Joan Pastor, Ph.D., president of JPA International, Inc., is one of five people worldwide who is licensed as both an industrial organizational and clinical psychologist. She has been an international speaker, trainer and executive coach to major organizations since 1979.
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Harnessing Your Mental and Emotional Abilities for Outstanding Leadership
This is the place where you and your group can learn once and for all how to manage your emotions and harness your mind to work for you. Once you are more in charge of your own mind, your powerful leadership potential can be fully realized.
In this keynote you will learn:
- What gets in the way, and how to choose or move closer toward choosing behaviors and actions that enhance natural leadership skills.
- How the best and most profound research on emotion and the mind can apply directly to your audience.
- Your group will learn things here you, and they, never realized before.
This keynote will help bring out the outstanding leader that has been inside of you all along, in an experience that is highly motivating, fun and insightful!
So You Think You’re A Great Communicator? Think Again!
What if: Your project is falling apart because people don’t really understand the goals or the responsibilities of others?
What if: The manager is frustrated because she has to explain, yet again, how she wants something to be done?
Communication problems are at the core of many companies’ problems. In this keynote, hear the techniques to turn that around, and make it your company’s biggest strength. Join Joan Pastor in this fun and insightful keynote as she shows how the world responds to great (or not so great) communication and learn how to improve your own communication skills in the process!
In this keynote you will learn:
- How to overcome losing a deal or contract because the customer didn’t really understand the value of the service that is offered.
- How to ensure a project doesn’t fall apart because people don’t really understand the goals or the responsibilities of others.
- How to gain cooperation, improved teamwork and efficiency by communicating a project powerfully the first time, and avoid frustration from having to explain it over again.
- How communication problems are at the core of most workplace problems, and how that can be turned around to become your greatest strength!
The Psychology Behind Fraud, Unethical Behavior and White Collar Crime
How is it so many people have been duped over the years and so many of the perpetrators continue to get away with it? Is there a pattern between the worst perpetrators of white collar crime and fraud and the rest of us? Absolutely!
In this keynote you will learn:
- The whole pattern of what creates and perpetuates white collar crime, step-by-step.
- Understanding of workplace crime.
- How to get inside the heads of the Bernie Madoffs of the world and the folks from Enron, AIG, Tyco, and many more.
- How to use the secrets of clinical psychologists to detect (and hopefully prevent from hiring) truly bad employees and what to do once a problem is uncovered.
Please note: ALL organizations, even the most ethical, are vulnerable to bad people. Be proactive and learn how to not only minimize white collar crime where you work but build a better organization and motivated workforce at the same time, all while laughing and learning!
Stop Future-Tripping And Get Things Done Now!
Future-tripping (verb) means when a person is overly focused or preoccupied about the future, and your life in it, at the expense of truly perceiving and understanding the present. It is daydreaming about what the future will look like when one achieves all personal and professional goals (i.e. getting the dream job, finding the perfect spouse, taking the best vacation ever). Future-tripping is not necessarily bad, but it is typically misunderstood and misused.
In this keynote you will learn:
- How to control future-tripping, and not have it control you.
- How to leverage strong focus on the present to realize your fullest potential.
- How to turn future-tripping around to overcome negative beliefs and emotions it can cause.
All in this fun unforgettable keynote…that your group will be tripping on for a long time!
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Joan Pastor’s Bio:
Joan Pastor, Ph.D., president of JPA International, Inc., is one of five people worldwide who is licensed as both an industrial organizational and clinical psychologist. She has been an international speaker, trainer and executive coach to major organizations since 1979.
In 2021, she was inducted into the coveted Sterling Circle of the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (SIOP), which is the business psychologist division of the American Psychological Association.
The APA is now referring to Joan as one of the leaders in assessment-based executive coaching. Enabling challenging culture change in complex, multi-national organizations sets her apart. Joan is well-known for her stellar keynotes, leadership coaching and facilitation of executive and management groups to become high-performing, collaborative teams that achieve true, measurable results in their organization. Emotional Intelligence and its Connection to High-Impact Leadership is a popular speech topic.
Clients as diverse as Chevron, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Safeway, State Farm Insurance, Toyota, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the Department of Defense, the Singapore Stock Exchange, General Motors, Ontario Power Generation, governments of Malaysia and South Africa and many dozens more, bring her back again and again. Joan successfully assists in such areas as leadership across organizations, management and executive development, building infrastructure, streamlining business processes, implementing high performing teams, and to negotiate and resolve conflicts. Joan has assisted in setting up training universities for many clients including PepsiCo.
Dr. Pastor has certifications in both business and vocational testing, business mediation, and is a Certified Speaking Professional. She has published dozens of articles and two books.
Conflict Management and Negotiation Skills was published in 2007 and her most recent book, Success as an Introvert, (part of the Wiley Dummies series) was released in December of 2013. Joan was approached to author the book to dispel the many misconceptions which categorize someone as an introvert. Research has shown that over 60% of people are more introverted than extroverted. Very little has been researched about the strengths introverts bring to the workplace and their unique style of leadership. Success as an Introvert for Dummies also explains how to provide the best type of service to more introverted people and how managers need to tailor the way they manage introverts.
Joan is also well-versed and experienced in working with the entertainment and not-for-profit industries. Her work in entertainment began with a popular radio show in Philadelphia as well as providing career and performance development coaching to artists and entertainers since 1980 and has expanded consistently over the years and includes consultation to studios, Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winners.