Yvonne Thompson

Yvonne Thompson

Winnipeg, Manitoba
Leadership, Transformation and Workplace Culture Expert
Yvonne Thompson is a keynote speaker, transformational leadership & workplace culture expert known for her progressive approach to helping others manage change. Yvonne Thompson is an award-winning HR consultant and business leader. She is a famous Canadian keynote speaker on leadership, changes and workplace culture. She has sat on many boards of directors and has consulted or coached some of Canada's top executive leaders to lead their organization through change and develop a workplace culture that retains employees. Yvonne Thompson has distinguished experience in positive psychology, effective communications and peak performance to help employees and leaders in corporate companies and the public sector through her insights.
  • Change Management
  • Communications
  • Employee Management
  • Leadership
  • Peak Performance
  • Personal Growth
  • Resilience & Adversity
  • Teamwork
  • Business Growth
  • Business Management
  • Agriculture & Farming
  • Campus & University Speakers
  • Community Engagement Events
  • Conference
  • Education & Teachers
  • Health and Safety
  • Healthcare
  • Managing remote employees

YVONNE THOMPSON BIOGRAPHY

Yvonne Thompson is a leadership transformation and workplace culture expert in the field of organizational leadership, corporate culture by design and human capital. She is known for her highly progressive approach to learning and development interventions that underpin long-term sustainable change. Her topics are popular at major professional conventions and with progressive companies and organizations seeking practical solutions to help teams and individuals to overcome adversity or become better leaders at home and at work.

Yvonne Thompson is an engaging and well-spoken keynote speaker. She is also the author of the acclaimed book, Leadership for a New World: The Organic Approach to employee engagement. Yvonne Thompson translates her knowledge and experience of HR and leadership strategies into meaningful presentations that create new vision, action and results. Yvonne’s passion is assisting individuals, teams, cultures and organizations to build employee engagement, commitment and loyalty through New World Leadership strategies – a unique innovative approach to leadership, which Yvonne has developed through education, experience and research.

Yvonne Thompson has a Masters in Leadership and she is a CHRP winning the Hewitt Award for overall excellence. Yvonne is a national instructor and speaker for the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering Certification Program. She is the Past President: of the Accident Prevention Association of Manitoba and a Past President of the Women Business Owners of Manitoba. She also served a Director of several organizations including the Human Resource Association of Manitoba.

Thompson’s passion to explore leadership in depth has led her on an exciting journey over the past 15 years! Her roots began in more traditional corporate leadership development, which led to positive psychology. Her presentations focus on the science of leadership and emotional intelligence, managing change to create and maintain strong workplace cultures. We have worked with community leaders, parents, teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs and, of course, corporate leaders. Yvonne Thompson has years of experience as an adult educator, having taught at the University of Winnipeg, Red River College and Providence College and is a dynamic keynote speaker for leadership and teams.

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Yvonne Thompson Topic Presentations

a transformative world

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  • Choose to embrace and excel in today’s world. Yvonne shares her vast knowledge and experience with organizations that have had the courage to embrace change and create profound results. A Transformative World will challenge the foundation with which we have walked for the last 100 years and takes you on a journey of discovery into a new world. Transforming our corporate culture one leader at a time.

new world leadership

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  • Shifting from victim mentality to one of responsibility and accountability is key to today’s world. Modeling personal accountability is the only way to transform our teams and organizations. Yvonne takes you through her unique accountability model sharing the profound results that occur when we challenge our thinking about performance management and leadership. Not for the faint of heart, this speech will challenge your basic thinking about structure, process and results.

    Choose to embrace and excel in this today’s world. Yvonne shares her vast knowledge and experience with organizations that have had the courage to embrace change and create profound results. A Transformative World will challenge the foundation with which we have walked for the last 100 years and takes you on a journey of discovery into a new world. Transforming our corporate culture one leader at a time.

new energy organizations - creating a culture of personal accountability and self-leadership

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  • Yvonne’s high-energy presentations captivate audiences each and every time. Yvonne challenges our fundamental beliefs about leadership, performance safety and accountability. She loves to ask and explore the tough questions like:  Who Manages YOU Best? The answer is always the same, “I do of course”. So why do we think our employees are any different then we are. They simply want an opportunity to lead themselves. Yvonne uses accepted research in Neuroscience and NeuroLeadership to challenge our fundamental beliefs about people performance, human design and responsible self-leadership.

    Yvonne takes her audience on a journey of exploration into how to shift from victim to empowerment and where corporate culture can evolve into places where honesty, self-leadership and a true sense of personal accountability can flourish. Yvonne shares a roadmap and her unique Tools of Intention. She is generous with all of her materials and truly believes in sharing all that she knows in order to assist corporations in moving towards becoming a Culture of Accountability.

inside out – the shifting you

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  • Much of what Yvonne teaches was learned through the school of hard knocks. Facing rejection at all corners and losing heart, Yvonne went on a road of self-discovery. Learning to BE LOVE instead of Doing LOVE was her greatest lesson. Yvonne takes her audience on an adventure of self-discovery and gives everyone permission to simply BE LOVE!

safety, who’s responsibility anyway? - creating a culture of accountability

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  • We say, “Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility” but do our actions send that message? There is often a difference between our intention and the actual results we get. Is it possible that we are unintentionally sending the wrong message?

    Yvonne’s high-energy presentations captivate audiences each and every time. Yvonne challenges our fundamental beliefs about safety performance and accountability. She loves to ask and explore the tough questions like:  Who Manages YOU Best? The answer is always the same, “I do of course”. So why do we think our employees are any different then we are. They simply want an opportunity to lead themselves. Yvonne uses accepted research in Neuroscience and NeuroLeadership to challenge our fundamental beliefs about people performance, safety and personal accountability.

    Yvonne takes her audience on a journey of exploration into how to shift from victim to empowerment and where corporate safety culture can evolve into increased honesty and enhanced personal accountability for safety results. Yvonne shares a roadmap and her unique Accountability Model. She is generous with all of her materials and truly believes in sharing all that she knows in order to assist corporations in moving towards a Culture of Personal Accountability.

     

Testimonials

Yvonne provided our keynote and was a technical session speaker at our Annual CMA Conference in May 2010. The feedback from our 300 delegates was excellent. She has a refreshing view of workplace relationships and she communicated her message on leadership approaches in a clear and understandable way. Yvonne was very enthusiastic, professional, personable, interesting and motivating

Ronald M. Stoesz

CMA, FCMA Chief Executive Officer
CMA Manitoba

Yvonne’s presentation skills are excellent and her ability to recognize situations or opportunities to engage people on an issue is excellent. She has a strong insight in reading people and their issues. One thing I really appreciated about how she handled herself in front of our group was how humble she was at times in relating to her past and how she learned from various personal events or situations. We will work together with Yvonne again.

Rob Campbell

V.P. Human Resources, IT and Admin
Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba

Yvonne Thompson has managed to capture the necessary qualities of leadership in the new world economy with new world employees. The concepts and perceptions that Thompson outlines are truly transformational and bring leadership to a whole new level. An articulate and refreshing approach to leadership development and employee engagement.

Sharon Hooper

Assistant V.P, and Chief Human Resources Officer
York University

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Yvonne Thompson keynote speaker is an expert presenter and has a wide range of experience speaking to a wide variety of audiences and organizations. Yvonne Thompson delivers keynotes, workshops & training sessions. They may also host or emcee events. Hire Yvonne Thompson from Winnipeg, Manitoba for your event to inspire the audience to take action and make change in their work and their lives. Your workplace will benefit from our keynote speaker and their keynote talks and speeches will shift the mindsets or behaviours for the audience members in Canada. 

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Are you looking to hire Yvonne Thompson for your event? Yvonne Thompson Winnipeg, Manitoba is a dynamic and engaging speaker that offers audiences researched content paired with expertise and a dynamic speaking ability. Yvonne Thompson is also a Canadian corporate consultant and coach and facilitates workshops and training sessions for a corporate audience. Yvonne Thompson is an expert keynote presenter and speaks on wide variety of topics. Hiring a great speaker for your event is important and working with a thought leader like Yvonne Thompson from Speakers Canada’s roster will engage audiences into the content of the presentation to bring awareness and a fresh perspective for their approach to their work and their lives. Book Yvonne Thompson to educate, motivate and activate the audience through an interactive and entertaining presentation at corporate meetings and gatherings.

Known as a popular key note speaker in Canada, Yvonne Thompson creates life changing experiences for the participants with practical insights and strategic advice they can implement right after the session. Working with a one our leading expert speaker like Yvonne Thompson from Winnipeg, Manitoba offers organizations a fresh perspective to assist the people of the organization. No matter if it is a government, association, or business crowd, Yvonne Thompson is a perfect speaker for your event. Through unique practical insights for trending topics and years experience speaking to different organizations, Yvonne Thompson focuses on changing individuals to make better decisions at work and their lives. No matter if you are holding an in person or virtual event, having an influential speaker such as Yvonne Thompson will engage, motivate, and activate the audience to make a change in their lives and inspire action for results to meet organizational goals. Your workforce will benefit from Yvonne Thompson’s presentations and speeches, with measurable results set to shift the people of the organization and core direction of the company. Book Yvonne Thompson speaker for your annual general meeting, conference, summit, or convention in Canada.

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Yvonne Thompson is an expert professional key note speaker with a lot of experience speaking and delivering engaging talks to organizations and audiences in Canada. Each of Speaker Bureau Canada’s talent have different ways to assess their fees, and Yvonne Thompson speaker fee ranges depending on the size of the audience, event format (in person or virtual), event location, and if the organization booking them is a non profit, association, government department/government agency or business/corporation. The speakers we work with are flexible with their fees, and it is important for us to learn more about your event before we approach them, as it is our role to work for you, and to help you find a speaker within budget. 

Please contact Speakers Bureau of Canada and provide us with your event details so that we can contact Yvonne Thompson to check availability or confirm the pricing and associated costs to hire a great speaker like Yvonne Thompson for your event. As Yvonne Thompson's agent and as a Canadian top speaker bureau and talent agency for speakers, we are able to propose each event opportunity from each host organization’s behalf to try to help you get in touch with Yvonne Thompson and confirm them for your in person or online meeting/event. We can also provide and advise on the booking process and potentially negotiate their fee. Speakers Canada is a client focused speaker agency, and we work for you in finding good speakers for your team meetings and booking processes.

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