Ray Williams
Master Certified Executive Coach, Speaker, Author
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Success Principles and Executive High Performance Expert
Ray Williams Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Success Principles Training, Executive Caoching
- Best Sellers
- Leadership Edge, Systemic Change, Dragon Tamer
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Author, Trainer, Coach
- Affiliation
- International Coach Federation, Vancouver Board of Trade
Ray is owner and President of Ray Williams Associates, a
Vancouver based company providing executive coaching and leadership training services which provides products and services for leadership and executive development, and training programs for business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals, and professional speaking services.
Ray brings over 35 years experience to his businesses as a CEO, senior HR executive,Certified Master Executive Coach. Ray is also a CertifiedHypnotherapist. He is widely regarded as one of Canada's top executive coaches.
Ray is the recipient of the Master Educator Award from the American Society of Education Executives, and is also past President of the International Coach Federation in Vancouver. He has worked as a consultant with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies and small to medium sized businesses and non-profit organizations in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and team development and peak performance. He is very active in such organizations as the Vancouver Board of Trade, having recently served as Vice-Chair, and other professional and community service organizations.
Ray is a regular contributor for the Financial Post, and many other national and international publications. He has written a book on leadership, The Leadership Edge, and Breaking Bad Habits, and been a contributing author to several other professional books, and is a regular guest on various radio and TV shows such as the Good Life Radio Show, with over 10 million listeners. Ray's latest books, Eye of the Storm: How Mindful Leaders Can Transform Chaotic Workplaces, and I Know Myself and Neither Do You: Why Charisma, Confidence and Pedigree Won't Take You Where You Want To Go are best sellers and available world-wide.
Ray is in high demand as an executive coach, leadership trainer, mentor, relationships expert, platform speaker, workshop presenter and facilitator throughout North America. Ray is passionate about using his wide-ranging experience to help individuals and organizations make the changes in their lives to reach their best possible selves, find fulfillment and happiness. His unique education, training and life experience, passion for life and people make him much in demand for those who want real change and challenge.
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Energizing your workplace: What managers should know
The energy and vitality of individuals and organizations depends on the quality of the connections among people inside the organization, and between them and their customers and clients. The key to transforming your own work experience and the performance of the people around you is to build and nurture high quality connections. So says Jane Dutton, professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan and author of the book, Energizing Your Workplace.
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Is it time to give leaders competency tests?
Do we need to have some standard of competency required of our leaders? The recent failed track record of many prominent captains of industry and political leaders might lead us to think so.
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Does employee engagement really drive productivity?
Does Employee Engagement Really Drive Productivity? The subject of employee engagement as a measure of productivity and management strategies to increase engagement have been hot topics since the original Gallup organization research was published.
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Why should we focus on positive organizational behavior?
The concept of positive psychology is growing in the fields of psychology, management studies and organizational behavior. The focus of this trend is the movement away from the focus of psychology on "fixing" or "repairing" problems to building positive qualities and behaviors.
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How Putting Feelings Into Words Can Help You
Why does putting our feelings into words--such as talking with a therapist, counselor or coach, or even writing in a journal--help you feel better? A new brain imaging study by UCLA psychologists, as reported in Psychological Science, may give us the answer.
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Why analyzing your problems may be unproductive
When you're upset or depressed, should you analyze your feelings to figure out what's wrong? Or should you just forget about it and move on? New research and theories suggests if you do want to think about your problems, do so from a detached perspective, rather than reliving the experience. This answer is related to a psychological paradox: Processing emotions is supposed to help you facilitate coping, but attempts to understand painful feelings often backfire and perpetuate or strengthen negative moods and emotions.
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How compassionate meditation can reduce stress
Can you train yourself to be compassionate? A new study says, yes.
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Layoffs And The Stress Response
The recession has had a serious psychological impact on many businesses, due to the stress associated with layoffs. We know from various research studies that negative emotions such as fear, anxiety and sadness, which often accompany workplace stress, have a detrimental effect on workers' emotional and mental state, and performance. Executives' and managers' judgments and decisions, particularly regarding relationship issues, can become skewed or unstable under stressful conditions, particularly if the company's focus is a "numbers" emphasis on sales targets. History has shown that b
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How Mentoring Can Be An Effective Business Strategy
Many small to medium sized companies have become so successful that they have bee "corporatized," a term coined that describes the feeling of professionals working in those companies that makes them feel like "cogs in a wheel." In an article the Harvard Business Review, authors Thomas J. Delong, John J. Gabarro and Robert J. Lees argue that the remedy for the corporatized phenomena is for those companies to institute a program of mentoring.
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What Brain Science Can Tell Us About Leadership
Research on how the human brain can affect behaviors--called neuroscience, or the popular term, brain science--has yet to be fully appreciated by leaders of organizations. That knowledge could have a significant impact on how leaders are trained and what they do. In the past few decades, scientists have gained new and more accurate scientific views of human behavior, studying the human brain.
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The Age of Empathy
Greed is out. Empathy is in. That's how Frans de Waal begins his book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For A Kinder Society. De Waal is a biologist, professor of psychology and director of the Living Link Center at Emory University. In 2007, Time magazine selected him as one of the world's most influential people. The global financial crisis of 2008, together with the election of a new American President representing a vastly different political and social perspective, has produced a "seismic shift in society," argues de Waal.
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The Secret to a Healthy Retirement: Keep Working
Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression, and in past ages, the concept of retirement didn't exist. AARP in the U.S.
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