Valerie Cade

Keynote Speaker | Calgary, Alberta

Bully Free at Work
Respect | Leadership and Communication Expert

Valerie Cade Expertise Strategic Thinking, Organizational Change, Transformation, Conflict Resolution, Influence & Negotiation, Inclusive Leadership, Racial Justice and Unconscious Bias.

Valerie Cade

About Valerie Cade

Valerie Cade is an award-winning speaker, one of North America's top expert in the field of workplace bullying and creating respectful productive workplaces. Valerie Cade provides Valuable information and actual tools, personally delivers the Bully Free at Work online learning that leaves the audiences inspired, informed and transformed

Valerie Cade Videos

What is Workplace Bullying?

Valerie Cade Csp: Workplace Bullying Speaker

An Important Tip to Cope with Workplace Bullying

How Can You Become More Confident in Handling the Bully?

Valerie Cade

Valerie Cade Interviews & Podcasts

VALERIE CADE BIOGRAPHY

Valerie Cade has earned worldwide acclaim as a professional keynote speaker and business consultant.  Valerie Cade truly has a gift for inspiring those who work to support and lead others, whether it’s in healthcare, government, the corporate sector, education or not‐for‐profit settings. Her uplifting, inspirational and acclaimed presentation style always inspires the audience with practical solutions for teamwork, communication, workplace culture, leadership, conflict resolution and productivity.

1 out of 6 people have come face to face with a bully in their life.  Bullying has become a silent epidemic. Valerie Cade brings hope for organizations and individuals to overcome destructive bullying and harassment behaviours by colleagues. The “winning with difficult people” strategies do not work with workplace bulling or highly adversarial situations.

In fact, traditional conflict resolution doesn’t work either, yet this is what people try to apply- but to no avail. Valerie Cade’s presentations are enthusiastic, engaging, creative, humorous and genuine. She gives attention and takes pride in researching each client’s situation to tailor her presentation to meet and exceed audience member needs and aspirations.

Valerie Cade is an award-winning presenter who is one of North America’s top experts in the field of coping with and stopping workplace bullying. She is author of the best selling book “Bully Free at Work: What You Can Do To Stop Workplace Bullying Now” which is currently distributed in over 100 countries. With a solid organizational development background, not purely an academic or an “opinion based” approach, Valerie’s style is not only informational, but inspirational; you will feel hope to turn the corner – even with the most challenging situations.

Valerie Cade’s 20 years of experience as a relevant and results-based implementation practitioner have had her sought after by organizations throughout North America. For the past 20 years, Valerie Cade has led hundreds of sessions throughout North America, Europe, China and Russia, with a relevant, humorous and heartfelt approach combined with a true sense of wisdom. She has a stand up comedian presence while still talking seriously and strategically about the realities and implementation of workplace bullying in organizations.

In addition, Valerie Cade became a Certified Speaking Professional Designation (CSP) in 2001. The CSP is the highest speaking designation in the world with less than 1000 recipients worldwide. She is one of the Canada’s first females to receive the CSP. Valerie Cade’s presentation ratings average 4.9/5.0 for all size audiences. As CEO of one of Canada’s largest training companies for 10 years, Valerie Cade helped turn this near-­‐bankrupt company into profitable success. In addition, her work in creating inspired workplaces, where people “want to”, helped raise satisfaction levels in organizations to over 80 – 90% -­‐ sustained.

Valerie Cade was the 2002 National President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and has received the President’s Award for distinguished service – twice! She was also unanimously voted by the National Board to receive the “Spirit of CAPS” Award for her outstanding contribution and professionalism to the speaking industry worldwide.

Valerie Cade understands dedication as she is the first woman to receive the Top Candidate Award for Canadian Basic Military Training. Valerie Cade has a genuine passion for helping people and organizations to become world class and receive the respect and dignity they deserve. Above all Valerie Cade is knowledgeable, well‐researched and can deliver powerful presentations in an inspirational way. Valerie is genuine and possesses a great amount of compassion. Her presentations offer audiences and individuals solutions to improve communication, become more resilient and deal with conflicts in the workplace in a calculated and constructive approach.

Valerie Cade Topic Presentations

Valerie Cade Calgary, Alberta, 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.

Bully Free at Work: Yes! You Can Have a Respectful Workplace

Encouragement for the Encouragers: How to Build Trust with People You Don’t Understand, Don’t Connect With, but Still Have to Work with

The Politics of Workplace Bullying: Creating Civility & Accountability

The Behavioral Economics of Building Trust

How to Build Goodwill so You Can Say What You Need to Say

Managing and Motivating Your Remote Workforce

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Valerie Cade Speaking Testimonials

"Thank you for the absolutely fantastic Bully Free at Work presentation – staff are still singing your praises and I’m pleased to see you’ve been invited as our keynote speaker at our Ministry of Human Services Staff Conference. Your presentation Bully Free at Work: Leading a Respectful Workplace especially for Managers and Supervisors was timely and right on target with the Government of Alberta’s Reaching Our Full Potential movement where the Deputy Ministers have committed to exploring bully-free strategies and working together to make a difference. Your session gave hope to our staff that they could actually create respectful workplaces.It was such a great pleasure working with..."

Linda Morrison

MBA, Regional Manager Workforce Planning & Regional Human Resources, Government of Alberta

"Thank you for the excellent five days you gave us; you are a class act and an absolute pleasure to work with. Not only were we impressed (again) with your knowledge, but your natural delivery ability, genuine honesty and approachability made workplace bullying far more accessible to the audience than it might have been otherwise. You truly are delightful and we love your sense of humour!"

Kris Bojda & Linda Cherry

Business & Industry Liaisons, Alberta Employment & Immigration

"Through her natural, genuine style, Valerie connected well with our staff and provided useful and practical information delivering the session Creating A Respectful Workplace – Building a Culture of Trust and Goodwill. Valerie is professional and very skilled at sharing relevant experiences; balanced with solid research. Valerie Cade approach is direct and respectful and she made a conscious effort to meet people at their level. Valerie provided our staff with tools to explore their own behaviors and opportunities to look at internal motivators and to collectively determine our expectations for a respectful work place. Since the session, staff have done a lot of self reflection and are..."

Penny Mickanuck

Executive Director The John Howard Society of Grande Prairie

"We were very impressed with the content of Valerie’s presentation and her depth of knowledge; we also very much enjoyed and benefitted from her delivery style which captivated the room. There was much anticipation before the 90 minute session and Valerie did not disappoint! The content was understandable and direct, and Valerie really helped humanize and organize a topic that is often hard to approach and get your arms around. We highly recommend Valerie for her well-researched content as well as her amiable and appealing delivery style. In fact, we have had several requests to have Valerie join us again for another session next year. We look forward to having her back."

Gudrun McLean

Adminstrative Assistant Talisman Energy Inc

"First of all Valerie, may I once again thank you for your outstanding preparation, “above the bar” presentation with awesome style and relevance, and the complete acceptance and admiration of each and every one of our Pharmacy group attendees at our conference. Over the past 18 years, you are the first one who helped us not only gain an insight in going from “first class to world class”, who adrenalized our motivations to come forward, but most importantly, made us feel better about ourselves. And you did it in such a naturally genuine “conversational” style. Thank you!"

Larry Surkan

Pharmacy Director, Home Office Federated Co-operatives Limited, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

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