Dr Janet Lapp

Dr Janet Lapp

RN, PhD, CSP, CPAE

CA, US
Changing mindsets to adapt to the future through humorous, skill-building and inspirational change leadership keynotes.

Former professor, researcher, clinician, and registered nurse, Dr. Janet Lapp hails from Québec, Canada; her PhD from McGill University in Montreal. 

A licensed clinical psychologist and author of five books, she has been admitted to the Speakers Hall of Fame, and one year was rated by Toastmasters as one of the top three speakers worldwide. She was the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated CBS series 'Keep Well,' and has appeared regularly on INN, ABC, CNN, and NBC affiliates.

She has inspired over 3,500 audiences around the world–with clients including IBM, RAND Corporation, AT&T, Allstate, New York Life, Toyota, and Kawasaki – to adopt a leadership mindset that can lead through disruptive change. She is a dual citizen, presents in three languages, and consults throughout Europe and the Americas.

The Ritz-Carlton and IBM sales teams used her best-selling book Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air to help create their successful transformations. She is author of four other books: Dancing with Tigers, Positive Spin, Why Won't They Listen to Me?, and The Four Elements of Transformation. Her forthcoming book (Wiley, 2022) highlights the leadership mindset needed to guide others through disruptive change.

Janet was a 2019 National Triathlon Champion, and in 2021 reached Ironman All-World Gold. A pilot and flight instructor, she has flown her single-engine airplane throughout South America and Africa on medical and rescue missions, is a long time member of the Flying Doctors of Mercy in central México, and founder of Agua Limpia para Todos in Sinaloa, México.

Former professor, researcher, clinician, and registered nurse, Dr. Janet Lapp hails from Québec, Canada; her PhD from McGill University in Montreal. 

A licensed clinical psychologist and author of five books, she has been admitted to the Speakers Hall of Fame, and one year was rated by Toastmasters as one of the top three speakers worldwide. She was the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated CBS series 'Keep Well,' and has appeared regularly on INN, ABC, CNN, and NBC affiliates.

She has inspired over 3,500 audiences around the world–with clients including IBM, RAND Corporation, AT&T, Allstate, New York Life, Toyota, and Kawasaki – to adopt a leadership mindset that can lead through disruptive change. She is a dual citizen, presents in three languages, and consults throughout Europe and the Americas.

The Ritz-Carlton and IBM sales teams used her best-selling book Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air to help create their successful transformations. She is author of four other books: Dancing with Tigers, Positive Spin, Why Won't They Listen to Me?, and The Four Elements of Transformation. Her forthcoming book (Wiley, 2022) highlights the leadership mindset needed to guide others through disruptive change.

Janet was a 2019 National Triathlon Champion, and in 2021 reached Ironman All-World Gold. A pilot and flight instructor, she has flown her single-engine airplane throughout South America and Africa on medical and rescue missions, is a long time member of the Flying Doctors of Mercy in central México, and founder of Agua Limpia para Todos in Sinaloa, México.

Habits to Navigate through Change

Learn what new studies are telling us about how to manage stress and change in our turbulent world and .... be focused, optimisticand moving forward.... no matter what or where.

In this fast-paced program, you'll learn the top three must-have skills you will need to be successful and stress-free during turbulent change.

This program is designed for those groups who have experienced turbulence and even chaos over...

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Everybody Onboard: Help resistant people change.

Up to one-third of your workforce could be resistant to change. Can you recognize them? Can you help them? What effect are they having on the whole team?

Take a quick assessment to find out which of five change reactions you have. Understand both your own and others' reaction styles. Build a roadmap to enhanced team function by learning the secrets to getting others to change. 

This program budges people out of the past, and helps them see that change affects everyone,...

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Don't worry about the finish line

Begin with the end in mind Start, move, risk  ... don't wait to imagine the finish line. Do something SO bold, that a year from now, you'll declare: "I can't believe we/did that!" 

See a bright future, get bolder, more confident, and take more healthy risks.

Knock away outdated pillars, blow away perceptions of what's possible, rewrite your story and create a new set of rules. In so doing, life will be expanded as never before. 

Janet brings lessons from...

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