Linda Edgecombe, CSP is an internationally renowned award-winning humorous speaker, trainer and consultant. She is a best selling author who energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and shown how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. Change has never been this painless! As a professional, with a degree in Physical Education, Linda brings 20 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, Lifestyle and Corporate Consulting experience to her programs and her clients. She was a consultant for PARTICIPACTION promoting healthy living to Canadians and is known for being one of the countries most popular Speakers.

Most recently featured in the Wall Street Journal as an expert in “Shifting Perspectives”. Inside all the laughter, Linda’s audiences are inspired to find the meaning in what they do and let go of what’s not working. Her message is a welcome as a deep belly laugh and as profound as an honest look in the mirror. Introduction: Linda is an Internationally renowned motivational speaker and best selling author. Her mission is to get you laughing on the outside while you lighten up on the inside. She is “the life perspective specialist”. Linda brings 20 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, lifestyle and corporate Consulting to her programs. She has been invited to speak in 5 countries and over 2 seas. She has just recently been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal as an expert on how we can “shift our perspectives” in our work and home lives. Linda's message is as welcome as a good belly laugh and as profound as a good look in the mirror. Get ready to BE Energized!

Two Samples of Linda's Many Programs:

1.Shift Happens - Accountable Leadership with an Edge Linda uses humorous life experiences and activities to get her audiences laughing while they move to ‘accountable thinking’. Unleashing Leadership Potential has never been this painless. In an upbeat, highly interactive presentation, your team will explore a variety of aspects of what it means to be a leader today. This presentation that will leave the participants with a renewed perspective on themselves and their work. Shifting to Create Change Ready Teams Who are you and your staff accountable to? How do we motivate our teams to take responsibility to drive their own lives while following through on commitments and goals set out for them? This program is receiving great success, by taking the guilt out of goal setting. Everyone is the Winner with the “Guilt-Free Accountability Success Program” ™

Your team will come away with: • A great understanding of how easy it is to develop goals that are achievable. • Learn to drop facades that are not productive. • Take an honest look at a snapshot of how in or out of balance their lives are. • Be energized with a renewed sense of themselves and their vision for work and home life.• success has never been this painless!

2.Batteries Included - Lessons to Energize and Balance Your Life Take your organization on an Energy Boost! Linda will lead your group through an educational, hands on and highly humorous ride that will re-focus and re-energize your team. Your team will come away with: • An honest snapshot of themselves and how they affect the energy in their work and home life. • Ideas how to change negative drainers in their lives and produce more positive effects. • 5 Keys to increasing their personal, family and co-workers’ energy levels. • An honest look at the Balance in their lives. Attitude + Motivation = Success Attitude Management is a skill that takes practice. And lots of it! Motivation comes from just getting started. So start already! Positive attitudes energize and uplift us and they create the basis for all our successes in life. With a positive attitude and energized motivation, anything is possible. This program will give you the hands-on tools to shift your attitudes, which is truly the secret to maintaining motivation in your life.

Testimonials:

"Linda was an overwhelming success for our organization. Everyone had a wonderful time listening to Linda's words-she made us think and renew ourselves-all the while laughing and enjoying every minute of her presentation!!" "Energy, perspective and fun-those are the resounding feelings that we received from Linda." SHELL OIL  

"You had come highly recommended to us by a member of our team who had seen you at a previous conference. I am thrilled to report that we were not disappointed with the recommendation. Unanimously, our staff tells me that your session was one of the best things we have done as a division in awhile. You kept us laughing almost non-stop for over an hour, and then had us in a reflective mood as we contemplated your message. By the end, we were in tears, not of laughter this time, but due to thoughtful introspection." "More than one person said to me that you had missed your calling as a stand-up comedian, but had your presentation only been about the funny parts, then we would have missed the deeper message." THE CITY COLLEGE - GEORGE BROWN

Linda, I attended the Women of Distinction conference and was so impressed with your energy and wonderful humour. Your spirit stuck with me for the whole weekend. I'm currently learning how to balance my work/home life and thank you very much for sharing your experiences and encouragement to live life to the fullest. You're amazing!" YWCA WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARDS ATTENDEE