Dr. Peggy Kendall
Keynote Speaker and Trainer
- Experienced Speaker, Teacher, and Trainer
- For 20 years, I have been presenting keynotes and workshops on topics related to communication and technology to audiences across the country
- I have experience speaking in churches, women’s groups, community groups, parent groups, worldwide conferences, and corporate gatherings.
- I coach executives and teach graduate and undergraduate students how to find their unique speaking style when delivering their messages.
Organization Development Consultant & Executive Coach
Senior Consultant with Turning West
TurningWest is an Organization Development Consulting Firm dedicated to partnering with leaders to create healthy, high-performing cultures.
- Conduct environmental scans of organizations to identify strengths and weaknesses in culture, processes, communication pathways, and vision
- Develop and lead comprehensive team development programs, including training, assessment, and group coaching
- Facilitate strategic planning by implementing a “whole system in the room” approach.
- Use the DiSC assessment tool to facilitate individual and team growth
- Meet one-on-one with leaders for executive coaching
- ICF Certified Coach
- Certified Change Management Specialist
- Certified Trust Edge Leadership Partner
Professor of Communication Studies
Chair, Department of Communication Studies
Bethel University, St. Paul Minnesota USA since 1999.
- PhD in Speech-Communication from the University of Minnesota.
- Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology
- Master’s degree in Education
Regularly teach undergraduate and graduate classes in…
- Organizational Communication
- Communication, Technology, and Society
- Facilitating Difficult Conversations
- Public Speaking
- Research Methods
Author and Researcher
Trust at a Distance: 6 Strategies for Managing in the Remote Workplace
- Co-authored by Peggy Kendall and David Horsager
- Release date is November 15, 2025 from Berrett-Koehler Publishers
3 Books Related to the Impact of Technology
Reboot: Refreshing Your Faith in a High Tech World
Rewired: Youth Ministry in an Age of IM and Myspace
Connected: Christian Parenting in an Age of IM and Myspace.
Scholarly Research
- 2020 Fulbright Scholar to Torun, Poland
- Areas of research include the impact of COVID on residential care settings, the impact of culture on eldercare, and psychological safety in online work environments.
- Kendall, P., Scott, M. and Jolivette, K. (2018) “Well, you can’t force them!”: Altercasting in the home health care context. Communication Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2018.1462838.
I regularly speak around the country on a number of topics:
- Trust at a Distance: Strategies to build trust in the remote workplace
- The impact of technology
- “Social Media Fruit and Our Kids”
- “Parenting with Love: Stepping out of the Cultural Stream”
- “Be here. Now.”
- “Rebooting our faith: How cell phones, Facebook, and text messages fundamentally alter our operating system.”
- “Technology: Is it Worth Paying Attention?”
- “Pop Tart Technology Theology”
- “Friendship in a wireless world”
- “The New Normal: Finding Ways to Connect to a Tweeting, Facebooking, 3-D Generation.”
- Pedagogy
- “Facebook, Cell Phones, and Google: What Social Technology Can Teach Us About How to Better Engage our Students”
- “Deconstructing the 21st Century Learning Paradigm”
- Spiritual Growth
- “What happens when God is too small?”
- “Never enough: A Mom’s Journey of Grace in a World of Hospitals, Wheelchairs, and a Very Special Son”
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