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Lois Wagner

MBE
Inspirational Speaker. Leadership Coach
Coaching Conversations for Change. Lois Wagner Coaching
Country or state 
South Africa
Available to 
Global
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Languages 
English
Volunteer:
Yes

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Bio

Lois talks about building a growth mindset and developing resilience and grit.

She also talks about forgiveness.

Using authentic storytelling and real-life experiences, she inspires her audience in an entertaining, humorous, and memorable manner. Whilst the stories are inspirational, Lois weaves her life lessons learned into practical solutions to provide you with a new outlook or approach to your business and life.

Lois has worked globally in many different capacities, and has travelled to over 40 countries, including those not so obvious tourist destinations such as Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan, and Iran. She has survived life including a violent rape, divorce, loss of a business, forced retirement, and much more. All of this, together with her MBE (Management by Experience) and C-IQ (Conversational Intelligence Certification for Coaches) , she has gathered tools, techniques and stories that she uses to help you gain insights into how you can manage change in your own life, how you can gain your passion – your mojo, and how to persevere and bounce back in the face of life’s challenges.

As a coach and training facilitator:

Lois inspires leaders to engage and empower their teams with trust and accountability, to unleash their creativity, and to build a bridge to collaboratively co-create and deliver even greater success and results.

Using Conversational Intelligence®, she works with business executives and managers (and trainee and potential managers and team leaders), and entrepreneurs. Businesspeople who want to achieve success by being great leaders and who effectively manage change and growth of both the business and their teams.

One satisfied client stated: “I had the pleasure of working with Lois over a period of 10 years. She has presented…to various teams I worked with, including teams in the health care, oil and gas, and MICE industries. Lois is a capable trainer/coach, who, via her inspiring personality, is able to reach out to different groups of people and always left the clients happy”.

Using a variety of practices, she motivates and guides individuals and teams to connect and co-create with others, to take ownership of their own growth to achieve their personal best. Another client said: “She has coached some of our high potential employees, nurtured them and helped them bring out their underlying talents and grow into bigger roles”.

With her vast amount of business and life experience, she makes coaching, mentoring, consulting, and training real as well as fun and memorable. She encourages life-long learning and development.

Current position (1)

Inspirational Speaker. Leadership Coach

Coaching Conversations for Change. Lois Wagner Coaching

Achievements (4)
Xtraordinary Woman of the Month
Human Rights Influencer
TEDx Speaker
Author
Degrees (4)
MBE
University of Life
1954 to 2019
Conversational Intelligence
Creating We Institute (Judith E. Glaser)
2016 to 2019
Organisational Development
CI
2007 to 2008
Coaching
University of Cape Town
2012

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Mishaps and Mayhem - Mission Mojo

45-Minute Keynote:

At the age of 54 Lois left Cape Town to work in Oman in the Middle East and discovered travel and adventure.

No organised tours or even pre-planned trips for this intrepid solo traveller as she explored countries such as Iran, Iraq, Haiti, and Pakistan, among others.

Her story is one of mayhem and mishaps, from surviving rape in the Cape to falling off dog sleds in Sweden.

Join Lois on her amusing journey as she does a "Shirley Valentine" and talks to the wall.

Not quite Shirley Valentine, Lois agrees with this quote from the movie "Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?"

Develop a Growth Mindset and Build Resilience and Grit

In a world of unpredictable and chaotic change filled with challenges that make it difficult to achieve your goals, using real-life stories, Lois provides tips on how to build resilience and grit. She will have you laughing as she shares lessons based on her own life and career transitions.

Lois has been through many life and career challenges - from divorce to rape, to starting and losing a business, to starting another business, to forced retirement, to starting again, and again.

As a result, She has built the resilience and grit to manage these changes and develop her mojo with a sense of humour.

She ignites the audiences and helps communicate, connect, and catapult them into action. Her stories motivate the audience to build their resilience and grit, to energise their mojo, and to achieve their goals.

Forgive the Unforgivable

45-Minute Keynote (also a training programme)

After experiencing a major life challenge, abuse, or trauma, you need to find a place of peace and freedom, to ...

Let Go, Rejoice & Fly Free

trade sadness, anger and resentment, for forgiveness and the freedom to enjoy life's wonderful adventures
let go of burdens of the past and open up to lighter and more hopeful possibilities
be given the permission not to forgive but to find other ways to start the process of healing
not to feel pressured by those who keep telling you that forgiveness is the right thing to do

Workshops (4)
Develop a Growth Mindset and Build Resilience and Grit
Full day
(View workshop agenda)

If you are ready to develop a growth mindset and build grit and resilience, then this 10-step process will help you achieve it:

Work Excellence for Employability
Full day
(View workshop agenda)
Personal Effectiveness
Full day
(View workshop agenda)
Restore Your Personal or Professional Mojo - Five Step Process
Full day
(View workshop agenda)

Five full days

Past talks (9)
From Victim to Survivor to Thriver and Beyond
Alchemise your Pain
Virtual Summit
July 4, 2020
From Victim to Survivor to Thriver and Beyond
Creativity Unlimited
Online
June 24, 2020
The A-Z of thriving and energising your mojo!
Zencation
Online
June 7, 2020
After disruption - Moving from victim to survivor to thriver and beyond
Coach Africa - Woman Impact Virtual Summit
Online
May 22, 2020
Forgiveness Gives You Freedom
3rd Annual Healing My Sisters Virtual Summit.
Online
May 20, 2020
Resilience and Recovery after Rape
Soul Fire Wisdom with Kate Olson (radio show podcast)
Online
May 19, 2020
How to overcome trauma through the loving commitment to a practice of forgiveness and building resilience
"Ask The Midlife Midwife! Tricks to Rebirth Women at Midlife and Beyond!"
Online
May 9, 2020
Move from victim through to survivor and thriver and beyond
Women Emerging. Reclaiming our souls from sexual abuse
Online
April 18, 2020
Mishaps and Mayhem
U3A
Johannesburg
September 3, 2019
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From Fear to Forgiveness to Freedom | Lois Wagner | TEDxLenoxVillageStudio
Opportunities
Lois Wagner - Move from Victim to Survivor to Thriver and Beyond to Freedom
DisruptHR Talks - Building Resilience
Mishaps and Mayhem. How to bounce back from a difficulty.
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Lois in Action
Lois in Action
Best Seller - Voices of the 21st Century
Best Seller - Voices of the 21st Century
Niche Marketing Hero
Niche Marketing Hero
Human Rights Influencer
Human Rights Influencer
Xtraordinary Women Talk
Xtraordinary Women Talk
Woman Speakers Association - Managing Adversity TV and Podcast
Woman Speakers Association - Managing Adversity TV and Podcast
Host - Rape and Resilience Summit
Host - Rape and Resilience Summit
Power of Reinvention
Power of Reinvention
Webinar on Forgiveness
Webinar on Forgiveness
Be BRAVE - Gender Based Violence webinar
Be BRAVE - Gender Based Violence webinar
Thrive Thru Life Change Summit
Thrive Thru Life Change Summit
Believe Breakthrough Podcast
Believe Breakthrough Podcast
Take Back Control Summit
Take Back Control Summit
Women Emerging Summit
Women Emerging Summit
The Midlife Midwife Podcast
The Midlife Midwife Podcast
Soul Fire Wisdom Podcast
Soul Fire Wisdom Podcast
Healing my Sisters Summit
Healing my Sisters Summit
Woman Impact Summit
Woman Impact Summit
Eskom - Women's Day Webinar
Eskom - Women's Day Webinar
Creativity Unlimited Summit
Creativity Unlimited Summit
Alchemise your Pain Summit
Alchemise your Pain Summit
One 100 Words of Motivation
One 100 Words of Motivation
Training Public Speaking
Training Public Speaking
“Integrated Talent Management” at the Human Resource Development Expo
“Integrated Talent Management” at the Human Resource Development Expo
Executive Team Leadership at  Al Bustan Palace, A Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Executive Team Leadership at Al Bustan Palace, A Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Training ILM Diploma in Leadership and Management for STOMO
Training ILM Diploma in Leadership and Management for STOMO
Training Service Excellence at SBAG
Training Service Excellence at SBAG
Presentation on Training Needs  Analysis at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Presentation on Training Needs Analysis at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn
Training Management Development at the Royal Hospital Oman
Training Management Development at the Royal Hospital Oman
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Books & Articles (4)

Voices of the 21st Century: Powerful, Passionate Women Who Make a Difference
Xtraordinary Woman of the Month
Wisdom and Foolishness
Death and Life

Expertise (15)

Business
Leadership
Travel & Adventure
Social & Political
Health & Well-being
Building Resilience and Grit Change Conversational Intelligence C-IQ EQ Authentic Leadership Mojo forgiveness adventure travel Authentic Communication Vulnerability

Clients

Woman Speakers Association
“Up-skill your Workforce for Future Success” at the GHEDEX Conference
"The "Age of Flux" at the HR Oman, Best practices & Professionals Summit
Coach Africa
“Integrated Talent Management” at the Human Resource Development Expo
“Training Needs Analysis” at the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry
"Focusing on Your Unique Talent and Redefining Your Future Success" at the 2nd Annual Extraordinary Women Conference.
"Bounce Back. Building Personal and Organisational Resilience" at Disrupt Jozi 4.0
"Mishaps and Mayhem"at U3A

Reviews

Testimonials (9)
  • Today we had a session with Lois. Her story is truly inspiring and our members found her message to be truly motivational. Lois has excellent presentation skills and her talk was very well-paced giving the listener time to reflect on the power of her journey. I highly recommend her for both motivational and self-empowerment purposes. I honestly cannot praise her enough!
    Mark J Galea
    Verified
  • I had the opportunity to work together with Lois during the Women Impact Summit 2020. During that Summit I interviewed her and was impressed by her authenticity and openness in sharing her life story. Furthermore, I enjoyed her commitment in making the workshop at the Summit a success. She showed a high level of flexibility in creating the program and a professional attitude in the process from design to delivery.
    Angélique van Eeuwen-Bos
    Founder
    Road2Authenticity
    Verified
  • Lois has such a beautiful way to teach simple yet very profound truths and principles. She is a lovely bubbly fun loving person with a lot of wisdom, love and care. I always leave Lois thinking and feeling blessed that I she is part of my life in masterminds and in the Public Speaking Association of South Africa.
    Marriet Visser
    Business / Systems Analyst
    Verified
  • Lois is dynamic and has a wonderful, authentic energy. Her stories are powerful and punchy. She really does inspire her audience.
    Kirsten Mann
  • I have worked with Lois for more than 6 years during my tenure with Suhail Bahwan Automobiles on various developmental initiatives like Training, Assessment Centre and Executive Coaching and I found her to be extremely good and professional in her work in all aspects. She has coached some of our high potential employees, nurtured them and helped them bring out their underlying talents and grow into bigger roles. Lois has been a regular as an assessor in all our Assessment Centre sessions and has been of great support to us. She is a great person to work with, very friendly, supportive and someone from whom you can learn a lot. Thank you Lois for the fantastic work that we did together. All the very best for your future assignments. Good luck !
    Mohith Balakrishnan
    Senior HR Professional
    Verified
  • I got to interact & attend Lois's training session for the higher management & middle level management of my Ex employer in Muscat. Lois is a very cooperative & jolly trainer and can handle an array of topics. She has a very strong imagination index with which she can unfold a very difficult topic in a very systematically easy way. Hope to see & attend more of her sessions! All the best, Lois!!
    Vivek Sanglodkar
    Housekeeping Manager
    P. D. Hinduja National Hospital & Medical Research Centre
  • Lois Wagner (Coaching Conversation for Change) was invited to speak at our branch of the U3A (Joburg North) on September 3rd, 2019. She had just come back from the Middle East after 11 years of working there, she had eight different subjects that she could talk on, we chose one on “Travel Mojo – Mayhem and Mishaps” which were funny stories of things that had happened to her during her period overseas. Lois is a delightful person with a warm personality, who was able to draw her audience in, therefore ensuring that the 285 attendees, who were all senior people were highly entertained. Lois’s other subjects are: living and travelling in Muslim countries; travelling as a single Woman to places in Asia/Cuba/ Haiti; Trekking in Nepal; Hiking in the Western Cape; The story of Forgiveness; and more… We will certainly have Lois to speak again, when the time is suitable for us. We wish Lois all the success that she deserves, we are sure that she will be highly sort after, once she gets known on the circuit of organisations in Johannesburg. MARGARET BRITZ CHAIRPERSON OF JOBURG NORTH U3A.
    Margaret Britz
    Verified
  • Lois is fabulous! As an avid lifelong learner she has so much knowledge, which she shares willingly, openly and wisely. She is quite fascinating and often leaves me just thinking “Wow!”
    Deidre
    Verified
  • Lois is exceptionally insightful and a gifted speaker with a wealth of knowledge on self-growth and personal development under difficult circumstances. When she shares her courageous story, she inspires people to speak out against GBV too and her message is unforgettable.
    Vas
    Verified
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