Professional Development Programs
Journey On! Negotiate Your Life and Get What You Really Want
Have you ever stood on the threshold of success and hesitated because you weren’t sure which direction was the right one? Ever find yourself on the edge of doing something phenomenal and wondering if it is the right opportunity and the right time? Are you wondering what makes sense as a next step? What would it be like if you had the answers and support you needed to proceed with confidence and certainty?
When you know how to connect powerfully, opportunities appear, and people help you get what you really want.
This program will address how you can:
- Breakthrough to success and stop stopping yourself.
- Embrace smart risk taking with inspired courage.
- Make confident decisions that move you forward.
- Improve your outcomes and accomplish your purpose.
Participants report that this fun and engaging program enabled them to share best practices, connect throughout the conference and benefit from mastermind team experiences.
Linda Swindling, JD, CSP, CPAE, is a globally recognized expert in negotiation, high-stakes communication, and leadership influence. Ranked among the Top 15 Negotiators in the World by Global Gurus for six consecutive years, she equips leaders and professionals to negotiate what matters—from closing major deals to dealing with workplace drama with confidence and clarity.
A Certified Speaking Professional, Linda is an inductee into both the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame (CPAE) and HR Southwest’s Speaker Hall of Fame. She is also a Professor of Practice in Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of Texas at Dallas in the Jindal School of Business.
Her negotiation expertise was refined in the courtroom and the boardroom as a practicing corporate attorney and later, a strategic advisor to CEOs. During her 10 years practicing law, Linda became a partner and a mediator, successfully negotiated several million-dollar deals, and resolved cases that “couldn’t be settled.”
For more than 25 years, she has delivered innovative, research-based programs which result in better conversations, proactive dispute resolution, and high-performance leaders and teams. You won’t hear anecdotal or intangible theories based on books she read. Instead, you get strategies that produce breakthrough outcomes and lasting results.
Integrating her deep understanding of the high performer’s mind with a personal, peer-level approach, Linda’s expertise is laser-point negotiating, smart risk taking, shifting limiting beliefs, and strategic communications. Certified in COREMAP® and ToPS® facilitation, she offers Executive Coaching and Workplace Consulting and also leads Large Group Discussions, Breakthrough Sessions, and Mastermind Teams.
Her clients call her invaluable for her ability to generate ideas, create new ways of looking at challenges, and make the complex simple. Move into Threshold Thinking. Expect breakthroughs.
Show Up Powerfully! Negotiate Any Meeting with Confidence and Purpose
What would it be like to present confidently no matter what venue, topic or audience? What if you could leave a conference saying, “This was just what I needed” or “I met just the right people”? You can manage the toughest meeting and conversations like a pro. If your destination is to connect with powerful connections, enhanced networks and create new opportunities, you will love this fun and engaging program which shows you how to tap into the power of the room.
Learn how to:
- Be clear on who you need to meet, what you need to learn and what you need to avoid to maximize your results.
- Take more calculated risks and safeguard against potential pitfalls.
- Determine your best way around roadblocks, including negative people.
- Create a mastermind to help you exceed a business goal, improve your career growth and take your next best step with assurance.
Successfully Negotiate Any Change – Even Those You Don’t Want
Have you ever planned a clear course of action and then discovered all your hard work is no longer relevant? Are you negotiating a change you chose or one that was thrust upon you? What would happen if you could adapt to change without the mental exhaustion? Change is inevitable and arises from numerous sources. You may be experiencing new leadership, tackling a change in roles or position, losing members of your team, and/or tasked with transforming the way you do business. When you add personal challenges like illness, the death of a loved one, a divorce or even happy events like marriage and a baby, life can seem out of control. Whether the change was planned or a surprise, you often have more control and options than you think. Really.
Learn how to:
- Negotiate the learning curve and avoid getting stuck in the messy middle.
- Initiate, manage and champion change.
- Respond effectively to crisis, conflict and failure.
- Know the best questions to ASK when you are faced with a surprising situation
- Encourage breakthroughs when others are breaking down.
Negotiate Change and Transform with Clarity, Confidence & Success
This program is based on the one above but focused on helping high potentials, women, rising leaders, teams with change or take risks or be more confident.
- Let go of expectations of how it “should” be.
- Live in the question to be comfortable with the unknown
- Increase your tolerance for ambiguity and enhance calculated risk-taking.
- Innovate, create and solve problems as they occur.
- Influence others to commit even when the change is not fully defined.
Negotiate Your Breakthrough with the Power of Masterminding
Would your journey to success be smoother if you knew the destination you were headed and who had the knowledge to get you there? Would it be helpful if you could connect with peers who were committed to your personal and professional success?
The power of affiliation can be a strong contributor to success. Having supportive relationships with others who support your vision can make the difference between reaching objectives or not. Collaboration can encourage productivity, community, commitment and loyalty. When you discover the power of a Mastermind, you decrease levels of stress and tension. Collaborative goal setting and problem solving is preferred when buy-in from other stakeholders is important.
Learn to:
- Solve problems creatively and tap into the power in the room.
- Design a plan to implement solutions that works for you.
- Understand how to help others reach their potential;
- Connect in a way that others want to help you succeed;
- Determine what you need and who you need to become to get it.
Linda’s JourneyOn Programs are supported by her Negotiation Resources, Books, Articles, Online Tools and Passports to Success Books.
