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Juliet Funt is the CEO of WhiteSpace at Work, a training and consulting firm that helps organizations, their leaders, and their employees flip the norms of business to reclaim their creativity, productivity, and engagement. With thought-provoking content and immediately actionable tools, she has become a nationally recognized expert in coping with the ‘Age of Overload’ in which we all live and work.

Juliet Funt helps attendees learn the pivotal difference between activity and productivity. She teaches them a streamlined method for personal process improvement– leading to more creativity and engagement. She helps executives, managers, and teams answer the critical question, “What thoughts deserve my full attention today?”

Juliet Funt regularly wows audiences as a high-impact, high-energy speaker. Yet her deeper mission is to show organizations how WhiteSpace can change the negative patterns and behaviors that prevent them from achieving optimum results. Juliet Funt clients include several Fortune 100 companies and span various industries, from financial services to technology, manufacturing to the military, and executive workshops to audiences as large as 7,000.

Incredibly intuitive, Juliet Funt blends highly customized content with a keen understanding of clients’ needs in her programs and consulting work. With a unique blend of charisma, humor, and tough love, she has the uncanny ability to connect with people at all levels, compelling them to make real, lasting change.  Yet, beneath her powerful assets, she is both authentic and accessible. As a busy corporate speaker and consultant, business owner, wife, and mother of three young boys, she practices the WhiteSpace concept she shares with clients daily.

Juliet Funt is a force for change in organizations worldwide, helping them recharge their people and reclaim their passion for work.  Juliet also published her book called, A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work

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DE-CRAPIFY YOUR WORKFLOW! | Reducing Waste to Amplify Results

Are your talented teams drowning in meetings, emails, decks, and to-dos without the foggiest clue about how to reduce the pile? Today’s organizations are aggressive in their goals, and
workers often lack the skills to choose the right focus for their energies. Eventually, they can’t bear the workload anymore and leave, fail, or quietly disengage. The solution, however, isn’t as
simple as hiring more hands. Instead, it requires a significant paradigm shift in how we perceive activity vs. true productivity. This session offers a roadmap to this shift, providing practical tools, strategies, and frameworks to reevaluate, prioritize, and streamline your team’s workload. It champions the adoption of a Reductive Mindset, which emphasizes efficiency and effectiveness by ruthlessly eliminating unnecessary and non-value-adding touchpoints of the day.

FEED THE FIRE | Going Upstream from Mental Health at Work

Organizations are providing resources for mental health, and that’s good. But despite all of the yoga, therapists, and puppy parties (yes, really), there’s a problem. Rarely are these solutions
going upstream to address the chronic, predictable, and solvable conditions and norms that make folks so stressed in the first place. Healthcare costs soar, and people remain unhappy. As
a remedy, this session shines a light on the concept of ‘white space’ - unscheduled, open sips of time that offer a much-needed breather and a platform for restoration. Drawing inspiration from Juliet Funt’s acclaimed book A Minute to Think, the session explores strategies to reclaim and make effective use of this margin. It also offers tools to alleviate burnout and exhaustion, simplify work, curb the flow of digital pestering, and reduce the weight of meetings.

STRATEGIC CHOICE | Why Your Prioritization Plan Isn’t Enough

Rarely does one encounter a professional team that isn’t overwhelmed with responsibilities. Driven by ambition and pressure, leaders often take on more than is necessary and then pass this overload on to their teams, exacting a heavy toll. Teams don’t just need to prioritize tasks; they need to strategically reduce them and allocate time where it matters most—to the essential actions that drive the business forward. This skill is what we call Strategic Choice. Many think of Strategic Choice as plastic surgery—a painful operation that nips and tucks and leaves things looking better forever. More accurate is the model of a haircut—an ongoing maintenance activity that keeps things trimmed as they grow. The corporation will always be adding, so we must always be cutting. In this session, Juliet guides participants through a series of targeted exercises to identify and eliminate the tasks, or task subsets, that consume unnecessary time and resources.

YOU’RE ON MUTE | Strategies for Communicating in a Hybrid World

Hybrid work is here to stay, as are the communication challenges accompanying it. As teams spread geographically, the dynamics of interpersonal communication morph, necessitating a transformation in our traditional strategies to maintain connection and efficacy. Additionally, leaders must set shared norms that streamline the quantity of information and allow for the boundaries that keep teams vital and engaged. This session delves into the fundamental aspects of communication crucial for hybrid work success. It provides insights into our virtual
presence, expressing ideas clearly and persuasively across various mediums and on strategies to foster a cohesive team dynamic that transcends geographical dispersion. The session also outlines the perfect balance between synchronous and asynchronous communication, optimizing productivity while mitigating the risks of communication overload in a hybrid work environment.

WOW THEM! | Present Like a Pro Every Single Time

In today’s competitive business landscape, and after years going numb while staring at screens, audiences need to be WOWED. More than ever, professionals of all kinds must be able to
communicate their ideas and messages effectively. They must be able to connect, inspire, and charm - even on the driest topics. Creating compelling presentations that resonate with clients,
stakeholders, and employees is critical to achieving business objectives and driving growth. Effective presentation and storytelling skills build credibility, establish trust, and inspire action among target audiences. With the rich menu of skills taught in this fast-paced session, your teams can develop the skills necessary to create engaging presentations and stories that capture the attention of their listeners – leaving a lasting impression.

HOW TO NOT BE BORING | Virtual Presence Skills for an Online World

Many executives, sales teams, and other professionals have spent decades learning to be
engaging and effective in front of others—in person, that is. But when presenting, or even
conversing, through the tiny, intimidating lens of a webcam, many find their impact evaporates.
They distract with body movements, fail to make eye contact, show up in dark, cluttered, or
unprofessional settings, and drone on while reading slides to people who can read.Creating
a connection and logical content flow in a virtual meeting is harder than it looks. Incomplete
learning plans to correct this deficit often focus on technology or sales flow but fail to upgrade
the presenters’ talents, charisma, and capabilities. This course teaches every professional to
be in control, confident, and capable virtually. It’s perfect for any professional whose online
presence affects the brand or bottom line.

Testimonials

The session yesterday was fantastic and very well received by all—a breath of fresh air and a simple shift in perspective, that there is another way to think about all of this and a chance we’ll be able to organize and plan our days in a better way. A way to create more WhiteSpace is so valuable–for doing some of the more impactful and creative work that we highly value.
– Watermark Communities
On stage, Juliet is a force of nature.
– ANGELA AHRENDTS DBE, FORMER SVP OF APPLE AND CEO OF BURBERRY
Hands down the most dynamic speaker I’ve ever seen.
– Amy Cascone, Generali USA
This book is more than a first-rate guide to getting more and better work done. It is a powerful meditation on the false lure of busyness and the sustaining power of the pause. "A Minute to Think" is essential reading for maddening times.
– Daniel H. Pink, Author of "When," "Drive," and "To Sell is Human"

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