Ray Williams
Master Certified Executive Coach, Speaker, Author
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Success Principles and Executive High Performance Expert
Ray Williams Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Success Principles Training, Executive Caoching
- Best Sellers
- Leadership Edge, Systemic Change, Dragon Tamer
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Author, Trainer, Coach
- Affiliation
- International Coach Federation, Vancouver Board of Trade
Ray is owner and President of Ray Williams Associates, a
Vancouver based company providing executive coaching and leadership training services which provides products and services for leadership and executive development, and training programs for business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals, and professional speaking services.
Ray brings over 35 years experience to his businesses as a CEO, senior HR executive,Certified Master Executive Coach. Ray is also a CertifiedHypnotherapist. He is widely regarded as one of Canada's top executive coaches.
Ray is the recipient of the Master Educator Award from the American Society of Education Executives, and is also past President of the International Coach Federation in Vancouver. He has worked as a consultant with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies and small to medium sized businesses and non-profit organizations in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and team development and peak performance. He is very active in such organizations as the Vancouver Board of Trade, having recently served as Vice-Chair, and other professional and community service organizations.
Ray is a regular contributor for the Financial Post, and many other national and international publications. He has written a book on leadership, The Leadership Edge, and Breaking Bad Habits, and been a contributing author to several other professional books, and is a regular guest on various radio and TV shows such as the Good Life Radio Show, with over 10 million listeners. Ray's latest books, Eye of the Storm: How Mindful Leaders Can Transform Chaotic Workplaces, and I Know Myself and Neither Do You: Why Charisma, Confidence and Pedigree Won't Take You Where You Want To Go are best sellers and available world-wide.
Ray is in high demand as an executive coach, leadership trainer, mentor, relationships expert, platform speaker, workshop presenter and facilitator throughout North America. Ray is passionate about using his wide-ranging experience to help individuals and organizations make the changes in their lives to reach their best possible selves, find fulfillment and happiness. His unique education, training and life experience, passion for life and people make him much in demand for those who want real change and challenge.
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The Secret to a Healthy Retirement: Keep Working
Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression, and in past ages, the concept of retirement didn't exist. AARP in the U.S.
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Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work
The start of the New Year is often the perfect time to turn a new page in your life, which is why so many people make New Year's resolutions. Researchers have looked at success rates of peoples' resolutions: the first two weeks usually go along beautifully, but by February, people are backsliding and by the following December, most people are back where they started, often even further behind.
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Is it time to give leaders competency tests?
Do we need to have some standard of competency required of our leaders? The recent failed track record of many prominent captains of industry and political leaders might lead us to think so.
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Should You Facebook Your Business?
Traditional business practice was based on the principle of developing a great product or service and then finding customers to buy it. Then came the marketing and promotion so as many people knew about your product or service through advertising, promotion, stores, etc. The same kind of ...
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How to Be Resilient in a Turbulent World
In the 2007 World Health Statistics Report, the World Health Organization identified depression as one of the most significant global public health problems. World wide events such as recession, the effects of climate change, and terrorism events and alerts have increased the general level of anxiety throughout the world. Employers and managers face, on a daily basis, bad news and its psychological impact on employees. How can we prepare people for psychologically stressful events and resilient recovery? Are some people just naturally more resilient and optimistic?
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Energizing your workplace: What managers should know
The energy and vitality of individuals and organizations depends on the quality of the connections among people inside the organization, and between them and their customers and clients. The key to transforming your own work experience and the performance of the people around you is to build and nurture high quality connections. So says Jane Dutton, professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan and author of the book, Energizing Your Workplace.
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Social Media: Does It Help or Hinder Productivity?
Does the use of social media in the workplace benefit organizations and educational institutions and help productivity or hamper productivity?
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The end of careers as we know them
In my Financial Post article, “In the Future, No One is Going To Pay You Just to Show Up,” I argued technology, for the most part, has not allowed us to retire to a life of leisure as predicted decades ago. The current reality is that we may see many people resigned to an extensive period of unemployment or temporary work.
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What Brain Science Can Tell Us About Leadership
Research on how the human brain can affect behaviors--called neuroscience, or the popular term, brain science--has yet to be fully appreciated by leaders of organizations. That knowledge could have a significant impact on how leaders are trained and what they do. In the past few decades, scientists have gained new and more accurate scientific views of human behavior, studying the human brain.
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Do more friends on Facebook induce stress and anxiety?
Many Facebook users spend considerable time and energy collecting hundreds of virtual friends, and posting updates with the intention of increasing positive relationships, raising their self-esteem or living a happier life. At the same time, several studies have shown there can be negative impacts on users including increased stress and anxiety, and narcissism. With approximately 1 billion users worldwide, there’s no doubt that Facebook is the most powerful social medium of social connection.r
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How To Be Super Successful: Be Tall and Attractive?
In an ideal world, people are hired and promoted because of their abilities, competence, attitudes and interpersonal skills--right? Maybe not. Despite how far we've come in the areas of recruiting, selecting and developing people in organizations, there's evidence that we still judge people based on what some would consider superficial criteria.
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Does Happiness Bring You Financial Success?
Does happiness bring you financial success? Well, actually, the evidence suggests it does. There is a growing body of research now that supports the connections among happiness, effectiveness, productivity and success. Sonja Lyubamirsky, a University of Califo ia author of The How of ...
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Ray Williams Associates
Ray Williams Associates is a company providing executive and leadership training and mentoring
January 31, 2011
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Success IQ University
Success IQ University is a site that provides personal growth and leadership training to entrepreneurs, professionals and corporations.
February 20, 2009