Andrea Reynolds
Please contact
Andrea Reynolds directly: Booking Inquiries (814) 520-5230
EXPERTISE: Retrieving Personal Money and
Property
- The Kindness Experiment: How One Woman Tested Strangers' Responses as She Traveled Through the US
- The Hidden Homeless: What I Can Tell You About Being Homeless That Would Curl Your Hair
- Overcoming Self-Sabotage: Start Working for Your Best Interests
- Accepting Generosity and Allowing Good: How to Stop Being The Obstacle in Your Own Path
- Writing Tough Letters Brilliantly... and getting the outcome you desire and deserve
- Winning Essay Contests To Meet Your Needs
- Expelling Toxic Friends and Lovers from Your Life For Good
- OutSmarting Sweetheart Swindlers
- Make an Effort! Life is Too Short to Be Passive
- Men Aren't Pets: Women Who Support Men Who Bring Nothing to the Table
CONTACT DATA
Andrea Reynolds
Owner, AndreaReynolds International
Phone: (814( 520-5230
Web sites: www.AndreaReynolds.com, HandyAnde
Email: crisiswriter@gmail.com
Started speaking to groups: 1968
Started receiving payment as a professional speaker: 1979
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
NEW The Kindness Experiment: One woman's immersion research for a book as a homeless person.
NEW When life hands you lemons, make Lemon Meringue Pie. This life-enhancing creativity presentation comes with the pie recipe that my junior high students made in the Creative Living classes where I taught.
Foot-Shooters Among Us: How we sabotage our own best interests. Hear examples of individuals and companies who "shot themselves in the foot" by being short-sighted.
Is Someone You Know (or You) Missing the Empathy Gene? How to be a compassionate person when empathy doesn't run in your family.
Class and Kindness: What is it, how do you get it, and how do you demonstrate it in your life?
Empathy as a Marketing Tool in Your Professional Practice or Service
Underearning: You're Smart... Why Aren't You Earning Enough? Steps to Take You from Chronic, Financial Chaos to Financial Comfort in Your Consulting Practice
How to Write Tough Letters Brilliantly to Get the Results You Desire: Secrets for putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
Be Someone's Angel: Much Need Gifts For Anyone Facing Financial Destitution This is an example of a brainstorm session for social groups. Booklets are available for sale to audiences
Homelessness: 25 Brilliant Ways to Keep a Roof Over Your Head When Homelessness Seems to be Inevitable This presentation is meant for crisis hotline volunteers, homeless shelter directors, city council members and community leaders who are interested in brainstorming creative solutions to real human and community issues.
OutSmarting Sweetheart Swindlers: How to Protect Your Assets from Romantic Con Artists (Booklets are available for sale to audiences)
Missing the Empathy Gene? When we treat others as though they don't matter, they may think we are heartless, rude, or mean-spirited. I like to say we are just missing the "empathy gene" and can compensate for this lack of DNA by employing some simple but skillful techniques.
How to Write Tough Letters Brilliantly to Get the Results You Desire Secrets for putting your thoughts onto paper that make your point and motivates the recipient to act in your favor.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
New Toxic Friends & Lovers: How to recognize and avoid "emotional vampires" and "emotional terrorists." You deserve people in your life who enrich your life and create a safe place for you to land, not people who create chaos, stress, and anxiety and rob you of your time and energy.
Jump Start Your Creative Genius... Critical and Creative Thinking Skills to generate more ideas, answers, solutions Andrea Reynolds shows us how our creative thinking can result in success: solving problems, discovering new options, and creating new businesses or products. In this 3-hour workshop she challenges her students with "brain aerobics" such as zigzag thinking, hurricane thinking, six-hat thinking, and ghost thinking. Booklets are available for sale to audiences.
"You're Smart... Why Aren't You Earning Enough?" Smart Tips that Take You from Chronic Financial Crisis to Financial Comfort Have you ever asked yourself that? Are you writing for free, speaking for free, or giving away your time and advice for free? Are you having trouble saying no to inappropriate requests? Are you accepting projects that don't pay you enough, or are you turning away projects which could pay you what you need? Learn very specific ways to stop under-valuing and under-pricing yourself. Specific tips to change your thinking, change your behavior, and change your financial picture. Reports are available for sale to audiences
No More Empty Relationships Bad relationships become bad marriages. A workshop for single adults who want to break the pattern of going-nowhere relationships and find partners who meet their emotional needs. Specific questions help you evaluate your availability as a partner, identify your specific relationship needs, and evaluate the potential of each new relationship you begin. You'll be able to dismiss empty relationships as you attract healthy, fulfilling ones.
BIO
Andrea Reynolds has been retained for her creative ideas by some of the world's most critical thinkers including the Edward de Bono School of Thinking in New York. As an author of how-to books, freelance writer, on-air counselor (radio and national TV), family studies teacher, professional speaker, and crisis counselor, Andrea Reynolds has been a creative source of multiple solutions to personal predicaments and crises for many people. Having experienced her own professional problems, she has developed strength and resilience. She both utilizes her brainstorming skills for others who, temporarily, cannot find solutions, and teaches others to solve problems creatively. Some of the people she has counselled are lawyers, physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
She studied education in 3 countries (Kent State University, Oxford University, and University of Toronto) and also trained as a crisis counselor. At age 14 she handled the deliberate suicide attempt of an adult family member because she was the only one who had her wits about her and knew what to do. As a survivor of numerous crises herself, including a school shooting, a bombing in Belfast, and the terror of being stalked by an alleged murderer, she knows firsthand the stress and anxiety a crisis can precipitate in her clients. She is a compassionate listener and a creative brainstormer who offers multiple, realistic options to resolve or handle your crisis or challenge.
"I'm a born list maker. (See photo of me below, making a list when I was two years old.) I use listwriting as a primary way to solve problems. Within minutes I can usually conjure 12 or more answers to a specific challenge out of "thin air". I can write (or ghostwrite) the contents of 32 page tips booklet in just a few hours. The ideas and solutions come to me almost effortlessly... as though I had an invisible team in the room silently shouting out ideas to my subconscious mind. Until I was 35 I believed everyone else was blessed with this mental ability. I would hear people complain for hours about a problem, but I couldn't understand why they wouldn't take 15 minutes to sit down and list 12 solutions. I was so curious to understand why others couldn't do what I do that I researched the content of a seminar I conducted in the US and Canada on how to "Discover Your Creative Genius" not only to give others the tools for problem solving but to have them solve serious challenges faced by their organizations, careers, and families. Soon I was asked to appear on national TV shows as an expert on the same panel with leading psychologists and psychiatrists. I've also appeared as an etiquette (civility) expert on Frost Over Canada, hosted by British Journalist, Sir David Frost."
PUBLISHED TITLES (all are available to
audiences... ask about volume pricing)
25
Creative Ways to Successfully Raise $25,000, $50,000 or
More for Your Book, Film or Project without credit cards or
selling a kidney (Report)
Angel
Attraction Kit (Package of 3 documents
and goodies) For authors who want to raise capital with
"angel investors" for their how-to book publishing project.
Receive my Angel Attraction Kit: all the documents I used
to raise $25,000 with private investors, a 20 minute
private consult, and join the private email discussion to
walk you through the process.
The
Speaker's Promotion Kit: Promotional materials
You Need to Make Money as a Professional Speaker
33
Ways to get the Best Performance from Speakers
(7 page
report)
Jump
Start Your Creative Genius (Report)
Start
Your own Mutual, Self-Help Support Group (Manual)
Stand
Up! Be More Assertive by Addressing Others' Critical,
Manipulative, and Controlling Behavior (Seminar manual)
No
Surprises: 365 Critical Questions You Need to Ask Each
Other Before You Marry (32 page Booklet)
No
More Empty Relationships: A Handbook for Single
Adults Who Want to Break the Pattern of Going-Nowhere
Relationships and Find Partners Who Meet Their Emotional
Needs. (Manual)
OutSmarting
Sweetheart Swindlers: Protect Your Heart and
Assets from a Romantic Con Artist (Report)
Staying
Safe from Stalkers: Smart Things to Do When
You or Someone You Care About is in Imminent Danger (Large
size booklet)
You're
Smart...Why Aren't You Earning Enough?: How to Move from Chronic
Financial Crisis to Financial Comfort (Large size booklet)
Charity
Begins Next Door: Much Needed Gifts For
Anyone Facing Financial Crisis (booklet)
Take
The Bed & Breakfast Guest Etiquette
Quiz:
and impress everyone with your savoir faire (booklet)
ORGANIZATIONS
ADDRESSED IN THE PAST
- Bluewater Management Seminar (Ontario)
- Canadian Association of Women Business Owners (national)
- Canadian Association of Women Executives (national)
- Canadian Institute of Management (national)
- Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (national)
- Certified General Accountant's Association of Ontario (provincial)
- Federation of Women Teacher's Associations (national)
- Industrial Marketing Research Association Of Canada (national)
- Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (provincial)
- Junior Farmers Association of Ontario (provincial)
- Meeting Planners International (Toronto)
- Ontario Dental Association (provincial)
- Ontario Education Association (provincial)
- Professional Secretaries International (Toronto)
- Special Libraries Association (national)
- Toronto Credit Women International
- Toronto Home Economics Association
- Women's Economic Forum of Windsor
- Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
- Ontario Ministry of Labour and Employment
AUDIENCE TESTIMONIALS
"Thank you for your participation in our meeting on Saturday. We had considerable feedback after the presentation on how meaningful it had been to the audience." Dale Carnegie Courses
"I would like to extend our thanks to you for your thought-provoking presentation. Your topic sparked great interest among our members." Special Libraries Association of Canada
"Thanks for participating in our recent annual meeting. This topic added a new dimension to our educational program which is usually very clinically oriented. It did stimulate some interesting discussion." Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
"Your topic stimulated a great deal of interest as the large attendance showed." Canadian Association of Women Executives
"Your presentations helped create one of the best conferences yet." Junior Farmers Association of Ontario
"Your topic was well received by those in attendance. I hope we can work more with you in the future." Industrial Marketing Research Association of Canada
"The feedback I got about your talk was very favourable. We certainly learned a lot from you." Currie, Coopers & Lybrand Management Consultants
"Andrea Reynolds has not only developed her left brain and her right brain equally well, but trained them to talk to each other." Vinod Busjeet, Ph.D., The World Bank, Washington DC
"Where others see the world in black and white, Andrea Reynolds sees the world in blazing technicolour." Robert J. Brown, London Polytechnic Institute, London England
"You were just super last evening. You made your points clearly, and on the elevator I heard nothing but praise."
"Andrea is an excellent teacher. Keep her teaching." Learning Annex student
"Thank you for such an enlightening and relaxing day. You gave us such positive feelings. I came away feeling anything is possible." Private seminar participant
"I left feeling stimulated, saturated, satisfied, and ready to act." Seminar participant
"I thought your presentation was excellent, extremely professional and informative. I wish you were a little closer to Australia." Training program participant
"The course was taught superbly and Andrea is highly professional. She was very communicative and knowledgeable." Consulting seminar participant
"It's been a pleasure participating and sharing the tremendous amount of information you have accumulated for this tremendous course." Consulting seminar participant
"More! Her course is invaluable, practical, down-to-earth." Learning Annex student
DESIRABLE AUDIENCES
- Authors
- Broadcasters
- Case workers
- City Councils
- Chambers of Commerce
- Crisis counselors
- Fraud consultants
- Home Based business owners
- Homeless and Battered People's Shelter Directors
- Journalists and writers
- Police
- Prisons
- Private investigators
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Small business owners
- Sociologists
- Social workers
- Stress consultants
- Universities and colleges
- Veterinarians
SERVICES
Keynote Address (20-45 min.)
Lectures: 20-70 minutes
Panel Discussion participation
Break-out sessions
Introducer, announcer
Workshops and seminars:
- 90 minutes
- Two hours
- Half day (3-4 hrs)
- Full day (6-8 hrs)
- Two days (12-16 hrs)
- Three days (18-24 hrs)
PERSONAL POLICY
1. For the sake of accuracy I must approve all promotional copy about me and my presentation prior to printing and distribution: news releases, programmes, brochures, signage, etc.
2. For events at a distance I prefer travel by land or water over air travel: car, train, RV, or boat.
3. Please provide written directions to the event location and someone to meet me on arrival.
4. I prefer to drive and would like a parking spot reserved for my large van near the entrance closest to the room where I will be speaking. Please keep in mind that my van is too tall (see picture) to enter underground or roofed parking. I can park in open parking lots and on top of roofless ramps.
5. I can easily fill in last minute for a speaker when the event is relatively close by: Niagara Region; Erie PA, Cleveland OH, Pittsburgh PA; Buffalo NY, Rochester NY; Toronto, Oshawa, Hamilton, Oakville, Burlington; London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Ontario.
6. If I am delayed or unable to appear/speak due to illness or accident I shall endeavor to find or recommend another speaker who can replace me.
7. I am happy to receive payment in either US funds or Canadian funds.
8. I can supply copies of letters of reference.
Please contact Andrea Reynolds directly: Booking Inquiries (814) 520-5230