Speaking

Q4 Consulting founder Chris Johnson is an experienced speaker who offers seminars, workshops and keynote addresses on a variety of topics to groups including leadership development organizations, industry conferences and association meetings.

Topics can be customized to meet the objectives and target audience of the organization and function. Presentations can be delivered either in a longer half-day or full-day workshop/seminar format, or as a shorter keynote address. Sample topics include:

Showing Up at Work:  Mindfulness in the Workplace

     Believe it or not, fostering awareness—or mindfulness—in your

     workplace will strengthen the core fabric of your work environment

     and enhance your bottom line. Mindfulness is living in a state of full,

     conscious awareness of one’s whole self, others and the shared

     context in which we live. Simple mindfulness practices result in:

• reducing personal stress and increasing resiliency
• refining one’s capacity to sustain awareness in complex, emotionally-charged situations
• enhancing interpersonal attention & communication leading to improved collaboration and teamwork with colleagues

         Learn the three keys to mindfulness in the workplace and put the

         power of mindfulness to work for you.

Conversations for Action: You Are What You Say

What really drives business is the ability of those involved in the business—leader, owner, manager, employee or customer—to engage in powerful conversations:conversations for action.

    Have you ever had an experience like one of these?

• You make requests of others but don't seem to get what you requested.                                                 
• You struggle to delegate work effectively and often end up doing most of it yourself.
• You feel overworked yet people continue to heap more work on you.

• You find it difficult to say ‘no’ to other’s requests

   If so, your results may reflect difficulty in creating conversations that 

  coordinate effective action. Learn how to choose words that build trust

  and get things done.

Mindful Leadership: Leading With Integrity & Impact

   Mindful leadership challenges us to 'show up;' to broaden our learning to

   encompass an awareness of multiple perspectives and possibilities; and

   to open ourselves to new inside-out thinking, creative decision-making

   and innovative solutions.

   Values of courage, connection, collaboration and commitment to service

   rest on integrity as the foundation for mindful leadership.  Mindful

   leadership begins with you. Learn about the impact mindful leadership

   could have on your organization, and how you can become a mindful

   leader.

Integral Coaching

   Integral coaching actively engages the whole person in all their various

   roles—both in business and in life. The style is collaborative, with the

   coach listening intently and deeply to determine courses of action along

   with the client. Engaging with people in this way results in ‘growth from

   the inside out,’ an enhanced sense of personal well-being, and a deeper

   connection with one's self, others, and 'what's important' in life. Learn

   the distinctions involved in Integral Coaching and how it just might

   support you in your professional and personal life. 

Creative Conflict

   Conflict is an untapped source for creativity and energy and it requires 

   us to be engaged with others, especially at times we’d rather avoid doing

   so. Learn the top five steps to move into creative conflict, tapping our

   differences for mutual growth and gain.

Emotional Intelligence

   Highly successful people effectively identify and manage their emotions,

   themselves and their relationships. A simple definition of emotional

   intelligence is to recognize, understand and choose how we think, feel

   and act. Emotional intelligence is the unique intersection of one's intellect

   and one's heart. It’s become one of the hottest topics in business today.

   The good news is that emotional intelligence can be developed through

   intentionality and practice.  Learn how mindfulness practices foster

   the four quadrants of emotionally intelligent leadership.

 Becoming Your Own Great and Powerful (for women in business)

   We reinforce our own worth when we acknowledge and live in our own 

   truths.Cultivate self-awareness and deepen your awareness of others by

   learning to listen deeply and communicate powerfully within your

   organization. This workshop will show participants how to find success on

   their own terms as a woman—to live into their story, to be their own

   “Great & Powerful.”

A Mindful Course™: An Eight-Week Class

   Dr. Chris Johnson leads an eight-week, mindfulness-based stress

   reduction (MBSR) immersion class on mindfulness study and practice

   open to interested individuals in the community.

   Research shows that daily meditation can help you enhance your overall

   health and well-being. Through this course, you can develop a gentle

   daily discipline of meditation and relaxation, while building your resiliency.

   Mindfulness meditation offers you a way to manage stress, and even

   relieve pain, more effectively. Participants learn to create physical and

   mental practices to support the embodiment of the question, ‘What’s

   important?’ in their lives.

   More information is available at www.amindfulcourse.com.