“My speaking and facilitation style is authentic, energetic, passionate and fun - I speak from the heart, opening the hearts of the audience and workshop participants."
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Speaker Requirements
To help me deliver my best keynote or workshop, I require:
A projector for a powerpoint slide (no audio is needed)
Microphone (ideally a lapel mic)
Travel from Palmerston North, New Zealand
Virtual, or in person?
I am available in-person and online, with the following offerings:
Keynotes
Workshop facilitation
Strategy facilitation
Speaking, Workshop and Strategic Facilitation Topics
My workshops go a step further - I facilitate conversations for your team to implement the content and learnings in your context. I make it safe for people to open up and bring their full selves.
Keynote/workshop content:
Dr Ellen Joan Ford shares her inspirational experiences as a:
Military leader/officer in the NZ Army
Academic and leadership researcher
Business advisor and businesswoman
Volunteer who evacuated hundreds from Afghanistan
Mother, parent and human being!
to demonstrate the power of Belonging Autonomy Purpose.
The leader’s role is to create an environment where their team can thrive and then direct that thriving energy at the task that needs to be achieved.
Learning outcomes:
Using the Belonging Autonomy Purpose leadership model, you will learn:
How to create an environment where staff can thrive
How to improve organisational culture & staff engagement
How to develop leadership & high-performance team capabilities
Ideal for:
Team members
Aspiring leaders through to executives and directors
Tailored to the audience and participants
Keynote/workshop content:
Throughout our childhood and working lives, we have absorbed so many images and messages about what a ‘good leader’ looks like, and how a ‘good leader’ acts and behaves. In so many cases, this stereotypical ‘good leader’ is very different to how we see ourselves, and this can negatively impact on leadership capabilities within the organisation and on the culture. Dr Ellen Joan Ford's research and incredible leadership experiences in the military and beyond, demonstrate that the best leaders are those who are true to themselves.
Learning outcomes:
The value of diverse leadership approaches to an organisation
How to be a truly authentic leader, and why this benefits everyone
How authentic leadership improves overall leadership capabilities and organisational culture
Ideal for:
Team members
Aspiring leaders through to executives and directors
Tailored to the audience and participants
Keynote/workshop content:
Dr Ellen Joan Ford shares her incredible PhD and post-doctoral research, focused on the experiences of women and also parents, in the workplace, as well as her remarkable leadership experiences in the military and beyond, to demonstrate why her movement, #WorkSchoolHours is commercially smart, and why it improves leadership capabilities and organisational culture.
For more information, check out Ellen’s #WorkSchoolHours.
Learning outcomes:
The principles of #WorkSchoolHours (focus on outputs and on flexibility)
How to apply the principles to make improvements in any work setting
How to enjoy commercial gains through applying #WorkSchoolHours principles
How #WorkSchoolHours improves leadership capabilities and organisational culture
Ideal for:
Team members
Aspiring leaders through to executives and directors
Tailored to the audience and participants
Keynote/workshop content:
We need to stop trying to ‘fix’ women, and start fixing the system. And the exciting part? Doing this is also good for men and also good for organisational performance. It improves leadership capabilities within the organisation, and lifts organisational culture. Dr Ellen Joan Ford shares her incredible PhD and post-doctoral research, focused on the experiences of women and parents in the workplace, as well as her remarkable leadership experiences in the military and beyond, to explain how we can remove the barriers facing women in the workplace.
Learning outcomes:
How to remove the barriers facing women in the workplace
What and how the ‘mum penalty’ works, and an introduction to #WorkSchoolHours
How to create inclusive workplaces that benefit ALL genders, AND the bottom line
Why removing the barriers will improve leadership capabilities and organisational culture
Ideal for:
Team members
Aspiring leaders through to executives and directors
Tailored to the audience and participants
Keynote/workshop content:
Dr Ellen Joan Ford shares her inspirational experiences as a:
Military leader/officer in the NZ Army
Academic and leadership researcher
Business advisor and businesswoman
Volunteer evacuating hundreds from Afghanistan
Mother, parent and human being to demonstrate the power of Belonging Autonomy Purpose
To improve organisational culture and staff engagement, everyone in the team needs to feel a sense of belonging, they need to have autonomy, and they need to have purpose.
Learning outcomes:
Using the Belonging Autonomy Purpose model, you will learn
How to create an environment where the whole team can thrive
How to improve organisational culture
How to improve staff engagement
Ideal for:
Team members
Aspiring leaders through to executives and directors
Tailored to the audience and participants
