Liz Berney
Ph.D.
MD, USYou will leave Liz's talks with new ways of understanding your workplace challenges, 'hands on' strategies to solve your work-related challenges immediately. Her talks are high energy, dynamic, very fast paced and interactive - prepare to think, interact, learn and have fun!
Liz's CEO clients rave about her keynotes and facilitated sessions --
Liz's ability to speak extemporaneously, honestly, and with sensitivity, is remarkable. She brought a great deal of energy to every day’s presentation, kept a lively pace, and clearly had a command of her subject. Most memorable is Dr. Berney’s sense of humor that made participants comfortable and more able to look at their behaviors both kindly and critically.
Liz’s high-energy, vast knowledge and can do attitude makes her a pleasure to work with. With Liz's keen insight and funny, fast-paced delivery, the time sped by. Liz is one of those speakers who can make you laugh, make you cry, but most of all, make you want to be better at what you do."
Liz is an engaging and entertaining speaker, and more importantly, she is extremely knowledgeable in her field. We received positive comments from every staff member about her sessions. I think it is most revealing however, that the staff continues to reference points/comments/suggestions that Liz made during her sessions over a year after the first one occurred.
In addition to her uncanny ability to make the complex simple and understandable, she is able to listen well to the needs of her audience and then tailor the program material to those needs. She is in no way a canned speaker.
Dr. Berney has been awarded the Top 5 Speaker on Teams and Leadership, along with Stephen Covey by Speakers Platform and the Teaching Excellence Award for her powerful and dynamic teaching at the University of Maryland. She is a regular Instructor for Wharton Business School's Executive Education Programs both nationally and internationally and a Past Instructor for the American Management Association (Coaching and Counseling for Leaders), George Washington University's Accelerated MBA Program (Teams and Leadership) and Georgetown University's Organization Development Certificate Program which she founded, designed and directed.
She has provided keynotes to Coca Cola, Tropicana, Thomson Prometric, UATP, Dun & Bradstreet, the U.S. Department of Labor's Senior Executive Service, Tech Data, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, BP, Sheraton Hotels, Crestline Hotels, Marriott, CISCO, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Actuaries, Hughes Network Systems, Fannie Mae, MITRE and Quaker Oats, among many others.
She has consulted to the Billl and Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. House of Representatives, Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, Crestline Hotels, Marriott, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Raytheon, NASA, World Bank, American Institute of Architects, FINCA, Human Rights First, Academy Health, Human Rights First and National Public Radio, among many others.
She has a B.A. in Psychology with Honors and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University ofMaryland, where she was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award and was chosen for the Academy of Management's Assistant Professor Practicum. Recent articles include “The Co-Creation of Conflict” in Yes You Can!: Reaching Your Potential While Achieving Greatness (with Warren Bennis), the Society of Actuaries Stepping Stone, the Law Office Administrator and the Medical Office Manager. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, American Psychological Association’s Monitor, Washington Woman and the Law Office Administrator.
You will leave Liz's talks with new ways of understanding your workplace challenges, 'hands on' strategies to solve your work-related challenges immediately. Her talks are high energy, dynamic, very fast paced and interactive - prepare to think, interact, learn and have fun!
Liz's CEO clients rave about her keynotes and facilitated sessions --
Liz's ability to speak extemporaneously, honestly, and with sensitivity, is remarkable. She brought a great deal of energy to every day’s presentation, kept a lively pace, and clearly had a command of her subject. Most memorable is Dr. Berney’s sense of humor that made participants comfortable and more able to look at their behaviors both kindly and critically.
Liz’s high-energy, vast knowledge and can do attitude makes her a pleasure to work with. With Liz's keen insight and funny, fast-paced delivery, the time sped by. Liz is one of those speakers who can make you laugh, make you cry, but most of all, make you want to be better at what you do."
Liz is an engaging and entertaining speaker, and more importantly, she is extremely knowledgeable in her field. We received positive comments from every staff member about her sessions. I think it is most revealing however, that the staff continues to reference points/comments/suggestions that Liz made during her sessions over a year after the first one occurred.
In addition to her uncanny ability to make the complex simple and understandable, she is able to listen well to the needs of her audience and then tailor the program material to those needs. She is in no way a canned speaker.
Dr. Berney has been awarded the Top 5 Speaker on Teams and Leadership, along with Stephen Covey by Speakers Platform and the Teaching Excellence Award for her powerful and dynamic teaching at the University of Maryland. She is a regular Instructor for Wharton Business School's Executive Education Programs both nationally and internationally and a Past Instructor for the American Management Association (Coaching and Counseling for Leaders), George Washington University's Accelerated MBA Program (Teams and Leadership) and Georgetown University's Organization Development Certificate Program which she founded, designed and directed.
She has provided keynotes to Coca Cola, Tropicana, Thomson Prometric, UATP, Dun & Bradstreet, the U.S. Department of Labor's Senior Executive Service, Tech Data, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, BP, Sheraton Hotels, Crestline Hotels, Marriott, CISCO, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Actuaries, Hughes Network Systems, Fannie Mae, MITRE and Quaker Oats, among many others.
She has consulted to the Billl and Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. House of Representatives, Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, Crestline Hotels, Marriott, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Raytheon, NASA, World Bank, American Institute of Architects, FINCA, Human Rights First, Academy Health, Human Rights First and National Public Radio, among many others.
She has a B.A. in Psychology with Honors and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University ofMaryland, where she was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award and was chosen for the Academy of Management's Assistant Professor Practicum. Recent articles include “The Co-Creation of Conflict” in Yes You Can!: Reaching Your Potential While Achieving Greatness (with Warren Bennis), the Society of Actuaries Stepping Stone, the Law Office Administrator and the Medical Office Manager. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, American Psychological Association’s Monitor, Washington Woman and the Law Office Administrator.
From Pain to Gain: Leveraging Differences at Work
Do you find yourself either avoiding conflict or too combative? Is your conflict style so accommodating that everyone takes advantage of you? Do you find yourself stuck in the middle as the peacemaker all too often? Learn key tactics and tools to resolve conflict at work and build on team member differences to build relationships, enhance innovation and learn and grow.
You will learn how to go from debate to dialogue, listen actively with curiosity to identify interests, manage your...
Leading Change in a Time of Whitewater
Whether at work or at home, we live in a time of constant change or permanent whitewater (Vaill). In order to continually adapt to change, Liz teaches how to navigate the high and low waters of change. Learn specific strategies for managing feelings of loss, isolation and anxiety throughout the change process. Learn how to find opportunities for personal and career growth and development during times of change. Leaders, find out how to respond most effectively to staff struggling with...
Managing Challenging People and Staying Sane!
The workplace is filled with different kinds of challenging people, or at least challenging behaviors, with which one must deal. Cranky customers, controlling employers, uncooperative colleagues and passive aggressive subordinates are only a few examples. Learn the different types of challenging behavior and tailored strategies to address these challenges. Challenging people will never go away but their behavior can be managed effectively with the right skills!
- Learn...
Finding the 'Win-Win' at Work
Win-Win Negotiation is the only kind of negotiation that solves problems while building relationships. Learn the key tenets of Win-Win negotiation including: getting to interests, identifying options, developing a BATNA. Learn how to think outside of the box & move from lose-lose to win-win. Liz demonstrates how to use Win-Win negotiation to get a raise, a new job, work out a problem with a customer or colleague.
- Learn the key tenets of Win-Win Negotiation
- Learn...
Managing your Energy, Time and Priorities
When it comes to managing our time at work, we are used to thinking about efficiency rather than effectiveness. Whether our desired outcome is efficiency or effectiveness, managing our energy and our straategic priorities are more important than managing our minutes.
This session tatkes a strategic approach on managing time and priorities using Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix. Rather than providing strategies like 'not opening your mail more than once', we focus on how to...
Inspiring Staff to Reach their Personal Best
We all know that people are motivated differently; anyone with children would agree! Learn what motivates different people and how to help direct someone’s passion, energyand skills. From her years consulting and teaching as an organizational psychologist, Liz will explain what motivates people and how to mentor and coach people to reach their personal best.
Learn:
- What key factors motivate you
- How to find out what motivates someone else
- How to mentor,...
Understanding Different Personalities to Help Teams Thrive
Personality differences are one of the major reasons conflict occurs at work, sometimes resulting in turnover. Learn specific strategies for dealing with customers, employees, colleagues and bosses more effectively at work. Liz Berney has used the Myers Briggs to help individuals and teams more effectively manage their communication, decision-making and problem-solving processes.
Learn:
- How to be more persuasive with others
- How to give feedback more...
Creating Top Performing Teams
Why are some teams high performing while others are mediocre at best? Learn what it takes to be a top performing team. Take the “Berney checklist” to see if your team is on its way to success. Learn how to address the specific challenges of cross-functional teams with unique tactics to move these teams to top performance.
Learn:
- Key components of a top performing team
- How to set up a team for top performance
- Strategies for make a mediocre team a...
Enhancing Cross Functional Collaboration
In a time of complex problem solving and matrix organization structures, leaders struggle with the challenges presented by "silo" mentalities in organizations. To solve complex cross-functional challenges at work, leaders must be able to effectively develop, facilitate and sustain effective cross-functional collaboration among departments, stakeholders and units.
This session offers best practices and concrete strategies to create effective cross-functional problem solving as well...
You Can Never be Too Emotionally Intelligent!
In this day and age, emotional intelligence can make the difference between good performance and top performance. In recent replicated studies, the Center for Creative Leadership found again that those executives, expected to succeed, that "derail" in their careers, show less emotional competence than their more successful peers.
Learn the key components of emotional intelligence, and how you can become more emotionally intelligent. Learn how to listen actively, be curious and come...
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