(Speaking)
Speaking Engagements
I have spoken on a wide range of topics, from networking, to starting your own business, to time management and professional development strategies. A list of potential topics is here, but I am happy and willing to create something unique for your group or organization.
All topics can be used for workshops, tele-class, webinar or speaking event. They are all under the umbrella of “change management” – both personal and professional.
Topics
Personal Development and Change Management
- The Foundations of Managing Personal Change
- Developing Goals: Overcoming the Curse of the Resolution and Claiming Success
- The 5 Tools for Successful Growth
- 4 Tools-4 Tenets to Successfully Manage Change
- Creating a Personal/Professional Development Plan for Your Life
- Breaking Through Barriers: overcoming the demons that stop you from success
- Power of Positivity
- Personal/Professional Development Plans
- An Introduction to Life Mapping: where you are & where you want to be
Career-Specific
- Taking Charge of Your Career Path: Patience is Overrated – Go and Get What you Deserve
- Being a Linchpin: Are you Indispensable? (Based on Linchpin by Seth Godin)
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment: what it means for you and your career
- How “Thank You”, “I Love You” and Other Things Your Mom Taught you can Boost Your Career
- Six Degrees of Your Success: How, Why and When to Network; The Nuts and Bolts of Mentoring and What it Can Do For You; Mentoring is a Two Way Street: How Both Mentors and Mentees Benefit
- Career Development Plans
- Skill Mapping: what you have, what you need, how to get there (can be incorporated into professional or personal development plans)
- Individual Communication Planning: how to create your personal elevator speech, targeted doorway conversations, lunches, creating mentor relationships, networking, attending seminars, events, etc.
Values
- Value-based Decision Making
- Personal Audit: Breaking Down Who You Are, What You’re Good At and How You Can Get to the Next Level
- Personal Value Assessment
- Aligning You and Your Values
Work/Life Balance
- “Perfectly Imbalanced”: how to create the life you want
- Time Management: finding time to grow
- Career and Life Planning
- How Putting You First Can Benefit All
- Getting to 50/50: How You Can Have it All By Sharing It All (based on the book by Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober)
Vision
- Creating a Vision for Your Life
- Developing a Vision Board: getting clear on what you want from life
Speaking Series Example
(4-pt development series where we incorporate many of the topics)
- Assessment (current skills, current state of “satisfaction” with career, life and value assessment)
- Mapping the to-be “state” (where do you want to be in a month, year, 5 years, etc.)
- Goal setting (short, middle, long)
- Action planning (putting action to goals, making commitments, etc.)
Clips (below are a few moments from a recent talk in Stamford on “Breaking Through Barriers: How to Overcome Limiting Thoughts”
The Power of Failure:
Analyzing & Turning Around Limiting Thoughts:
