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Linda Bjork shares a superhuman perspective on how to make leaders and teams live up to their full potential - with science, deep wisdom, and a disarming sense of humor

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Prepare to embark on a transformative mind-training journey with Linda Bjork, where audiences are guided towards profound self-awareness, collective brilliance, and alignment with organizational goals. For further exploration, click on the icons below.

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Keynote | Lecture | Workshop Topic

A NEW MIND FOR AI AND LEADERSHIP

How AI Reshapes Leadership Mindsets and Redefines Professional Worth

In today's fast-evolving business landscape, Artifical Intelligence is revolutionizing every aspect of operations. Often, leaders find themselves torn between chasing the hype or ignoring the inevitable changes. Both approaches spell trouble for the long-term vitality of a business.

Before diving into AI integration strategies, leaders and managers must grasp the profound impact AI has on our brains, mental wellness, and leadership capacities.

Purpose & Delivery:

In this leading-edge keynote, Linda Bjork guides audiences to discover strategies for a resilient mind
that can both utilize and outshine AI's capabilities.

A NEW MIND FOR AI AND LEADERSHIP is available as a conference keynote, company lecture with QnA, or panel participation.

Suitable for any industry, especially those utilizing technology for business advancement.

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Audiences Walk Away With:

  • Practical tools to navigate stress, overwhelm and resistance caused by AI's rapid evolution.

  • Deep insights into new brain challenges and behavioral changes that are reshaping the business mind.

  • Understanding the identity crisis professionals face in evolving markets, and learn strategies to lead and thrive amidst uncertainty.

  • Frameworks for optimizing team dynamics and securing future talent acquisition for the digital age.

  • Clear guidance on cultivating a resilient mind and leadership identity, with positioning insights into being an indispensable leader in the era of extreme complexity.

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LEADING SELF & UNLEASHING COLLECTIVE BRILLIANCE

From Self-Awareness to Team Results

Demands on leaders and teams have reached unparalleled levels. From navigating the breakneck pace of technological advancements to adapting to ever-changing work formats, issues from burnout and mental health challenges are rampant.

Traditional leadership approaches are no longer sufficient to deal with modern complexities, leaving organizations vulnerable to the negative impact of disengaged people and disconnected teams.

Purpose & Delivery:

In this eye-opening keynote, Linda Bjork utilizes
mind-training to unlock your team's untapped potential for individual excellence and collective brilliance.

LEADING SELF & UNLEASHING COLLECTIVE BRILLIANCE is available as a conference keynote, company lecture series with QnA, or panel participation.

Suitable for any industry, especially those relying on leaders and teams to deliver results.

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Participants Discover:

  • Enhanced self-awareness, knowing how to bring out the best in themselves and others.

  • Equipped to identify common attitudes and behaviors that block progress, and take action for positive change.

  •  A roadmap to agile focus skills and a forward-thinking
    mindset, crucial in the era of AI-driven advancements.

  •  Concrete techniques to navigate stress and overwhelm, even amidst external pressures and internal obstacles.

  • Advanced skill sets for fostering team synergy, transforming toxic dynamics into collaborative flow and turning conflicts into opportunities for growth.

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MIND-TRAINING FOR INNOVATION AND CHANGE LEADERSHIP

Empower Minds for Agile Innovation in Times of Complexity and Uncertainty

Innovation often faces formidable hurdles, from stifling company politics to restrictive performance metrics and outdated incentive structures.

Now, with the rise of Artificial Intelligence permeating every aspect of business, the landscape is evolving even further. Fear or overindulgence in change often hampers innovative processes.

To thrive in this shifting terrain, change leaders must support their teams with training to enhance everyone's cognitive, relational, and creative capabilities. 

Purpose & Delivery:

In this future-facing keynote, Linda Bjork guides audiences to explore under-utilized parts of their minds to reach new levels of creativity and innovation.

MIND-TRAINING FOR INNOVATION AND CHANGE LEADERSHIP is available as a conference keynote, company workshop, or panel participation.

Suitable for innovation leaders and teams in any industry. 

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Participants Discover:

  • Technology-induced brain changes impacting innovation, empowering them to prepare effectively.
  • Strategies to navigate overwhelm and resistance stemming from AI, complexity, and rapid changes.
  • How to focus in a distracted world.
  • Essential mind skills to overcome common obstacles in the co-creative process.
  • Next-level creativity and forward-thinking solutions, surpassing the capabilities of AI while embracing its supportive role.
  • Enhanced intra-personal, interpersonal, and relational skills crucial for innovation and change leadership.

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LEADING WITH EMPATHY & COMPASSION

Amplifying Impact and Efficiency through a Leadership Culture of Kindness and Connection

Faced with escalating volatility, uncertainty, and complexity, many leaders revert to outdated, ineffective behaviors—relying on past methods, avoiding responsibility, or resorting to 'management by fear.'

Failing to address these destructive reactions exacerbates the problem, leading to disengagement, increased turnover, and diminished success.

This lecture offers a solution: empowering leaders and managers to cultivate human-centric leadership skills essential for thriving in a high-tech, fast-paced, and disconnected environment.

Purpose & Delivery:

In this heart-opening keynote, Linda Bjork shares leading-edge insights on how to become a leader with connection, meaning, and great impact.

EMPATHETIC LEADERSHIP is available as a conference keynote, company lecture series with QnA, or panel participation.

Suitable for any industry, and
all levels of management and leadership.

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Participants Discover:

  • Explore the latest science behind the heart's role in effective leadership.

  • Learn to demonstrate empathy and kindness assertively, avoiding misconceptions of weakness.

  • Discover strategies for fostering meaningful relationships, whether in-person or remote, to enhance collaboration.

  • Acquire efficient tools for demonstrating care and support, maximizing productivity.

  • Gain insights into communication to boost engagement and loyalty while minimizing turnover.

  • Uncover the path to becoming a beloved and impactful leader, inspiring exceptional team performance.

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MQ® SAFETY INTELLIGENCE

The New Way to Lead Teams to Efficiency and Vision Zero

Accident prevention in heavy industries has plateaued, emphasizing the need for innovative strategies to reduce costly incidents.

Instead of blaming the field for incidents, managers can optimize their influence on outcomes where it starts: in the quality of leadership and how leaders show up and set their teams up for success (or failure).

This lecture series is a unique opportunity for project and safety leaders to start mastering the untapped power of the human element. As such, they must possess the qualities they seek in their teams, all captured within MQ® Safety Intelligence and the S.A.F.E. Platform. 

Purpose & Delivery:

With her leading-edge methods for safety leadership and project efficiency, Linda Bjork guides audiences to explore human-centric ways to excellent results.

MQ SAFETY INTELLIGENCE is available as a conference keynote, company workshop, or panel participation.

Audiences often include safety managers, EHS reps, executives, project managers, supervisors, and other safety stakeholders.

Participating Managers Gain Insights to Address How:

  • Leaders Set the Tone: Safe behaviors and attitudes are contagious. How leaders and managers show up and communicate considerably impacts safety outcomes.
  • Mental Preparedness Drives Safety: Training the minds of those in charge is essential for embedding safety deep within the organizational psyche.
  • Untrained Minds Are a Risk: Without proper mental training, our natural inclination towards stress, fear, and distraction increases the risk of accidents.

Lecture | Workshop Topic

S.A.F.E. ON THE JOB SITE

Bring Transformative Training to Your Onsite Teams

S.A.F.E. ON THE JOB SITE as a lecture or workshop is designed to support workers to combats stress, absentmindedness, and physical and cognitive failures that often lead to accidents and fatalities in high-risk and high stakes environments.

With human-centric methods for job site safety and efficiency, Linda Bjork and her facilitation team guide workers to explore the S.A.F.E. Platform.

Delivery:

S.A.F.E. ON THE JOB SITE is available as a lecture or workshop, either as a stand-alone event or in preparation for a comprehensive training program.

Audience members can be everybody on a job site or workplace where safety and efficiency are paramount.

Teams Walk Away with New Insights and Tools Within:

  • STRESS RESILIENCE
    Individual and collective stress resilience

  • AWARENESS
    Self-awareness, relational and situational awareness

  • FLEXIBILITY
    Mental, physical, and leadership flexibility

  • EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
    Brain function and decision-making

More Speaking Topics

Unlock the Potential of Your Leaders with High Level Mind-Training

As a rare expert in consciousness in leadership development, Linda Bjork is frequently brought in to elevate the capabilities of accomplished leaders, guiding them to reach even greater heights.

New capabilities for extraordinary leadership are released through self-awareness tools, cutting-edge science, and making consciousness development practical. 

For advanced leaders, senior managers, U.S. Army Generals, high level security professionals, and the like.

Dissolving Conflict and Creating Collaborative Teams 

With Linda's disarming style and deep knowledge of the human condition, she is called upon when conflicts have taken the better out of leaders and teams.

Most people misunderstand why conflicts occur, how damaging they are, and how close any team is to finding resolution. With the right insights and training, collaborative attitudes are within reach, paving the way for better team results.

For teams and companies, any level of management.

Elevate Any Event with a Profound Presence

Let your audiences embark on a transformative journey within themselves. Linda's captivating appearances take audiences on an experiential journey through the boundless potential of human leadership.

Linda ensures that the audience connects deeply with their inner essence, igniting a resonance with their meaning, purpose, and innate brilliance.

For event organizers who need great energy infused into their agenda and want to gift their audiences profound 'aha' moments.

Elevating Women Leaders and Female Empowerment

Linda Bjork is a sought-after speaker at Women Leadership Conferences worldwide and offers empowering strategies tailored to female leaders.

Linda shares a new power playbook that leverages data, science, and wisdom, and demonstrates how feminine qualities are essential in shaping the new business and leadership landscape. 

For female audiences ready to gain profound and practical insights into overcoming success barriers and learn to cultivate a superhuman approach to power and influence.

Meet The Speaker

Linda Bjork propels professionals worldwide toward their highest leadership excellence with an unparalleled blend of scientific rigor, profound wisdom, and an infectious sense of humor. Whether through keynote speeches, panel discussions, or company workshops, Linda’s uncanny ability to guide people through profound transformation is welcomed and deeply treasured.

A former Award-Winning CEO hailed as "The Meditating CEO" since 2007, Ms. Bjork now spearheads the Inner Business Institute, pioneering groundbreaking concepts like Mindfulness Intelligence® and the S.A.F.E. Platform. Her influence extends through her bestselling book "Inner Business - Training Your Mind for Leadership Success" and the leadership blueprint for the big leagues "Mind Skills" co-authored with esteemed technologist Stephanie Mitchko, former CTO of the Fortune 100 company Charter Communications.

In October 2024, Linda released a groundbreaking human-centered method for safety and efficiency in high-risk industries, “S.A.F.E. The New Way to Reach Vision Zero and Optimize Efficiency,” which immediately became a best-seller.

Beyond her engineering, design, and business acumen, Linda Bjork holds credentials as a Certified MBSR Leader, a Certified Success Coach, and an Ordained Interfaith/Inter-spiritual Minister. In 2022, Linda earned the prestigious title of Evolutionary Leader, a testament to her unwavering commitment to catalyzing positive change in business and beyond. Linda lives and works in Greenwich, CT, and New York City.

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