Transformational Leadership Coach, Consultant & Trainer
For Business, Project and Financial Professionals Make An AppointmentAbout MeHelping individuals and teams
leave their mark.
My services in this domain derive from many years of experience helping individuals and teams leave their mark primarily by being the best version of their “unique” selves. Often in these engagements individuals and teams need an objective, knowledgeable observer who shares feedback, teaches skills, expands awareness and basically provides what is needed to improve performance. I have made the study of the neuroscience underpinning human behavior a priority over my many years in the working world and derive great pleasure in helping people and teams discover their greatness. My soft skill development mantra for my clients is “never panic, never quit because if it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you”. It is a philosophy I have personally applied all my life.
Leadership Coach
For me, professional coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through this process, my clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life. I regularly bring the neuroscience of the brain and personal brand as a career asset into all coaching conversations. Both of these dimensions serve to humanize and personalize the learning journey to growth
and mastery. I leverage where ever possible group coaching as a means to harness the power of social learning.
Consultant
My consulting expertise has been honed in the crucible of over 35 years experience in leading and managing business operations, IT and strategic project management initiatives. While formal PMI accreditations have sharpened my focus for what good looks like, years of practical experience in the trenches has provided the basis for my success in this domain. Helping individuals, teams and organizations take initiative and ownership for finding a better way, often by taking an outside view. A perfect match for my lead from behind the scenes leadership approach to effective consulting and value optimization.
Trainer (hard & soft skills)
My facilitator expertise has been honed over the past 15 years in both F2F and virtual classroom environments with clients in multiple business sectors around the world. These engagements cover a broad range of soft and hard skill development workshops including leadership, communication, and strategic portfolio and project management as outlined below. My facilitation style is high energy, high touch with an emphasis on team-based experiential learning. Facilitating learning is one of my core competencies and a passion that I will continue to pursue throughout my career.
Bill’s Perspective on Coaching Professionals
Who Am I?
Learning leader dedicated to bringing soft skills to life so people can further develop their capability to thrive and be the best version of themselves in all facets of their lives.
Who Do I Help?
Business, technology and engineering professionals who are not reaping career benefits of highly developed hard skills.
How do I help them?
Improve their capability and performance by:
- Raising brain awareness – understanding it, observing it and directing it
- Building strong personal brand – reputation, conviction and potential
- Elevating personal and team standards for quality, performance and success.
What people are saying.
“I’d like to thank you for the great presentation you gave the group of us February 7th and 8th in Waterloo. I’m surprised and thankful for the impression you made on me and my work, and the evidence is in the team growth in our company.”
– Ryan, Senior Project Manager
Thanks for sharing this Bill. And thank you again for your efforts and energy. I really feel I have come away from this program with new, valuable knowledge and tools that will help me be more effective in my role. I’ve been recommending the course to my colleagues in Vancouver already this morning. Cheers, Jill.
I wanted to let you know that tonight’s session was outstanding and I got a lot out of this training session. I really liked the role-playing approach and the two rounds of negotiations. Your breakdown of what happened (and especially what can be done differently) was very, very helpful. I am going to put some of the tips into practice (opening differently, encouraging the parties to share all of their assumptions) tomorrow.
Articles & Books
Expressing myself on subjects I care about is what I am all about both professionally and personally. Writing for me is a catalyst to thoroughly examine subjects from various perspectives and then formulate my take on what is important and critical for my audiences to consider for their learning and growth. The research for my first book, Thinking on Purpose, was life and career altering and literally set my internal compass setting to helping individuals, teams and organizations leave their mark by being the best version of themselves. I believe one cannot be the best version of themselves unless they understand how their brain works and the role environment plays throughout their life journey. I continue to write, speak and coach around these critical professional and life success factors.
Thinking On Purpose for Project Managers
Outsmarting Evolution
When you’re facing down a lion on the open savannah, automatic reactions hardwired into your system through eons of evolution can save your life. However, when you’re trying to impress the CEO across a boardroom table, those same responses can cost you big time.
Coming Soon –
There’s an Acrostic for That
Tools for Harnessing the Power of Learning Frameworks
I believe the key to learning is not so much about what information you take in, as much as it is about how much of the information is actually retained and applied. A key strategy to independent learning is called the acrostic – a mnemonic device that helps learners effectively learn discreet pieces of information.
Context
HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)
The HALT acrostic is a big red stop reminder for us to be aware of our mental and physical states before we engage our brains to make decisions or solve problems. This acrostic reminds you to stop proceeding if you are hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. In today’s fast-paced environment, more than one of these conditions might be in play at the same time because the functioning of our brains is the common denominator.
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Contact
Phone
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bill.richardson@perdixgroup.com
Address
357 Cochrane Court
Port Perry, Ontario
Canada, L9L 1N1