Barbara Seifert Ph. D.
CPC, NLP
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Executive Leadership and Mindset Coach Expert
Barbara Seifert Ph. D. Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Career Management, Neuroscience
- Best Sellers
- Find Your Fit: A Practical Guide to Landing a Job You'll Love, Contagious Optimism: Motivating Stories and Motivational Advice for Positive Forward Thinking, How Big Can You Dream?, Leadership and Nursing Care Management, 7th Edition (released 2021)
- Career Focus
- Executive Coaching, Speaker, Author, Corporate Training
- Affiliation
- Elite Leadership Success Institute, Association for Talent Development (ATD),
Dr. Barbara Seifert, CPC is focused on enhancing leadership skills, from entrepreneurs and small business owners to C-level executives. As leadership starts in the mind, she uses brain-based techniques to achieve measurable and lifelong improvements in performance, which leads to more career advancement, money, greater satisfaction, and achieving personal and professional success to be more effective in a leadership role. Areas of focus: leadership development & skill enhancement; mindset/emotional intelligence; employee engagement; performance, stress management/work-life balance.
She provides traiing and presentations that support leaders and their teams to be more cohesive, higher performing, as well as creating a fun culture. Several topipcs of focus right now include helping leaders to have 'grit,' or resilience through adversity; stress management; and women's empowerment.
Barbara holds a Ph.D. in Leadership & Education, with a specialization in Human Resource Development; she is Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and holds certifications in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and Law of Attraction. She is a writer and speaker, appearing on TV and radio, and in print, and is a contributing author to 4 books. Barbara has coached at conventions on career development. She is an adjunct professor for two univeristies, where she teaches MBA students in organizational and career topics. She is an avid dancer, traveler, and loves her Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Is Your Inner Dialogue Chaotic?
Is Your Inner Dialogue Chaotic? Have you ever tuned out of a conversation because you're more involved in the discussion going on in your head? Did you find yourself getting irritated at the person droning on because it's distracting you from that argument raging within you?
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Taking Inspried Action in Your Business
If you are a business owner or leader, are you not just taking action, but 'inspired action'? This means that you are working off of your ideas and what gets you out of bed each day to drive me to achieve them. This is born of your 'Why' - and your desire to help your clients, and potential clients to achieve their goals by abolishing any fears or other roadblocks that prevent them from going out and doing their best work.
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8 Ways Leaders Pull the Team Through Time Times
8 Ways Leaders Pull the Team through Tough Times It’s easy to be a leader when things are hunky-dory. In fact, it can be downright awesome, especially when things are going well; leadership is easy and fun in these situations. But when your team is in the trenches under fire, or under prolonged stress – such as now with Covid-19 and the new ways of working – is when leadership is hard, especially when these go on and on, seeming to never-end. During these times, you need some serious leadership skills to hold it all together.
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Leadership and Stress: 10 Changes to Make to Keep Your Brain Healthy and Focused
We live in stressful times these days, for sure. There is so much uncertainty going on that many don’t know what to do, or how to proceed. The result is stress, which is not good for one’s emotions and body. Leaders are more prone to being under high stress with the shift and viability of business occurring. One fact many don’t realize is that the brain, and cognitive skills, are adversely impacted by stress. In fact, the brain tends to shrink under prolonged stress.
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Developing a Growth Mindset Habit to be an Elite Leader
As a leader, it’s important to have good habits that will make you an effective leader, one that your people need and want to follow. One habit to nurture is that of having a growth mindset. A growth mindset is when you are open to changes and challenges, and work to develop the skills and grit needed to maneuver them. This is opposed to having a fixed mindset, where you are resistive, procrastinate, and keep doing the same things over and over.
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Leaders: Power Up Your Focus Muscle
It’s getting increasingly more difficult to focus these days. There are too many distractions available. From cell phones, video games to social media, distractions are everywhere and makes you wonder how people can concentrate on tasks they should be doing. Covid has taken its toll on many individual’s ability to keep their focus due to stress and anxiety they are experiencing or are exposed to – layoffs and financial conce s are still a fact; even if your job is not affected you might be worried if you are next.
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Feeling Self-Doubt? Here are 6 Tips to Increase Your Confidence
In leadership, confidence is a must. Being able to lead others requires self-belief and courage. But did you know that a whopping 85 percent of people have low-esteem? This issue affects their personal and professional lives, including their careers, their health, their effectiveness in the job and their salaries. In other words, self-doubt and low self-esteem can keep you from reaching your peak potential, which leaders need to be at every day – showing up and leading strong.
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Goals – Reflecting on the past to see the future
November is here and moving faster than we like; it’s hard to believe that time moved so slowly when Covid came in May – that is when things really shut down. It seemed as if time moved so slowly, since the majority of people were forced to be home.
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Using the Power of 10 to Achieve Any Goal
As we are ready for another week, keeping the focus on your goals and desires – all the things you truly want – can be a bit frustrating in trying to keep them in your awareness and being reachable. It seems that we get programmed to think more on what we don’t want and we use language that speaks to this: “I don’t want to have to struggle paying my bills each month” “I want a new job but no one is hiring right now” “I don’t like feeling fat – I’ll start working out later”
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Using Your Strengths to Lead Strong
Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.” Marilyn vs Savant Do you know your strengths? Are you able to name them? Are you using them? I find in working with people that they are not very aware of the strengths that lie inside of them. Most people do not realize that they possess a variety of strengths that have helped them to overcome adversity, to carry on in spite of other people’s views, or to take action that benefits others.
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Elite Leadership Success Institute
How to get started
The best to start is by developing a relationship so we are eager to learn more about you and your needs, so you can learn more about us and how we can help to brdige the gap and provide the solutions that will address your problems. You can reach us by email, phone, or text. You can visit our social media pages on Facebook and Linkedin under Elite Leadership Success Insititute.
Other highlights
Our programs Include:
Power Mindset Mastery
Relentless Drive: Developing Grit and Resilience In the Face of Adversity
Fableader Executive Coaching (3 or 6 months)