Wayne Heidle: Emotional Intelligence

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      Without teamwork  from your employees leadership is  an impossible task.  Let me take you on an important teamwork adventure  where success  is realized with your greatest assets, your employees and managers

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    • Travels from: Los Angeles, CA
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    A motivational and inspirational speech about finding that Inner Super Hero inside all of us to succeed  in life beyond expectations.

    Based on Emotional Intelligence principles:

    “The capacity to be aware  of, control  and express ones emotions to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically  to succeed both personally and professionally.” 

    Without teamwork  from your employees leadership is  an impossible task. 

    Let me take you on an important teamwork adventure where success is realized with your greatest assets, your employees and managers

    • Technology Today and Tomorrow
    • Leaders for Tomorrow (Leadership)
    • The Right Stuff (Leadership)
    • Finding the Inner You (Emotional Intelligence)

    After fifteen years of speaking to thousands about the empowerment of individuals, Wayne Heidle journey has taken him on stages throughout the world. As a national speaker, I have the absolute pleasure to entertain audiences using humor while delivering an important message about succeeding in the face of all odds.

    My personal story is about using emotional intelligence (EI) and self-empowerment (SE) combined as “Lead to Succeed” (LS) principles to overcome vision loss and losing a valued executive career. Using these practiced principles enabled a reinvention of my life to succeed again as an assistant professor in a postgraduate healthcare university, a university director and a national motivational speaker.

    Wayne Heidle | Emotional Intelligence
    • Chairman – Orange County Transit Authority Accessible Transit Advisory Committee
    • Lecturer – Southern California College of Optometry and College of Pharmacy
    • Adaptive Technology Specialist – Ketchum Health
    • Assistant Professor – Southern California College of Optometry (Retired)
    • Director of Community Relations – Marshall B. Ketchum University (Retired)
    • Awards
      • Honorary Doctorate – Marshall B. Ketchum University
      • Every Day Hero Award – Orange County Register

    Humanitarian “V” Award – Marshall B. Ketchum University

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