Bio

Libby Wagner is a poet, speaker, and trusted advisor who works with organizations large and small, and leaders across the globe to build better teams by creating high trust and high performance. Libby’s work has shaped many organizations, including Oak Ridge National Science Lab, Keurig-DrPepper, Diageo, Philips, Boeing, ST Microelectronics, and numerous others. She is one of the only poets working in organizations, and she offers practical, immediately useable skills to lead, innovate, and have conversations that matter through her
consulting, coaching, and training.

Libby is a former college professor and founding faculty member of the Institute of Conversational Leadership with poet David Whyte, and she was honored as a Nellie Cashman Woman Business Owner of the Year in 2014. She leads inspiring retreats in Ireland and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. each year. Her virtual and in-person programs are both inspiring and practical. Libby has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Each year she works one-on-one with a limited number of entrepreneurs, solo-practitioners, and writers to create work and lives they love.

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 five collections of poems, including Like This, Like That( 2002), Somehow (2012), Dancing on the Summer Lawn (NP). In collaboration with Irish musician and composer Owen Ó Súilleabháin (oh-sul-a-vawn), they created audio collections, including Harvest (2015), a collection of poems and original music, and the genre-breaking Now Just This (2017), an embodied experience of spoken word poetry. Check out Libby’s TEDx talk, “Own Your Voice” (2015).

www.libbywagner.com