Great Women Speakers
Presents.....Outstanding Women Speakers
Patt Schwab Ph.D., CSP
FUNdamentally Speaking
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>>Reviews
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You are an inspiration to us all, the highlight of the event!
Angela Rae,
Association Executive,
WA Recycling Assoc.
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You helped set the perfect tone for the day. I so appreciate the work you did to tailor your presentation to our group; the folks knew you were talking to THEM!
Sue Trettevik,
Administrator,
DNR
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It was a delight to work with you. You were timely, thorough, and did your homework. You are a true meeting planner’s dream.
Trudy Elliott,
President,
Medical Group Management Assoc.
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The officers were very impressed that you used their comments to tailor your remarks for the group.
Deborah Penn,
Asst. Executive Director,
American Public Power Assoc.
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>>Topics
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Making Work Work for You
Does your work power you up for the future — or sap your energy?
• Does it make you more interesting — or less interesting?
This program focuses on the three indispensable skills you need to be effective in work — or in life. You will learn how to create an environment that makes it both easy and fun for you and your staff to stay up to date and enthusiastic about the challenges and opportunities ahead. Easy, useful and fun—for what more could one ask? That’s the payoff that will help you make your work work for you!
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The Good Stuff's in the Middle
A humorous, motivational keynote about the middle—of organizations, of life, and of change
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What's So Funny About Long-Term Care?
Finding humor that connects and revitalizes staff, families, and residents.
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When Hell Freezes Over—Ice S.K.A.T.E!
Mastering change and adversity with humor.
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Leave a Mark, Not a Stain!
What leaders need to know about workplace humor.
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Creating a Legacy of Laughter
At last—a legacy that pays great dividends while you're alive!
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If You Don't Pause, Nothing Worthwhile Will Catch Up With You
Feeling significant, competent, and appreciated in a fast paced world.
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Making Work Work for You
- Does your work power you up for the future—or sap your energy?
- Doe it make you more interesting—or less interesting.
This program focuses on the three indispensable skills you need to be effective in work — or in life. You will learn how to create an environment that makes it both easy and fun for you and your staff to stay up to date and enthusiastic about the challenges and opportunities ahead. Easy, useful and fun—for what more could one ask? That’s the payoff that will help you make your work work for you!
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Finding the Funny in Long-Term Care
This delightful and informative presentation uses stories and anecdotes from caregivers, patients, and others involved throughout the long-term care spectrum, to highlight easy ways attendees can increase the humor in their lives, and in the lives of those around them. The audience is reminded of humor’s ability to build loyal, resilient work teams, and to establish rapport with patients and families.
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Vitamin H—A Prescription for Humor Written for Health Care Workers
Patt Schwab, Ph.D., provides insights and practical hints on how to get more humor into the medical workplace. Her programs are humorous but with enough substance that they can be offered for continuing education units for physicians and nurses.
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 Convinced that “The good stuff’s in the middle!” Dr. Patt Schwab works with people who are . . . in the middle—of organizations, of life, or of change.
More specifically, she works with midlevel managers and informal leadership staff who want to improve their skills at managing others, managing change, and managing to have more fun. She reminds them of the value of the work they do, and shares fun, easy to remember models to help them motivate staff, to become more creative at managing change, and to meet their personal and professional goals.
Dr. Patt Schwab combines years of hands-on management, teaching and training with over fifteen years of work as a full time professional speaker in Europe, Canada and the USA. Her programs are packed with humor, insight, and practical tips.
She encourages her audiences to use humor to rise above workplace challenges, insisting that the fresh perspective humor provides helps to reaffirm competence and to identify what really matters. She challenges attendees to use humor in their workplace to: Leave a Mark, Not a Stain!
Patt’s Ph.D. is in Management. Her doctoral thesis, on team building, was titled: "People Support What They Help Create." That theme runs through presentations on managing organizational and individual change, coping with stress and using humor as a management tool. Patt also holds the highest earned designation awarded by the National Speakers Association, the CSP, or Certified Speaking Professional.
Dr. Schwab has worked as a Student Affairs Administrator and Human Resource Manager at a variety of universities, including Penn State, the University of California and the University of Washington. She has supervised staffs from 1—150.
Patt is currently the president of FUNdamentally Speaking, an international speaking firm, dedicated to putting the “fun” before “da mental!” She has been featured in newspaper and magazine articles and has made television and radio guest appearances in the USA and Europe.
Patt is the author of:
 Leave a Mark, Not a Stain! What every manager needs to know about using humor in the workplace
 What’s So Funny About Long-Term Care? How patients and caregivers find humor in long-term care
 The Obscure Holiday Handbook – Outrageously fun reasons for workplace celebrations
She is a contributor to:
Humor Us! America’s Funniest humorists on the power of laughter
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