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Jennifer Walinga

Jennifer Walinga, PhD, uses her 30 years as an educator, researcher, and consultant in the area of organizational behaviour and learning to leverage the tools of communication, facilitation, and design in leading positive and sustainable organizational and social change. A two time Olympian, Dr. Walinga brings lessons learned in the rowing shell to her teaching, weaving colourful stories, activities, and videos throughout her interactive sessions to enhance the learning.

Addressing Communication Challenges at Work

Communicate as a leader, resolve difficult communication challenges in the workplace, and design powerful communication tools, systems and processes in this professional communication training program. Topics will include leadership communication, overcoming interpersonal and organizational communication challenges, developing a communication plan and learning new tools, systems and mechanisms for change, innovation, efficiency and alignment.

Building and Leading a Culture of Thriving in Your Organization

The session begins with an exploration of the concept of sustainability in organizations. Sustainability has moved to the forefront of corporate thinking as the implications of human, environmental, and economic strain and depletion become frighteningly apparent. In an increasingly fast-paced, constantly changing corporate landscape, it can be difficult to find the time, the clarity, or the focus to refill the tank let alone re-read the map. Organizations can waste a great deal of time, energy, and resources solving the wrong problems or putting out fires, resulting in a culture of coping as opposed to a culture of thriving and regenerative growth.

Creative Problem-Solving for Innovation: Getting Everyone Out of the Box - ONLINE

Business innovations and scientific discoveries often result from romantic experiences, rags to riches stories, and chance. However, business insight and scientific discovery is also a way of thinking that can be learned and practiced. If you have always understood that optimal performance demands creativity, innovations and insight, then this 3 week online course is for you. Learn to access and maximize the creative tools, energy, and skills you have to generate productive and sustainable solutions.
$695.00

Creative Problem-Solving for Innovation: Getting Everyone Out of the Box - SYNCHRONOUS

Business innovations and scientific discoveries often result from romantic experiences, rags to riches stories, and chance. However, business insight and scientific discovery is also a way of thinking that can be learned and practiced. If you have always understood that optimal performance demands creativity, innovations and insight, then this course is for you. Learn to access and maximize the creative tools, energy, and skills you have to generate productive and sustainable solutions.

Sport Leadership

Sport leaders find themselves in challenging, complex situations that require knowledge, sound judgement, and diplomacy to reach a positive outcome. Rising organizational uncertainty and ambiguity drive the need to equip athletes, managers, officials, administrators, and leaders with the skills required to navigate complex situations ethically and sustainably, while achieving desired human, societal, and performance goals.
$695.00

Women in Leadership

Women need to speak and model their feminine values as a means of shifting organizational culture toward a balance that includes a feminine values framework. Explore and discuss predominant feminine leadership models and popular topics of debate concerning gender and leadership. Learn how to intentionally seek, plan, and implement communication strategies and channels for speaking feminine leadership values at work.

Women in Leadership: Living and Speaking Feminine Values

Women need to find ways to speak and model their uniquely feminine values as a means to shift organizational culture toward a more inclusive and balanced values framework. In this course, you will explore and discuss some of the predominant feminine leadership models as well as popular topics of debate concerning gender and leadership, and you will design communication strategies and channels for speaking your values as feminine leaders.