Erika Garms
MA, PhD
MN, USDr. Erika Garms shows leaders and teams how to work, lead and innovate smarter.
Erika shows audiences how to get beneath typical employee engagement methods, to get lasting, healthy and high-performing cultures . . . by discovering the science behind engagement and performance, you'll know exactly what to STOP doing and what to START doing in your organizations.
How would you know that Erika might be the right speaker to bring in to an organization or event?
- professional staff are looking for ways to be highly productive, work and lead smart
- staff at all levels struggle with focusing attention and prioritizing tasks
- staff strive for better output, higher creativity, greater innovation
- need greater self-awareness and understanding of others' perspectives
- new staff and staff in new management/leadership roles
- lots of change, and staff need ways to live gracefully with it rather than succumb to the stress of it
What is the hallway buzz following a program with Erika?
"That was fascinating! I want more . . ."
"As a manager, the section on how to give feedback was totally mindset changing -- my whole approach needs to be flipped based on what she shared about how our brains react to feedback from others."
"This makes me realize that it's not so much the individual people who I have problems with here, it's just our biology that makes us react certain ways."
"I'm going to put this to use later today when I set up the agenda for an off-site retreat -- now I know how to sequence the day based on what our brains can digest!"
"She finally helped me understand the WHY behind some of the team dynamics I thought I already knew."
What do leaders report a few months following the program?
- more direct communication
- fewer interpersonal conflicts - 'less drama'
- greater individual and group focus
- less sick leave use
- more productive meetings
- fewer meetings needed
- faster progress toward goals
About Erika:
Erika has played many consulting and leadership roles including internal consultant, organization development manager, and executive management consultant with two large, global management consulting firms. She also helped to establish start-up HR and IT consultancies. Erika has worked for and with public sector and private sector organizations across many industries – from food to finance, education to energy.
She earned a BA and an MA from the University of Colorado, a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and completed a post-graduate program with distinction from the NeuroLeadership Institute/Sussex University.
Garms is the author of, "The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Five Big Ideas from Neuroscience That Address Organizational Challenges" and has a second title, "ManagementSmarts" coming soon. She is a sharp, warm and funny speaker, getting hired back repeatedly for clients . . . from Duluth to Dubai!
Erika lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When she's not working, Erika is probably browsing design magazines, inventing something, petting animals, or pretending to understanding football plays.
Dr. Erika Garms shows leaders and teams how to work, lead and innovate smarter.
Erika shows audiences how to get beneath typical employee engagement methods, to get lasting, healthy and high-performing cultures . . . by discovering the science behind engagement and performance, you'll know exactly what to STOP doing and what to START doing in your organizations.
How would you know that Erika might be the right speaker to bring in to an organization or event?
- professional staff are looking for ways to be highly productive, work and lead smart
- staff at all levels struggle with focusing attention and prioritizing tasks
- staff strive for better output, higher creativity, greater innovation
- need greater self-awareness and understanding of others' perspectives
- new staff and staff in new management/leadership roles
- lots of change, and staff need ways to live gracefully with it rather than succumb to the stress of it
What is the hallway buzz following a program with Erika?
"That was fascinating! I want more . . ."
"As a manager, the section on how to give feedback was totally mindset changing -- my whole approach needs to be flipped based on what she shared about how our brains react to feedback from others."
"This makes me realize that it's not so much the individual people who I have problems with here, it's just our biology that makes us react certain ways."
"I'm going to put this to use later today when I set up the agenda for an off-site retreat -- now I know how to sequence the day based on what our brains can digest!"
"She finally helped me understand the WHY behind some of the team dynamics I thought I already knew."
What do leaders report a few months following the program?
- more direct communication
- fewer interpersonal conflicts - 'less drama'
- greater individual and group focus
- less sick leave use
- more productive meetings
- fewer meetings needed
- faster progress toward goals
About Erika:
Erika has played many consulting and leadership roles including internal consultant, organization development manager, and executive management consultant with two large, global management consulting firms. She also helped to establish start-up HR and IT consultancies. Erika has worked for and with public sector and private sector organizations across many industries – from food to finance, education to energy.
She earned a BA and an MA from the University of Colorado, a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and completed a post-graduate program with distinction from the NeuroLeadership Institute/Sussex University.
Garms is the author of, "The Brain-Friendly Workplace: Five Big Ideas from Neuroscience That Address Organizational Challenges" and has a second title, "ManagementSmarts" coming soon. She is a sharp, warm and funny speaker, getting hired back repeatedly for clients . . . from Duluth to Dubai!
Erika lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When she's not working, Erika is probably browsing design magazines, inventing something, petting animals, or pretending to understanding football plays.
Building Brain-Friendly Workplaces: Simple Keys for Healthy and High-Performing Cultures
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- organizations and groups going through major change
- workplaces suffering from silos, rifts within the organizational structure
- professionals and leaders needing techniques for collaboration and productivity that are much more effective and advanced than they've seen before
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Radical Productivity: Uncommon ways to get more done and feel more ease!
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ChangeSmarts: 7 Big Ideas to Help You Navigate Through Workplace Change
For decades, the statistics around success of organizational change efforts has been dismal . . . by most accounts, change initiatives fail to reach their intended goals more than 66% of the time!
In any other professional practice, would a 34% success rate be acceptable? Why hasn't this statistic improved in so many years?
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CommunicationSmarts: Cracking the Code on Workplace Interactions to Catapult Your Impact
In this fast-paced and visual session, learn what grabs attention, what our brains tune out and why. Hear (and see!) how much words matter vs. body language, tone, and facial expression. Discover what else largely affects our messages and what we can do to impact the way messages are received by others.
Receive Erika's system for planning for the impact you want to have in every communication - major or minor - rather than leaving it to chance.
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