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As the pace of business accelerates and opportunities for human interaction diminish, maintaining motivation and engagement becomes increasingly challenging. Off-sites, sales conferences, and all-hands meetings provide essential platforms to remind your team that they are part of something greater and an essential human piece of a team.  Our expert speaker, Ingrid Wiese, is dedicated to fostering connection among your team, the subject matter, and the company as a whole. With her authentic delivery style, compelling stories, and actionable insights, Ingrid guides your audience on a transformative journey to unleash their full potential and drive meaningful change. Let Ingrid be the catalyst that elevates your organization’s collective potential and produces impactful results.
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INGRID WIESE
  • CEO & Founder of Axe & Arrow Solutions: A leader in leadership development and organizational transformation for Fortune 500 companies.
  • Creator of the acclaimed 'Building Strategic Partnerships' program: Expertly designed to equip leaders with essential skills for engaging in more compelling dialogues and mastering complex conversations.
  • Harvard & MIT Certified Expert: Specialized in influence and communication, offering advanced strategies to foster impactful dialogue in high-stakes environments.
  • Former U.S. State Department Representative: Successfully facilitated conflict resolution and negotiation processes during significant assignments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Georgia.
  • Renowned "Work Whisperer": Transforming leaders in over 500 organizations, Ingrid creates immersive learning experiences that enhance teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement.
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IN PERSON FEE:
$15,000 - $25,000*
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TRAVELS FROM:
Los Angeles, California
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TOPICS:​
Building Strategic Partnerships, Coaching, Feedback, Influence, Navigating Resistance
* Fees often vary based on a number of factors, including: speakers schedule, supply and demand, length of presentation, location of event, and other factors. Please contact us with your specific event details and requirements, and we are happy to provide you with a precise quote.​

Full Speaker Biography

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Ingrid Wiese is a transformative leadership speaker and recognized expert in the art of influence and navigating challenging conversations. With over fifteen years of experience coaching leaders and transforming organizations, Ingrid has carved a niche for herself as a compelling speaker whose insights drive meaningful change.

Her impactful journey began as a representative of the U.S. State Department, where she engaged with political and community leaders in Eastern and Central Europe, facilitating conflict resolution and peace negotiations. This experience honed her skills in understanding human dynamics and practicing effective influence, which she brings to her audiences today.

Transitioning to a fundraising consulting firm in the U.S., Ingrid built strategies that generated over $100 million for high-profile organizations, including the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her success stemmed from a deep understanding of influential communication and the ability to foster impactful dialogue with senior stakeholders, enabling her clients to navigate complex conversations with confidence.

As the founder of Axe & Arrow Solutions, Ingrid is dedicated to developing leaders equipped to face today's challenges. Her work with clients such as Blizzard Entertainment, Coca-Cola, Disney, Organon and Microsoft underscores her commitment to fostering resilience and growth through effective influence strategies and courageous conversations.

Ingrid is not only a consultant but also a powerful speaker who engages audiences with her expertise in influence and conflict resolution. She empowers leaders to embrace challenging conversations as opportunities for growth, equipping them with the skills to drive effective change in their organizations.

A member of the faculty on the McKinsey LEAD program and adjunct faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership, Ingrid also serves as a Master Coach at The Mind Gym and a Senior Coaching Partner at Bluepoint Leadership. With a Master’s degree in International Relations and advanced credentials from Harvard Law (Influence) and MIT (Leadership & Influence), she blends academic rigor with practical insights.
Ingrid Wiese is passionate about redefining leadership through the lens of influence and authentic communication. Book her for your next event to inspire your leaders and empower them to tackle challenging conversations with confidence and skill.

Sample Topics

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BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes

​When all your best sales techniques aren't creating enough influence to get your foot in the door, try Building Strategic Partnerships that transform the way clients/customers engage with your sales team and products.  Led by former faculty to BCG and McKinsey & Co., your leaders will gain actionable insights into building trust and collaboration at every level.
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  • Learn the 3D consulting model—Discover, Develop, Deliver—to discover what truly matters to clients, develop compelling points of view, and deliver ideas in a clear, impactful manner.
  • Practice communication skills and get real-time feedback from colleagues that will deepen and strengthen relationships.
  • Elevate your team's status and influence within the organization to unlock new opportunities for strategic growth.

This talk can be customized for any organization that wishes to deepen relationships across the organization, elevate your people from 'order takers' to equal thought partners.
LEMONADE
LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 minutes
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While many people have suffered whiplash from the pace of rapid change in the last few years, some people have persevered.  How do people who rise up to challenges think differently and, thereby, enable their success?  LEMONADE focuses on the mindsets it takes to make lemonade from lemons.
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  • Discover the research behind entrepreneurial thinking
  • Explore three dynamic ways of thinking that help us overcome challenges at work
  • Apply a new way of thinking to one of your current challenges

This talk is for organizations that are currently undergoing change from a transformation or are experiencing challenge and looking for hope.
NAVIGATING RESISTANCE
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LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes
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When met with resistance, most people instinctually retreat or put up a fight - both responses threaten business relationships our reputation and our results. To be seen as an influential thought partner and trusted peer, we need to learn how to navigate through resistance effectively.  This talk focuses on what to do when you find yourself caught between competing objectives.
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  • Learn how to shift your mindset toward collaboration, ask probing questions that reveal the underlying issues behind resistance, and listen with genuine empathy
  • Apply techniques to synthesize commonalities and differences and assert ideas clearly and confidently
  • View resistance not as a barrier, but as a unique opportunity to strengthen relationships with stakeholders and business partners, fostering deeper connections that drive success

This talk is for any group that regularly navigates resistance.
POWER INFLUENCER
​LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes
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​Most sales people are already masters of subtle persuasion, but then they meet that one person they just can't budge.  Science says this happens because we get stuck using the same tactics over and over again.  This interactive session will provide fresh tools and a chance to use them to formulate a real-world strategy for influencing others. 

  • Discover what you need to know about another person to most effectively move them from their current position
  • Apply essential influencing tools like inspiration, framing, timing, anchoring and choice architecture
  • Combine the right tools together to leave with a solid influencing strategy for getting something you want right now​

This high energy experience is for those currently trying to influence someone and looking to leave with a strategy.
WAKE ME UP!
LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 minutes
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Many teams get stuck in the same way of thinking and struggle to find creativity.  WAKE ME UP! focuses on removing the barriers to our creativity and engaging our teams in fresh thinking.  This will enable your people to unlock new ideas for growth and expansion.
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  • Learn the three most common blocks to your creative flow
  • Explore three new ways to ideate with your team
  • Make a commitment to refresh your creative thinking

This talk will excite drowsy brains and rekindle dormant creativity.
UNLOCK YOUR STRATEGIC THINKING
​LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 minutes

A researched impact of virtual work environments is an over reliance on tactical communication.  Unlock Your Strategic Thinking awakens our strategic muscles and reminds us how to engage in more strategic dialogues that result in long-term success for our organization.  

  • Explore what it means to be strategic, and why it’s important right now
  • Learn the three most dangerous mindset blocks to big picture thinking 
  • Practice three tools that can be used to approach every problem in a more strategic way

This highly interactive talk is for organizations looking to infuse more strategic thinking into their processes. 
TRANSFORMATIVE FEEDBACK
LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 90 minutes

Most leaders know the value of holding their team accountable, but they struggle with delivering feedback that results in real change.  Deliver it the right way and you can transform a team member's performance.  Deliver it the wrong way and you can crush morale and damage relationships.  Transformative Feedback explores the science behind feedback that results in real change and provides a solid methodology for delivering feedback in the moment.  This gives leaders increased confidence when sharing feeback and helps shift the performance culture of an organization.
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  • Learn the science behind feedback that changes performance
  • Understand and have practice the SBIQ feedback model 
  • Create a plan for the emotions that can arise in difficult conversation

A dynamic talk for audiences struggling with tools to hold one another accountable - leave with practice and a plan for your next feedback opportunity.
​LEVERAGING SELF-TALK    
LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 minutes
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Self-talk is what we say to ourselves about ourselves.  These voices can enable us to accomplish great things, but they can also immobilize us and block us from our greatest strengths.  Learn how to change unhealthy self-talk and better leverage positive self-talk.
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  • Explore the most frequent stories you tell yourself, what triggers them, and how they impact your actions
  • Look at five tested methods for enabling positive self-talk
  • Commit to a practice of new habits to adopt a healthier internal dialogue

This talk is a confidence booster for teams that need extra motivation, are facing setbacks or struggle to rebound.  
BESTING STRESS
​LIVE IN-PERSON  |  PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes
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We all know the long-term damage of unchecked stress both physically and mentally. But did you know that there is also such a thing as good stress? If a little stress is a good thing, how do we
keep it in our life in a healthy way and eliminate it when it poses a danger? Join your colleagues for this informal, fun webinar that walks through three mindset tools and three restorative actions to Best Stress.

  • Think about what’s going on with you and what might be stressing you out
  • Discuss what stresses you out and the difference between good stress and bad stress
  • Learn three mindset tools and three restorative actions that you can apply immediately​

Offer this conversation to teams consistently forced to deal with stress in their day-to-day roles.
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Inspired Audiences


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"I've now partnered with Axe & Arrow on two successful large events for our entire team of 120 pharmaceutical sales leaders.  Both times she made an impressive impact and left a sustainable result.  From the start, Ingrid was an excellent collaborator, engaging in multiple discussions with our team to tailor the content to our specific needs.  She asked the right questions and steered us in the direction, resulting in an unprecedented 80% VGE session rating.  Our teams consistently talk about the models from her sessions and the value they provide to make their work more impactful.  As a company, we have seen sustainable change in the effectiveness of team dialogues under Ingrid's ongoing support."
- Alex Davis, Biosimilars Director, Brand Marketing Strategy, Organon Pharmaceuticals

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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