Judith Briles

Biography

Confidence - Communications - Conflict - Change Sabotage in the Workplace - Gender Issues - Money - are topics that Dr. Judith Briles presents from her thirty years of business and entrepreneurial experiences. She is an award winning author of twenty books and an international motivational speaker who delivers her programs with content and humor.

Judith is recognized as an expert on workplace issues and their solutions. She concentrates on common sense strategies that are adaptable in both personal and business environments.

Publications

Living and working delivers a series of unexpected events--some good, some not so good. Dr. Judith Briles calls them cosmic gooses. Most of them are life changing, and if you had your druthers, you wouldn't want to experience them again.

Based on a nationwide survey of 1300 plus men and women, you will be taken on a journey of the good, the bad and the ugly and learn how
to grow and thrive when a cosmic goose lands on your doorstep.

You will hear the experiences and voices of hundreds of men and women who haves encountered both workplace and personal events that have taken them on the roller coaster ride of their lifetime--their cosmic goose. Not only did they survive, they thrived.

Judith Briles encourages you to be the person yo want to be--not the one someone else thought you should be. In her friendly and personal writing style, she delivers the 10 Steps to Building Confidence. Steps that will provide the core ingredients for improving who and what you
are.

You'll discover that a cosmic goose can lay the golden egg for your career. . .and your life. It's The Confidence Factor!

Titles

What's Holding You Back . . . Maybe You?
Everyone experiences traps and snares in their career and personal lives.

What the Bleep Did You Say #%&!?
Are you communicating? With who? You might think you are, but only your colleagues know for sure!

Money $marts
In this workshop based on Judith’s award-winning books Money $marts: Personal Financial Success in 30 Days! and $mart Money Moves for Kids, participants learn how to get money smart and 100s of ways to secure their financial future.

When Women Work with Women
Women are unique . . . and they use unique factors in communicating, dealing with and creating conflict.

Zapping Bats, Slugs and Pit Bulls
Learn how to identify each persona, why they act and react the way they do and multiple ways to deal and work with them. General Session.

Red Ink Behaviors
The working habits, styles and behaviors of people you work with, manage or even report to may be the curse of your workplace.

Power ... Use it or Lose it
This presentation is highly interactive and involves audience participation. Ideal for leadership and teambuilding tracks.  Workshop format.

Zapping Red Ink Behavior ... the Curse of the Workplace
Learn why there is a higher level of conflict in today's health care workplace; what the contributing factors of Red Ink Behavior are; why there are unique differences in female dominated workplaces ...

Conflict, Sabotage and Ethics
The Myths, Risks and Realities of the Health Care Workplace
Do nurses eat their young? Is conflict good, or bad?

Zapping Conflict A to Z
Based on Zapping Conflict in the Health Care Workplace, a Nurse Book Society main selection.

Caution: Women at Work
Is there a difference in working with and managing women in the workplace? Yes. Learn techniques for communicating better, dealing with conflict, and why the unique factors of a female dominated workplace should alert a caution warning.

Keep the Keepers … Lose the Losers
The secret is not in adding numbers, but in creating an environment and culture that keeps and attracts the best while eliminating marginal employees.

Making the Manager’s Dream a Reality: A Waiting List of Quality Employees Wanting to Work for You!
Everyone knows who the “good managers” are.  But how do you become one?

The Domino Factor
How to Get out of the Game and Focus on Patient Satisfaction
When distractions like gossip, scandal, conflict, sabotage, promotions, and impending change enter the workplace, the result is worry, speculation and guesstimating outcomes...

Changing for the Better: A Collaborative Approach
When your unit is in need of change and it’s your task to figure out what to do and how to do it, where do you start so that the result is happier, not resentful employees? 

When Women Work with Other Women
Unique factors are identified and solutions delivered to create cohesive and collaborative teams ...

Creating Confidence Out of Chaos or The Confidence Factor
(General Sessions Only)
Woven around the Ten Steps to Building Confidence, this stimulating and humorous speech is guaranteed to motivate and inspire audiences.

Cosmic Gooses Lay Golden Eggs
(General Sessions only)
Life delivers a series of unexpected events – some good, some not so good.  Judith calls these events cosmic gooses – usually life-changing, and if you had your druthers, something you wouldn’t want to go through again.


Leading with Confidence
Leaders need to know how to manage, yet lead; managers need to know how to lead, yet manage.  Both must be confident to be successful within their organizations and teams.

Communicating with Confidence and Clarity for Credible Leadership
Are you communicating?  You might think you are, but only your colleagues know for sure! Rarely is a communication style wrong, just different. 

Thriving and Empowerment in the Workplace: Changing Conflict to Collaboration
Over 80 percent of survey respondents reported that they had been undermined by co-workers.  Can women be bullies?  Is the workplace fair?  Should one be more cautious of women or men in the workplace? 

Aliens in the Workplace: What Planet Are Your Co-Workers From?
Your workplace today is nothing like last year, or the previous decade.  Today’s workplace consists of more variables than managers and leaders envisioned just a few years ago.  It's as though Aliens have invaded the workplace!

Thriving with Change When Thriving Doesn’t Feel Like an Option
Change is everywhere.  Some changes are no bigger than gnats, others the size of a Mack truck.  Either way, the thought and implementation of changes can demoralize, even destroy those going through it. 

Stress-Busting: De-stressing the Workplace … and Your Life
Any environment undergoing change creates stress.  Women and men work under and within extreme degrees of stress that extend to activities outside their workplace.