Monica Wofford has been a celebrated trainer and speaker since her first keynote speech in 1989. Since that time, she’s been interviewed on CNN and FOX News, been named one of Meetings and Conventions Magazine’s favorite business speakers, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Speaker’s Association, as well as the Business Advisory Board for the Rollins College Center for Leadership Development. Monica is the CEO of the leadership training and consulting firm Contagious Companies, Inc. She serves as an executive coach, senior strategic consultant and leadership advisor, and is one of less than 400 women in the world to hold the Certified Speaking Professional designation. In her community, Monica serves as a board member for The United Way and Habitat for Humanity, and on the Development Committee for the Community Foundation.
Monica has articles in the following magazines:
2014 Q1 Issue
2014 Q3 Issue
2014 Q4 Issue
2015 Q1 Issue
2015 Q2 Issue
2015 Q3 Issue
2015 Q4 Issue
2016 Q1 Issue
2016 Q2 Issue
2016 Q3 Issue
2016 Q4 Issue
2017 Q1 Issue
2017 Q2 Issue
2017 Q3 Issue
2017 Q4 Issue
2018 Q1 Issue
2018 Special Locate Issue
2018 Q3 Issue
2018 Q4 Issue
2019 Q1 Issue
2019 Q3 Issue
2019 Q4 Issue
If a new employee headed out to the job site carrying flags and paint when you knew he was supposed to be locating telecom cables, you’d likely raise an eyebrow and, hopefully, start asking questions. First, were you clear on the job order details? Did he understand what was needed? And was he really just …
STORM SEASON is upon us and whether the weather is quiet or active, it affects your role, position, and operations. How do you recover? What is your role in recovery efforts as a leader? And don’t those same answers apply to all recovery efforts including a misstep in communication, a less than effective interaction at …
CHANCES ARE IT DOES not require news of patriotic truckers, carried jerry cans like a scene from a movie, stand-offs in foreign countries, or some new alphabetically named strain of a virus to convince you the world has gone trucking crazy, and many have lost their trucking mind. Read that again. Did you consider swapping …
CONNECTED. A word providing instant relief when in need of a Wi-Fi signal. Yet, with us humans, we seem to have forgotten that connected and connections are not synonyms. We’re losing the skillsets to connect with a human. In times before we spoke of ourselves in tech terms, as those in need of disconnecting, unplugging, …
ONE Ringy-Dingy! It just never stops! The phone rings, the spam calls continue, a person walks in your office, and the list grows longer by the minute. If you Google “Lily Tomlin Telephone Operator” or remember the vignette, you might think our whole world has become one big comedic skit about not just how much …
In Southern homes, a momma might say, “I brought you into this world, don’t make me take you out of it!” Even if one is not from the South, you can hear momma’s frustration. What might be less obvious is the correlation to our current situation. Contact with another human brought you into this world …
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Uncertainty. Instability. Discomfort. All circumstances that could be described as the times in which everything sucks. Yet, in each, leadership is still needed. And while the “sucks” described in this headline is common for vacuum excavation, it’s also both a common and a provocative term to describe the climate for leaders in recent months. What …
Leading When Everything Sucks Uncertainty. Instability. Discomfort. All circumstances that could be described as the times in which everything sucks. Yet, in each, leadership is still needed. And while the “sucks” described in this headline is common for vacuum excavation, it’s also both a common and a provocative term to describe the climate for leaders …
Jack and Diane were leaders. Both believed they were good communicators and yet one was better understood than the other. It was Jack who shared the clearest coaching guidance and Diane who directed the best urgent action. Their styles were part of who they were. Their personalities both held leadership potential and skill, but their …
10 Tips to Prevent Automated Leadership Between cars that park themselves and speakers that seem to hide a butler named Alexa, we nearly no longer need to think for ourselves. When you offer virtual reality site visits and 3D printing of missing parts for your equipment, leaving our chair is no longer needed to satisfy …
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