Fawn Germer
Biography
Few people have influenced the day-to-day performance of professionals and organizations more than Fawn Germer. The sought-after, bestselling Oprah-featured author, speaker and business consultant is revered for her authenticity and inspiration. She is respected around the world for her groundbreaking work on the leadership and performance dynamics that teach others how to deal with obstacles, then drill down and deliver. Fawn is an expert on change and viability, showing how to turn the stress of a change-driven world into an opportunity to innovate and transform.
More than anything, Fawn is honest and real - so real that her audiences quickly connect with her as if she were speaking personally to each individual. She is an animated storyteller who uses compelling and entertaining stories to make the takeaway points that no one forgets.
Fawn once had a boss tell her that she'd never be more than she was at the time - a reporter - and she sure showed him. Fawn is a four-time, Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist and the author of seven books including the Oprah pick, Hard Won Wisdom.
Fawn personally interviewed more than 300 of the most accomplished leaders of our times, including Olympic athletes, CEOs, prime ministers, presidents, Academy Award winners and many other trailblazers who shared with her the secrets of true success.
From them, she learned that success is born in risk, and power comes from the self-awareness that disables our doubt and self-esteem issues.
Her first book was rejected by every major publisher in the United States, but Fawn persevered until it was a bestseller. She wrote 29 letters to Oprah and something broke through, with Oprah holding up Hard Won Wisdom and telling the world how "Very inspiring" Fawn's work was.
Her newest book, Reset, shows how to do a self-intervention for a more fulfilling, productive and balanced life.
"Your computer slows waaay down and pushes you to the brink of losing everything. You have no choice but to reboot, and when you do, it comes to life like its brand new. All you did was restart it. We can do that for ourselves, too."
Her recent book, Pearls, brings together the best of the best. The deluxe gift volume includes quotes from her first three books and was a bestseller within two days of its release. It has been her best-selling book yet.
She travels the globe with her message of viability, performance and power. In recent months, she keynoted for Harvard, Cisco, Pfizer, Deloitte, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Kimberly Clark, Xerox, Bayer, AIG, PepsiCo, Hallmark, Marathon Petroleum, the NCAA, the Network of Executive Women, the UCLA Anderson School of Business, the Wharton School of Business and many others.
Fawn Germer
Featured Keynote Programs
Reset.
What if you stared down everything that isn’t working for you in your life — whether it involves work, home, relationships or your deepest self — and did a reset? And, what if you unleashed all the untapped power inside of you and let ‘er rip? Instead of avoiding uncomfortable situations and conversations, you could expect them and use them to define your boundaries. Get ready for the call to action that will move you to a greater inner balance and perspective.
Keynote speaker Fawn Germer will show you how:
- To make your job work for you even when you think you’re over it.
- To set real boundaries and honor them.
- To do a self-intervention when nothing is going right or depression has set in.
- To have a deeper perspective on what’s really going on in life, allowing you to shed the stress of the chaos of the day.
- To live now — not later, and to choose happiness rather than expecting it to come to you.
Hard Won Wisdom
What’s our biggest obstacle? Usually, it is us. We are so afraid of failing, looking bad or tripping up that we hesitate when confronted by big risk. We are desperate for control and predictability, but real success comes when you dare to dive into your discomfort zone.
You can never rise to untold heights unless there’s the possibility of sinking to great depths. Usually, the difference between the two is a self confidence issue.
Speaker Fawn Germer will help you to get out of your own way and to re-focus your vision so you can dare to be daring so you can do more than you ever imagined.
Fawn shows you how to:
- Take the leap from ordinary to extraordinary
- Expect obstacles and use them to create greater opportunity
- Boost self-confidence so you just don’t overcome; you become
- Recognize when you are sabotaging your own success
- Re-define your perspective so you succeed by doing your best at what matters most
It’s Not About Balance. It’s About Choices
For decades we have been told we can ‘have it all’. However truly ‘having it all’ looks nothing like it does on TV and when we fail to measure up to our own expectations, our world becomes a darker place.
This affects us both personally and professionally as we compensate by trying even harder to ‘have it all’ and wind up with even less.
It seems our world is crumbling around us but speaker Fawn Germer shows you how to end the madness and truly take charge of your own life again so you can be happy and successful.
Fawn shows you how to:
- Have your Ah-Hah! Moment so you know what you truly want out of life
- Understand that balance lies in the choices you make
-Turn the turmoil into inner peace
Realize that “having it all” is different for each person
- Recognize when you have it ‘all’
- Discover that the sacrifices you have to make aren’t really sacrifices at all
- How to win, your way
The Viability Blueprint
Managing Change
Are you painting yourself invisible in the professional world? If you aren’t consciously defining yourself with viability, you probably are. Those who hate change, can’t stand proving themselves and begrudgingly accept new technology are a drag on the bottom line and destined to be left behind. “The rules have changed,” says bestselling author Fawn Germer.“You can’t wait it out and you can’t coast, because those who do are diving into irrelevance. Success now depends on adaptability and an ever-changing skills set.” That is the viability formula that gives you the direction and incentive to take charge over your career and drive it deliberately, rather than being run over by hesitation.
Fawn shows how to:
- Project manage the rest of your career so you are positioned to create and take advantage of change moments, rather than react to them.
- Show that you are a point person who can lead others into change.
- Identify which technologies and cultural shifts are going to drive the next wave of success and beyond.
- Manage the stress that comes from the need to constantly tether yourself to electronic devices that require immediate attention.
- Gain notice and create viability if you are in the early stages of your career
- Win friends and influence a generation that thinks you are old news.
- Actively brand yourself so you are relevant, purposeful and viable