Julia Speaks!

If you are like most leaders, you’re looking for a solution to how to lead through uncertainty in an agile and adaptive way. You are seeking solutions of how to manage the day-to-day operational challenges that plague your business —problems like poor communication; interpersonal conflicts; and lack of engagement, accountability and teamwork.  These problems waste valuable time, energy and money —resources you could be using to achieve the vision you have for yourself and your business.

Julia Felton, aka The Business Wrangler, is the Herd Leader of Business HorsePower and a sought after international speaker who fully believes in the power of story and metaphor to ignite, inspire and educate. She combines her own personal first-hand experience of horses and nature, with her business expertise, to share how solutions to the business challenges of the 21st century can be found in nature.

She delivers compelling yet relatable presentations for conferences, on-line events, interviews, panels, meetings, retreats, workshops and seminars that have been met with rave reviews, and can be adapted to suit your venue and audience.

For the more adventurous of you Julia is always happy to deliver workshops and presentations with her herd of horses, or at other suitable venues.

Keynote And Workshop Presentation Topics

For additional information, please download Julia’s Speaker Package (PDF).

Business On-The-Hoof: Leveraging Nature’s Wisdom to Create Agile, High Performance Leaders and Teams

In nature there is no wasted time, energy or resources.  Everything happens for a reason and operates as a perfect ecosystem. There is an ebb and flow and rhythm to life which keeps everything in balance.  There is harmony as everything works together inter-dependently. Natures focuses on the “we” rather than the “me”. What lessons can we learn from nature to make our organisations more agile and effective so they can operate at high performance levels and  deliver more productivity and profitability?.

In this insightful and engaging presentation you will learn:

• three cornerstones that must be aligned to create an agile, high performance business
• how creating a purpose-driven organisation is a pre-requisite to retaining top talent
• the power of collaboration and teamwork to drive business success
• the difference between delegation and empowerment
• the power of courageous conversations
• the importance of the environment is supporting business success

Straight From The Horses Mouth: Leadership Lessons From The Barn To The Boardroom

During this inspiring and thought provoking talk Julia will share the key leadership skills needed to be successful in todays environment. These are all lessons that she has learnt from her herd of horses, because as Julia notes “my best leadership lessons were learnt from horses. They never sugar coated the feedback. They told it how it was, however at the time I didn’t always understand it!”

Specifically you will learn:

• What really leadership is all about, and its not about what you do
• The nine traits of IMPACTFUL leaders
• The one thing that can damage your success as a leader
• Why Shared Leadership is so important to business success right now

5 Traits of Highly Effective Teams: Creating The Win-Win Formula For Doing More With Less

The challenge today for business is responding to rapid change that is occurring.  This is the era of running business on-the-hoof. There is a real need to develop a flexible teams that can react to the changes in the marketplace to achieve competitive advantage. Teams today also need to deliver real value and become trusted in their marketplace if they are to survive and thrive.

When the organizational culture supports and empowers team members to deliver at their best then profound impact is possible.  In this interactive presentation you will learn:

• how to get team members into flow and the best responsibilities for each profile type
• how personal flow creates value and trust which in turn generates revenue and profits
• how to evolve a win-win organizational culture where collaboration and co-operation reigns
• the benefits that occur when a business operates as an ecosystem
• the detrimental effect that silo mentality has on performance as communication falters

Grab The Reins: Simple Strategies To Help You Step Up and Become The CEO of Your Business

If you are a business owner you know that tough times call for creative measures in business.  If you want to thrive in your business, you need to be clear in your focus, goals and business strategies because if you aren’t, you’ll get left in the dust.  Its only by grabbing the reins and leading your business as its CEO, that you can expect your business to grow and thrive. However, sometimes it is tough to figure out HOW to do it.

In this powerful talk you will learn:

• What it really takes to be the CEO of your company
• The nine traits of IMPACTFUL leaders
• The one thing that can damage your success as a leader
• Why leadership is no longer the bastion of those at the top of the organisation
• One action you can take right now to start developing your leadership skills