Andrea Reynolds
Please contact
Andrea Reynolds directly: info@AndreaReynolds.com
EXPERTISE: MANAGING PERSONAL CRISES
The Hidden Homeless
Overcoming Self-Sabotage
Kindness and Empathy (when it doesn't come naturally)
Accepting Generosity and Allowing Good
Writing Tough Letters Brilliantly
Winning Essay Contests To Meet Your Needs
Expelling Toxic Friends and Lovers
OutSmarting Sweetheart Swindlers
Building Integrity and Character (at any age)
Staying Safe from Stalkers and Predators
Make an Effort!
CONTACT
DATA
Andrea Reynolds
Owner, AndreaReynolds International
Phone (571) 217-6928
Web sites: www.AndreaReynolds.com, www.CrisisBrainstorm.com, HandyAnde
Email: info@AndreaReynolds.com
Mail: Andrea Reynolds, PO Box 1106, Lewiston NY 14092 (No
fixed address in Canada)
Started speaking to groups: 1968
Started receiving payment as a professional speaker: 1979
KEYNOTE
PRESENTATIONS
NEW
When life hands you lemons, make Lemon Meringue Pie.
This
life-enhancing creativity presentation comes with the pie
recipe that my junior high students made in the Creative
Living classes where I taught.
When
Envy Turns to Hate: What to do when you
experience hatred from others for "no
reason".
Foot-Shooters Among
Us: How we sabotage
our own best interests. Hear examples of individuals and
companies who "shot themselves in the foot" by being
short-sighted.
Is Someone
You Know (or You) Missing the Empathy Gene?
How to be a compassionate
person when empathy doesn't run in your family.
Class and
Kindness: What is it,
how do you get it, and how do you demonstrate it in your
life?
Yes or
No?..... 15 Creative
ways to make critical decisions
Multiple
Choice: More solutions
to crises through brainstorming.
Business
Civility: Empathy as a
Marketing Tool in Your Professional Practice or Service
Underearning:
You're Smart... Why Aren't
You Earning Enough? Steps to Take You from Chronic,
Financial Chaos to Financial Comfort in Your Consulting
Practice
How to
Write Tough Letters Brilliantly to Get the Results You
Desire: Secrets for
putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and
motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
Be
Someone's Angel: Much
Need Gifts For Anyone Facing Financial Destitution This is
an example of a brainstorm session for social groups.
Booklets are available for sale to audiences
Homelessness: 25
Brilliant Ways to Keep a Roof Over Your Head
When Homelessness Seems to be
Inevitable This presentation is meant for crisis hotline
volunteers, homeless shelter directors, city council
members and community leaders who are interested in
brainstorming creative solutions to real human and
community issues.
Staying
Safe from Stalkers:
Smart Things to Do When You're in Danger This presentation
is suitable for landlords, domestic abuse counselors,
police constables/officers, rape crisis centers, battered
women's shelters. Booklets are available in quantity for
sale to audiences
OutSmarting
Sweetheart Swindlers:
How to Protect Your Assets from Romantic Con Artists
(Booklets are available for sale to audiences)
50 Ways
Your City Can Attract Visitors and New Business
with Friendliness, Warmth and
Class. Some cities stay small and, like Erie, get smaller,
because of the way visitors are treated. If you want to
build your town or city, increase your tax base, and
reverse declining population, you must hear this startling
presentation.
Missing the
Empathy Gene? When we
treat others as though they don't matter, they may think we
are heartless, rude, or mean-spirited. I like to say we are
just missing the "empathy gene" and can compensate for this
lack of DNA by employing some simple but skillful
techniques.
How to
Write Tough Letters Brilliantly to Get the Results You Desire Secrets for
putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and
motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
New Toxic Friends &
Lovers: How to
recognize and avoid "emotional vampires" and "emotional
terrorists." You deserve people in your life who enrich
your life and create a safe place for you to land, not
people who create chaos, stress, and anxiety and rob you of
your time and energy.
Jump Start
Your Creative Genius... Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
to generate more ideas, answers, solutions Andrea Reynolds
shows us how our creative thinking can result in success:
solving problems, discovering new options, and creating new
businesses or products. In this 3-hour workshop she
challenges her students with "brain aerobics" such as
zigzag thinking, hurricane thinking, six-hat thinking, and
ghost thinking. Booklets are available for sale to
audiences.
"You're
Smart... Why Aren't You Earning Enough?"
Smart Tips that Take You from
Chronic Financial Crisis to Financial Comfort Have you ever
asked yourself that? Are you writing for free, speaking for
free, or giving away your time and advice for free? Are you
having trouble saying no to inappropriate requests? Are you
accepting projects that don't pay you enough, or are you
turning away projects which could pay you what you need?
Learn very specific ways to stop under-valuing and
under-pricing yourself. Specific tips to change your
thinking, change your behavior, and change your financial
picture. Reports are available for sale to audiences
Refuse to
be Invisible Celebrities get attention easily,
sometimes even more than they want. But what about the rest
of us? If you're tired of feeling invisible in any part of
your life, this presentation will give you smart ideas you
never thought of. (A special presentation is also offered
to students in grades 4-13, and university.)
No More
Empty Relationships Bad relationships become bad marriages. A
workshop for single adults who want to break the pattern of
going-nowhere relationships and find partners who meet
their emotional needs. Specific questions help you evaluate
your availability as a partner, identify your specific
relationship needs, and evaluate the potential of each new
relationship you begin. You'll be able to dismiss empty
relationships as you attract healthy, fulfilling
ones.
BIO
Andrea Reynolds has been retained for her
creative ideas by some of the world's most critical
thinkers including the Edward de Bono School of Thinking in
New York. As an author of how-to books, freelance writer,
on-air counselor (radio and national TV), family studies
teacher, professional speaker, and crisis counselor, Andrea
Reynolds has been a creative source of multiple solutions
to personal predicaments and crises for many people. Having
experienced her own professional problems, she has
developed strength and resilience. She both utilizes her
brainstorming skills for others who, temporarily, cannot
find solutions, and teaches others to solve problems
creatively. Some of the people she has counselled are
lawyers, physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
She studied education in 3
countries (Kent State University, Oxford University, and
University of Toronto) and also trained as a crisis
counselor. At age 14 she handled the deliberate suicide
attempt of an adult family member because she was the only
one who had her wits about her and knew what to do. As a
survivor of numerous crises herself, including a school
shooting, a bombing in Belfast, and the terror of being
stalked by an alleged murderer, she knows firsthand the
stress and anxiety a crisis can precipitate in her clients.
She is a compassionate listener and a creative brainstormer
who offers multiple, realistic options to resolve or handle
your crisis or challenge.
"I'm a born list maker. (See
photo of me below, making a list when I was two years old.)
I use listwriting as a primary way to solve problems.
Within minutes I can usually conjure 12 or more answers to
a specific challenge out of "thin air". I can write (or
ghostwrite) the contents of 32 page tips booklet in just a
few hours. The ideas and solutions come to me almost
effortlessly... as though I had an invisible team in the
room silently shouting out ideas to my subconscious mind.
Until I was 35 I believed everyone else was blessed with
this mental ability. I would hear people complain for hours
about a problem, but I couldn't understand why they
wouldn't take 15 minutes to sit down and list 12 solutions.
I was so curious to understand why others couldn't do what
I do that I researched the content of a seminar I conducted
in the US and Canada on how to "Discover Your Creative
Genius" not only to give others the tools for problem
solving but to have them solve serious challenges faced by
their organizations, careers, and families. Soon I was
asked to appear on national TV shows as an expert on the
same panel with leading psychologists and psychiatrists.
I've also appeared as an etiquette (civility) expert on
Frost Over Canada, hosted by British Journalist, Sir David
Frost."
PUBLISHED TITLES (all are available to
audiences... ask about volume pricing)
25
Creative Ways to Successfully Raise $25,000, $50,000 or
More for Your Book, Film or Project without credit cards or
selling a kidney (Report)
Angel
Attraction Kit (Package of 3 documents
and goodies) For authors who want to raise capital with
"angel investors" for their how-to book publishing project.
Receive my Angel Attraction Kit: all the documents I used
to raise $25,000 with private investors, a 20 minute
private consult, and join the private email discussion to
walk you through the process.
The
Speaker's Promotion Kit: Promotional materials
You Need to Make Money as a Professional Speaker
33
Ways to get the Best Performance from Speakers
(7 page
report)
Jump
Start Your Creative Genius (Report)
Start
Your own Mutual, Self-Help Support Group (Manual)
Stand
Up! Be More Assertive by Addressing Others' Critical,
Manipulative, and Controlling Behavior (Seminar manual)
No
Surprises: 365 Critical Questions You Need to Ask Each
Other Before You Marry (32 page Booklet)
No
More Empty Relationships: A Handbook for Single
Adults Who Want to Break the Pattern of Going-Nowhere
Relationships and Find Partners Who Meet Their Emotional
Needs. (Manual)
OutSmarting
Sweetheart Swindlers: Protect Your Heart and
Assets from a Romantic Con Artist (Report)
Staying
Safe from Stalkers: Smart Things to Do When
You or Someone You Care About is in Imminent Danger (Large
size booklet)
You're
Smart...Why Aren't You Earning Enough?: How to Move from Chronic
Financial Crisis to Financial Comfort (Large size booklet)
Charity
Begins Next Door: Much Needed Gifts For
Anyone Facing Financial Crisis (booklet)
Take
The Bed & Breakfast Guest Etiquette
Quiz:
and impress everyone with your savoir faire (booklet)
ORGANIZATIONS
ADDRESSED IN THE PAST
Bluewater Management Seminar (Ontario)
Canadian Association of Women Business Owners (national)
Canadian Association of Women Executives (national)
Canadian Institute of Management (national)
Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (national)
Certified General Accountant's Association of Ontario
(provincial)
Federation of Women Teacher's Associations (national)
Industrial Marketing Research Association Of Canada
(national)
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (provincial)
Junior Farmers Association of Ontario (provincial)
Meeting Planners International (Toronto)
Ontario Dental Association (provincial)
Ontario Education Association (provincial)
Professional Secretaries International (Toronto)
Special Libraries Association (national)
Toronto Credit Women International
Toronto Home Economics Association
Women's Economic Forum of Windsor
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Ontario Ministry of Labour and Employment
AUDIENCE
TESTIMONIALS
"Thank you for
your participation in our meeting on Saturday. We had
considerable feedback after the presentation on how
meaningful it had been to the audience."
Dale
Carnegie Courses
"I would like to extend our thanks to you
for your thought-provoking presentation. Your topic sparked
great interest among our members." Special Libraries
Association of Canada
"Thanks for participating in our recent
annual meeting. This topic added a new dimension to our
educational program which is usually very clinically
oriented. It did stimulate some interesting
discussion." Canadian Society of
Hospital Pharmacists
"Your topic stimulated a great deal of interest as the
large attendance showed." Canadian Association of
Women Executives
"Your presentations helped create one of
the best conferences yet." Junior Farmers
Association of Ontario
"Your topic was well received
by those in attendance. I hope we can work more with you in
the future." Industrial Marketing
Research Association of Canada
"The feedback I got about your talk was
very favourable. We certainly learned a lot from
you." Currie, Coopers &
Lybrand Management Consultants
"Andrea Reynolds has not
only developed her left brain and her right brain equally
well, but trained them to talk to each other." Vinod
Busjeet, Ph.D.,
The World Bank, Washington DC
"Where others see the world in black and white, Andrea
Reynolds sees the world in blazing technicolour." Robert J.
Brown,
London Polytechnic Institute, London England
"You were just super last evening. You made your points
clearly, and on the elevator I heard nothing but praise."
"Andrea is an excellent teacher. Keep her teaching."
Learning Annex student
"Thank you for such an enlightening and relaxing day. You
gave us such positive feelings. I came away feeling
anything is possible." Private seminar participant
"I left feeling stimulated, saturated, satisfied, and ready
to act." Seminar participant
"I thought your presentation was excellent, extremely
professional and informative. I wish you were a little
closer to Australia." Training program participant
"The course was taught superbly and Andrea is highly
professional. She was very communicative and
knowledgeable." Consulting seminar participant
"It's been a pleasure participating and sharing the
tremendous amount of information you have accumulated for
this tremendous course." Consulting seminar participant
"More! Her course is invaluable, practical, down-to-earth."
Learning Annex student
DESIRABLE
AUDIENCES
Authors
Broadcasters
Case workers
City Councils
Chambers of Commerce
Crisis counselors
Fraud consultants
Home Based business
owners
Homeless and Battered
People's Shelter Directors
Journalists and
writers
Police
Prisons
Private investigators
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Small business owners
Sociologists
Social workers
Stress consultants
Universities and colleges
Veterinarians
SERVICES
Keynote Address (20-45 min.)
Lectures: 20-70 minutes
Panel Discussion participation
Break-out sessions
Introducer, announcer
Workshops and seminars:
90 minutes
Two hours
Half day (3-4 hrs)
Full day (6-8 hrs)
Two days (12-16 hrs)
Three days (18-24 hrs)
PERSONAL POLICY
1. For the sake of accuracy I must approve all promotional
copy about me and my presentation prior to printing and
distribution: news releases, programmes, brochures,
signage, etc.
2. For events at a distance I prefer travel by land or
water over air travel: car, train, RV, or boat.
3. Please provide written directions to the event location
and someone to meet me on arrival.
4. I prefer to drive and would like a parking spot reserved
for my large van near the entrance closest to the room
where I will be speaking. Please keep in mind that my van
is too tall (see picture) to enter underground
or roofed parking. I can park in open parking lots and
on top of roofless ramps.
5. I can easily fill in last minute for a speaker when the
event is relatively close by: Niagara Region; Erie PA,
Cleveland OH, Pittsburgh PA; Buffalo NY, Rochester NY;
Toronto, Oshawa, Hamilton, Oakville, Burlington; London,
Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Ontario.
6. If I am delayed or unable to appear/speak due to illness
or accident I shall endeavor to find or recommend another
speaker who can replace me.
7. I am happy to receive payment in either US funds or
Canadian funds.
8. I can supply copies of letters of reference.
Please contact Andrea Reynolds directly:
info@AndreaReynolds.com
