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About Me

I understand how our individual “personal psychology” directly impacts our success, performance, relationships and health – and use this knowledge to help clients achieve their desired outcomes. My ability to connect, combined with a diverse inter-related career, extensive training and personal experience provide my clients with direct access to a wide range of unrivaled strategies and cutting edge motivational tools.

Services

Combining experience as a licensed psychotherapist, peak-performance coach (executive and sport), author, senior university lecturer, and a lifetime of traditional martial arts training – Edmond’s motivational speaking events, workshops and seminars are effective, entertaining, and tailored to every audience.
Motivational and Seminars
Personal and Professional

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PERFORMANCE COACHING

What we do matters more than how we feel…

“What we do is way more important than what we feel. Fundamentally, the only way to get anywhere is to get up and go!” I’ve helped people from all backgrounds achieve their goals, overcome obstacles and create more satisfying professional and personal lives. I build on your own levels of motivation and creativity to find tools which are effective in helping you achieve your goals, creating the life and career you want. Find out more here
SPEAKING

Engage, educate and entertain your audience!

“What we do is way more important than what we feel. Fundamentally, the only way to get anywhere is to get up and go!” I’ve helped people from all backgrounds achieve their goals, overcome obstacles and create more satisfying professional and personal lives. I build on your own levels of motivation and creativity to find tools which are effective in helping you achieve your goals, creating the life and career you want. Find out more here

Success and happiness are ultimately decided by how well we handle the unexpected, the unwanted and the unpredictable.

– Edmond Otis

Keynote and event speaking | Performance coaching

Patricia Harding, Executive Director, Burlingame Systems

“You were a huge hit with our staff! The Evaluation Forms were overwhelming marked – ‘excellent’. The BPL staff really enjoyed your presentation style, behavior modification techniques, and practical exercises… But to me the most important outcome of your workshop was the team-building that occurred during the workshop and after. Our job as managers will be to build on that momentum and keep the communication going. Thanks again for an excellent workshop!”

Sanja Majstorovic, CEO at PSEC

“Edmond provided business coaching and motivational speaking to our Senior Team of 15 Managers in a series of 4 training sessions. Senior Team loved it! they were higly complimentary about Edmond’s style, knowledge, professionalism and integrity. The investment in Edmond’s training sessions have been excellent from the company’s perspective: Senior Team have already applied the knowledge that they gained.”

Paul Signorelli, Social Media Strategist, and Consultant

“Edmond Otis is a training-coaching professional with engagingly effective presentation skills. He always keeps the focus where it should be—on the learners he serves. It was always a pleasure to have Edmond facilitate conflict resolution sessions when I was serving as training director for the San Francisco Public Library system, and I would jump at the chance to work with him again.”

Shannon Kane, Controller at Revchem Composites

“Edmond Otis is a vibrant speaker that immediately establishes a rapport with the audience. His ability to tailor his presentation to our needs and deliver the content but still keep it entertaining was a refreshing change from the usual circuit of boring speakers. He mixes real world experience with humor in such a way that our customary dry subject matter became interesting and had all of us participating, even that grump who always sits at the back of the room! The feedback from the group was outstanding and we look forward to having him return soon.”

Shirley Ewells, Chair Person: City of Pasadena EAP Advisory Committee

“The comments I received can easily be summed up with the word ‘outstanding’. You were engaging to say the least. Your dynamic way of sharing made the presentation a welcome dialogue between you and the audience.”

Unison, The NZ Powerlines People

“Edmond was great! Easy to understand, exciting to listen to and a great sense of humour! He was excellent and presented material not just relevant to Safety but to management and leadership generally.”

Cher Gould, The Infopeople Project

“Your participant evaluations for each of the 13 sessions you have presented for us over the last 12 months have been uniformly ‘excellent’, consistently averaging 9’s and 10’s in each category.”

Barbara Adams, Director of Health and Human Resources, Nippondenso Int., Inc.

“Your presentation was wonderful … I am especially grateful for the hit of our staff training this year.”

Ed Taylor, President, IMG Inc.

“Your message came through loud and clear! The presentation was exciting, but also real and practical. Best of all, you gave us solutions that worked.”

Kenneth G. Jordan, M.D., President, Jordan NeuroScience Inc.

“Edmond is not only a karate master, but a master of guiding businessmen and women to develop healthy communication styles and open trustworthy work environments.”

Sharon Hanne, Physiotherapy NZ

“Excellent presentation! Captivating and easy to listen to!”

Rachel Gunsan, Green Prescription, Sport Hawke’s Bay

“Well spoken, direct and interesting. Very helpful and insightful. Related knowledge to our needs very well.”

C. J. Dixon, Physiotherapy New Zealand

“Fantastic day. Motivational and thought provoking! Gave us lots to work on and think about.”

Jane Hinshaw, Chair, City of Los Angeles Advisory Committee

“All comments have been overwhelmingly positive, citing examples of your use of humor, and the ‘real life’ situations.”

Scott Boston, President, US Industrial Hygiene Association

“Wow! What a presentation! Your team-building session afterwards was absolutely outstanding.”

Sue Smith, Team Leader, Green Prescription, Sport Hawke’s Bay

“Excellent Presentation! Very specific to our needs. A lot of new material we can work with.”

Empowering Insights: Speaking at the 2019 EIT Graduation

Step into an inspiring journey as I share insights on leadership, resilience, and the art of self-belief at the prestigious 2019 EIT Graduation in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. Join me as we delve into the essence of success and celebration, encapsulating the essence of betting on oneself.