Linda Crill
A rare talent of business wisdom, relationship brilliance and unwavering optimism
Topic Categories:
- Reinvention Expert
- Entrepreneur
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The Speaker
A former Fortune 100 executive, Linda Crill is recognized as a worldwide authority on change management and an expert on driving change. She is a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Linda is a rare talent of business wisdom, relationship brilliance and unwavering optimism. She is engaged in training, speaking and evaluating change projects around the world.
Linda’s passion inspires others to navigate life’s many blind curves, find joy in unusual places and reinvent new ways of being. She has helped thousands of leaders at companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Honeywell International and Siemens.
Her mission, with every audience she meets, is to open their minds about the future, provoke fresh thinking around what’s possible and inspire them to take action.
The Author
Linda is a masterful author with an ability to influence people through her words and ideas. In her award-winning book Blind Curves, she holds readers captive as she takes them on a fantastic journey of reinvention, complete with suspense, drama and insights into the complexities of societal issues and expectations.
Linda is not a “one size fits all” kind of woman. She traded her corporate suits for motorcycle leathers. Her unusual story of reinvention looks at how to find new meaning when life throws you the unexpected and undeserved. It shows the value of erasing old boundaries and opening doors labeled “not me.” Funny, irreverent and honest, Blind Curve is the perfect read when the current ways no longer work and you’re looking to answer “What now?”
The Businesswoman
Linda doesn’t believe “if you build it they will come”; however, she does consider that believing in your own success, no matter how outrageous your ideas might seem, is integral to achieving it. She credits her success in business to being comfortable thinking her way through—and actually executing her way through—the desired outcome. She imparts confidence and faith in others, inspiring them to affect change in their own careers and beyond. Her business acumen is centered on how to take a calculated risk without making a reckless decision. She answers “What now?” then moves forward.
The Person
Linda was born in Kansas, relocated to 16 states, lived abroad and currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area. Since childhood, she has been the consummate reinventor. She’s learned to shift gears quickly, manage chaos gracefully and face change with resilience—in pursuit of love and career. Her passage to become an authority on change management was predestined.
Linda’s persistence, determination and willingness to change is evidenced by interests that include downhill skiing, trapeze flying, scuba diving and ballroom dancing.
She is the mother of three grown children who wholeheartedly support her nontraditional path to rediscovering a zest for life.
The Guarantee
Everyone who hears Linda’s message leaves with a renewed sense of confidence and an abundance of ambition.
Of course, we all believe that we are “change ready.” From some perspectives, we are. It seems natural that we went from the Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, less than the lifetime of an average person. Sometimes, however, business leaders, managers, consultants and educators seem to be wearing blinders. How did Kodak and Polaroid miss the shift to digital film? How did Sony miss the shift to digital music? How did IBM miss the shift to smaller computers?
Award-winning author and change expert Linda Crill reveals how to generate change before it occurs in your life and career. She is a disrupter and innovator, but warns not all innovators are disrupters, in the same way that a square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares. This thought-provoking presentation takes on this profound problem in which businesses and people lock into the practices that gave them their initial successes and seek to defend and extend their current products and services against all comers. The world is changing at a pace that requires planned disruption, proactive reinvention and a strategy to handle everything unplanned that provokes the question, “What Now?”
TAKEAWAY MESSAGE
What Now? shows practical ways to use short-term disruptions to generate long-term results. It’s a valuable message for any person or business that wants to go where the market will be tomorrow instead of remaining where it is today.
Most organizations recognize the importance of innovation in advancing their competitive position or improving their business processes. However, many may not recognize that successful innovation is built on a framework of component functions, each of which is critical to the overall efficiency of the program. This presentation provides the framework for companies to develop an operating model, define objectives and create a culture that forms the innovation process.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Develop alignment strategies to enhance the company’s competitive position.
- Design the processes and tools to gain a high level of participation and idea contributions.
- Artfully communicate the commitment necessary to brand the changes being championed.
The Keys to Leadership Success
Leaders are everywhere. They are business owners, executives and managers. They are teachers. They are parents. Anyone can be a leader-it is not something that comes with a particular job or vocation. This insightful session will reveal how to improve yourself, acquire the skills necessary to influence people and provide a blueprint to help others reach their maximum potential.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- How to influence others to join a cause greater than making a profit or creating good products or services.
- How to paint a convincing picture of the future that motivates and prepares people for what’s coming.
- How to devote time and energy to grooming talent, as well as recognizing and rewarding good work.
A breast cancer survivor, caregiver and widow, Linda Crill shares a powerful message that, regardless of where you are, whom you are with or how unappealing the future may appear, the next pages of your life can be enriching and fulfilling. Women’s groups and conferences rave about this distinctive presentation that helps women become what they are intended to be in spite of conditions that may stand in the way.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- How to make your way forward in spite of conditions that would discourage and disable many.
- How to change priorities when the world evolves in unforeseen directions.
- How to let go of what was and have faith in what will be.
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