Lead Like Nobody’s Business

Beth’s areas of expertise include high-performing teams, creating psychological safety, and various leadership skills

Create More Value

As a teacher, coach, and student of leadership and human nature, Beth has a passion for working with leaders and their teams to create more value for stakeholders.

With over 3 decades of experience of cultivating the best in others, she provides insights about leadership and teams and tips to use immediately, with a touch of lightheartedness and humor.

Bringing Out the Best in Others

Beth Strathman loves bringing out the best in others. After coaching and advising managers and executives as an in-house HR leader for over 17 years, Beth started her own coaching practice.

Firebrand Consulting was launched in 2010 with the belief that when leaders are skilled, everyone in the organization benefits. With decades of expertise in teaching, human resources and coaching, Beth creates significant ROI for her clients as she works with them to create more positive impact in their organizations. She is especially enthusiastic about working with senior leaders and executives to create team environments that increase ownership, autonomy, and responsibility for greater learning, innovation, and growth.

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Psychological Safety and Diversity

Psychological Safety and Conflict

What Psychological Safety is Not

Areas of Expertise

Beth’s talks range from keynotes to conference breakout sessions.
Here are some of the takeaways to expect when Beth speaks

High-Performing Teams

Discover the characteristics of a high performing team
The building blocks to turn your team into a high performing team
Practical activities to move toward higher performance

Psychological Safety

What psychological safety is and why it’s important
How you can measure psychological safety
Ways you can create more psychological safety with co-workers and on teams

Leadership Skills

The three legs of better leadership
The struggles that all leaders face and how to overcome
The shift from technical expertise to leading others

Booking Beth

From Keynotes to Conference Breakout Sessions

A teacher at heart, Beth engages each audience with wisdom gained throughout her career, using real life examples and a sense of humor. With degrees in teaching and law, Beth has the experience, perspective, and practical know-how to present her message for corporate leaders. She gets to the heart of the matter, calling it like she sees it, with humor and kindness. Beth’s presentations on the “soft” skills of leadership will inspire “hard” bottom line results for companies, including:

Increased psychological safety

Increased employee retention

Increased employee engagement

Increased collaboration

Significant reallocations of time and attention to what matters for greater productivity

The audience will leave with practical ideas they can try out as soon as they return to work.

What Others Have to Say

“Beth’s ability to add humor while [presenting] about important [workplace] issues . . . was wonderful. She was able to engage the audience and we walked away with tips and techniques we could immediately implement.”

– Stephanie Wright, IOM | CEO, Murray Chamber of Commerce

“Beth’s deep knowledge of management and leadership competencies, her extensive experience in HR, unmistakable professionalism, and lively, engaging teaching style—all combined to create a wonderful learning experience for our group. Her teaching style is both kind and very straightforward, an accomplishment in itself . . . [S]taff clearly enjoyed the intelligence, perspective, and humor she brought to her work with us. I highly recommend Beth’s services to any organization that wants to strengthen management, grow leadership, and create a place that engages employees to do their best work.”

– Anne Burkholder, former CEO, YWCA Utah

Sample Keynotes & Trainings

The Leader’s Playbook for Building High-Performing Teams

It takes completely different skills to lead a high-performing team than the ones taught in most Business Schools or modeled by most leaders.

Based on 2 decades of research at Harvard, the audience will learn what environment creates teams that outperform all others and the 3 simple leader behaviors that create the conditions for a high-performing team.

The Surprising #1 Predictor of a High-Performing Team

Two decades of research at Harvard and Google’s quest to unearth the factors that make highly effective teams, led to an interesting finding about what highly effective teams have in common: team members aren’t afraid to speak up. Feeling you can speak up with ideas, questions, concerns, and mistakes – without being punished or humiliated — is called “psychological safety”, and it is the gateway for unleashing productivity and innovation in teams and other work groups.