Wisconsin Speakers

Audiences laugh and learn as Eliz shares strategies discovered during the struggle to regain her health after a heart attack, lose the 80 pounds gained during pregnancy, and maintain her sanity while raising twin girls. Whether it is a heart health program or an entertaining stress management keynote featuring a bowling ball and a chainsaw, Eliz gets participants on their feet, dancing, and shouting WOO HOO!

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Rob Bell began teaching his Customer Service and Communication Techniques early in his tenure as Personnel Development/Education & Training Director for Dick's Supermarkets, Inc. Drawing on 25 years of experience in Leadership Roles, Customer Service, and Training, Rob makes it simple, clear and FUN to improve Customer Service and gain Leadership Skills.

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A Retired Naval Officer, Chip has had two command tours and also served as the Director of Security for Naval District Washington, DC during September 11th - where he was responsible for the safety and security of 25,000 people on 9 different Naval Installations in the National Capital Region during one of our nation's most trying times. Through it all, he was able to stay focused and maintain his sense of humor. That is something he prides himself on - keeping it "light" while getting the job done.

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Neil Ihde is a speaker, lecturer, consultant and founder of Life IQ, LLC where he motivates groups and individuals to work, play, relate and live intelligently. In his 10 years of speaking and training, he has worked with numerous managers, directors, corporate leaders, and teams to improve their personal and professional effectiveness.

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Darcy Luoma is the founder and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, LLC, a firm that specializes in solving organization's people problems. As one of America's most highly sought-after and credentialed coaches, she's worked in 48 industries, with 210 organizations, and more than 500 individual coaching clients, impacting tens of thousands of leaders and employees. Darcy has coached company founders, board chairs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, CMOs, CTOs, entrepreneurs, U.S. senators, congresswomen, state senators, chiefs of staff, college presidents, nonprofit executive directors, Chief Medical Officers, surgeons, attorneys, emerging leaders, an NFL Super Bowl champion, and even clients' children. Darcy has four prominent coaching credentials, including the prestigious Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation – a distinction held by only 3.8% of coaches in the world, as well as Certified Professional Coactive Coach, Organization and Relationship Systems Certified Coach, and Board Certified Coach. Four times, Brava Magazine and The Isthmus newspaper have named Darcy Madison, Wisconsin's favorite life and executive coach. (The year she didn't win, she finished second.) The University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Big Ten university, sought out Darcy to design its rigorous 9-month Certified Professional Coach training program, which earned the International Coach Federation's accreditation and has a waiting list every year. She also served as the program's director and lead instructor for five years, and now holds the title, Director of Training and Quality Assurance. She completed her Master of Science in Organization Development at Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School where she did her master's thesis on the effectiveness of coaching on overall life satisfaction. Darcy began her own coaching and consulting firm in 2013 and built it into a half a million dollar a year company in a short amount of time in a challenging industry. Before launching her firm, she worked for a leadership consulting firm and ran U.S. Senator Herb Kohl's office for 12 years (Kohl was president of Kohl's department stores and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team), where she was entrusted to handle sensitive, urgent matters and contentious situations. She met with savvy lobbyists and concerned citizen groups, organized political events and rallies with tens of thousands of people, and managed protestors who staged die-ins and hijacked her office for days at a time to protest the war, requiring her to sleep there with federal protective services by her side. She worked in Florida for 38 days on the grueling presidential recount. She's done national advance work for the White House, traveled the country while working for two U.S. presidential campaigns, and served as a trusted senior advisor and Deputy Transition Director to a Governor. Through each of these roles, Darcy learned what it looks like to not be Thoughtfully Fit®, the leadership model she developed that was inspired by her love of being physically fit. These first-hand experiences all contributed to her ability to help clients effectively handle their people problems. PROGRAM INFORMATION THOUGHTFULLY FIT®: BUILD YOUR CORE CONFIDENCE Join Madison, Wisconsin's favorite executive coach as she teaches you how to face any challenge - no matter how difficult - using a model she herself has tested under extreme fire. In difficult times, it can feel like everything is out of our control and we have no choices. Darcy Luoma knows this firsthand, as she had to deal with the aftermath of her husband's sudden and shocking arrest for sexual assault of a minor he met online. She put her own teachings of how to be Thoughtfully Fit® to the test for her business, her children, and herself to thrive. Crises, big and small, are unavoidable. How you handle them is what determines whether you falter or flourish. In this engaging and inspiring session, Darcy will train you to use these same tools to build your core so you can handle any conflict, change or uncertainty. You will leave with a core workout to immediately strengthen your life personally, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally. THOUGHTFULLY FIT®: HOW TO TAKE CHARGE OF WHAT COMES NEXT Join Madison, Wisconsin's favorite executive coach as she teaches you how to face any challenge - no matter how difficult - using a model she herself has tested under extreme fire. This inspiring session will give you the confidence to take charge of what happens next when you encounter one of life's many challenges. Darcy will share how she successfully used her Thoughtfully Fit® model when her life fell apart following her husband's shocking arrest and incarceration. She will teach you how to use the same tools she used to build your resilience in the face of conflict, change and uncertainty. What you learn will strengthen your life personally, professionally, spiritually, and emotionally. THOUGHTFULLY FIT®: SOLVE YOUR PEOPLE PROBLEMS WITH CONFIDENCE Join executive coach Darcy Luoma as she teaches you how to handle people problems of all kinds - no matter how difficult - by being Thoughtfully Fit®. You know it and I know it. The biggest problems facing any organization, no matter its size, are its people problems. Teams have conflict, managers struggle with communication, and productivity gets slowed by a lack of trust. These things take energy away from the organization's mission and stop leaders and employees from doing what they do best. What to do? You train to be Thoughtfully Fit® so you can handle any people problem with confidence - even the most challenging ones. Join Darcy as she explores the core of the model, which is your source of power in every situation. Leave with inspiring insights and a core workout that will give you more time and energy to focus on what you do best! THOUGHTFULLY FIT®: INCREASE YOUR IMPACT reate a Thoughtfully Fit® culture where your leaders, managers and employees learn to communicate effectively, manage conflict in a positive way, and embrace coaching skills to improve outcomes. This is a four-month series. TAKE A COACH APPROACH TO MANAGING Employee engagement is one of the toughest issues facing today's employers as they struggle to maintain the talent and knowledge base necessary for competing in the global market. BALANCED CONVERSATIONS: GETTING TO WIN-WIN Achieve BALANCE in your relationships by having the courage to state your truth - with confidence and compassion - in a way that others can hear it. THE POWER OF POSITIVE CONFLICT Learn how to respond effectively with AGILITY instead of reacting instinctively with one of the four toxins: blaming, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling. COACHING AS A MANAGEMENT STYLE: BE MORE EFFECTIVE WITH LESS EFFORT Build the STRENGTH to go from solving employee's problems to using coaching skills to improve outcomes by creating an environment of collaboration and accountability. GET BACK IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: PRIORITIZE WHAT MATTERS Improve your results by having the STRENGTH to identify where you want to devote more of your attention and learn key strategies to reduce time spent on everything else.