Speaking

Gratitude

As a coach for nearly 20 years, it has been my privilege to witness and be midwife to the multitude of systems who have birthed dreams and moved to something better:

Business partnerships and entrepreneurs who have taken new ideas from concept to launch and continue to thrive
Boards of directors who have innovated and implemented sustainable change
Couples who have moved their relationship to a better place, together or alone
Individuals who have moved into committed relationships
Intrapreneurs who have championed and led new endeavors from within their organizations
Teams at work and families, who have moved beyond stalled or stuck to higher ground
People experiencing all manner of loss—loved ones, jobs, pets, homes—and the arc of other life cycle challenges and celebrations

You have all expanded my range of possibility with your courage and dedicated effort to find what’s possible. These shared experiences inspire my coaching practice and the tools and topics I offer as a speaker, consultant, facilitator and educator.

This is your practice. And it takes a creative toolkit to open the space for new insights, discoveries and learning. We can choose to show up differently and build a better world.

Judy designs keynotes, workshops and webinars on any of these nested topics and more. Topics can be customized for the specific needs of your endeavor or organization, and usually presented in 30, 60 or 90 minute formats. Longer formats are also available.

Judy brings best practices in coaching and the latest research in neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, psychology and behavioral economics into her coaching and related activities. Toolkits may be provided as appropriate. Agility in working with change and creating wellbeing in right relationship are core benefits with all topics. It’s the flavor and spirit of umami.

Mindset to Mindsight

Activating our “seventh sense” of Mindsight lifts the curtain on our range of sensing and collective smarts. This awareness enhances our ability to adjust our focus in the face of change and move beyond a single mindset. With this we can better choose how we want to show up.

Bias—Shifting the Range of Possibility

Awareness of bias and blind spots can reveal stories we may be telling ourselves, how these stories show up in the roles we play and influence our choices. This sequel to “Mindset to Mindsight” sheds light on how bias may limit innovation and muddy our sense of what’s possible.

Mirror in the Mud: Finding the Courage to Change What You See When You’re Stuck

This explores how narrative, story and myth can limit our choices and shrink our range—by getting us sidetracked, off track and even stuck. How do we get over edges to navigate change and move forward? The mud is fertile soil for new stories that can heal, moving us from helpless to hopeful and bringing us into right relationship.

Restorative Conversation—The Art of Listening to Understand

If systems could talk, and by the way, they do—listen up. The vast majority of conversation is nonverbal. This means, like the Quantum Leap Rabbit, we need to more deeply sense what’s in the field. The good news is we can learn to take in the fuller view, create a safe space for conversation without blame, and focus on what needs to be heard. Though edgy and hard, this can bring us to a place of understanding, appreciation and alignment around a common purpose.

The Nature of Leadership and Innovation

What’s natural to leaders and innovators? The ability to align with the deep undercurrent or wellspring of collective awareness and open this channel of energy to meet change in the moment with agility. With this awareness, leaders and innovators can sit with paradox and see relatedness, better positioned to respond responsibly. This talk takes you deep to go high.

Teaming—Tapping a Natural Energy Source

Innovative teams are an ecosystem of wellbeing and well-doing, empowered by their collective intelligences, skills and diversity to create new and next. Teaming brings a unique level of efficiency in getting things done. This talk takes you wide to expand the range of possibility that exists in the relatedness of the collective system.

Sustainability

To be sustainable, a system must develop the ability to right itself, even when this means doing something completely new or different. This brings creativity to bear. Relatedness sustains our ability to respond responsibly and with grace. It’s a practice, and over time, becomes its own reward—to know we can recover, persevere, and continually adapt and change. Relationship systems are naturally designed for this.