
Joanna Barclay
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
- Change Management
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Employee Management
- Health & Wellness
- Leadership
- Mental Health
- Personal Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Business Growth
- Business Management
- Future Trends
- Conference
- Corporate audience
- Finance & Insurance
- Funny & Comedy
- Infrastructure & Urban Planning
- Inspirational
- Motivation
- Philanthropy & Giving Back
JOANNA BARCLAY BIOGRAPHY
Joanna Barclay is CEO and founder of a “Culture Leadership Group”, a global speaker, author, corporate leadership consultant, and media columnist for the Business Times. She has 35 years of business transformation experience. The first 15 years working in the IT industry with leadership teams helping them implement new technologies. The past 20 years as a certified professional facilitator and corporate culture change consultant working with leadership teams to build high-performing, values-driven organizations.
Joanna Barclay’s passion is personal and organizational transformation, developing conscious leadership, and empowering organizations to reach their full potential. Joanna Barclay’s expertise is working with leadership teams around the world, enabling them to assess their workplace culture, giving people a voice in the process of change, and integrating cross-functional business functions for effective collaboration, to meet the business needs of the future.
Joanna Barclay has facilitated numerous organizational transformations with a wide variety of clients including large Canadian federal government departments, private corporations and non-profit associations in North America and Asia. She recently moved back to Ottawa, Canada from Singapore where she lived for 5 years, speaking at conferences on Conscious Leadership through Values, and working with leadership teams who were going through cultural transformation.
Joanna Barclay is a certified International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Professional Facilitator & Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) Technology of Participation Facilitator, a certified Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT) Consultant from the Barrett Values Centre, a graduate of the National Training Laboratory (NTL) Organizational Development program, and graduate of the University of Ottawa in Management of Information Sciences.
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Joanna Barclay Topic Presentations
how to build a thriving workplace culture – become an employer of choice to attract, engage, and retain top talent
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Top talent is hard to attract, engage, and retain. In this competitive HR landscape, it is imperative leaders recognize employees are making career decisions based on a company’s social impact and corporate culture. They want to make a difference and are looking for roles which will provide intellectual challenges, and allow them to continue to grow, develop, and contribute to society in a meaningful way.
In designing a culture for the 21st century, leaders must now consider the hybrid work environment. Organizations are in the greatest period of change which is both an opportunity and a challenge. New ways of working are required to inspire and keep employees engaged. In her talk, Joanna Barclay shares over 3 decades of business transformation experience of working with successful leaders and teams.
RESULTS:
- Become an employer of choice to attract, engage, and retain top talent
- How to create a hybrid workplace culture to support effective collaboration
- Understanding cultural capital, the link between performance and workplace culture
embracing agility and resilience - in times of disruptive change
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We live in a disconnected world of virtual technologies, disruptive change, and job insecurity. The impact of our current reality is decreasing employee engagement and productivity, making agility and resilience more important than ever. Where do we find the inspiration to thrive, and ‘bounce back’ when challenges and setbacks hit us? How do we see change as opportunities to reinvent, transcend, and transform business operations in ways that sustain and enable organizations to reach their full potential?
The keys to success lie within. Every individual has the ability to be agile and tap into their resilience. That inner source of personal power to respond with vigor when the need arises. Organizational resilience depends on the personal resilience of its people. To build a healthy workplace culture, one that is agile and resilient, takes conscious leadership. Understanding the human dynamics of change and having the ability to connecting people, processes and policies for strategic success.
In her talk, Joanna Barclay shares highlights from 3 decades of experience in organizational change, and 16 years of teaching mindfulness practices.
conscious leadership through values - igniting passion and inspiration with “share of heart”
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Conscious leadership through values by promoting a “share of heart” creates an emotional connection with employees. This connection leads to a pattern of happy, fulfilled, creative, inspired employees who are less stressed, more productive, better at problem solving, and provide a higher quality client experience. There is a direct co-relation between a healthy workplace culture and one that is led by a conscious leader.
Leaders in these organizations are comfortable using terms of endearment such as love, joy, authenticity, empathy, and compassion around the board room table. They invest in transforming their organization by building a culture of “heart” to attain phenomenal performance and consider it to be one of the most valuable corporate assets. Why? Because loyalty is rooted in emotion, not reason. When you earn a ‘Share of Heart’, employees will give back with greater productivity, clients will open their wallets, and suppliers will give you superior offerings and responsiveness. How do they do it?
In her talk, Joanna Barclay shares 3 decades of transformational leadership experience. Insights leaders have learned to ignite the passion and inspiration in their employees, and that clients will pay extra for.
happiness in the workplace - the “heartbeat” of excellence - employee engagement in the 21st century
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Today, CEOs and governments are recognizing the importance of happiness in the workplace. In February 2016, the UAE Government created the Ministry of Happiness. Its purpose – to harmonise all government plans, programmes and policies to achieve a happier society. Research shows having a happy attitude infuses work with energy and creativity. Being unhappy negatively impacts performance. Not only does personal performance suffer, but, also the performance of others working in vicinity because unhappiness is contagious.
The law of personal performance states: Mental Attitude x Ability = Performance
All the ability in the world (knowledge, experience, training, education, etc.) will not help you perform better when your mental attitude is unhappy or zero. With over 30 years of business transformation experience, and 16 years teaching mindfulness practices, Joanna Barclay is passionate in sharing how to build a happy workplace culture to increase engagement levels, and employee’s sense of personal fulfillment and performance.
operating effectively in a hybrid world
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We are all coming to grips now on how the workplace has changed forever! The hybrid culture, where participants are working both in the office and at home, transforming the workplace into a workspace! But creating the right hybrid culture will be hard.
Deciding who works from home or the office, and how often, is a complex issue. Understanding the human dynamics of change and how it impacts the effective operations of your hybrid workspace will be critical for long-term success. Engaging employees working from home can become a challenge and It will be different for every organization. If not done well it could threaten teamwork, virtual collaboration, and team communication and the overall productivity and success of the business.
Conversely, a well-executed hybrid workplace can be a magnet that attracts and brings people together, helping everyone connect and work more effectively than ever before. Organizations who design workplaces for their people, build resiliency, focus on being agile and adaptable, they will move forward, learn, and remain competitive in these disruptive times! In her talk, Joanna Barclay shares 3 important strategies for effective virtual collaboration in the hybrid workspace:
- Facilitative leaderships skills for leaders and managers to support hybrid engagement and productivity;
- Online technology – having the right tools in place and skill development to support the continuous flow, documentation, and sharing of digital information.
- Process – having the management guidelines in place to support collaboration.
Joanna Barclay can deliver customized presentations within the following topic themes.
- Change Management
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Employee Management
- Health & Wellness
- Leadership
- Mental Health
- Personal Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Teamwork
- Business Growth
- Business Management
- Future Trends
- Conference
- Corporate audience
- Finance & Insurance
- Funny & Comedy
- Infrastructure & Urban Planning
- Inspirational
- Motivation
- Philanthropy & Giving Back
- Social & Cultural
- Sustainable Development
Testimonials
An excellent talk by Joanna Barclay to our top 100 leaders from Volvo Group Trucks Asia & JVs. The leaders had a valuable session building values-based leadership to drive a high-performing culture and promote high team engagement thereby leading to positive business results and contributing to customer success.
Christina Lu
We worked with Joanna Barclay on Morrison & Foerster’s (MoFo’s) inaugural event for women in the legal industry in Singapore. We chose Joanna as our guest speaker because at MoFo we share her passion for “Conscious Values-Based Leadership” believing that it not only builds a positive and cohesive workplace culture but also delivers better results to the bottom line. Joanna’s presentation and the panel discussion that followed were engaging and inspirational.
Her knowledge about culture and leadership is impressive and her messages convincing – even for an audience of skeptical, analytical lawyers. We were given practical ideas and actions to take away to further develop our own values-based leadership. It was a valuable and memorable evening. We would recommend Joanna Barclay as a professional guest speaker.
Yemi Tépé and Shirin Tang
Thank you for your inspirational speech on ‘The Power of Love and Awakening the Heart of Leadership Potential’ during our offsite. The topic was truly inspirational, and presented in an innovative way that everyone could understand and practice in daily life. Your knowledge about culture and leadership, inspiring leaders with powerful new ideas were impressive.
N.Selvam
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