Birgitt Williams is passionate about organizations and the individuals within them. She has built her successful career on the holistic approach she uses to assist organizations attain their potential and achieve their success. Her experiential interactive speaking engagements leave audiences with practical tools that they can use immediately. Asking ‘Socratic style’ questions that challenge her audiences to find wisdom within themselves, Birgitt also provides "how to" ways to create success in life and work. The inspiration that Birgitt instills with her speaking engagements is lasting.

Birgitt Williams is available for engagements at conferences, symposiums, and other business gatherings, speaking on “The Wellness R(E)volution for Organizations” and other topics.

To make the most of the speaking engagement, Birgitt offers a customized package for a full day or more that includes a speech followed by a Large Group Methodology known as Open Space Technology so that participants have maximum opportunity to work with the ideas from the speech, making meaning of them for their work and their lives. Real learning and real integration takes place when this option is chosen that creates the space for inspiring conversations.

Birgitt's Speaking Topics Include:

* The Wellness (R)Evolution for Organizations

Birgitt Williams is passionate about the importance of healthy and balanced organizations, not only for the success of the organizations but also for the impact on the health of the individuals within them.

According to Birgitt, two parties must work together to achieve organizational health and balance. The first party is the organization itself and the second party is the individuals within the organization. If the organization is not committed to working on its health and balance, or if the individuals within the organization are not committed to working on their personal health and balance, it is not possible to achieve and sustain a healthy and balanced organization that is capable of optimal performance.

Birgitt offers a holistic approach to organizational health and balance. As she goes over this approach with her audience, she provides key questions that can be taken back to the organization to be worked on, and she simple tools and frameworks that can be taken away and put to immediate use.

* Leadership for Inspired Organizations requires Spiritual Intelligence

Engaging Spirit at work to develop the in-spired organization requires a Spiritual Intelligence in leaders. Birgitt challenges her audience to understand leadership as a different competency than management. She outlines the differences, asks challenging questions, and brings her audience to a common agreement on what leadership is. The questions are Socratic in nature, probing deeply into the wisdom of the individuals in the audience in a way that has a strong and lasting impact.

Following this exploration of leadership versus management competencies, Birgitt takes her audience through an exploration of what is required of leaders in today's complex environment that changes rapidly. She explains that change management is an oxymoron.

Birgitt offers tools that the audience can take away to increase their competency and capacity for what is required of leadership today. These tools are simple, easy to duplicate throughout the organization, and are effective. Her approach is holistic focusing on the health and development of mind, body, spirit, and emotions. Within this approach is the conscious development of aware Spiritual Intelligence. She explains why Spiritual Intelligence is one of the keys for successful leadership now and into the future.

* Women in Leadership

Birgitt took on the position of a CEO of a multi-service social service when she was 31 years old, in 1986. Prior to her mandate for this job, the former CEO's had all been men and all over 50 years of age. When Birgitt looked for female role models and mentors in leadership positions in her community, she did not find any. She was however, blessed with wonderful mentors, both male and female, who cheered her on for bringing a new approach to leadership and she really needed them to stay inspired and courageous. As she attempted to change things, too often she was faced with barriers because 'a man would not do it that way' and 'it has not been done this way here before'.

Birgitt persevered with what she learned as feminine principles for leadership in which she did indeed lead differently.

Birgitt speaks of the experience of being a female leader, of what she learned, and of advice that she has for female leaders today. Birgitt has received a number of awards for her loyal and dedicated effort for women in the workplace.

Her story is inspiring and insightful. Birgitt is a skilled storyteller, communicating deeply from the heart. As well as telling the story, Birgitt challenges her audience with deep Socratic questions, stirring learning that goes deep.

* Speaking Engagement, Part Two

Too often, members of an audience get deeply inspired by a speaker but then don't have time to integrate the material for their use to the extent that they would like to. There just doesn't seem to be the time for key conversations about the material ‘back at work’. This is a lost opportunity. Birgitt encourages those who hire her to do a speaking engagement to consider a second part to the engagement. Following the speech, Birgitt recommends a large systems meeting methodology called Open Space Technology be used to create a time, space and structure for conversations to take place based on the items that came up for people during the speech. This meeting takes 1⁄2 day and can include a statement of commitments that people make as they take what they learned into their organization and into their lives. Real and deep and personal learning takes place this way. The organization is more likely to experience real results from their investment in having a speaker come in. Birgitt has international acclaim as a skilled facilitator of an interactive meeting methodology known as Open Space Technology.

* Integrative Facilitation following a Speaking Engagement by another Speaker

Birgitt Williams is also available to lead these Open Space Technology meetings following presentations by other speakers. She has done with great success for clients in the past. For example, in a two day conferences a speaker addressed the audience on Day One and then an Open Space Technology meeting was facilitated by Birgitt on Day Two as people worked with the materials of Day One.