Charmaine Hammond
Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario
Conflict Management
Communication | Collaboration & Resilience Expert
Charmaine Hammond Expertise HR & Corporate Culture, Change Management, Adaptability & Agility, Communication, Conflict Resolution, Employee Engagement, Employee Management, Leadership and Leadership Development.
About Charmaine Hammond
Charmaine Hammond is a highly sought-after business keynote speaker and former correctional officer with extensive experience of over 25 years. Charmaine Hammond teaches people how to deal with confrontation at work, navigate and resolve conflict, and how to build teams that work better together.
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CHARMAINE HAMMOND BIOGRAPHY
Charmaine Hammond, CSP, MA, is a highly sought-after business keynote and workshop speaker, entrepreneur, author, and educator who teaches and advocates the importance of developing trust, healthy relationships, and collaboration in the workplace. Charmaine Hammond has helped clients in many industries build resilient and engaged workplaces, develop high trust/high accountability relationships, and solve workplace issues that get in the way of success and profitability. Charmaine Hammond is respected as a “no fluff” and “rich content” speaker who delivers tangible tools to step into action immediately. Delivering her programs in person and virtually, she brings results and facilitates change. Her topics include resilience and positive mental health in the workplace, conflict resolution, collaboration, and navigating change.
Before committing herself to the speaking industry, she used to be a correctional officer. It was in her experience in dealing with difficult inmates, colleagues, and challenging situations that Charmaine Hammond became passionate about developing strategies to help herself and others grow. She later worked in the mental health field as a counsellor, program manager, and crisis responder. She went back to school to obtain a Master’s in Conflict Analysis and Management and a B.A. in Social Development. Charmaine Hammond went on to obtain her Chartered Mediator and Conflict Management certificate from the Alberta Arbitration and Mediation Society.
Charmaine Hammond is now one of Canada’s leading authorities on conflict management, resilience, workplace wellness and mental health, and effective communication. Charmaine Hammond understands the challenges that individuals and organizations face in today’s fast-paced and fast-changing working environments. Her humourous and inspirational presentations are packed with powerful and strategic insights on how to improve team synergy, leadership development and create a positive workplace culture.
Charmaine Hammond’s presentations deliver a heartfelt approach with rich content, high-energy humour, and expert storytelling that the audiences remember and talk about for years after the presentation. Her sessions inspire individuals to step into action and implement her strategies immediately following her presentation. Charmaine Hammond has a highly interactive speaking style that focuses on releasing the audience from former misconceptions and assisting them to identify problematic behaviours and habits within themselves and their team so that they can grow and fulfill their full potential.
Charmaine Hammond is respected for her ability to engage people, get results, and transform workplaces through her proven methods and systems. Charmaine Hammond offers practical insights to help helps others in dealing with workplace and personal challenges on creating safe, respectful, effective, and productive working environments. She has won several business awards and is the bestselling author of five books including: Bounce Forward: Building Inspired Resilient Teams, Building a Respectful Workplace, GPS Your Best Life (co-author), and her latest (launching fall 2019) Working Better Together.
A company owned by Charmaine Hammond proudly announced that effective December 2, 2020, the company is now WBE Canada Certified. The company has successfully met the eligibility criteria for certification as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) as required by corporate and government supplier diversity programs. “We look forward to the many opportunities to connect with procurement professionals, corporations, and government organizations to provide our products and services in support of supplier diversity programs” says Hammond.
Women Business Enterprises Canada Council (WBE Canada) is a Canadian non-profit organization that is opening doors for Canadian women-owned businesses to supply chains across North America. Founded by corporations to provide certification services for their supplier diversity programs, WBE Canada also provides supplier development training and resources, networking and matchmaker opportunities, and supplier diversity program support.
Charmaine Hammond is a Certified Professional Speaker (CSP) – Less than 12 percent of the 5,000+ speakers worldwide, who belong to the 14 member associations of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF), currently hold this professional designation. She is also a Certified Virtual Speaker.
Charmaine is the Executive Producer of an award-winning animated film, Back Home Again, which features a star-studded cast including Michael J. Fox, Jeremy Renner, Catherine O’Hara, Tantoo Cardinal, Eugene Levy, Kim Basinger, Martin Short, Lorne Cardinal to name a few. The 30 minute film was created to be a conversation about mental health, and received a video testimonial from the Prime Minister of Canada.
Charmaine Hammond Topic Presentations
Charmaine Hammond Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
High Pressure Communication
Building Community Resilience After Crisis (recovery Through Resilience)
Resolving Workplace Conflict
Wellness at Work: Building Resilient and Positive Mental Health in the Workplace
Communicating for Success: Keeping Your Cool in Difficult Conversations
Teamwork by Design: Not by Default
Leading Through Conflict
Respect in the Workplace… It’s Everyone’s Business
Recognition and Leadership
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