“If you want to take leadership development to the next level, you need Kathy Reed.”

– Jana Hacker,
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Kathy's Bio

Kathy Reed has an uncanny knack for bringing out the synergy in corporate teams through her teambuilding, personalities and interpersonal skills development training workshops. Her blue chip executive experience plus her FUN, engaging and interactive personality make her a popular and award-winning teambuilding speaker, trainer, and facilitator among Fortune 1000 companies.

Before founding WorkTeam Dynamics based in Dallas, Texas in 1995, Kathy's press-worthy career included leading several history-making teams. She led the team that launched your PC user interface today—your mouse, icons and Ethernet. She also led the team that launched the first PC by a major corporation—before IBM! In total, her teams developed and launched 13 computer product lines. Her corporate experience comprised positions such as Vice President Organizational Development, Director Program Management, Program Manager and Trade Show Manager at revered corporations such as REI, Compaq and Xerox.

Kathy was featured in the Wall Street Journal for Surviving Corporate Chaos. Ericsson awarded her “Training Vendor of the Year” for her interpersonal skills workshop. She co-authored the book The Communication Path, and a workbook, Interpersonal Effectiveness: How to Do the Tough Stuff and Leave Everyone Feeling OK. Look for her newest book, OLIVE™—Offer the OLIVE™ Branch and Bury the Hatchet—a simple model for resolving everyday conflicts.

Kathy is a passionate proponent for teamwork and interpersonal communication skills.

Intro

Don't you wish that you had more teamwork in your firms? That your teams were more productive quicker? That they were more engaged, empowered and accountable? That they had more trust and respect and handled issues with each other better? Don't you wish your teams had more FUN? If you answered yes, you're in the right place. If no, you're probably in denial. Our next speaker is an expert in teamwork and people skills.  She's worked with teams for over 25 years at Xerox, Compaq, REI and her own firm, WorkTeam Dynamics. If you've had it with dysfunctional teams, she's been there and done that and is here to share how to fix it with you.

In the early 80's she led the team that launched your PC user interface today—your mouse, icons and Ethernet.  She led teams to develop and launch 13 computer product lines.  She was featured in the Wall Street Journal in the 90's for Surviving Corporate Chaos.  She co-authored the book The Communication Path, and will soon publish How to Do the Tough Stuff and Leave Everyone Feeling OK.

Our Mission & Values

To build dynamic teams and build people skills that open communication, resolve tough teambuilding issues and remove obstacles to success so that you get great team development results in a people-satisfying way.

We believe in:

• Teamwork
• Shared leadership
• Diversity
• Win-win attitude
• Collaboration
• Conflict as natural and predictable and a catalyst to creativity
• Open and honest expression of feelings and issues
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Mistakes are for learning
• Learning while doing and having fun!