Linda Swindling
Helping people communicate powerfully so that others will listen
Topic Categories:
- High-stakes communication and negotiation expert.
- Former employment attorney
- Executive coach and strategic consultant
- Speaking areas: negotiation, positive influence, high performance, work drama
- Author of 18 books including these other books: Stop Complainers & Energy Drainers and The Manager’s High-Performance Handbook
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From the courtroom to the boardroom, Linda Byars Swindling, JD, CSP, knows firsthand about engaging in high-stakes communications, negotiating workplace drama, and influencing decision makers. Her specialty is helping people communicate powerfully so that others will listen.
With a talk show host’s timing and advanced facilitator training, Linda is quick on her feet and customizes to get your message heard.
Linda first addressed employment and workplace communication issues as a successful attorney and a mediator, which led her to working as a consultant and an executive coach. When her first book, The Consultant’s Legal Guide, was released in 2000, Linda left her legal practice to focus full-time on Journey On, her Dallas-based, woman-owned business that offers customized training programs, strategic consulting, executive coaching and keynote speaking.
Now a “recovering” attorney, Linda is an engaging and fun keynote speaker. She delivers take-home strategies which work in the real work environment. Her material is innovative, based on original research and more than twenty years of experience. You won’t hear anecdotal or intangible theories based on books she read. Instead, you get negotiation strategies that produce breakthrough outcomes and lasting results.
A Certified Speaking Professional and frequent media guest, Linda’s has presented at the TEDxSMU event in Dallas, Texas. She is author/coauthor of 20 books including The Manager’s High-Performance Handbook: How to Drive Winning Performance with Everyone On Your Team and Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More Done. In addition,her popular Passports to Success book series includes 13 titles such as:
- Get What You Want
- Say It Right
- At Your Service
- Set the Standard
- Do Change Better
- Meet the Challenge
- Reach Your Goals
- Learn to Communicate
- Network Smart
Her newest book, Ask Outrageously: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want, is the subject of a TEDxSMU Talk and will be released in 2017.
In addition to service on several local boards, Linda has served as a:
- Vistage chair
- National officer of the National Speakers Association (NSA)
- President of the National Speakers Association/North Texas
She is a winner of the Joseph J. Charbonneau which is the highest honor NSA/North Texas bestows up its members. Linda has worked with boards of directors, organizational teams, CEOs, key decision makers, and high potentials. Her clients include the Fortune 500, companies from a wide variety of industries, governmental entities and many international associations.
Ever find yourself on the edge of doing something phenomenal and wondering if it is the right decision and the right time? Have you ever known you had the right ideas but wished you could “check your answers” before you presented them?
In a culture that encourages sensitivity and “good” manners, you need tactics and strategies to show up powerfully to negotiate for the best deals at work and in life with confidence and integrity. It’s possible to achieve breakthrough results just by asking. This research-based program will leave you with strategies to:
- Ask for what you really want
- Show up powerfully so others will listen
- Reach winning results with confidence and integrity
- Embrace strategic risk taking
- Create significant connections with key people
- Attract support for your ideas.
Constant complainers take up resources, time and mental bandwidth. Based on Linda’s new book, Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More Done, this program offers concrete ways to help you negotiate through tough workplace situations. This program reveals how to:
- Stop complainers and energy drainers from wasting your time
- Use concrete phrases and strategies to turn constant complainers into productive contributors
- Refocus conversations with venters, complainers, whiners and energy drainers
- Get more done with less drama
- Implement the #1 way to stop a complainer
Would you like to increase your executive presence and power? After hearing this program you will be fully equipped to:
- Collaborate to win
- Be heard and know how to communicate with CEOs
- Master the art of deal making and high impact negotiating
- Recognize how to pursue only winning deals
- Bulletproof your position
- Become a chief decision maker
What would happen if everyone on your team was committed to driving winning results? Are you interested in getting the best out of people without burning out in the process?
High performers share similar attitudes and behaviors. They are motivated, dedicated self-starters who drive results no matter the circumstances. Their energy is contagious and engaging and they make your job easy. Based on research for her new book, The Manager’s High-Performance Handbook: How to Drive Winning Performance with Everyone on Your Team, Linda will show you how to:
- Find the right people with the right talents and skills
- Inspire team members to collaborate, innovate and rely on each other
- Motivate everyone on your team to focus on and produce superior results
- Fast track your high potentials and emerging leaders
- Create momentum with your own career without burning out in the process.
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