About Edie

EDIE RAETHER, M.S., CSP
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. Edie was the human development coordinator for both healthcare and daycare programs at a community college, and an instructor of human dynamics, and the director of the Occupational Therapy program. Edie 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. Edie has also shared the platform with such celebrities as Tom Brokaw, Patch Adams, Art Linkletter and Bob Hope.

Now in numerous countries, her six internationally acclaimed books include Winning! How Winners Think - What Champions Do and Why Cats Don’t Bark Unleash Your PowerZone: Intuitive Intelligence-The Other IQ and others. Edie is the recipient of the CSP, Certified Speaking Professional, the highest earned designation awarded by the National Speakers Association to fewer than 8% of its membership worldwide.

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

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