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Rod Warner

Powerful resilience: growing and thriving in the face of challenges

Rod’s passion is building resilience, in which field he has researched, conducted workshops, written articles and spoken at national and international conferences. Rod has assisted individuals, teams and people be resilient and flourish. Rod has over 15 years management consulting experience, specializing in designing and implementing specialised interventions for behaviour change in the fields of personal resilience, change management and organisational performance.

He has previously held positions heading up HR Development; managing retirement administration teams and a national sales force for Old Mutual. Rod has a degree in psychology and economics and a post graduate teacher’s qualification. He is registered as a Chartered HR Practitioner with the South African Board of Personnel Practice. His clients include Old Mutual, Metropolitan Life, City of Cape Town, BP, SAPS, National, Provincial and Local Government Departments.

Topics / focus areas

Building resilience to cope and thrive in the face of challenges, and to bounce back from adversity.

Speakers Delivery Style

Rod has conducted recent research in South Africa into how ordinary people manage to cope and thrive in the face of obstacles and difficulties. This research culminated in the identification of tools and techniques to enhance resilience, which have been taught to hundreds of South Africans who report that it not only enhances their resilience, but changes their lives. He is currently writing a book on resilience.

Why the audience should listen to this topics

Resilience is more than the ability to "bounce back" after tough times. Resilience helps you find some positive even in bleak times; not crumble in the face of great pressure; maintain hope that things will improve. It helps you to be realistically optimistic in the face of setbacks and difficulties, disappointments and heartaches. It is the life-force to overcome adversity, heal and strive towards self actualisation and flourishing. From this perspective, resilience is the ability to not only "bounce back", but also the ability to "bounce higher".

The talk will benefit everyone who experiences stressful life events at work and home such as significant change, stress, adversity and hardship, and would like to find positive ways of dealing with them.

What the speeches will address

The talk outlines research-based principles of resilience and gives some tools and techniques of how to cope in the face of challenges and to bounce back from adversity.

What participants will learn

Tools and techniques that can immediately be applied at work and at home to enhance their resilience.

What the audience will take home

Realise that they have options in how they experience and react to adversity and tough times. By applying the resilience tools, they will experience of more hope, optimism and positivity and so better cope with work and home demands.

Benefits for the individual

People will understand how to build their internal buffering resources so as to better cope with stressful work and life events, remaining calm and healthy.

Benefits for the organisation

Organisations will benefit from staff who are better able to remain task-focused and productive during stressful organisational and life events.

Topics

Powerful resilience: growing and thriving in the face of challenges

Speaks

English

Publications

"Seven principles of building resilience: practical ways of growing through adversity", People Dynamics, September 2009.
Coping with resilience in tough times” Management Today February 2009
“Staying the course: Building personal resilience for successful organizational change” The Journal of Convergence, 5, 2, 20-23 2007

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