Edie Raether

As a Change Strategist, Edie is an internationally renown keynote speaker and authority on innovation, influence and intuitive intelligence for solution thinking and optimal performance.  Her programs on  "breakthrough thinking for business breakthroughs" integrates her expertise in emotional intelligence, brain-based performance and mind-empowering strategies with her thirty years of experience in behavioral science and as a human asset manager. 

Her refreshing approach to leadership and life reveals that managing energy, not just time, and developing the mind, nut just skills, are key to optimal performance and a positive ROI - Return on Intelligence. 

Edie's revolutionary concepts - MindShift, FutureThink, LeaderShift, and TeamThink - engage whole-brain thinking for personal renewal, strategic positioning, and organizational change. 

Current Workshops / Seminars:

  • Breakthrough Thinking for Business Breakthrough
  • TeamThink: From Diversity to Synergy for a Compassionate Culture
  • FutureThink Marketing: Partnering and Positioning for a Competitive Advantage        
  • Forget Selling!  The Twelve Principles of Instant Influence for Powerful 
  • Key to Persuasion
  • LeaderShift: Transformation and Change from the "Insight" Out
  • Getting the Best!  How to Hire, Empower, Energize and Retain the Best 
  • Employees

Breakthrough thinking for business breakthroughs!Providing an ROI (Return on Intelligence), Edie Raether is an internationally recognized authority on brain-based performance and “breakthrough thinking for business breakthroughs.”  With expertise in emotional and intuitive intelligence, innovation, and influence, her revolutionary concepts – MindShift, FutureThink, LeaderShift and TeamThink- engage whole-brain thinking for personal renewal, strategic positioning, and organizational change.  As a keynote speaker Edie has unleashed the PowerZone for over 3,000 professional associations and Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, General Motors, JC Penney, S.C. Johnson, Oscar Mayer, and the Marriott.

Edie is the author of Why Cats Don’t Bark, Sex for the Soul, and the forthcoming Forget Selling: 12 Principles of Instant Influence for Powerful Persuasion and Conversations with Winners -   How Winners Think – What Champions Do as well as dozens of the audio and video programs.  She has also co-authored several inspirational and business anthologies with Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, Jim Rohn, and Mark Victor Hansen.

Edie is an expert resource for hundred of publications such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Prevention, Selling Power, INC magazine and Reuters.  Edie has also shared the platform with such celebrities as Tom Brokaw, Patch Adams, Art Linkletter and Bob Hope.

Renowned speaker and author!A behavioral science expert, Edie has over thirty years experience as a human asset manager and psychotherapist, and has also been a college professor and talk show host with ABC. She is the recipient of various Who’s Who and the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) award which is the highest earned award granted by the National Speakers Association to fewer than eight percent of its membership.