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Jeanne is a professional speaker, trainer and author who has worked throughout Canada and internationally. Since starting her own firm in 1993, Jeanne has inspired thousands of participants in her workshops and keynote presentations with her humour, insight and real-world examples.
Jeanne Martinson is Managing Partner of Martrain Corporate and Personal Development, a Saskatchewan-based training company in its 17th year of business. Jeanne is a Certified Practitioner of NLP (Neuro Linguisitic Programming) and has formal education in human resources, organizational behaviour, journalism and marketing.
Jeanne became interested in training while working for a Fortune 500 company in southern California. Back in her native Saskatchewan, she side-stepped into sales and marketing for ten years - where in the printing and labelling industry, she took a $25,000 sales territory and grew it to $850,000 within four years.
Now as Managing Partner of her own firm, Jeanne has delivered workshops and keynote addresses to over 10,000 people in government, associations and the private sector. Her most popular topics are leadership and diversity.
In July 1999, Jeanne released her first non-fiction book entitled “Lies And Fairy Tales That Deny Women Happiness” which explores the myths that many Canadian women are raised with and which limit their ability to have happy relationships and fulfilling careers.
Her second book,“Escape From Oz - Leadership For The 21st Century” was released in October 2001. This book explores the parallels of the characters in the fable “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and our own beliefs about personal and professional leadership. The first part of the book explores the four cornerstones required to be effective leaders: insight, courage, self-discipline and influence over others. The second part of the book explores how we can move out of our comfort zone to lead individuals according to their reality, skill set and knowledge base - with the goal of achieving trust and long term success.
Jeanne's third book,"War & Peace in the Workplace - Diversity, Conflict, Understanding, Reconciliation was released September,2005. This book explores how workplaces are becoming more diverse and how that diversity can trigger conflict. The book illustrates how we have the choice of allowing conflict to spiral down into dysfunction or of taking charge, becoming aware and developing understanding.
When not writing, speaking or delivering workshops, Jeanne takes a leading role in her community, a dedication that was recognized in 1992 with the awarding of the Canada 125 Medal of Honour, in 1999 with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the category of Business, Labour and Professions, and in 2005 with the Centennial Leadership Award for outstanding contribution to the Province of Saskatchewan and the Athena Award.
She has been listed in Who’s Who of Canadian Women since 1996 and Canadian Who’s Who since 1999. Jeanne is Past President of: Saskatchewan Training and Development Association (Regina Chapter), Saskatchewan Business and Professional Women, and Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan.
Presentation Topics
Leadership for the 21st Century
In the fable, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Man desired courage, a brain and a heart. They believed the only path to achieving their desires was the Wizard's magic. Humans often wish for 'leadership skills'. Like the Oz characters, we have everything we need to succeed. We don't need a "magic" pill to be successful leaders - only a willingness to recognize our potential and develop it!
Leadership Communication That Gets Results
It is human nature to fall into our most comfortable way of communicating as a leader - regardless of whether that style is giving us the results we want or not! By learning how to lead individuals according to the situation, their competency and committment, we can utilize our employees’ abilities to the maximum!
Keeping Trust: The Glue of Leadership
A leader may be able to influence followers short term, but without trust their leadership will be short-lived. How do we develop trust? How do we re-build it in a hostile environment?
Generations in the Workplace: Making Peace Between Gen X'ers and Boomers
For the first time, there are four generations in the workplace. Traditionalists, boomers, Gen X’ers and Gen Y’s all have different values and goals. And those values and goals are creating conflict!
Co-dependent Leadership: Getting Managers to make the Tough Moves
Are you coaching leaders who refuse to take tough action? Do they want to be liked more than respected? Kidding themselves that they are effective? Making the tough decisions and giving the tough talks is what being a good leader is all about.
War and Peace in the Workplace: Diversity, Conflict, Understanding, Reconciliation
Ever wonder why we just can’t get along? Individual differences - large and small - often create conflict between people. We have the choice of allowing conflict to spiral down into dysfunction or of taking action, becoming aware and developing understanding. It’s all up to us?
Nurture, Nature or Just Nasty?: Understanding Male and Female Leadership Styles
When women lead like men, they are called nasty names, when men are encouraged to lead like women, they are wimps. How are we different? How can we use our differences to be great leaders?
Testimonials
"When I first heard Jeanne’s presentation I knew that she not only had diversity figured out but that she was able to explain it to a group of employees in a way that wasn’t threatening. One of her presentations to a group of employees who I would have felt would have been a hard sell went over so well that there was a particular time during the presentation you could have heard a pin drop. They were so interested in her understanding on the subject and her ability to explain their feelings that they were totally engrossed in her presentation. When you see a group as tough as some she has presented too, you understand her incredible ability to get the message across. The fact that she has a best seller book on the subject, allowed our employees to not only obtain what they learned from the presentations but reflect on some of the new learnings by following up with her book. She is a dynamic speaker and has the gift of knowing her audience. She has the ability to present in a way that captivates and motivates others. Over the past number of years she has presented to well over 400 people in our department and has made a significant difference."
(Dave Fischl - Fleet Services Manager/ Workplace Diversity Coordinator, Saskatchewan Highways and Transportation)
"Jeanne, I have never received so many positive, unsolicited comments after the fact with regard to any speaker we’ve ever booked to present in this venue! You gave all the attendees a real sense of value for the time spent. Thank you for nailing your audience’s specific interests and making it such an entertaining hour. We all took away something valuable from our time with you, from our Baby Boomer crew, right up to our Gen Xer’s….some of us got some insight to ourselves we would have been quite content NOT to know…Again, it was a very enlightening morning-thank you!"
(Carol Geurts, Managing Broker, Coast Capital Realty, Victoria, B.C.)
Past Clients
CGI Group
Farm Credit Corporation
Building Owners Managers Association
Provincial Auditor Saskatchewan
Ministry of Corrections (SK)Health Canada
Regina Qu'Appelle Heath Region
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
HRDC
SaskPower
SaskTel
SaskEnergy
Dominion Construction
Yanke Trucking
Credit Union Central of Saskatchewan
Great West Life
London Life
Meyers Norris Penny
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