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Linda Edgecombe    

Best-Selling Author, Humorist & Certified Speaking Professional (CSP); "Life Perspective Specialist"

Linda Edgecombe is a change and leadership expert, Hall of Fame speaker, award-winning celebrity humorist, award-winning philanthropist, and bestselling author.

With 30+ years of experience, Edgecombe’s mission is to get people fired up and ready to shift! She passionately promises to deliver programs that create powerful shifts for inspired, energized and accountable professionals who show up everyday ready to take on the world. She also promises it will be a heck of a good time – maybe the best laugh they will have had in a long time! She believes that a laugh is worth more than a thousand words and it has the power to change the way people feel, think, and take action.

Edgecombe is fortunate to work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal as an expert in “Shifting Perspectives” and quoted in Globe and Mail, CTV, CBC, CBS, NBC. Edgecombe is included in the Top 60 Motivational Speakers in the World.

In her free time, you’ll find her in the garden planting, weeding, or harvesting. She also shines in her kitchen where she not only makes amazing food – she holds court with her friends and family, and she whips up new recipes weekly. Edgecombe has a very distinctive laugh cackle that once heard, is not only contagious, it is always remembered.

Speech Topics


Resilient Leadership on Purpose

How to intentionally lead from the heart and boost your team’s engagement and energy

Over the past 30+ years, the one constant that I have noticed is great leaders wear their hearts on their sleeves. Their approach is: people first. They connect deeply with their team and their clients. And as a result, get in return loyalty, accountability, and increased production and less stress for their teams.

Here’s a menu you can choose from to bring more focus to your presentation:

  • Leading with curiosity, accountability, and positivity: How to create a success-full mindset, even in difficult times.
  • Change, what’s really getting in the way of you moving forward? Dealing with ambiguity and the “in between.” The rollercoaster ride that is/was ‘Covid’.
  • The clarity planning tool: Simple steps to clarity and vision.
  • Strategic practices and processes: How highly successful Intentional people start and end each day.
  • The Resilient Leaders Toolkit: 7 essentials to re-set, re-energize and re-invent (the science and research behind successful cultures).
  • Where to start when you are in a state of overwhelm: The simple steps to move forward in crazy times.
  • If you are a leader, manager, or working towards becoming one you will be on solid ground with the tools and strategies presented in this presentation.

Get ready for this interactive and lively presentation that will give you that needed boost! I will lead you through an educational, hands-on, and highly humorous ride that will re-focus, re-energize and re-invent how you see your leadership at work and at home.

Breaking Busy. Finding Peace in the Chaos.

It’s time to step off the treadmill and get back to purpose-focused workplaces

The challenges most organizations face are: staff burnout, distraction, and an ongoing feeling of overwhelm. Most of them are not engaged and organizations have to face the ongoing mental health issues of their staff.

I’m on a mission to reduce busyness, absenteeism, and turnover. I deliver tools and strategies to inspire my audiences to literally take their lives back which in turn, helps the organizations they work for increase engagement, energy, productivity, and profitability.

Presentation takeaways:

  • Find the answer to the question of the century: how has “I’m so busy” become our badge of honor in our work and our lives?
  • Discover what the “being busy pace” is doing to our work and personal lives
  • Examine the costs of corporations whose teams are overwhelmed, stressed, and exhausted
  • Learn the strategies and tools to change your busy mindset to one that will inspire you and your team to thrive
  • Get instant energy from laughing throughout the presentation
  • This shoot-from-the-hip session is for any corporation and organization that wants to increase bottom lines, and decrease stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm.

If you’re looking to boost your team’s morale and create outstanding outcomes, this presentation is for you!

Get Ready to Shift or Get Off the Pot

Become a change enthusiast in ever changing times

From one of my bestselling books, I share ideas and solutions for “getting a life.” This eye-opening keynote presentation will get you thinking about three simple but life changing questions: 1) Are you doing the best you can? 2) Are you on the deferred life plan? 3) When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Presentation takeaways:

  • Learn how to lead with more curiosity and less fear
  • Move from being “fine” and “busy” to striving and focused
  • Discover how to create as few regrets as possible
  • Take it from me… and simply choose a slice of the planet to give back
  • Determine where to start when you are in a state of overwhelm
  • This session is for leaders, managers, and teams who are ready to make some important changes and start thriving again.

If you and your team are ready for some powerful shifts, book this program for your next meeting. Oh, and I promise it will be the best laugh you will have in a long time.

Pushed to The Limit

How to Build Your Team to be more connected, engaged and energized

Busyness, distraction, and overwhelm have become the new way of being. Distractions are costing North American companies over $188 Billion per year in stress-related illness and accidents.

In this entertaining presentation, I deliver straight-up solutions for safer workplaces and the humans who work there. We will go over easy-to-use methods that you can lower stress and overwhelm, and increase energy, happiness, and productivity.

Presentation takeaways:

  • Use my 3-step safety formula for less stress, less injuries, and increased productivity
  • Learn what got us here and how being always “busy” has become the new norm
  • Discover what the “busy culture” is doing to you physically, mentally, emotionally
  • Identify how can we strategically shift our mindset towards creating safer workplaces
  • This session is for safety professionals and workplaces that want less stress-related accidents and illnesses and more peace of mind.

If you’re looking to increase your energy at work, be able to focus on what’s important, and at the same time learn to laugh and lighten the load, this presentation is for you!

Aging Wildly in a World that Wants You to Calm the F*** Down

Let’s dive into what midlife does and can look like. Shall we?

As the largest group of women in history have reached midlife and many of us find ourselves at a turning point, we need to respond with new thinking and new practices that will help us to evolve and forge meaningful paths to what’s next.

Midlife needs to be approached with an expansive mindset and an unprecedented opportunity to recalibrate and design the life we want NOW. We will work towards filtering out the chatter of expectations and get down to designing and living the kind of life YOU actually want to live. And yes, find your voice, too.

You will leave this fun and eye-opening presentation with some action steps to move towards creating the best YOU as you move through this new chapter. Being FINE will no longer be a part of your vocabulary. I also guarantee, you will have the best laugh you have had in a long time.

Presentation takeaways:

  • Clarify where are you at and what you really want in your midlife and beyond
  • Learn to celebrate all that you’ve accomplished
  • Create an aging wildly mindset and launch a midlife revolution
  • Embrace yourself in your sassy midlife chapter
  • Get excited and energized about your next best steps
  • This session is for women who are ready to celebrate themselves and are curious about creating their next chapter with intention.

If you not only want to age gracefully but also want to age wildly, this presentation is for you!

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