Dr. Janet Lapp
Change Management, Future Skills, Leadership Expert
Dr. Janet Lapp delivers a powerful message: Change is not a force to be feared but an opportunity to be seized, and the choice is ours. With humour and finesse, she confronts her audiences with the truth of what they need to do, and how they need to think, to move into the future with success and optimism. Her energy-charged, exhilarating programs give usable ideas to put to work right away to lead people into the future.
Author of several best-selling books including Positive Spin, she is also creator of the highly rated CBS series Keep Well, and has appeared on her own health shows on PBS and INN-affiliates.
Dr. Lapp has spent over 30 years in health care as a registered nurse, nurse manager, lab director and clinical psychologist. After earning a Ph.D. from McGill University, Dr. Lapp was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship, and she pursued a successful career as a clinician, researcher and university professor before founding her own leadership development firm.
Rated by Toastmasters International as one of the top three speakers worldwide, Dr. Lapp was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame. She has spoken in all continents to over 2,500 organizations that are serious about creating radical and bold leadership and a successful and optimistic future.
Dr. Janet Lapp is one of the most sought-after speakers in the world today, dealing with how to adapt to an information society, and how to develop the skills to thrive with change. Her energy-charged, exhilarating programs offer effective ideas with relevant and timely applications to lead people into the future.
All presentations are completely customized, which means that you don't have to choose just one topic. Together you and Dr. Lapp will decide which components best fit to reinforce the objectives of your meeting, to address the specific challenges and concerns facing your audience, and to provide practical, take-home value. The following are 2 current examples of Dr. Janet Lapp's most requested presentations.
Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air: Thrive During Fast Change
Leadership demands the ability to think and lead others in new ways. This inspirational business program is a wake-up call to the future. Knowing up-to-date trends impacting your world, you’ll be able to think and lead others in new ways.
- Discover opportunities in rapid change;
- See the positives. Keep team morale high;
- Develop personal and team accountability;
- How the workplace is being revolutionized, and how to keep up.
Leading at the Edge of Change
This high-energy program will show you how to take smart risks and push you to the edge of what’s possible even during fast change. Hear how companies (and people) have broken the mold, pushed the edges in leadership and innovation, and created significant and positive change in their companies or associations, and in their personal lives.
The ideas in this program will directly impact innovative behaviour and attitude.
- How to take risks, go higher, and move through resistance;
- Develop characteristics of top performers;
- Push yourself into new areas unfamiliar to you;
- Keep raising the bar, and don’t rest on the winner's pedestal. Challenge yourself to always improve.
Fly through life at the edge; the middle is crowded and grey. Whether you are leading a company or a team, or building and expanding your own business, success today means thinking and leading others in new and unexplored ways.
Dr. Janet Lapp is represented by K&M Productions for speaking engagements. For more information and booking Dr. Janet Lapp, simply contact us.
Janet hit a home run at our Senior Leadership retreat with a much-talked-about and highly-valued session. It is amazing how much she was able to discover about the Allstate culture and weave it into her program, it was like she was one of us. She opened our leadership's eyes to what has changed, what they need to do, and gave them the push to do it. Really amazing.
–Allstate Insurance
Janet hit a home run at our Senior Leadership retreat with a much-talked-about and highly-valued session. It is amazing how much she was able to discover about the Allstate culture and weave it into her program, it was like she was one of us. She opened our leadership's eyes to what has changed, what they need to do, and gave them the push to do it. Really amazing.
–Allstate Insurance
You captured everyone from the moment you walked onstage. Thank you for an exciting program and a compelling message. It was exactly what I wanted, and what we needed.
–Molson Canada
The standing ovation you received from Bell's 1,000 sales professionals speaks for itself. Your message stirred souls! You were fabulous.
–Bell Canada
Your humour and energy were very contagious. Your program was exactly what we were looking for, with a balance of timely information and the challenge to do our best.
–TD Canada Trust
From the very start you had this large group of seasoned and sometimes cynical group of senior sales managers absolutely mesmerized. At the end they not only had tremendously helpful tools to guide them through our changes, but felt inspired and encouraged to make it all work. Your rousing standing ovation (rare for this group) says it all and is a testament to your talent and skill at this.
–IBM
You were amazing! Awesome job, you exceeded my expectations and the feedback has been great so far!!! You are an incredible person and your energy is contagious!
–Thomson Learning
That is exactly what we have been trying to get through to them - you really did your homework. Thanks for a great program and some eye-opening messages.
–Verifone
