Janelle Brittain has more than 30 years of business experience in management, training, marketing and sales. She holds an Executive MBA and is a Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association.

Her earlier career was in healthcare management, then in high tech sales for XEROX and Control Data. During her sales career, she created techniques, which skyrocketed her to top performer nationwide with both companies. She established the Dynamic Performance Institute, LLC in 1989, to share these techniques with others. Since then she has delivered more than 1200 programs to Fortune 100 companies such as Chrysler, Xerox and IBM, as well as hot entrepreneurial companies.

Janelle has over 300 clients around the globe with 75% of them booking her for multiple events. Janelle is the author of six published books, including the recently published, Star Team Dynamics: 12 Lessons Learned from Experienced Team Builders, and How to Say It: Performance Reviews. Business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and Crain's Chicago's Business frequently seek Janelle's insight.

• Exceptional Thinking Under Pressure® - Keeping the mind in high gear during those tense, pressure-cooker times is key to survival at work. Learn practical, proven techniques to use before, during and after important meetings or other stressful events. These techniques will give you the control you need in order to:
  
  
• Prepare yourself for exceptional level thinking before the event.
• Cool Your Hot Buttons" when someone is making you angry.
• Help the other person regain their calm.
• Prevent "Post-Meeting Blues" - ridding yourself of those horrible flashbacks of your mistakes.
  
  These practical applications have been proven to reduce stress and help achieve and maintain mental control, resulting in increased effectiveness and productivity.
  
  
• Coping with Change Without Maalox - Learn how to make change work for you, not against you. In this interactive program, you will experience the reasons why people resist change and learn how to use people's strengths to deal with each changing situation. You will learn techniques to help your co-workers, customers and yourself handle change in a fast-paced business setting. After learning your own change style, you'll experience the typical styles which people slip into when faced with change. You'll discover what the styles contribute, how they impede, and how to work with each.
  
  
• Building Star Teams - Teams have emerged as a tool to capture changing workforce knowledge, while productively increasing the bottom line. However, knowing when and how to best use teams is a complex art and skill. Based on your needs, Janelle works with you to choose the right keynote, workshop, retreat or curriculum on the following sampling of topics:
  
  
• Creating Teams
• Challenges
• Cooperation
• Communications
• Power/Empowerment
• Leadership
  
  
• Managing the "Tuff Stuff" of Leadership - A Strategic Leader needs to be able to see the invisible, and deliver on the impossible. Leadership in today's world needs to tap into every aspect of the human capabilities...from a keen visionary mind, to insightful communications to a combination of Machiavellian patience and a well-paced sense of urgency. This requires strategic thinking to see the opportunities with the greatest potential and leading the available resources to achieve the goal in record time.
  
  
• Flex Your Communication Style - Conflict and miscommunications often arise due to different communication styles. Interactive exercises are used in this program to help participants practice the application of the other communication styles. After mastering these skills, you will be able to "speak the language" of each customer and co-worker, adjusting your own communication style to ensure clear and accurate communications with each person.