Dr. Linda Duxbury

Keynote Speaker | Ottawa, Ontario

Human Resources & Workplace Culture
Change & Work Life Balance Expert

Dr. Linda Duxbury Expertise Work Life Balance, Health Performance, Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Leadership and Change, Organizational Leadership, Peak Performance, Employee Management and Lifestyle & Health.

Dr. Linda Duxbury

About Dr. Linda Duxbury

Dr. Linda Duxbury is a work life balance keynote speaker & Canada's most accomplished researcher, writer on employee health, wellness & change. Dr. Linda Duxbury is the Chancellor's Professor in Management at the Carleton University's Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Ontario. Dr. Linda Duxbury is Canada's most accomplished researcher, writer and speaker on the topics of employee management, workplace culture, employee health & wellness while managing change. She has influenced policy and attitudes to help create supportive work environments in both the private and public sectors to create productive and happy workplaces.

Dr. Linda Duxbury Videos

Linda Duxbury on the Changing Face of Public Service

Your Workplace Duxbury Interview

Dr. Linda Duxbury Interviews & Podcasts

Linda Duxbury: Carleton University

Session 2: International Keynote by Linda Duxbury: Policy Dialogue Ma

Jcmc: Linda Duxbury on Email Communication

DR. LINDA DUXBURY BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Linda Duxbury is Canada’s most accomplished researcher, writer, and speaker on employee well-being and mental health as well as work–life balance. She has contributed to numerous comprehensive national studies on these topics and their bottom-line effect on business.

An enlightening and popular speaker, Dr. Linda Duxbury’s ideas and research are invaluable to major corporations and government agencies around the world. Canadian corporations were already losing over $4 billion a year to absenteeism before the worldwide pandemic. Today, the satisfaction and well-being of employees are more important than ever.

In the past decade, Dr. Linda Duxbury has completed a major study on Balancing Work and Family in the public, private sectors and not-for-profit sectors; Management Support (What is it and Why does it Matter?); generational differences in work values; the impact of office technology such as email; employee well-being, work role overload and workforce change.

Dr. Linda Duxbury has completed three national studies (1991, 2001, 2012) on work-life balance in which over 70,000 Canadian employees participated. In addition, a lot of Dr. Duxbury’s research in recent years has been done in the police sector both in Canada and internationally. This research focuses on employee well-being and the sustainability of policing in Canada.

Professor Dr. Duxbury co-wrote numerous comprehensive national studies on work-life balance and its effect on business bottom-line. Dr. Linda Duxbury is Canada’s most accomplished researcher, writer and speaker who shares her thought leadership, ideas and research which are highly valued by major corporations and government agencies.

Dr. Linda Duxbury has published widely in both the academic and practitioner literature in the area of work-family conflict, change management, supportive work environments, employee wellbeing, role overload, telework, the use and impact of office technology, managing the new workforce and supportive management.

She has also given over 500 plenary talks on these issues to public, private and not-for-profit sector audiences. Dr. Duxbury is also an accomplished trainer and speaker in the area of supportive work environments, work-life balance, employee well-being, managing the new workforce, and change management.

Dr. Linda Duxbury is a professor at Carleton Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Ontario. She has written several papers, articles, and books, and is the co-author of a series of Health Canada reports about work-life balance within the country. She has been published widely in both academic and practitioner literature in the areas of work-family conflict, resiliency, disruptive change management, supportive work environments, stress, hybrid offices, the use and impact of technology, and managing the new workforce.

Dr. Linda Duxbury holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo. Recently, Dr. Duxbury has been examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees and companies, with a particular focus on mental health and well-being, and how companies can address this moving forward.

Recognized for her engaging, enthusiastic communication skills and teaching practices, Dr. Linda Duxbury has received the Canadian Pension and Benefits National Speaker Award, the Carleton University Students Association Teaching Excellence Award, Carleton’s Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award, and the Sprott MBA Student Society Best Teacher Award.

Dr. Linda Duxbury has also been awarded the Toastmasters International Communication and Leadership Award and was recognized as one of Deloitte’s Women of Influence. In 2014-15, Duxbury received the Carleton University Research Award as one of the ten best researchers at the university, and, most recently, was awarded the Chancellor’s Professorship at Carleton in recognition of her research output.

Dr. Linda Duxbury Topic Presentations

Dr. Linda Duxbury Ottawa, 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.

Resilient Leadership and Management: Leading and Managing in Times of Disruptive Change

Managing a Changing Workforce as a People First Organization

Organizational Resilience: What is It and How Do We Nurture It?

Employee Overload: Balancing Work with Life with a Heavy Workload

Capable Managers: The Scarcest Resource of All

Moving Forward Post-pandemic: Pay Attention to Your Organizational Culture

A Best Practice Guide to Hybrid Work

Dr. Linda Duxbury Books & Articles

Dr. Linda Duxbury Speaking Testimonials

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