Linda Edgecombe: Leadership & Change
Change and leadership keynote speaker Linda Edgecombe energizes audiences with humor-driven perspective shifts that spark accountability, resilience, and renewed commitment to meaningful action.
Quick Facts:
- Hall of Fame keynote speaker
- More than 30 years of speaking and leadership experience
- Change management and resilience expert
- Award-winning celebrity humorist
- Formats:
- Change, Leadership, and Engagement Keynote Speaker
- Audiences:
- Corporate teams, leadership groups, associations, conference attendees, and organizations seeking energized, humorous, and highly actionable approaches to engagement and change.
- Outcomes:
- A fresh, humor-driven perspective on navigating change and personal accountability.
- Practical tools to elevate energy, resilience, and everyday performance.
- Renewed motivation to take ownership of workplace culture and individual impact.
- Travels from: Kelowna, BC
- **US Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
Resilient Leadership on Purpose
How to intentionally lead from the heart and boost your team’s engagement and energy
Over the past 30+ years, the one constant that I have noticed is great leaders wear their hearts on their sleeves. Their approach is: people first. They connect deeply with their team and their clients. And as a result, get in return loyalty, accountability, and increased production and less stress for their teams.
Here’s a menu you can choose from to bring more focus to your presentation
- Leading with curiosity, accountability, and positivity: How to create a success-full mindset, even in difficult times.
- Change, what’s really getting in the way of you moving forward? Dealing with ambiguity and the “in between.” The rollercoaster ride that is/was ‘Covid’.
- The clarity planning tool: Simple steps to clarity and vision.
- Strategic practices and processes: How highly successful Intentional people start and end each day.
- The Resilient Leaders Toolkit: 7 essentials to re-set, re-energize and re-invent (the science and research behind successful cultures).
- Where to start when you are in a state of overwhelm: The simple steps to move forward in crazy times.
If you are a leader, manager, or working towards becoming one you will be on solid ground with the tools and strategies presented in this presentation.
Get ready for this interactive and lively presentation that will give you that needed boost! I will lead you through an educational, hands-on, and highly humorous ride that will re-focus, re-energize and re-invent how you see your leadership at work and at home.
This program can be delivered in the form of a keynote, workshop, or breakout session, in-person or online.
Breaking Busy. Finding Peace in the Chaos.
It’s time to step off the treadmill and get back to purpose-focused workplaces
The challenges most organizations face are: staff burnout, distraction, and an ongoing feeling of overwhelm. Most of them are not engaged and organizations have to face the ongoing mental health issues of their staff.
I’m on a mission to reduce busyness, absenteeism, and turnover. I deliver tools and strategies to inspire my audiences to literally take their lives back which in turn, helps the organizations they work for increase engagement, energy, productivity, and profitability.
Presentation takeaways
- Find the answer to the question of the century: how has “I’m so busy” become our badge of honor in our work and our lives?
- Discover what the “being busy pace” is doing to our work and personal lives
- Examine the costs of corporations whose teams are overwhelmed, stressed, and exhausted
- Learn the strategies and tools to change your busy mindset to one that will inspire you and your team to thrive
- Get instant energy from laughing throughout the presentation
This shoot-from-the-hip session is for any corporation and organization that wants to increase bottom lines, and decrease stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm.
If you’re looking to boost your team’s morale and create outstanding outcomes, this presentation is for you!
This program can be delivered in the form of a keynote, workshop, or breakout session, in-person or online.
Get Ready to Shift or Get Off the Pot
Become a change enthusiast in ever changing times
From one of my bestselling books, I share ideas and solutions for “getting a life.”
This eye-opening keynote presentation will get you thinking about three simple but life changing questions
- Are you doing the best you can?
- Are you on the deferred life plan?
- When was the last time you did something for the first time?
Presentation takeaways
- Learn how to lead with more curiosity and less fear
- Move from being “fine” and “busy” to striving and focused
- Discover how to create as few regrets as possible
- Take it from me… and simply choose a slice of the planet to give back
- Determine where to start when you are in a state of overwhelm
This session is for leaders, managers, and teams who are ready to make some important changes and start thriving again.
If you and your team are ready for some powerful shifts, book this program for your next meeting. Oh, and I promise it will be the best laugh you will have in a long time.
This program can be delivered in the form of a keynote, workshop, or
Talent Short Bio
Linda Edgecombe is a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, change and leadership expert, bestselling author, philanthropist, and internationally recognized humorist who has spent more than three decades helping individuals and organizations navigate change with confidence, resilience, and enthusiasm. Known for her dynamic stage presence and infectious energy, Linda combines practical leadership insights with humor to create transformational experiences that inspire lasting action.
Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading motivational speakers, Linda has worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations across a broad range of industries. Her expertise in change management, leadership development, workplace resilience, and shifting perspectives has made her a trusted resource for organizations facing uncertainty, disruption, and growth.
Linda’s unique approach blends research, real-world experience, and comedy to help audiences embrace change rather than resist it. Her engaging presentations encourage professionals to become more adaptable, accountable, and energized while developing the mindset needed to succeed in fast-changing environments.
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