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Bio/Intro for Dr. Bill Dyment
Dr. Bill Dyment (Dye’-meant), psychologist, “Team Doctor” and executive coach, is a leading expert in frontline team resiliency and workplace burnout prevention and recovery [the subject of his doctoral work.] He is the author of two books Fire Your Excuses. and Leaders’ Guide to Executive Coaching. He has also authored: Leap Year: The Course-One Week to An Extraordinary Next Year.
“Dr. Bill” has spoken to more than 678 organizations, including many of America’s leading health institutions, universities, charitable organizations and Fortune 500’s. To date he has delivered more than 4251 seminars for organizations around the globe.
His message draws from his research examining stress and burnout among domestic U.S. workers and those serving in 38 countries worldwide. A frequent radio guest and Forbes interviewee, he is also a popular contributor to publications on the topic of burnout prevention and employee wellness. In addition to his seminars, he frequently assists organizations by coaching executives and in preventing and responding to today’s most common critical workplace issues: Today’s remote, hybrid and on-site workforce, accidents, mental health crises, and violence.
Dr. Bill relates well to diverse audiences having spoken around the globe, including numerous visits to Africa where he recently served as a board member for Africa New Day based in Congo, and to South America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
End of Bio/Intro-Updated 10.12.23
Most Requested Topics (2023)
BY THE NUMBERS–THE TOP FIVE 2023 REQUESTED TRAININGS TOPICS, LISTED IN DESCENDING ORDER:
1. RESILIENCY TRAINING-coping and thriving through uncertain and challenging times.
2. MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING-focused on destigmatization, self-care, finding mental health resources and how to support someone struggling with emotional difficulties.
3. BURNOUT PREVENTION AND RECOVERY TRAINING-how to avoid and recover from workplace- and personal-related burnout.
4. WORK-LIFE BALANCE TRAINING topics, including stress management and juggling home and work responsibiliities.
5. GRATITUDE, PURPOSE, CONNECTION AND AUTHENTICITY TRAINING. This topic cluster is forward-focused, examining how team members may thrive and grow vs. how they may “recover” and “cope.” It is suggestive of an emerging trend toward “fresh start” trainings, focusing on crafting a new future.
Additional information and what has come to be known as the “Dyment Difference”:
What is realistic during this uncertain season: For you personally, professionally or for the team you lead?
This season of ongoing public health concerns, a renewed focus on racial justice, and now, as we seek as a nation to avoid another World War, has been especially challenging, important, and anxiety-provoking for all, respectively. Many leaders and organizations are understandably just trying to “manage” and navigate through the tectonic changes that have hit them personally and as a team over the past two years. Many teams reported being burnt out after wave after wave of COVID with its ever-changing protocols and restrictions, even as many of us experience far more ability to connect with others than we have in the last two years and believe the end of the pandemic is very near.
Chances are, you know the feeling as well. Grace is certainly needed these days, for all of us, for what we have been able to accomplish and not accomplish these past few years. Bryann Andrea said it well: “Remember, this is a pandemic, not a productivity contest.” If you feel as if you or your team may have “lost some considerable yardage” recently. You are not alone
Even more, your team may need help immediately. While there is reason for great hope regarding the pandemic’s waning, the rest of 2022 remains a question mark. I have been honored to work with scores of organizations and the teams you are leading around the world since March, 2020. Many of you have remained, hopeful, teachable, disciplined, and have adapted amazingly well. You have strived to find your “new normal,” been mourning necessary personal and organizational losses, and responding thoughtfully to national events. Some of you are also beginning to take small steps toward rebuilding your “offensive strategies”–strategizing and implementing meaningful steps forward you and your organizations can take despite the challenges you are facing.
Current world and national events and the new demands of the virtual workplace will continue to require new skills, an engaged team, newly minted coaches and leaders, and a new vision. The next few months will be critical. You also know that the more you grow into a position of influence you have the potential to influence many more lives-those of your team, family, organization and beyond. How you express your focus during the rest of 2022 has looked very different than it did 2021, and it will, undoubtedly look different from the first half of 2022.
I love this quote by Alan Watts: You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, month or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right to grow. No apologies.
The same can certainly be said of your team and your organization. This season has required all of us to “put our cards on the table” and reevaluate our what we have been dealt in a way we may never have done before. It provides us with the opportunity, too, to decide what things we will abandon and what things we will continue to pursue–our career goals, charitable focus, education, geographic location, office space and products and services.
If these challenges resonate with you, your team or your organization, I would love to talk about how I could assist you as I have others.
May you stay safe, hopeful and healthy,
“Dr. Bill”
“My Story”
Hi! My name is Dr. Bill Dyment but my clients and audiences know me as:
“Dr. Bill.”
I help intentional leaders and organizational teams achieve renewed focus, motivation, courage and growth after significant changes, disruption, and in times of conflict and crisis–internally and externally. To rapidly improve, we don’t just need experience-we all had have plenty. For our future to look different from our past and present, we need just-in-time, guided experience.
The cost of delay and indecision for leaders
Too often, I see smart, passionate leaders and businesses, ignore how much opportunity they are “leaving on the table” every month because they focus only on what they might have to invest to make a long-delayed change. The truth is: Every month you or your team doesn’t work at the level you are capable, you are walking away from thousands of dollars that could be available for your organization, yourself, your family, or that cause close to your heart.
For those who view their work as missional, a calling, like I do, it becomes a matter of stewardship. I had to realize I didn’t have all the answers just because I had worked in my profession for decades. I had to seek out strategic coaches to push through my plateaus and continue growing at a rapid pace again. When I did everything changed. I was stuck, skeptical, and fearful. So, I started to make small investments and immediately proved that these initial investments paid off, then I began to invest even more and achieved even bigger results. Today, I can only scratch my head and say, “Why didn’t I take the risk and make the investment earlier?” For years, I said, “No one fully understands my unique situation.” “No one understands my business as well as I do.” Can you relate, personally or as an organization? There was some truth to these statements but they kept me safe, and plateaued. The truth was, my situation wasn’t all that unique and a new outside perspective proved invaluable.
The cost of conflict and stress for work teams
When I ask organizations to provide their best conservative itemized monthly costs of conflict and stress for their work team—the loss of productivity, morale, market perception, etc., their calculations shock them. For when the true analysis is made, tens of thousands of dollars are lost every month, when team conflict or stress is ignored.
Let me help you or your team push through your season of change, stress, or conflict, more rapidly, skillfully and strategically.
Because the truth is…
Focusing on the few right actions uses far fewer resources and is far more effective.
If you’re anything like me, you see yourself as leader in pursuit of excellence whether you are serving others as an entrepreneur or as an intrapreneur, directing a corporate team and innovating from within. Either way, what gets you up in the morning are all the opportunities you see to be an effective change agent, who takes action and make a difference in the world.
I have always felt this “calling,” like many of you, but there were obstacles too and I had some catching up to do.
I grew up in a suburb of Boston where, for much of my childhood, as a shy kid, school was a place where I was targeted for fights and felt as if I couldn’t fit in.
High school was rough!
At the same time, I was fortunate to have parents who believed in me. Both first-generation college graduates, my mother a coal miner’s daughter, and my father orphaned early in life, each knew what it was to better your life regardless of long odds. So, perhaps because of my social challenges, I made it my aim to excel in school. And, my father, a leader and educator in his own career and charitable work, began to take me all over New England to assist him when he spoke. I learned a lot about speaking and leadership from his example (but also a lot about collating handouts!)
Everything changed for me in college. For the first time, I made deep friendships with classmates, began my life-long love affair with serving in Africa, and felt a part of a strong community. No one was more surprised than I when, in my senior year, I was elected to be Student Body President. After my undergrad in Boston, I moved to Los Angeles to complete my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Biola University.
I landed my first post-doc job with the County of Orange. While I learned much, I immediately knew it was not a fit for my entrepreneurial nature and growing interest in speaking, media and education. After obtaining my psychology license, I left to consult and speak—first to manage a USC grant, then to strike out entirely on my own. Lacking great coaches and mentors, I took the long way around, making every mistake you can make but eventually things clicked and that was 30 countries, 625 organizations, 3900 talks, and hundreds of individual clients ago. In the process, I had been transformed, not only professionally but personally. My high school peers didn’t recognize me when I returned for my 20th reunion. Today, I am married to my beautiful wife, Burnie, and we now are proud parents of a beautiful miracle son, William, aka “The Sweetness!” They, along with seeking to honor the Good Lord in all that I do, are my big “Why.”
Burnie and I striking our best Zoolander pose
(Note: Yes, she is amazing! The day we got married, she just wasn’t paying attention!)
Our stories are still being written. What about you? What is your big, “Why?” I am still learning, writing books—Fire Your Excuses (2012) And Leap Year: One Week to an Extraordinary Next Year (Fall, 2018,) Leaders’ Guide to Executive Coaching (February, 2020) starting mastermind groups, and seeking out the best coaches I can hire. In the second half of my career, when many of my peers are winding things down, I am working toward bigger goals than ever! What about you? Are you “winding things down” or up?
Let me help you or your team do the same.