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Jill Birch

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Transform leadership with Dr. Jill Birch, author of The Compassion Advantage, guiding teams to thrive through actionable, strategic practices.

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Jill’s enthusiasm, energy, and great speaking skills kept everyone well engaged throughout. Most importantly, Jill was respectful of everyone’s varying opinions and comments and was instrumental in helping the task group come to consensus on recommendations.

Brenda Bertolo, Director (retired), Preparatory Courses, CPA Canada See all references

Why you should book Jill Birch for your next event

  • Equip your leaders with actionable strategies to build resilience, inspire collaboration, and cultivate high performance across all levels.
  • Unlock compassion-driven, data-backed practices that fuel consistent organizational growth and prepare teams for future challenges.
  • Gain insights from the creator of a practical, 7-step leadership system that empowers organizations to cultivate strategic compassion, resilience, and high performance.
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Transform your organization’s potential with Dr. Jill Birch’s groundbreaking 7-step leadership system. As a leadership adviser and author of The Compassion Advantage, Jill helps leaders cultivate resilience, confidence, and compassion to create healthier, high-performing teams. Her practical approach drives competitive advantage by enhancing decision-making and fostering engagement in today’s fast-paced, high-tech environment. Unlock a new era of leadership—where vision meets action and strategy fuels lasting success.

Why you should book Jill Birch for your next event

  • Equip your leaders with actionable strategies to build resilience, inspire collaboration, and cultivate high performance across all levels.
  • Unlock compassion-driven, data-backed practices that fuel consistent organizational growth and prepare teams for future challenges.
  • Gain insights from the creator of a practical, 7-step leadership system that empowers organizations to cultivate strategic compassion, resilience, and high performance.

Dr. Jill Birch is a highly respected leadership adviser, strategy consultant, and keynote speaker known for her innovative approach to transforming organizational dynamics and driving performance. With over a decade of research in leadership, Jill is the author of the acclaimed book The Compassion Advantage: 7 Practices to Lead Stronger, More Successful Teams, which serves as a cornerstone for her engaging presentations and workshops.

Keynote Speaker Jill Birch specializes in equipping leaders with actionable strategies that foster resilience, enhance decision-making, and accelerate performance in today’s fast-paced, high-tech environment. Her unique focus on compassionate leadership addresses the pressing need for organizations to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing landscape. By mastering her seven interlocking practices, leaders can create more engaged, healthier, and high-performing teams, which translates into measurable business results.

When you book Jill Birch for your event, you’re not just inviting an expert; you’re bringing in a catalyst for transformative change. Her dynamic speaking style combines compelling storytelling with research-backed insights, making her presentations not only informative but also inspiring. Jill’s practical methodologies empower organizations to navigate challenges effectively and leverage compassion as a strategic advantage.

Elevate your next conference, workshop, or leadership summit by securing a keynote that inspires action and drives sustainable growth. Book Jill Birch for your event and empower your leaders to lead with confidence, compassion, and purpose. Her commitment to helping organizations thrive will leave a lasting impact on your audience, setting the stage for future success.

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Keynote by Jill Birch

Compassionate Leadership: The Secret to Creating Competitive Advantage

Master the 7 Practices of Relational Leadership to gain not just a compassionate but a competitive advantage. This new system of leading fuses purpose with performance by helping leaders learn how to develop greater self-awareness and channel the compassion of others.

Jill will share stories that make the case for this new way to lead. She’ll walk you through cases that show you how it’s done. You’ll develop new leadership muscles to see through the eyes of others, empower innovation and nurture a more trusting culture. You’ll also learn how to recognize the seven deadly derailers that negatively impact even the best performers. By harnessing compassion, you’ll quickly learn how to make a signature contribution that not only helps you grow as a leader, but helps your organization become more agile and resilient.

Walk away with:

  • 7 relational practices that turbo-charge leadership performance
  • Greater self-awareness in how you lead that unlocks new behaviour
  • A sense of higher purpose leadership that ignites commitment, trust and accountability
Keynote by Jill Birch

Leading Change to Nurture a Culture of Trust

Never before have so many of us had moments where we’ve said, “I didn’t see that coming” or “How could I have missed such a crucial piece of information?” As leaders respond to the impact of COVID-19, many lament, “leading is becoming increasingly impossible”.

But what if you could find “the possible” during these challenging times? The secret is taking a pause to better understand how you lead. When we understand how leadership happens, relationships improve, costly missteps are avoided, goals are more quickly achieved, and decisions made are evidence-based. In this virtual presentation, you’ll explore a collaborative framework — the seven stepping stones of relational leadership.

Audiences will learn:

  • How to enrich your leadership to unlock new behaviour.
  • How to collaborate to create greater alignment and nurture culture.
  • How to navigate change to awaken strategy.
  • How to foster higher purpose leadership to ignite commitment, trust, and accountability.
  • How to harness multiple perspectives to drive more evidence-based decisions.

By making the leap, you’ll lead relationally and as a result build community and grow collective team intelligence. Renewing our leadership is the most important contribution we can make during these moments. Help shape the kind of future organization you want to work in and the kind of world we all want to live in.

Keynote by Jill Birch

The Power of Compassionate Leadership: Driving Innovation and Growth

Leaders have an unprecedented opportunity today to harness the potential of innovation in a landscape of changing workplace dynamics. But there’s a problem here: few leaders actually have an innovation process that accelerates performance and productivity. This keynote will provide you with the tools to foster innovation, strengthen business models and improve work practices. It will help leaders become more adept by focusing on the five core areas that drive innovation: strategic foresighting, navigating complexity, decision-making, problem solving and visual thinking.

Walk away with:

  • Key insights from big idea stories ripped from the headlines
  • Scanning skills to see the world differently and apply these to on-going strategy development
  • An innovation process to support greater team innovation and creativity
Keynote by Jill Birch

Leading in the Age of AI: Human Touch in a Digital World

The pressure is on. Leaders are split down the middle on how to unlock human potential by integrating AI into the workday. As quickly as AI is driving efficiency in organizations, it’s demanding a re-think of the kind of leadership needed to nurture a culture that is as productive as it is compassionate.

This keynote will outline AI’s transformative effects in organizations around the world. It will push and pull on the new balancing act required of leaders as they harness operational efficiency while driving more sophisticated decision making, problem solving and a more strategic mindset. We’ll look at practices leaders are using to develop more collaborative and effective teamwork and how AI helped them develop this new “human touch”.

Walk away with:

  • Best practices showcasing how AI can promote greater collaboration, less siloing, and flatter decision making
  • How to embrace – and practice – the heightened responsibility to mentor and coach while appreciating multiple perspectives faster
  • Enhanced skills in the AI era including adaptability, continuous learning, and the ability to inspire and motivate and prepare their teams for future challenges
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Jill Birch: How Great Leadership Happens - Relationally

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Jill Birch: 5 Principles of New Leadership

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Jill’s enthusiasm, energy, and great speaking skills kept everyone well engaged throughout. Most importantly, Jill was respectful of everyone’s varying opinions and comments and was instrumental in helping the task group come to consensus on recommendations.

Brenda Bertolo

Director (retired), Preparatory Courses, CPA Canada

Jill's keynote presentation to our group was phenomenal! Our senior leaders felt her presentation was right on the mark as she helped them rekindle their commitment to leadership and to start our year off strong. Our participants were inspired by Jill's words, and the practical insights into how to develop new relational leadership capabilities. Jill was exactly what we were looking for.

Paula Miller

Business Support Specialist, GESCAN

Jill Birch was magic. She designed a presentation combining her experience as a leader and her research in a way that immediately hit home for our Presidents, Business Owners and Entrepreneurs. She didn’t miss a beat reading our audience as she spoke. She used great examples, injected humour and tailored her keynote to our audience so much we thought she was one of us! The audience was excited and motivated to take their leadership to the next level. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dr. Birch to any groups looking for a “Top Notch” keynote presentation on leadership.

Ingrid Norrish

Co-Founder, CanSPEP

Your inspiring keynote message at our Council of Ontario Finance Officers conference helped spark the passion of leadership within our membership. The high-energy presentation was well-crafted, thought provoking and exceeded our expectations. The key leadership concepts and ideas you presented will make a difference in the way we lead our teams during the coming year. Thank you for making such a positive impact!

Rita Blais, B.Comm, CPA, C.A.

Associate Vice-President, Financial Services, Lakehead University

Pace was great and we spent time to address questions and concerns from the learners, not just going through a fixed set of learning objectives. Appreciated time for self-reflection, learning how to coach and handling difficult conversations.

Senior Leader, Ontario Education Collaborative Marketplac

Jill was absolutely fantastic! She was knowledgeable about various situations and was able to get me to change my perspectives on my leadership style and equip me with the tools I need for my job going forward. She had a separate meeting with my group on handling difficult conversations…that was phenomenal! Thanks a lot Jill!

Executive Leader, Schulich School of Business
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5 out of 5 stars

Jill’s enthusiasm, energy, and great speaking skills kept everyone well engaged throughout. Most importantly, Jill was respectful of everyone’s varying opinions and comments and was instrumental in helping the task group come to consensus on recommendations.

Brenda Bertolo, Director (retired), Preparatory Courses, CPA Canada See all references

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