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.
INGRID WIESE
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Full Speaker Biography

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.
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
BUILDING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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.
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 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.
This talk is for organizations that are currently undergoing change from a transformation or are experiencing challenge and looking for hope. |
NAVIGATING RESISTANCE
LIVE IN-PERSON | PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes 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.
This talk is for any group that regularly navigates resistance. |
POWER INFLUENCER
LIVE IN-PERSON | PLAYTIME: 60 - 90 minutes 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Offer this conversation to teams consistently forced to deal with stress in their day-to-day roles. |
"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
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