, and it will be the best cleanse your team has ever experienced. Re-energizing and re-engaging your team is something you need to act on. Energy is a question of physics: what you put out you will get back. 

Shift… or Get Off the Pot, 26 Simple Truths About Getting a Life

Are you shaking your head that another year is rolling along and you haven’t done what you really want to do with your life? Does the word spontaneous in your life only apply to the latest hot flash or hair loss? If this is hitting home for you, Shift Or Get Off The Pot is the book for you! Throughout this book Linda Edgecombe encourages and humours you while she has you reflecting on yourself and your life. 

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