Edie Raether

Change Strategist
Keynote Speaker Trainer Coach Author

A Change Strategist and international keynote speaker and bestselling author, Edie
Raether has integrated over 40 years of experience in human potential development,
motivation, and behavioral psychology into a revolutionary character building program,
Wings for Wishes. As president of Performance PLUS, a speaking, training, and
coaching firm, Edie has empowered over 3,500 professional associations, educational
organizations, and Fortune 500 companies on five continents.

Edie is an authority on the neuropsychology of achievement and brain-based
performance including emotional and multiple intelligence and the concept of all kinds
of minds. She draws from a width breath of professional experience including working
with Dr. Lauretta Bender of the Bender Gestalt Test at an NYC children's psychiatric
hospital treating all ages from autistic children to behavioral disorders in adolescence.
With a strong "wellness" orientation, Edie also worked in pediatrics and physical
rehabilitation with children and youth.

For 30 years Edie maintained a private practice as a psychotherapist and marriage
and family counselor where she worked with a variety of emotional, behavioral,
developmental and relationship challenges. She was the human development
coordinator for both healthcare and daycare programs at a community college, the
instructor of human dynamics, and the director of the Occupational Therapy program.
Edie has also hosted and produced talk show programs on radio and TV with ABC.

Edie is an expert resource for hundreds of publications such as The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today, New York Times, Prevention, Walking, Selling Power, INC magazine and
Reuters. She is sharing the platform with such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Deepak
Chopra, Sir Paul McCarney, Marianne Williamson, Steve Jobs, and Sir Richard Branson.

Changing the Way the World Thinks -- One Mind at a Time