Liz Weber
Specializes in strategic and succession planning, and leadership development
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Liz is known for her candor and clear insights. Clients and audiences appreciate her engaging humor, down-to-earth style, and “packed to go” action strategies.
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Liz has been there, done it, and learned from it. Whether speaking to corporate executives or government professionals, Liz’s stories, comments, and insights on strategic leadership, leadership team depth and accountability always ring true.
As the founder and Managing Principal of Weber Business Services, LLC, a management consulting, training,
and speaking firm headquartered near Harrisburg, PA, Liz and her team of consultants provide strategic and
succession planning, executive coaching, and leadership development training programs and keynotes.
Liz is one of fewer than 100 people in the U.S. to hold both the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and
Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designations; the highest earned designations in two different
professions. She also holds a degree in International Business from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA
from the George Washington University.
Liz has supervised business activities in 139 countries and has consulted with organizations in over 20
countries. She has designed and facilitated conferences from Bangkok to Bonn and Tokyo to Tunis. Liz has
taught for the Johns Hopkins University’s Graduate School of Continuing Studies, as well as the Georgetown
University’s Senior Executive Leadership Program. In addition to serving in various local and regional
association leadership roles, Liz served as a National Director with the National Speakers Association
for six years, as its Strategic Planning Committee Chair for four years, as well as serving on the Executive
Compensation, Leadership, and Executive Committees. Liz won the association’s President’s Award for
Service twice for chairing two global task forces.
Liz is the author the of several leadership books: Something Needs to Change Around Here: The Five Stages to Leveraging Your Leadership – 1st & 2nd Editions, Stop So You Can Get the Results You Want (4-book set for business owners, managers, human resources professionals, and women in leadership), Don’t Let ‘Em Treat You Like a Girl – A Woman’s Guide to Leadership Success – 1st, 2nd & 3rd Editions, Leading From the Manager’s Corner, as well as being a contributing author to Nuts & Bolts on Business along with Dr. Dennis Whaitley and Jim Cathcart.
Liz’s Leadership Made E.A.S.Y.® ezine and column appears monthly in several trade publications, association newsletters, and internet resource centers for executives.
Something’s Going to Change Around Here! The Five Stages to Leveraging Your Leadership
Program Description:
- Do you come in early and stay late, just to get YOUR work done?
- Do your team members lack depth and the talent needed to drive your organization forward?
- Would you like to learn why you’re always playing catch-up just to keep up?
If your audience members answer ‘YES!’ to just ONE of those questions, this presentation is right for them! Leading and building team depth can be a challenge for even the most experienced professional. However, through client scenarios, exercises, and her model: The Five Stages of Focused Leadership Development™, Liz will help your audience members identify why their teams under-perform, depend upon them to solve problems, and cause them to work the long hours they do. In addition, your audience members will be able to take a free leadership assessment before Liz’s program to learn which of the 5 stages they’re modeling and what specific changes to make to enhance their own and their teams’ performance!
For more customized impact, have your group take Liz’s FREE Leadership Assessment before your event and provide each participant an autographed copy of Liz’s book to continue the learning after the event!
Program Objectives:
In this session, your participants will:
- Identify where they need to focus their individual leadership development energies
- Learn how to change their leadership styles to enhance their teams’ performance
- Create a process for developing leadership-depth throughout their organization
• Are your customers’ needs changing faster than ever before?
• Are your products and services easily mimicked by the
competition?
• Are you concerned about your organization’s relevance and viability?
If your audience members answer ‘YES!’ to just ONE of those questions, this presentation is right for them!
Through client examples, exercises and interactive discussions, Liz Weber will share how leaders need to think and lead more strategically to help their organizations become more nimble, focused, and successful. Stop playing catch-up. Start leading the way by anticipating your clients’ next need, their next move, and their next need of you.
It’s time to stop worrying about how to keep up with the competition and instead shift gears to become the organization others want to beat!
Learning Objectives: In this session, your audience members will learn to:
1. Evaluate their Tier 1-4 customers to refine their organizations’ strategic focus
2. Outline the organizational restructuring needed to accommodate a refined product and
services offering
3. Develop updated strategic and talent development maps that will guide them and their
organizations’ leadership teams for the next 3+ years
Liz Weber and her team provide strategic and succession planning, executive coaching, and
comprehensive leadership development programs to business owners, boards of directors and
leadership teams.
Liz is one of fewer than 100 people in the U.S. to hold the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP)
and Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designations; the highest earned designations in two different professions.
Headquartered near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Liz has supervised business activities in 129
countries and has consulted in over 20. She has also written nine leadership books, writes a
monthly column, and shares strategic leadership insights via various social media outlets daily.
Being a manager, business owner, or board director is tough. If you’re a woman, it can feel even more challenging – if you continue to practice the common behaviors of women leaders shared in this presentation.
From women new-to-leadership to the most seasoned C-Suite executives, leadership consultant Liz Weber has seen too many women in leadership roles work harder than they need to, create confusion when there didn’t need to be any, and fail to earn the money, positions, and respect they deserve.
In this fast-paced, funny, interactive yet engaging presentation, award-winning author and Strategic Leadership Expert, Liz Weber, highlights behaviors women in leadership positions need to stop doing and what they need to start doing to realize the leadership effectiveness, success, and rewards they are seeking.
With this insightful program, your audience members will uncover some painful professional weaknesses, but they will be given the solutions to become even more effective leaders, who happen to be savvy women!
Learning Objectives:
- Following this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify which behaviors to start and which stop to enhance their effectiveness as savvy leaders
- Create a process for developing leadership skills in other women and men to build stronger, more engaged and productive teams, boards, or organizations!
- Communicate and negotiate with greater confidence and candor
NOTE:
There is NO male-bashing in this presentation.
Does Your Company Need a Workforce Plan for the Future?
In this informative, nuts & bolts presentation, Liz Weber, CMC, CSP presents straight-forward ideas on why and how to build depth and develop an on-going succession planning process – not just a plan. The process is more than just creating a plan. The plan is more than just filling slots. Liz’s presentation shares logical insights with her eight-step process for linking succession plans with the company’s strategic plan to ensure alignment, proper workforce planning, and growth for your organization as well as with your staff.
Learning Objectives:
In this presentation, your audience will learn to:
- Identify the Value in Organizational Succession Planning
- Align Succession Plans with Strategic Plans to Create Two Powerful Daily Management Tools
- Create Emergency/Short-Term Staffing & Long-Term Workforce Plans
- Identify “Hot Spots” and Build Bench Strength
- Establish Pools of Qualified Candidates for Numerous Positions
- Outline the Recruitment, Hiring, and Retaining Process
- Develop Organizational Support for Individual Development and the entire Succession Planning Process
Value to Attendees:
Attendees will leave with the ability to share the simple process Liz provides with their own boards or management teams to immediately re-assess or start their own organizational succession plans. They will not be left wondering, “So what do we do next?”
You’ve spent thousands of dollars and numerous hours developing your strategic plan.
Yet no one cares.
No one is inspired.
No one knows what to do!
What’s wrong with your team? What’s wrong with your plan?
In this presentation, Liz Weber, CMC, CSP will share her straight-forward strategic planning process for creating plans that get implemented! Her clear, concise, workable process has helped organizations including associations, hospital systems, governmental agencies, manufacturers, financial and professional services firms create clarity, focus, and results. Help your clients simplify the planning process, while increasing their effectiveness and success!
Program Objectives:
In this presentation, you will learn to:
- Create clear, focused, workable strategic plans.
- Use the strategic plan as a daily management tool to drive performance.
- Clarify expectations for every team member and show them how they fit in!
- Discover the simple, logical process for working the plan to ensure real change happens … and sticks!
Program Description:
- Would it help you if your team members or other managers addressed issues with less drama and emotion?
- Do you dread having another one of those conversations with an employee or a peer?
- Would you have more time to do real work if other managers would simply address performance issues right away?
If your participants answered yes to just ONE of those questions, this presentation is right for them!!
Liz Weber will share her techniques for managing difficult team member behaviors, conflicts, and situations. Your participants will learn to ‘get ahead’ of issues and minimize the workplace
drama while they enhance their team’s relationships, trust, and accountability. Win-Win-Win.
Program Objectives:
In this session, your participants will learn to:
- Analyze their own and others’ behavior during conflicts to determine how Passive, Assertive, Aggressive, and Passive-Aggressive behaviors impact teams
- Identify their dominant conflict management style and its impact on their teams
- Have Necessary Conversations™ while enhancing transparency and trust
- Hold team members accountable to do the jobs they’re being paid to do – without the drama!
- Are strategic and personnel decisions made without your input?
- Do other members of the management team treat you as an adversary instead of an advisor?
- Would you like to learn why you are NOT viewed as a strategic business partner?
If your audience members answer yes to just ONE of those questions, this presentation is for them! Liz Weber will help them quickly identify the answers to these frustrations many HR professionals face regularly. Strategic HR Business Partners assess their roles differently. Liz will share how savvy HR professionals can build credibility, highlight their value, and become the trusted and respected strategic business partners their organizations need.
Program Objectives:
In this Presentation Your Participants Will Learn to:
- Behave as Strategic HR Business Partners – and identify why they might be missing out
- Be Strategic and Show How Smart HR Strategies Can Drive Revenue
- Highlight HR’s Value by Simply Saying Things Differently
- Strategically Employ the One Key Question to Position Themselves as the Strategic Partners Their Organizations Need!
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