Local Legends Interview Series
February 23, 2023
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
All Local Legends Interviews are held VIRTUALLY on ZOOM.
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About Linda Swindling, JD, CSP
Linda Swindling empowers and equips leaders to negotiate what matters … in everything from big deals to workplace drama. Named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Negotiation for 2020, 2021 and 2022, Linda knows first-hand about high-stakes communication and influencing decision makers.
A dealmaker since childhood, Linda’s early career involved hospitality and retail sales. Later, her negotiation expertise was refined in the courtroom and boardroom as a practicing corporate attorney and strategic advisor to CEOs. During her 10 years of practicing law, she became a partner, successfully negotiated several multimillion-dollar agreements, and resolved cases that “couldn’t be settled.”
Linda left her employment, insurance, and mediation practice to found Journey On! - a speaking and professional development company. For more than 25 years, her topic of negotiation has encompassed respectful communication, proactive dispute resolution, inclusive cultures, leadership and team performance, championing change, and achieving breakthrough results.
Clients include Ericsson, George Washington University, the University of Texas at Dallas, AstraZeneca, the Federal Reserve Bank, Intel Capital, Southwest Airlines, Michaels, ATD, SHRM, MPI, Tarrant County, Empire Petroleum, and more.
The creator of the popular Passports to Success book series Linda has authored and/or co-authored twenty books including the award-winning Ask Outrageously: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want and Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers.
A Certified Speaking Professional, Board Certified Coach, and “recovering” attorney, Linda has served NSA both locally and nationally. She is a past-president of NSA-North Texas and a Jos. J. Charbonneau recipient. Nationally, she is a past officer & director of the National Speakers Association, the former editor of Speak magazine, chair of the Meetings Industry Council, and chair of NSA’s Speaker Academy. Currently, she serves on the NSA Foundation’s Board of Trustees and as National President of the Texas Tech Parents Association.
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About Your Host, Niki McCuistion, CSP
As a speaker Niki focuses on leadership and strategy. She has spoken on almost every continent. Niki is a past president of NSA-NT, the 1st Charbonneau Award recipient and the 1st woman to chair NSA National's Voices of Experience interview series.
As the producer/ executive producer of the PBS tv program on KERA PBS, now on the air for 32 years, she has chosen guests for the program and has coached 100’s of heads of states, celebrities and just plain every day folks on how to wow audiences.
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