Using her unique approach, Libby helps executives create dramatic, memorable impacts, so they confidently lead their organizations toward creative horizons. She is the president of influencingOptions®, a business consulting and training firm that creates high trust-high performance teams and coaches leaders to hone their skills in courageous conversations to impact the quality of their working relationships. She is a founding faculty member of the Institute of Conversational Leadership and… Show more Using her unique approach, Libby helps executives create dramatic, memorable impacts, so they confidently lead their organizations toward creative horizons. She is the president of influencingOptions®, a business consulting and training firm that creates high trust-high performance teams and coaches leaders to hone their skills in courageous conversations to impact the quality of their working relationships. She is a founding faculty member of the Institute of Conversational Leadership and Invitas with poet David Whyte. Libby is co-founder of The Studio, a change consultancy that utilizes the principles of artistry to foster innovation and build highly-engaged organizations. Libby also leads inspiring events and retreats for organizations and individuals, either on-site or in Ireland each year. She is an accomplished author, poet, speaker, and collaborator, and one of the only former poetry professors warmly invited into the boardroom as a trusted advisor for presidents, CEOs, and executive directors around the world. Libby Wagner works with organizations large and small across the globe to bring beautiful cultures to work. Her work has shaped many organizational cultures, including Diageo, Philips, The Boeing Co., ST Microelectronics, Oak Ridge National Science Lab, Nike, SAP, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and Costco. Her long-standing work with non-profit leaders spans the important work of health care, education, social justice, and international peace efforts. Libby is the author of Amazon Best-Seller, The Influencing Option: The Art of Building a Profit Culture in Business (2010), What Will You Do With Your 90,000 Hours? The Boardroom Poet’s Thoughts on Work (2016) and three collections of poems, including Like This, Like That (2002), Somehow (2012), and Dancing on the Summer Lawn (NP), Harvest (2015), an audio collection of poems and original music, Now Just This (2017), spoken word poetry. Libby’s popular monthly column, “The Culture Coach,” in the Retail Observer. Show less

The Antidote to Business as Usual. The Studio is a place of practice where leaders can experiment with and deepen their own unique version of leadership through artistry.

Libby Wagner is a poet, teacher, writer and speaker who works with organizations large and small, and leaders across the globe, to create the kind of lasting and powerful impact they desire, whether it’s through their unique approach to work, the language they use to influence and create, or the relationships they build. She is one of the only poets working in organizations where she inspires others to access and express their artistry, even when they might not normally describe themselves as… Show more Libby Wagner is a poet, teacher, writer and speaker who works with organizations large and small, and leaders across the globe, to create the kind of lasting and powerful impact they desire, whether it’s through their unique approach to work, the language they use to influence and create, or the relationships they build. She is one of the only poets working in organizations where she inspires others to access and express their artistry, even when they might not normally describe themselves as creative or innovative. Libby is a founding faculty member of the Institute of Conversational Leadership and Invitas with poet David Whyte, and she was honored as a Nellie Cashman Woman Business Owner of the Year in 2014. She has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Libby is the author of Amazon Best-Seller, The Influencing Option: The Art of Building a Profit Culture in Business (2010), What Will You Do With Your 90,000 Hours? The Boardroom Poet’s Thoughts on Work (2016) and three collections of poems, including Like This, Like That(2002), Somehow (2012) and Dancing on the Summer Lawn (NP). She collaborates with Irish musician and composer Owen Ó Súilleabháin in live performance and audio recordings. Together they’ve created Harvest (2015), an audio collection of poems and original music, and the genre-breaking Now This (2017), an embodied experience of spoken word poetry. Libby has worked with hundreds of individuals to inspire and teach them to locate and express their voices in their writing, work and creative lives. Show less

Oversight of 8000+ governmental agency, including all professional development and education programs, academies, etc.

Workplace development and performance system management. Curriculum developer and instructional designer.

Full-time, tenured professor teaching English, composition, literature, creative writing, women's studies, hiking, educational leadership. Pioneer for Washington Online, WAOL an internet-based Associate of Arts Degree program.