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David Emerald Womeldorff
David Emerald Womeldorff Quick Facts
Main Areas: Self Development and LeadershipCareer Focus: Author, Speaker, Facilitator, Executive Coach
Affiliation: The Power of TED*. Bainbridge Leadership Center
David Emerald Womeldorff is an engaging consultant, master facilitator, executive coach, speaker and author. What sets David apart is his authentic style of presenting his inspirational and practical material aimed toward stepping groups away from problem-oriented approaches. He is co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA). As director of the Center's Organizational Leadership and Self Leadership practice areas, David’s passion lays in supporting individuals, teams, and organizations in making conscious shifts toward leading and working from an outcome-focused orientation. His principals and frameworks are based on his nearly 30 years of study, observation and application of his lessons of collaboration with a wide range of individuals and organizations.
As a speaker and workshop leader David will uplift, enlighten and inspire your group to reach new levels of collaboration through empowering relationships. David is conversational, entertaining and approachable as he shares his simple, yet profound, philosophies. At the end of the day, participants walk away feeling empowered, and eager to take action.
Writing under the pen name of David Emerald, he is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership, as well as the book’s supplemental workbook, A Personal Guide to Applying The Power of TED*. David’s books are sold worldwide. The Power of TED* is also available as an ebook.
David's TED*™ framework has been selected to be a part of the University of Notre Dame's "Management and Leadership Certificate" e-learning program. He is a frequent guest presenter on The Empowerment Dynamic™, as well as his "TED* @ Work: Seven Agreements of Making Shift Happen."
Previously, David was Consulting Director of Bank One Corporation's Learning and Leadership Development, a corporate team of education and organization development professionals; Acting Director of Executive Education and Senior Development Consultant, managing and co-facilitating their highly-acclaimed Leadership Development Program. He also managed and served on the faculty team of their Leading Strategic Change Executive Development Program, conducted through the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. David also served Bank One as an internal and external organization development consultant.
David currently serves as an Executive Coach and is on the faculty of the Executive Integral Leadership Program, an innovative program for Executive MBA students and business executives offered by the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business (Executive Education). David is also a Senior Consultant for The Leadership Circle.
David holds a Master's Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Wright State University (Dayton, OH), where he also was the first student to design his own undergraduate degree, entitled "Community and Communication." He now makes his home on an island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Other Programs & Highlights
Blog: “TED* Thoughts” is published three times a week [at least most of the time]. It is intended to offer reflections and applications of The Power of TED* in order help facilitate a shift in worldview and relationship dynamics from the Drama Triangle to The Empowerment Dynamic.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from David Emerald Womeldorff
The foundational frameworks of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) include essential tools that support individuals, professionals and organizations in identifying limiting roles and how to replace them with more resourceful ways of being.
"Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn’t always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down." David Emerald, The Power of TED*
"All victims have experienced a loss—a thwarted desire or aspiration—even if they’re not aware of it." David Emerald, The Power of TED*
"Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience." David Emerald, The Power of TED*
"The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life." David Emerald, The Power of TED*
"The Coach is the antidote to the Victim’s Rescuer in the Dreaded Drama Triangle…Mainly, a Coach supports, assists, and facilitates the Creator in manifesting a desired outcome. A Coach holds others to be whole, resourceful, and creative…They help you dig deep inside yourself to gain clarity about what you want to create in your life." David Emerald, The Power of TED*
"AIR stands for the three big differences between the Victim and Creator stances." David Emerald, The Power of TED*, chapter 6
Getting Started With David Emerald Womeldorff
The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)™ is the antidote to the Drama Triangle, which was first described by Stephen Karpman, MD. The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) is comprised of three roles – or ego states: Victim (the primary role that is at the heart of all three), the Persecutor (which the Victim blames for their suffering); and the Rescuer (who steps in to try and take away the Victim’s suffering). People shift in and out of playing all three roles in this Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT).
TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), offers a different triangle with a different set of relationships. At the heart of this new dynamic is the Creator life orientation.
