Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More Done

About the Author

From the courtroom to the boardroom, Linda Byars Swindling, JD, CSP, knows firsthand about engaging in high-stakes communications, negotiating workplace drama, and influencing decision makers. Her specialty is helping people communicate powerfully so that others will listen.

Linda first addressed employment and workplace communication issues as a successful attorney and a mediator, which led her to working as a consultant and an executive coach. When her book The Consultant’s Legal Guide (coauthored with Elaine Biech) was released in 2000, Linda left her legal practice to focus full-time on Journey On, her Dallas-based, woman-owned business that offers customized training, strategic consulting, and executive coaching. In addition, Linda delivers keynote speeches and workshops at corporate and association meetings, events, and conventions.

A Certified Speaking Professional, Linda is a contributing editor, author and the coauthor of several books, and the creator of the popular Passports to Success book series, which includes titles such as Get What You Want, Say It Right, At Your Service, and Set the Standard.

In addition to service on several local boards, Linda has served as a Vistage chair, a national officer of the National Speakers Association and is a past-president of the National Speakers Association/North Texas. Linda has worked with boards of directors, organizational teams, CEOs, key decision makers, and high potentials. A graduate of Texas Tech University ...