Conflict Management Expert. Facilitator. Speaker. Coach.

The Optimize! Institute founded by Dr. Shaler offers accessible executive & employee education to enhance communication and productivity, improve workplace relationships, manage conflict and build collaborative teams. With Dr. Shaler’s guidance, performance & profit improve in a more peaceful, dynamic culture. She has developed the Optimize! Series: People Skills for Professional Service Providers, eight programs for personal study.

Dr. Shaler is a founding member of the International Council of Online Professionals. Her PhD is in educational psychology and her intensive training in all aspects of conflict management—negotiation, mediation, anger—was completed at the prestigious Justice Institute of British Columbia. She is the author of more than a dozen books & audio programs as well as many manuals to improve specific ‘people skills'. Her books are have been translated and published in Mexico, Latin America, Indonesia and India, and her numerous articles are published in more than 17,000 web pages and 1000's of ezines around the world.

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Through keynote speaking, seminars and executive coaching, she is well-known for her gentle, effective blend of humour and practical wisdom – and her real-life stories people relate to, and connect with.

In her consulting and training roles, Dr. Shaler provides both the information and inspiration for companies and organizations to enhance productivity, improve workplace relationships, and build collaborative teams. With her guidance, strategic plans become measurable achievements.

On the personal level, Dr. Shaler leads people to examine their lives, uncover their dreams, define their values and develop their plans for the fulfilling lives, careers and relationships they want.

In her coaching, seminars, and teleseminars, Dr. Shaler provides innovative opportunities for participants to renew their motivation -- on-site, online and on the telephone. Her daily, weekly and monthly newsletters online attract thousands to her website, www.OptimizeLifeNow.com, and her growing interactive community center is full of valuable, free information and tools.

Author of seven books and many audio programs, her most recent book, "Wrestling Rhinos: Conquering Conflict in the Wilds of Work" is already being distributed in China.

A Canadian, Dr. Rhoberta Shaler studied internationally while completing her degrees. Her post-graduate work is in educational psychology and her mediation and negotiation training is from the internationally recognized Justice Institute of British Columbia. She has appeared on many radio and television programs. For eight years, Shaler offered executive retreats and life-enhancement programs as owner of Serenity Farm Retreat on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

While engaged in her private counselling & coaching practice, Dr. Shaler presented more than fifty workshops and keynotes for the British Columbia Teacher’s Federation, the BC Clinical Counsellors Association, various government organizations and numerous private organizations. She was administrator of an alternate school for at-risk teens and principal of an experimental school. Her pre-professional career included singing in supper clubs and choreography and direction in musical theatre while completing her degrees.

Dr. Shaler is the past president of the BC Clinical Counsellors Association and a former Professional Development Associate of the BC Teachers’ Federation; and is currently a member of National Association of Female Executives, eWomenNetwork, Shared Vision Network, and a former member of Rotary International, Organizational Development Network, and Family Mediation Canada.

Rhoberta Shaler lives in a resort setting in Escondido, CA. She has 3 children and 4 grandchildren. When she takes time for herself, she practices yoga, takes long walks, swims, and shops for books.