Siobhan Calderbank - Global Change/Leadership
Siobhan Calderbank is a dynamic speaker, an award-winning published author, and an expert in change management and leadership. She has spoken to diverse groups at conferences, events, seminars, and planning sessions to motivate individuals to work more collaboratively. She is a creative, energetic, results-driven speaker with a well-earned reputation for motivating and inspiring client groups.
She offers a unique proprietary 4-step approach to leading change that bridges the generational differences in change and leadership. She has aided teams to develop innovative solutions to achieve their strategic objectives, grow their organization’s market share, improve efficiency, increase profitability and enhance culture through engagement.
Siobhan’s many years of experience enabled her to fuse together her love of teaching and her passion for change management to become a sought-after speaker that inspires professionals and business leaders to improve performance outcomes.
Siobhan has been praised for her high energy, engaging and effective communication style and award-winning programs. She has completed her Master’s degree at Royal Roads University, with a focus on organizational change, leadership development and generational diversity.
Siobhan has spoken along side some very influential people
What clients are saying:
Siobhan rocked the presentation, it was excellent and exactly what we wanted. It is being tweeted and yammered as we speak
~ Director, Leadership & Talent, National Food Manufacturer
Siobhan's Most Requested Topics
Connect, Communicate and Collaborate to Build Trust
In order to build trust and lead well, you must be able to communicate well. How you lead others and the communication approach you choose, are vital to your success as a leader. Whether you are leading a team of individuals, coaching your staff, providing guidance and direction to a colleague, implementing a new change initiative, or simply talking to your peers – communication is important. Poor communication can lead to big problems, reduced confidence, mistakes, lowered productivity, conflict, misinterpretation of information, unclear orders, and overlooked changes.
Through this interactive keynote, Siobhan will introduce you to:
- Identify and adapt your communication when encountering diverse style preferences
- Determine your own communication style and how to recognize the impact that it has on others
- Select strategies to strengthen your leadership communication skills, enhance team effectiveness, and to build trust by encouraging healthy conflict.
Thinking Strategically To Lead Change and Innovation
Thinking strategically is a key leadership skill required for all levels in an organization when leading teams through change and innovation.
In this interactive keynote, we will examine strategies that support innovation and new initiatives. By strategically selecting the right combination of strategies you will be able anticipate employee reactions, address the anxiety that staff feel when they are faced with a new initiative, manage resistance and appropriately respond to those reactions (even the nay-sayers) in a way that will increase innovation and success of your change initiatives.
Through this interactive keynote, Siobhan will introduce you to:
- Define different types of thinking, such as strategic thinking, systems thinking, innovative thinking, critical thinking and pioneer thinking,
- Strategically identify best practice techniques and tools to lead teams through change and innovation,
- Recognize the signs of resistance (including your own) to new initiatives so that you can address, acknowledge and manage these concerns.
Compelling Change Communication - The Cornerstone for Gaining Commitment to Change
Effective leaders recognize and understand that resistance is greatest when change is unexpected or unexplained. As a result, they take a proactive approach by developing strategies and compelling communications to minimize resistance, as well as help individuals move through the change curve towards commitment. Communication strategies need to be well thought out and purposeful to create excitement and mobilize people to take action. In this engaging session, you will learn how to create a sense of urgency for the change, how to address individual concerns, and what people need communicated to them in order to gain their commitment to the change.
Through this interactive keynote, Siobhan will introduce you to:
- Determine who the best person is, the frequency and appropriate mediums to communicate change,
- Identify who needs to be informed about the change and how to tailor the communication to the audience,
- Develop a powerful change communication script that addresses what stakeholders really want to know.
Here are other topics that Siobhan will speak about:
- Organizational change,
- Team collaboration,
- Women empowerment,
- Employee engagement.