About Bonita Richter, MBA
If you’re looking for someone to deliver inspiration and insight acquired from decades of leading others in a warm and engaging fashion, you just found her.
Through her authentic style of storytelling, Bonita brings a whole new level of enthusiasm to the topics of how leaders can make a greater impact to the people and organizations they lead, women’s leadership, how to lead courageously through change, uncertainty and risk, how to communicate with impact as a leader, strategic talent management, plus so much more.
Bonita shares her message to audiences from all types of organizations and industries. Her talks have been experienced by thousands, and she has spoken on stages to groups of 5 to over 3,000. Her messages are delivered via live talks, keynotes, custom facilitated retreats and workshops, webinars, and podcasts.
Potential Topics
WOMEN WHO MAKE: BREAKING THE MOLD
The personal stories of women who work in manufacturing are threads in a larger narrative we are all writing. Their stories are bigger than merely being ‘women in manufacturing stories.’
They are stories about women who challenged the status quo and showed what is possible. They are about courageous women who are leaders because they challenged the notion that manufacturing is a man's-only world.
They are about women who are leaders, and way-showers to other young women to show them how to move onto their path to express their interests, talents, and gifts to the world in a larger way through a STEM-related career.
These women model that manufacturing is a path to women's economic empowerment.
In my book, Women Who Make, I share the stories, advice, and wisdom of thirteen women who made and/or are making successful careers in manufacturing, and what they want to tell young women.
In this program, you will learn:
Key, powerful insights the book shares to inform young women ‘why’ consider a career in manufacturing
How to mentor young women in manufacturing to help develop their career growth
How to retain women in manufacturing and STEM once they get there
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM FATHER TO DAUGHTER
A moving and personal talk about the remarkable wisdom shared from father to daughter, for emerging women leaders who want to make an impact, and inspire and develop others.
From her highly-regarded book, Women Who Make, you will learn how:
Working with her father in the male-dominated industries of manufacturing and engineering influenced her view of leadership and how what she learned can help you step deeper into being a confident female leader
To address key challenges women face to rise to leadership positions within STEM and practical strategies to deal with them
To mentor other women in manufacturing to become an impactful leader
COURAGEOUSLY LEAD THROUGH CHANGE, UNCERTAINTY & RISK
Have you ever had to lead others when you were treading on unfamiliar terrain and uncertain of the outcome? Does the risk of making a poor decision that may damage your credibility or reputation seem too much to bear? Does a hint of hesitancy to take on more risk, difficult challenges or opportunities frustrate you? Struggling with taking on change and the risk it brings along with it is like being stuck in the mud. Yet even the greatest leaders suffer from doubt and indecision at times.
In this program, you will learn how to:
Learn to trust what you already know and relax your analytical mind
Get others involved and take on risk through generation of innovative ideas and solutions
Learn to take back control of your destiny
THE ART OF LEADERSHIP LANGUAGE
Infuse Purpose, Inspiration & Meaning to Advance Your Leadership Impact
Verbal communication is crucial to leaders. A leader’s vision and presence is vital to his or her organization’s sense of itself, its shared purpose and direction, and requires personal courage to talk unequivocally about difficult topics. Effective leadership communication requires verbal mastery and discipline.
In this program, you will learn how to:
Gain insight into how leadership language is different from language used in a non-leadership role
Discover the 6 keys to heighten, embolden and speak evocatively as a leader
Learn how to communicate in an impactful way that is inspiring to the people you lead
STRATEGIC PATIENCE: AN UNDERUTILIZED DECISION-MAKING APPROACH
We are familiar with the notion that one of the most important traits a leader can have is decisiveness: North American culture is one of action. Yet a misunderstood and often underutilized leadership trait is patience.
In this program, you will learn:
What strategic patience is, and how it contrasts with action
The benefits of practicing patience
Questions to ask yourself to determine if patience or action is in your, and the organization's best interests
How to bring others aboard in potential emotional situations.
OTHER POTENTIAL TOPICS …
Leadership: self-awareness, vision, engage, strategic thinking, teamwork
Develop emerging leaders
Mentor women to help with career development
Lead effective, high-performing teams that achieve goals
Be agile in a rapidly-changing, disruptive business environment
Talent succession planning
Engage employees
Build/shift culture
The high cost of not having or retaining enough women in STEM & what to do about it
Plus much more …
All topics can be customized and delivered in a workshop, retreat, keynote, webinar, podcast, training … let’s talk to see what will work best for you and your organization.
Is there a topic you’d like that’s not listed? Let’s talk. There’s always room to customize a presentation for your organization.