Linnda Durré

Dr. Linnda Durré, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, author, writer, business consultant, international speaker, corporate trainer; TV and radio talk show host, media guest, and a magazine, Internet, and newspaper columnist.

She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, professional associations, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. She has done customer service training, time efficiency and stress management seminars, conflict resolutions, strategic planning, downsizing preparation, communication techniques, assertiveness training, diversity awareness, sexual harassment prevention seminars, sales technique lectures, visualization and goal setting seminars, values clarification classes, and other empowerment workshops.

She received her B.A. in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, and her M.A. and her Ph.D. in Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, now known as Alliant University.

She became licensed in California as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in 1978. She becamed licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and a licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Washington in 1994; and she received her license as a Mental Health Counselor in Florida in 2000.

Her book, Surviving the Toxic Workplace: Protect Yourself Against the Co-Workers, Bosses and Work Environments That Poison Your Day, was published by McGraw Hill on February 19, 2010, and is in bookstores all over the country. It also can be ordered online at Amazon, Borders, and Barnes & Noble. The book has also been published in South Korea and the Czech Republic.

Surviving the Toxic Workplace

Welcome to the Toxic Workplace, a not-so-rare condition that has reached epidemic proportions. In this engaging presentation, renowned psychotherapist Linnda Durré shows leaders how to diagnose and treat these problems quickly and effectively to ensure the health of their organization and their employees (and themselves).

This “first-aid” presentation offers the best office-tested treatments for a wide range of “Staff Infections”™ and toxic co-workers. More important, it provides real solutions to real problems, with sample scenarios and simple strategies for every situation.