Jody Urquhart

Do your days often feel overwhelming? Does your life resemble a three-ring circus? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us get trapped in patterns of self-made busyness to avoid uncertainty.

We fill our day with menial tasks to avoid doing the important ones. When your busyness is tied to your worthiness, it’s hard not to take yourself seriously at work.

Join Jody in this comedic adventure to expose the busyness patterns that overwhelm you and others. Together we will beat back busyness once and for all when you discover that you are not the problem, you are the solution.

Learn:

• 3 Signs your Working Harder, Not Smarter
• Uncover Personal Patterns that Diminish your Productivity
• 4 Time and Energy Drainers When Working from Home
• To Take Yourself Lightly and Sustain Balance
• Know Why you do Things the Hard Way

Our leadership is at a crossroads. Our teams are floundering towards fulfillment as we try to balance algorithms with basic human emotions.

If your workplace has become a little bit robotic, authentic leadership can resurrect your teams back to life. Relatability is powerful.

If your brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open, this session will give you relief. It’s time to own who you are so you can be real to others and lead through empathy. Bring your teams together and discover how turning off your PowerPoint could save your soul.

Join us for a session that’s deep enough to ponder your life choices but funny enough to not take it personally.

Learn:

• How to make employees feel like they’re human again
• The comedic side of humanizing leadership
• How to prioritize the well-being of your team
• How to ditch a stiff persona for something more relatable

Humour helps. The ability to laugh at life helps us deal with daily disappointments and setbacks. Humour gives professionals the nerve to serve in our increasingly complex and challenging environment. Join us as we demonstrate how humour helps you stay in control, stay positive, and maintain balance and perspective.

Participants learn how to:

• Laugh at the tough stuff. When stress persists, be compelled to take yourself lightly, so the stress isn’t as heavy or emotionally exhausting.
• Say hello to humour and goodbye to burnout
• Play along the way and enjoy work while boosting productivity and focus
• Be compelled to use humour, laughter, and play to breathe new passion and resilience into work
• Engage a playful resilience to protect against stress

Sometimes life just gets in the way. Do you ever think, “Why can’t things just go the way I want for a change?” or “Why can’t people just leave me alone?” This hilarious and provocative presentation shows you how to buoyantly face stress and navigate the future. Embrace challenging situations and people with new ideas, innovation and conviction.

Increase your comfort and confidence in the face of stress and change. Through stand up comedy, audience interaction and analogy, we will unfold ideas that navigating the future has replaced change management. The future is the present and evolution is not optional.

Learn to:

• Derive strength from change
• Embrace work with a sense of urgency,  conviction and vitality
• Get your team on board with change
• Move forward and feel good despite uncertainty

Join us in this hilariously interactive, practical and inspiring motivational speech that shows you how to develop healthy communication patterns with anyone. Learn to appreciate even the most difficult people!

• You can build a more productive, enjoyable and efficient workplace for everyone. 
• Learn the 4 basic personality styles, what they need and what they mean.
• Understand how to adjust your message to different people and personalities to appeal to their convictions

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. With today’s rapidly evolving workplace, strong leaders must influence and engage others.

Through humour, insight and inspiration Follow Me I’m Right Behind You provides a lively, interactive look at how to inspire a spirited and resilient workforce that stays inspired focused and productive.

In this gut splitting hilarious motivational speech learn:

• How great leaders inspire and influence others
• To create a culture of respect and appreciation with 4 keys to a great recognition culture
• To increase Purpose and Vision
• To create a sense of involvement and belonging

OK, you’re really busy. While you are dutifully doing your job, do you ever get a sense that you are disconnected from the purpose of your work? Do you sometimes find that your work lacks fun and enjoyment? 

By adopting a humorous and fun approach to the challenges of keeping the daily grind engaging, motivational speech, the Joy of the Job inspires professionals to be focused and productive by nourishing the meaning, fun, and joy of their work.

After experiencing the Joy of the Job, participants will:

• Know how to bring more JOY to their job
• Strengthen their commitment to the job
• Find their get up and go
• Recognize and appreciate others

It only takes a few visionary people to move the world forward. We can all start imagining hope and potential when we take our focus off current problems.

Life is imagined and recreated with new inspiration, not by rehashing problems. 

Don’t let the uncertainty of today crowd out your ability to imagine a better future tomorrow. You need feelings of hope, happiness and success to fuel progress. This uplifting keynote will inspire you to leave the stress and struggle behind in favour of passion and purpose. 

• Inspiration is a feeling, it’s not a goal.
• Goals require effort and good feelings give you the momentum.
• Skills are trained, not imagined. Imagination is much bigger than effort. Shaping the future of business has to feel good right now. 
• Join us to bliss out on feeling good and reimagine a bold, beautiful future.

Health care professionals consistently ignite the fires of hope in others. Daily they muster the nerve to serve in a complex and challenging environment. Leaders in healthcare need tools to both energize staff members and to keep their own fires of hope burning. Through humor, insight, and inspiration Daring to be Caring shows healthcare leaders how to inspire a spirited and resilient workforce that stays focused on providing the most compassionate care possible.