Kirk’s most popular topics:

 
All titles can be a keynote, 90 minute workshop or ½ day seminar. Kirk customizes each presentation to meet your objectives and the needs of your audience.
 
The Happiness Factor: How to Make Happiness your Competitive Edge
Your employees are you most valuable asset. Create a powerful competitive edge for your company by learning and empowering happiness strategies at all levels of your organization. Backed by science but presented by Kirk Wilkinson in a compelling, dynamic, uplifting and humorous style.
Learn what great companies like Virgin Airlines, KPMG, Catholic Healthcare West and Zappos have learned to create the most enduring competitive edge: Happiness!
 
·         Improve the top and bottom line
·         Increase employee productivity and creativity
·         Negotiate better deals
·         Close more sales
·         Reduce sick days
·         Improve customer satisfaction
 
Cultivating Optimism – How to stay positive in tough times
This interactive workshop is one of Kirk’s signature presentations where you will learn why optimists are better negotiators, close more deals, take fewer sick days, are more creative, more productive and are better employees. In this moving and touching session you will learn the skills of optimism and how to rise above negativity and how to handle any challenge.
 
You and your employees will learn:
  • The secret of self-worth and self-esteem
  • How to dream and achieve those dreams by thinking small
  • How to live drama free
  • The Hero Factor – to go from victim to hero in 90 seconds
  • Redefining failure as a key to success
  • Many more power full skills to become an optimist
 
Be a Leader: Envision, Engage, Enable and Energize your teams!
While leadership isn’t about fun it shouldn’t be hard. Self-sustaining leadership is based on tried and true principles of leadership that have a profound impact on the individuals you work with. Don’t think that leadership is a title, a position or a job. Learn the art of self-sustaining leadership that makes all the difference.
 
What You Will Learn
You will learn the proven formula of true leadership that creates a leadership culture through the five “Es” of self-sustaining leadership:
• Envision,
• Engage,
• Enable,
• Energize, and
• Ensure.
 
With these five principles you will create a leadership culture that reduces your workload, empowers your workforce and increases your profit.
 
The Business of In-Sight!
Overcoming destructive thought patterns
Negative thinking can destroy teams, products, projects and even companies. Learn to identify and resolve negative thinking patterns to develop In-Sight – the ability to create positive thinking habits that create team interdependency.
 
In this workshop you will learn seven negative thinking patterns and habits and how to cure them. This is a fun, dynamic, and powerful workshop.
 
The Happiness Factor – six strategies to create a happier workforce!
In this signature keynote and workshop Kirk will share how to be happy regardless of your circumstances. You will learn how to create happiness instead of just waiting for it to happen. Learn how to create a happier work force. Happy employees are better employees that:
 
·         Take fewer sick days
·         Are more productive, creative, and capable
·         Handle change and drama better
·         Are better negotiators and close more deals
 
 Cultivating H.O.P.E. - Happiness, Optimism, Peace and Emotional Freedom
This half or full day workshop encompasses a full range of skills that will help you, your organization, your team or company rise above the daily grind, become your best self and get rid of emotional baggage that weighs you down. Because a team is a collection of individuals each person's trauma, drama and turmoil affects the entire team. Learn to overcome adversity and be at peace. You will be amazed at the personal and organizational transformation that is created by through this workshop.
 
  • Cultivating H.O.P.E. is a customized workshop for each company, association or organization. If you are looking for a way to motivate your group and help them learn life-long skills that enable them to be their best then this workshop is for you.
Committing to Your Goals and How to Stay Motivated!
This is meant for any organization that has goals and objectives. In this program you will learn how to stay committed to goals that are set for you. You will also learn that setting the right goals is more important than your ability to achieve them. Included in this program are ten ways to stay motivated.
  • Learn how to set the right goals for the right reasons
  • Learn how to be motivated to do the things you don’t want to do
  • Learn skills to define, act and excel at achieving your goals
  • Find out why your strengths are your greatest guide to success
 
Other keynote and workshop topics:
 
·         Live Your Life on Purpose
·         You are Worth it! How to Grow your Self-worth.
·         Don’t Let the Past Ruin Your Day! From victim to hero in 90 seconds
·         Forgiving in the workplace
·         Learn to Love what you do!
·         The Power of Intention
·         Learn the Power of Laughter
 
To book Kirk or to receive more informatino on Kirk's programs please contact Darlene Snow at Blue Feather Management
Blue Feather Management
2016 Wood Glen Drive
Round Rock, TX 78681
888-797-6700 or 512-733-6289
Fax - 512-733-6273
Are you having fun as a leader in your organization? If you are not having fun as a leader then chances are you are trying too hard. Leadership is not accidental, whether you want to be or not, you are a leader. Whenever you influence others toward a goal, you are acting as a leader. Learn how to create leadership momentum so that everyone in your organization becomes a leader and you can help them do that in a way that becomes self-sustaining.
While leadership isn’t about fun it shouldn’t be hard. Self-sustaining leadership is based on tried and true principles of leadership that have a profound impact on the individuals you work with. Don’t think that leadership is a title, a position or a job. Learn the art of self-sustaining leadership that makes all the difference.
What You Will Learn
You will learn the proven formula of true leadership that creates a leadership culture through the five “Es” of self-sustaining leadership:
• Envision,
• Engage,
• Enable,
• Energize, and
• Ensure.
With these five principles you will create a leadership culture that reduces your workload, empowers your workforce and increases your profit.
Cultivating Optimism – How to stay positive in tough times
This interactive workshop is one of Kirk’s signature presentations where you will learn why optimists are better negotiators, close more deals, take fewer sick days, are more creative, more productive and are better employees. In this moving and touching session you will learn the skills of optimism and how to rise above negativity and how to handle any challenge
You and your employees will learn:
  • The secret of self-worth and self-esteem
  • How to dream and achieve those dreams by thinking small
  • How to live drama free
  • The Hero Factor – to go from victim to hero in 90 seconds
  • Redefining failure as a key to success
  • Many more power full skills to become an optimist
Team building workshop (half day or full day)
 
This interactive and dyanamic workshop is designed to help teams come together with a common vision of what a great team is and what the common values of the team are. Each workshop is based on input from the leaderes to construct an effective and meaningful workshop to help great teams be better and help improve teams that lack unity and purpose.
 

  • Learn behavior and communication styles

  • Individuals will learn what they bring to the team and what they can do better or more of

  • Practice listening and communication skills

  • Create action plans for raising team effectiveness
 
 
Cultivating H.O.P.E. - Happiness, Optimism, Peace and Emotinoal Freedom
This half or full day workshop encompasses a full range of skills that will help you, your organization, your team or company rise above the daily grind, become your best self and get rid of emotional baggage that weighs you down. Because a team is a collection of individuals each person's trauma, drama and turmoil effects the entire team. Learn to overcome adversity and be at peace. You will be amazed at the personal and organizational transformation that is created by through this workshop.
  • Cultivating H.O.P.E. is a customized workshop for each company, association or organization. If you are looking for a way to motivate your group and help them learn life-long skills that enable them to be their best then this workshop is for you.
Committing to Your Goals
This is meant for any organization that has goals and objectives. In this program you will learn how to stay committed to goals that are set for you. You will also learn that setting the right goals is more important than your ability to achieve them. Included in this program are ten ways to stay motivated.
  • Learn how to set the right goals for the right reasons
  • Learn how to be motivated to do the things you don’t want to do
  • Learn skills to define, act and excel at achieving your goals
  • Find out why your strengths are your greatest guide to success
JUST SCREAM! – Work / Life balancing strategies that really work
Is your life out of balance? Is your life all work and no play? Is the stress of life getting you down? There is a solution – JUST SCREAM!
  • In this workshop you will learn the 10 amazing steps to restore balance to your life and accomplish more.
  • Learn the cost of saying ‘yes’
  • How to Underreact
  • The danger of overthinking and how to stop it
  • Learn to be motivated to the things you don’t want to do
The Hero Factor – from victim to hero in 90 seconds
All too often we are our own worst enemy. Are you the victim of self-sabotage? Do you feel like success is within your reach until you blow it? You don’t have to live that way. In this moving and transformational workshop you will learn to create a new self-image based on ‘who’ you want to be not just ‘what’ you want to do.
  • Learn the difference between intent and desire
  • Find out how to become your best self
  • Develop the secret of being the hero of your own life
The Happiness Factor – six strategies to be happier now!
In this signature keynote and workshop Kirk will share how to be happy regardless of your circumstances. You will learn how to create happiness instead of just waiting for it to happen.
  • Learn Emotional Generosity
  • The secrets of abundance
  • How to redefine failure as a key to success
  • Overcome any challenge or trial and turn it into opportunity
Management skills that make a difference
Happy employees make better employees. They take fewer sick days, they are more productive, they are better negotiators and close more deals. They increase customer satisfaction and the bottom line.
  • Learn the skills that savvy managers use to motivate and inspire their employees
  • Learn to unleash your employee’s potential
  • Help your employees manage themselves
  • Learn how to lead instead of manage
Happiness and Abundance – the secret combination
  • Happy people make more money, have better jobs and live longer. Learn how to live a life of abundance through happiness that will improve life and your bank account.