Linda Edgecombe
Award-Winning Motivational Speaker and Best-Selling Author
Linda Edgecombe is a highly sought-after speaker who The Wall Street Journal described as an expert at 'Shifting Perspectives'. She energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. With her quick wit, humour and hilarious real life stories, she consistently leaves her audiences laughing in the aisles while motivating and showing how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. She inspires audiences to find the meaning in what they do and let go of what's not working. Her messages are as welcome as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror.
As a professional, with a degree in Physical Education, Linda brings 25 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, Lifestyle and Corporate Consulting experience to her programs and her clients. She was a consultant for PARTICIPACTION promoting healthy living to Canadians and is known for being one of the country's most popular Speakers.
Linda newest book: Boost, Powerful Tools to Re-Energize and Re-Engage You and Your Team in Crazy Times, provides an easy-to-follow, fun, seven-step plan. Linda shows managers and entrepreneurs how to do more and do it better while having fun, and how to give themselves and their teams the "boost" they need to accomplish the goals they've set for themselves. In the fast-paced and always changing world of business, everyone needs an edge. Entertaining and inspiring, this book shows how to get it.
In December of 2010, Linda Edgecombe won the prestigious 2010 Speakers Hall of Fame Award given out by the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers in Montreal, Quebec this week. The Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame is comprised of individuals who have been recognized for their outstanding excellence as a professional speaker and dedication to the professional speaking industry. linda edgecombe, motivational speaker linda edgecombe, linda edgecombe speaking engagements, linda edgecombe speaking,
BOOST: Powerful tools Re-Energize & Re-Engage You & Your Team in Crazy Times!
Get ready for an Energy Boost. Through her humorous stories, relevant research and honest questions, Linda works with audiences to deliver strategies and goals for living a more happy, and productive life, while increasing successes in your work teams.
You and your team will come away with:
- Key steps to move towards accountable teams and attitudes;
- Keys to creating a healthy 'change resilient' LEADERS and Teams;
- A plan for 'shifting perspectives', 'facing your fears' and 'dumping excuses' in the face of change;
- Strategies to live a "Just Do It Plan" vs. a "Perfection Plan"
- Strategies to Re-Energize Yourself, Your Team, Your Family.
SHIFTING TO THE NEW REALITY: Building Change Resilience During Uncertain Times
With Linda's humorous life experiences and activities you will laugh out loud while you move to 'accountable thinking'. In this upbeat, highly interactive session, Linda will explore a variety of aspects of what it means to be a leader today, the realities of our times and how we can become change resilient no matter what the challenges are. Here's your chance to Unleash your Leadership Potential! LEADING Change Ready Cultures has never been this painless!
You and your team will come away with:
- An understanding of change, why we love it and dread it;
- Ideas about how to change negative drainers in their lives and produce more positive outcomes;
- A sense of what TEAM efforts can accomplish;
- Inspiration, optimism and feeling recharged;
- The ability to break out of Limiting Thinking and become "Accountable Perspective Specialists".
Shift or Get Off the Pot: Simple Truths About Getting a Life, Batteries Included
From Linda's best-selling book of the same title, this presentation is filled with ideas and solutions for "Getting a Life". Linda will get you thinking about how accountability affects your home and work life. Come away with great tips on how to take your life back, get energy to burn and start creating new stories tomorrow.
You and your team will come away with:
- An honest snapshot of themselves and how their energy affects their work and home life;
- An understanding of the motivation behind the perfectionist so many of us are striving for;
- 5 Keys to increase your personal, family and co-workers Energy Levels;
- An honest look at the Balance in your Life;
- Steps to get you moving towards a more balanced, energized work and home life;
- Clear vision of their own "Personal Recipe for Happiness".
Linda Edgecombe, award-winning motivational speaker and best-selling author is represented by K&M Productions for speaking engagements. For more information and booking Linda Edgecombe, simply contact us.
We would like to express our sincere thanks for the great presentation you made at our Franchisee Meeting in Toronto. Your message was delivered with such energy and enthusiasm that everyone left the meeting on a high. We clearly had those "belly laughs" our emcee, promised with your introduction. Please feel free to use our company as a reference and our thanks to K&M Productions for recommending you.
–Bulk Barn Foods Limited
We would like to express our sincere thanks for the great presentation you made at our Franchisee Meeting in Toronto. Your message was delivered with such energy and enthusiasm that everyone left the meeting on a high. We clearly had those "belly laughs" our emcee, promised with your introduction. Please feel free to use our company as a reference and our thanks to K&M Productions for recommending you.
–Bulk Barn Foods Limited
Thank you for an outstanding presentation at our recent conference. Your energy, passion, enthusiasm and heartfelt messages were greatly appreciated and allowed us to kick off our conference on a very strong note. We would not hesitate to recommend you and look forward to having you back in the near future. You were wonderful!
–Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (I.L.C.O.)
Linda was an overwhelming success for our organization. Everyone had a wonderful time listening to Linda's words - she made us think and renew ourselves-all the while laughing and enjoying every minute of her presentation!! "Energy, perspective and fun" - those are the resounding feelings that we received from Linda.
–Shell Oil
I thought that Linda was absolutely terrific!! I can’t remember when I last laughed so much in one day ... She is truly an inspiring personality and is extremely good at what she does. 'Dynamic' would be the catchall word.
–Human Resources Development Canada
Because Linda delivers her message with such great humor, it has allowed our staff to get introspective in light of the major turmoil we are experiencing at this time. She has delivered this presentation to our management team as well as our frontline staff.
–Telus Communications
As a meeting planner it is always a great relief to have speakers that are easy to work with and provide exceptional content and value to your conference. Linda was that and more! The attendees at IFMA's World Workplace 2010 conference and expo "LOVED" Linda. We offered Shift or Get off the Pot in a Power Speaker series twice for our nearly 5,000 conference attendees and we had participants attend the session twice "it was THAT good." Moreover her book SOLD OUT in our onsite bookstore within minutes. Linda did an amazing job for us and we will definitely bring her back.
–International Facility Management Association
The audience was engaged in Linda’s presentation immediately. Following the presentation, this is what some of the attendees had to say. 'Absolutely awesome speaker. What a positive attitude and view of the world. Thank-you. I laughed until I cried, then laughed again! Excellent speaker.' We recommend Linda and she was a delight to work with.
–Pharmacists Association of Alberta
