Janet Lapp

Janet Lapp is an award-winning speaker, clinical psychologist, and the author of Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air and Dancing with Tigers. She speaks on navigating change, building resilience, and thriving in uncertainty, drawing from a career that spans nursing, clinical psychology, and university teaching. Dr. Lapp’s ability to blend rigorous psychology with warmth and humor has made her one of the most trusted voices on organizational and personal change.

From the Hospital Floor to the Doctoral Stage
Born and raised in Canada, Janet began her career as a registered nurse and nurse manager before graduating magna cum laude in psychology and earning her Ph.D. with Honours from McGill University in Montreal. She went on to a successful career as a clinician and university professor, grounding her speaking in both scientific research and real-world patient care. She created and hosted the highly rated CBS-affiliate health series Keep Well.

Ideas That Reach Millions
Janet’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, American Health, Prevention, and numerous scholarly journals. She is the publisher of The Change Letter, a trend-tracking guide to navigating change with common sense. She has been featured in documentaries including Coping with Stress in the Real World. Her keynotes deliver research-backed strategies for embracing change, building resilience, and developing the mental agility that helps teams perform at their best when the ground keeps shifting.

Plant Your Feet Firmly in Mid-Air: Guidance through Turbulent Change
Thrive with current change, retain optimism, and understand and anticipate new trends.
This program will guide you and your team into the future, assist you in developing new skills and thinking for the 21st Century, and help you let go of obsolete thinking and practices

Dancing with Tigers: Take risks, not chances
Risks in times of rapid change demand boldness, yet a careful cost-benefit calculation. This program highlights best-practice risk-taking of successful companies and individuals, and encourages sales and management personnel to break out of old limitations

Teaching Cats to Swim: Overcome resistance to change
These days, managers and salespersons are faced with not only increasing demands for their own performance, they are also challenged to create change in others. This program teaches the best way to convince others to switch course, using key persuasion and influence strategies that work.