Expert in Management, Leadership, Human Resources and Psychology
Tapping into our full human potential, leveraging our strengths, living the best lives we can while creating our futures is the call to action that many are hearing today. Christine Fitzgerald is an expert in organizational behavior, human resource development, leadership and positive psychology.
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Tapping into our full human potential, leveraging our strengths, living the best lives we can while creating our futures is the call to action that many are hearing today. An expert in organizational behavior, human resource development, leadership and positive psychology, Ms. Fitzgerald is a highly respected professor for several universities, business schools and an influential public speaker for major international organizations. A magna cum laude graduate of Pace University, Christine Fitzgerald received her MA in developmental psychology from Columbia University in New York. At Chemical Bank (currently J P Morgan) she worked in marketing research, strategic long term planning, project management and corporate training.
The power to make a lasting positive impact comes from our inner resources. Those who rely on external sources of power will consistently fall short. Getting in touch with and using internal power creates, heals and connects, allowing us to wield genuine power as we empower others.
Her educational background and corporate work experience have been the foundation for her current position as Senior Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Management at Webster University, among others. Global companies have benefited from Ms. Fitzgerald’s current and interactive lectures and workshops. Her motivational and inspirational speeches are fixed on the agenda for graduation ceremonies and university open days. Her highly charismatic personality and didactical skills inspire change and creativity in her audience and students.
The capacity to connect thinking with feeling is one of the hallmarks of great leaders. They use the powerful feedback of emotions, understand and respond to nature’s life-giving messages and enhance their lives and the lives of those they engage with. Emotional intelligence is not about being emotional. It’s about leveraging essential truths and putting emotions into the equation when making professional choices.
Spiritual intelligence is not about religion. It’s a range of human qualities that may or may not be present in our religious leaders. Those with spiritual intelligence have several capacities required for success in today’s turbulent world. It’s important to identify these capacities and then do the work of strengthening these to enhance ourselves and our personal and professional communities. Making a lasting positive impact requires spiritual intelligence.
Emotions keep us alive. The core emotions of fear, anger, sadness and joy have been found in all cultures and appear at birth. Positive psychology extends the psychology paradigm from focusing on managing negative emotions into embracing and enhancing positive emotions. Fear, anger and sadness are meant to be temporary, to help us survive. The core positive emotion of joy is meant to be our more enduring emotion and the experience of joy is inextricably connected to growth and creativity. Positive psychology provides numerous lessons, techniques and insights on how to live life to the fullest.
Control is often about fear. When things are not fully understood, situations do not appear pleasant, or our environment seems threatening, fear can be a natural reaction. The problem arises when fear and control become our default response. When triggered, we become constrictive, our perception narrows, and our creativity suffers as a result — our best selves are not being activated. Letting go of the fear default is not easy but when we stop controlling and start using our more expansive selves, growth and creativity soar.
The process of appreciative enquiry turns problem solving into opportunity finding. By following a few prescribed steps outlined in the model of appreciative enquiry, and asking ourselves some pointed questions, we find ourselves operating in a far more productive orientation than we are In when looking for solutions. Positive change is experienced, and innovative ideas and directions emerge.
By engaging in reflective time shifting you turn your strategic planning sessions into the more powerful experience of looking at the future from a present orientation. This change in perspective opens up possibilities that strategic planning cannot capture. Reflective time shifting requires using the emotional skill where you project your present sensibilities into the future and then bring the insights gained back to the present to be tested and implemented.
From the moment she took the stage, it was clear that the audience was in for something special.
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