Andrea Reynolds speaks on
1. Using Creative
Thinking Skills to Overcome Life's Crises and
Challenges; and
2. Personal and Professional Kindness and Class
(905) 708-3081
"I'm a born list maker. (See a photo of
me below making a list when I was two years old.) I use
listwriting as a primary way to solve problems. Within
minutes I can usually conjure 12 or more answers to a
specific challenge out of "thin air". I can write (or
ghostwrite) the contents of 32 page tips booklet in just a
few hours. The ideas and solutions come to me almost
effortlessly... as though I had an invisible team in the
room silently shouting out ideas to my subconscious mind.
Until I was 35 I believed everyone else was blessed with
this mental ability.
I would hear people complain for hours about a problem, but
I couldn't understand why they wouldn't take 15 minutes to
sit down and list 12 solutions. I was so curious to
understand why others couldn't do what I do that I
researched the content of a seminar I conducted in the US
and Canada on how to "Discover Your Creative Genius" not
only to give others the tools for problem solving but to
have them solve serious challenges faced by their
organizations, careers, and families. Soon I was asked to
appear on national TV shows as an expert on the same panel
with leading psychologists and psychiatrists. I've also
appeared as an etiquette (civility) expert on Frost Over
Canada, hosted by British Journalist, David
Frost.
Event organizers: Contact Andrea,
info@CrisisBrainstorm.com
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Biography
Andrea Reynolds has been
retained for her creative ideas by some of the world's most
critical thinkers including the Edward de Bono School of
Thinking in New York. As an author of how-to books,
freelance writer, on-air counselor (radio and national TV),
family studies teacher, professional speaker, and crisis
counselor, Andrea Reynolds has been a creative source of
multiple solutions to personal predicaments and crises for
many people. Having experienced her own professional
problems, she has developed strength and resilience. She
both utilizes her brainstorming skills for others who,
temporarily, cannot find solutions, and teaches others to
solve problems creatively. Some of the people she has
counselled are lawyers, physicians, psychologists, and
psychiatrists.
She studied education in 3
countries (Kent State University, Oxford University, and
University of Toronto) and also trained as a crisis
counselor. At age 14 she handled the deliberate suicide
attempt of an adult family member because she was the only
one who had her wits about her and knew what to do. As a
survivor of numerous crises herself, including a school
shooting, a bombing in Belfast, and the terror of being
stalked by an alleged murderer, she knows firsthand the
stress and anxiety a crisis can precipitate in her clients.
She is a compassionate listener and a creative brainstormer
who offers multiple, realistic options to resolve or handle
your crisis or challenge.
Keynote presentations
Foot-Shooters Among
Us: How we sabotage
our own best interests. Hear examples of individuals and
companies who "shot themselves in the foot" by being
short-sighted.
Are
you a foot-shooter? 20 Ways to stop sabotaging
your life... and start advocating for your own best
interests
Is Someone
You Know (or You) Missing the Empathy Gene?
How to be a compassionate
person when empathy doesn't run in your family.
Class and
Kindness: What is it,
how do you get it, and how do you demonstrate it in your
life?
Yes or
No?..... 15 Creative
ways to make critical decisions
Multiple
Choice: More solutions
to crises through brainstorming.
Professional
challenges
Business Civility:
Empathy as a Marketing Tool in Your Professional Practice
of Service
Poverty: You're Smart... Why
Aren't You Earning Enough? Steps to Take You from Chronic,
Financial Chaos to Financial Comfort in Your Consulting
Practice
How to Write Tough Letters
Brilliantly to Get the Results You Desire Secrets for
putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and
motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
Personal/social challenges
Poverty:
Charity Begins Next Door: Much Need Gifts For Anyone Facing
Financial Destitution This is an example of a brainstorm
session for social groups. Booklets are available for sale
to audiences
Homelessness: 25
Brilliant Ways to Keep a Roof Over Your Head
When Homelessness Seems to be
Inevitable This presentation is meant for crisis hotline
volunteers, homeless shelter directors, city council
members and community leaders who are interested in
brainstorming creative solutions to real human and
community issues.
Staying
Safe from Stalkers:
Smart Things to Do When You're in Danger This presentation
is suitable for landlords, domestic abuse counselors,
police constables/officers, rape crisis centers, battered
women's shelters. Booklets are available in quantity for
sale to audiences
OutSmarting
Sweetheart Swindlers:
How to Protect Your Assets from Romantic Con Artists
(Booklets are available for sale to audiences)
50 Ways
Your City Can Attract Visitors and New Business
with Friendliness, Warmth and
Class. Some cities stay small and, like Erie, get smaller,
because of the way visitors are treated. If you want to
build your town or city, increase your tax base, and
reverse declining population, you must hear this startling
presentation.
Missing the
Empathy Gene? When we
treat others as though they don't matter, they may think we
are heartless, rude, or mean-spirited. I like to say we are
just missing the "empathy gene" and can compensate for this
lack of DNA by employing some simple but skillful
techniques.
How to
Write Tough Letters Brilliantly to Get the Results You Desire Secrets for
putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and
motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
Seminars and Workshops
New
Toxic
Friends & Lovers:
How to recognize and avoid "emotional vampires" and
"emotional terrorists." You deserve people in your life who
enrich your life and create a safe place for you to land,
not people who create chaos, stress, and anxiety and rob
you of your time and energy.
Jump Start
Your Creative Genius... Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
to generate more ideas, answers, solutions Andrea Reynolds
shows us how our creative thinking can result in success:
solving problems, discovering new options, and creating new
businesses or products. In this 3-hour workshop she
challenges her students with "brain aerobics" such as
zigzag thinking, hurricane thinking, six-hat thinking, and
ghost thinking. Booklets are available for sale to
audiences.
"You're
Smart... Why Aren't You Earning Enough?"
Smart Tips that Take You from
Chronic Financial Crisis to Financial Comfort Have you ever
asked yourself that? Are you writing for free, speaking for
free, or giving away your time and advice for free? Are you
having trouble saying no to inappropriate requests? Are you
accepting projects that don't pay you enough, or are you
turning away projects which could pay you what you need?
Learn very specific ways to stop under-valuing and
under-pricing yourself. Specific tips to change your
thinking, change your behavior, and change your financial
picture. Reports are available for sale to audiences
Refuse to
be Invisible Celebrities get attention easily,
sometimes even more than they want. But what about the rest
of us? If you're tired of feeling invisible in any part of
your life, this presentation will give you smart ideas you
never thought of. (A special presentation is also offered
to students in grades 4-13, and university.)
No More
Empty Relationships Bad relationships become bad marriages. A
workshop for single adults who want to break the pattern of
going-nowhere relationships and find partners who meet
their emotional needs. Specific questions help you evaluate
your availability as a partner, identify your specific
relationship needs, and evaluate the potential of each new
relationship you begin. You'll be able to dismiss empty
relationships as you attract healthy, fulfilling
ones.
Desired Audiences, Associations of...
Authors
Broadcasters
Case workers
City Councils
Chambers of Commerce
Crisis counselors
Fraud consultants
Home Based business
owners
Homeless and Battered
People's Shelter Directors
Journalists and
writers
Police
Prisons
Private investigators
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Small business owners
Sociologists
Social workers
Stress consultants
Universities and colleges
Past Audiences
Bluewater Management Seminar
(Ontario)
Canadian Association of Women
Business Owners (national)
Canadian Association of Women
Executives (national)
Canadian Institute of
Management (national)
Canadian Society of Hospital
Pharmacists (national)
Certified General
Accountant's Association of Ontario (provincial)
Erie Insurance Women
Erie Forge and Steel
Management
Federation of Women Teacher's
Associations (national)
Hamot Health
Connection
Industrial Marketing Research
Association Of Canada (national)
Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Ontario (provincial)
Junior Farmers Association of
Ontario (provincial)
Meeting Planners
International (Toronto)
Ontario Dental Association
(provincial)
Ontario Education Association
(provincial)
Professional Secretaries
International (Toronto)
Special Libraries Association
(national)
Toronto Credit Women
International
Toronto Home Economics
Association
Women's Economic Forum of
Windsor
Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food
Ontario Ministry of Labour
and Employment
Products
25 Creative
Ways to Successfully Raise $25,000 to $50,000 for Your
Project (report)
The Bed and
Breakfast Guest Etiquette Quiz: How to Impress Everyone with Your Bed
& Breakfast Savoir Faire (oversize booklet)
Jump Start
Your Creative Genius (oversize booklet)
OutSmarting
Sweetheart Swindlers:
How to Protect Your Heart and Finances from Romantic Con
Artists (oversize booklet)
Staying
Safe from Stalkers:
What to Do When You're Terrified (booklet)
No
Surprises: 365 Critical Questions You Need to Ask Each Other Before You
Marry (oversize booklet)
"You're
Smart... Why Aren't You Earning Enough?"
(oversize booklet)
Testimonials
"Thank you for your
participation in our meeting on Saturday. We had
considerable feedback after the presentation on how
meaningful it had been to the audience."
Dale
Carnegie Courses
"I would like to extend our thanks to you
for your thought-provoking presentation. Your topic sparked
great interest among our members." Special Libraries
Association of Canada
"Thanks for participating in our recent
annual meeting. This topic added a new dimension to our
educational program which is usually very clinically
oriented. It did stimulate some interesting
discussion." Canadian Society of
Hospital Pharmacists
"Your topic stimulated a great deal of interest as the
large attendance showed." Canadian Association of
Women Executives
"Your presentations helped create one of
the best conferences yet." Junior Farmers
Association of Ontario
"Your topic was well received
by those in attendance. I hope we can work more with you in
the future." Industrial Marketing
Research Association of Canada
"The feedback I got about your talk was
very favourable. We certainly learned a lot from
you." Currie, Coopers &
Lybrand Management Consultants
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Contact Andrea:
info@CrisisBrainstorm.com
