Jeanne Martinson is a professional speaker, trainer and
author who has worked internationally and throughout
Canada. Since co-founding her own firm in 1993,
Jeanne has inspired thousands of participants in her workshops and keynote
presentations with her humour, insight and real-world examples.
As well as formal education in organizational behavior, journalism and
marketing, Jeanne is a Certified Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguistic
Programming). She is currently working on her graduate degree in Leadership
through RoyalRoadsUniversity in
Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada.
Jeanne became interested in training while working for a Fortune 500 company in
southern California. Back in her
native Saskatchewan, she
side-stepped into sales and marketing for ten years - where in the printing and
labeling industry, she took a $25,000 sales territory and grew it to $850,000
within four years.
Now as Managing Partner of her own firm, Jeanne has delivered workshops and
keynote addresses to government, associations and the private sector. Her most
popular topics are leadership and diversity. As a Canadian best-selling author
and strategist in workplace diversity, Jeanne's goal is to assist leaders in
understanding diversity issues so they may attract, retain and engage their
ideal workforce.
In July 1999, Jeanne released her first non-fiction book entitled “Lies and
Fairy Tales That Deny Women Happiness” which explores the myths that many
Canadian women are raised with and which limit their ability to have happy
relationships and fulfilling careers. Her second book, “Escape from Oz -
Leadership For The 21st Century” was released in October 2001. This book
explores the parallels of the characters in the fable “The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz” and our own beliefs about personal and professional leadership. The first
part of the book explores the four cornerstones required to be effective
leaders: insight, courage, self-discipline and influence over others. The second
part of the book explores how we can move out of our comfort zone to lead
individuals according to their reality, skill set and knowledge base - with the
goal of achieving trust and long term success. Jeanne's third book, "War & Peace
in the Workplace - Diversity, Conflict, Understanding, Reconciliation” was
released September 2005. This book explores how workplaces are becoming more
diverse and how diversity may trigger conflict. The book illustrates how we have
the choice of allowing conflict to spiral down into dysfunction or of taking
charge, becoming aware and developing understanding.
Jeanne takes a leading role in her community, a dedication that was recognized
in 1992 with the awarding of the Canada 125 Medal, in 1999 with the YWCA Women
of Distinction Award in the category of Business, Labor and Professions, in 2005
with the Centennial Leadership Award for outstanding contribution to the
Province of Saskatchewan, the Athena Award, and most recently in 2008 – the
national Diversity award – the EMCY.
Jeanne has been listed in Who’s Who of Canadian Women since 1996 and Canadian
Who’s Who since 1999. Jeanne is Past President of: Saskatchewan Training and
Development Association (Regina Chapter), Saskatchewan Business and Professional
Women, and Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan. She was Founding President of
the Saskatchewan Chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
(CAPS).
Jeanne Martinson Leadership for the 21st Century Video
Jeanne Martinson Live - Video #2
Jeanne Martinson's Books
War and Peace in the Workplace by Jeanne Martinson
Escape from Oz: Leadership for the 21st Century by Jeanne Martinson
Lies And Fairy Tales That Deny Women Happiness by
Jeanne Martinson
Leadership for the 21st Century In the
fable, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man desired
courage, a brain and a heart. They believed the only path to achieving their
desires was the Wizard's magic. Humans often wish for 'leadership skills'.
Like the Oz characters, we have everything we need to succeed. We don't need
a "magic" pill to be successful leaders - only a willingness to recognize
our potential and develop it!
Leadership Communication That Gets Results
It is human nature to fall into our most comfortable way of
communicating as a leader - regardless of whether that style is giving us
the results we want or not! By learning how to lead individuals according to
the situation, their competency and commitment, we can utilize our
employees’ abilities to the maximum!
Keeping Trust: The Glue of Leadership
A leader may be able to influence followers short term, but without trust
their leadership will be short-lived. How do we develop trust? How do we
re-build it in a hostile environment?
Generations in the Workplace: Making Peace
Between Gen Xers and Boomers For the first time, there are four
generations in the workplace. Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Ys
all have different values and goals. And those values and goals are creating
conflict!
Co-dependent Leadership: Getting Managers to
make the Tough Moves Are you coaching leaders who refuse to take
tough action? Do they want to be liked more than respected? Kidding
themselves that they are effective? Making the tough decisions and giving
the tough talks is what being a good leader is all about.
War and Peace in the Workplace: Diversity,
Conflict, Understanding, Reconciliation Ever wonder why we just
can’t get along? Individual differences - large and small - often create
conflict between people. We have the choice of allowing conflict to spiral
down into dysfunction or of taking action, becoming aware and developing
understanding. It’s all up to us.
Nurture, Nature or Just Nasty?: Understanding
Male and Female Leadership Styles When women lead like men, they
are called nasty names, when men are encouraged to lead like women, they are
wimps. How are we different? How can we use our differences to be great
leaders?
Workshops/Seminars
Three most popular workshops are:
Understanding Diversity in Today's Workplace
Managing and Working with a Multi Generational
Workforce
