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Bonnie Artman Fox

Workplace Conflict Expert

Why Book this Speaker:  

  1. Bonnie will help leaders and their teams navigate difficult conversations.
  2. Bonnie’s expertise as a former psychiatric nurse and therapist informs her a fresh, innovative and destigmatized approach to navigating workplace conflict and crises such as mental health issues.
  3. As an accomplished bestselling author and workplace conflict expert, Bonnie is a master at bringing teams together to resolve conflict, build trust, and drive results.

Fee Range: $7,500 – $15,000

Virtual: $5,000 – $7,500

Traveling from: Pittsburgh, PA

Bonnie Artman Fox, MS, LMFT works with executive leaders and team managers who want to stop divisive behaviors, resolve conflict, and build the team trust needed to create healthy work cultures that drive results. 

As an accredited Boss Whisperer® leadership coach, Bonnie takes messy team conflict and brings teams together so they  work more effectively.  She’s also a certified Working Genius instructor equipping employees to identify their natural talents and create energy and fulfillment at work.

Drawing from decades of experience as a psychiatric nurse and licensed family therapist, she has equipped thousands of people with interpersonal skills to resolve conflict in both their personal and professional lives. 

Known for her innovative Workplace Family Factor® framework and best-selling book, How Did My Family Get In My Office?!, Bonnie’s fun and engaging approach to emotional intelligence and resolving workplace tension will empower your leaders and teams to work better together.

How Did My Family Get In My Office?! 

Surprising Ways Your Upbringing Impacts You at Work

It doesn’t matter whether you’re in your 20’s or 60’s, chances are, how you were brought up is still affecting how you lead, communicate, and deal with conflict. Without realizing it, your work life is an extension of your life history. By identifying how your family dynamics show up at work, you can improve how you communicate and lead.

Based on her bestselling book, How Did My Family Get In My Office?! is Bonnie’s signature program that features how real-life leaders transformed their conflict style in the workplace through self-awareness about their upbringing.  

 

Key take-aways:

  • Self-awareness about your family upbringing and mindset about conflict resolution
  • A four-part framework to turn-around behaviors that are hurting your leadership 
  • Productive conflict management strategies to elevate your emotional intelligence



Heroic Empathy: 

Stigma-free Ways to Lead Employees Through Mental Health Challenges

Discover practical strategies to navigate challenging conversations, communicate with confidence, and lead your team through uncertain seasons and mental health struggles.

Don’t avoid the conversation, lead through it. When employees face mental health struggles, it can feel awkward and uncomfortable. You worry about saying the wrong thing, that it will take too much time, and it won’t turn out well… So, you avoid the conversation and pray HR will handle it. 

But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can lead through these situations, but it takes heroic empathy.

How you choose to respond to your employees’ mental health issues is a difference-maker, and in some cases, a life-changer. How you show up as a leader and navigate these kinds of conversations will either keep your best people or send them running for the door. 

At a time when 55% of employees are considering resigning and changing jobs, you can’t afford not to know how to effectively talk about mental health in the workplace.

So how do you destigmatize mental health, have productive conversations, and let your employees know you care (without becoming a therapist)… you become an empathetic hero.

In this engaging training, discover everything you need to become the heroic leader your employees need you to be in moments of uncertainty and crisis.

 

Key take-aways:

  • Practical strategies to get comfortable having uncomfortable conversations about mental health
  • Ways to be empathetic without being enabling (so everyone owns their responsibilities)
  • Understanding of how to address mental health without sounding like a therapist
  • Insight into how to create an environment that’s a psychologically safe, engaging place that employees never want to leave

 

Emotional Intelligence:

7 Ways to Get Along with (Almost) Anyone, Anytime  

Now more than ever, interpersonal skills are the differentiator between healthy and dysfunctional teams. Those with high emotional intelligence have a strong, positive presence that sets the tone for a productive and collaborative work culture. 

But how do you build emotional intelligence if you’re in a constant state of stress and demands, and most of your team is working virtually?

The best companies make time to build team health. They recognize without a plan to reinforce healthy behaviors the team falls into default patterns and dysfunction. 

This upbeat and interactive program will leave you energized with practical skills and strategies to show-up as your best and bring out the best in others.

 

Key take-aways:

  • Strategies to stay in control of your emotions 
  • Implement (7) ways to get along with others productively
  • Skills to be a better listener and move difficult conversations forward 

 

Conscious Conflict:

Communicate Positively, Proactively, and Productively

Are you tired of constantly putting out fires with employee disagreements and meetings deteriorating into blame, fault-finding, and excuse making? Whether you’re looking for ways to stay calm, strategies to stop dysfunctional behaviors, or the courage to set boundaries on high-performers with bad behavior, this program can help.

In this interactive program, you will discover why conflict comes with many costs. From tolerating bullying, to missed deadlines, and time-consuming misunderstandings. You’ll also discover when handled productively, conflict can deepen trust and bring your team together.

 

Key take-aways:

  • What to say – when you don’t know what to say
  • Specific strategies to keep your cool – even when others aren’t
  • How to hold people accountable when they’re not performing to their potential
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