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Proven ways to overcome change resistance under the most challenging of circumstances
Robert Smith, PhD, Author, Selling Change, The Change Shop, LLC
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechChange Management discussion will cover case studies and success stories for proven techniques to achieve organizational transformation and revitalization; case studies of leaders and organizations who have overcome years of entrenched organizational cultures and mindsets to generate profitability and reignite engaged teams; leadership styles that engender change commitment and transformation success. MORE >
Ways to engage and motivate people to make a difference in bottom-line business results; the case for engaged talent in sales and customer service; the role of human resources in achieving business goals -
From Striving to Flow: How to Reconnect With Your Inner Wisdom and Live Aligned
Tonya Hubbard, Transformational Life Coach, Awaken and Align with Tonya
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Request This Free SpeechThere was a time in my life when I was doing all the "right" things, checking boxes, hustling hard, showing up for everyone, but inside, I was exhausted. I had lost touch with my voice, my peace, and my joy. Like so many others, I was striving to prove my worth in a world that never seemed satisfied, but everything changed when I finally got quiet enough to listen, not to the noise of expectations, but to the quiet wisdom within. MORE >
In this powerful and soul-stirring talk, I share how I moved from burnout to balance, from anxiety to alignment, and how you can do the same. This is not about doing more or fixing yourself. It is about remembering who you are, reclaiming your energy, and trusting that what is meant for you flows with ease and not force. Perfect for professionals, caregivers, and seekers who feel spiritually or emotionally depleted, this talk offers practical tools, soulful insights, and an invitation to come home to yourself. Audiences leave not just inspired but empowered to stop striving and start living from a place of deep inner flow. -
Stop Hiding Your Wrappers: How Food + Body Shame Keep Us from Our Healthiest Selves
Laura Ellen, Nutritionist + Life Coach, Laura Ellen Coaching
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Request This Free SpeechIn her years as a nutrition student, wellness consultant, and now as a health coach, Laura Ellen has come to realize one very key trend: we’re all keeping the same secret, hoping nobody finds out our secret. And that secret is - we all feel crazy with food. MORE >
From doctors, to physique competitors, to weight loss clients, Laura has worked with person after person who is waiting to get they’re eating “under control” before they really show up in the world - professionally, personally, or otherwise. And it’s this waiting and hiding, not the eating itself, that keeps them stuck in the same habits.In this talk, Laura Ellen breaks down how shame perpetuates unwanted eating behaviors and keeps up from our health and diet goals rather than motivating us to success.
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Have You Ever Considered Getting Into Real Estate?
Jim Gilbert, Broker DC, MD, VA, American Dream Team Real Estate Brokers Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechWhat's the truth about being a licensed real estate professional? Can you really make a lot of money? Or will it devour your life? What are the steps involved? Why would anyone want to do this?
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From Manager to Changemaker: Leading Change When You’re Not in Charge
Adriano Pianesi, MBA, ACC, Founder and CEO, ParticipAction Consulting, Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechMost managers are asked to deliver transformation—but without the authority, clarity, or control to make it happen. From Manager to Changemaker is a practical leadership experience designed to help them do exactly that. MORE >
Developed and led by Adriano Pianesi, this program equips mid-level and emerging leaders with the mindset and tools to create impact from wherever they stand. Drawing on principles of adaptive leadership, Liberating Structures, and systems thinking, participants learn how to mobilize people, build trust, and move real work forward—without waiting for top-down approval.The program reframes leadership as an act of exploration rather than command. Through interactive workshops, peer coaching, and field-based experiments, managers learn how to:
- Diagnose what’s really blocking progress in their teams or organizations.
- Build influence across silos and engage stakeholders with different priorities.
- Design small, low-risk experiments that demonstrate results and build credibility.
- Shift from managing tasks to mobilizing energy—turning frustration into forward motion.Each participant leaves with a personalized 30-day action plan, ready to test in their own workplace, and a community of peers committed to supporting one another’s experiments.
Whether you lead a team of five or influence a network of hundreds, From Manager to Changemaker offers a proven path to lead with courage, clarity, and creativity—even when you’re not in charge.
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Exploring Cultural Assumptions: Way Beyond Diversity 101
Dr. Mallary Tytel, President, Healthy Workplaces
TOPIC CATEGORY: Business
Request This Free SpeechWe live and work in a complex world and every day we must work effectively and smartly with diverse populations in a fair, balanced, and collaborative manner. While many of us have been taught to overlook differences around us, particularly in power, privilege and hierarchy, bias and discrimination are still embedded patterns in our lives. These are called perspective, and along with it comes myriad assumptions about the world. MORE >
Now more than ever we need to examine our own patterns, beliefs, and connections. What exactly are the nature of differences; the concepts of power and influence; and daily expectations for interaction and relationships? This timely presentation will challenge participants to new ways of seeing, understanding, and influencing the culture around them. -
Wellness for the Busy Professional
Michelle Rhodes, Nurse Entrepreneur, Michelle Rhodes Media
TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness
Request This Free SpeechObjectives: Learner will identify 6 types of wellness, Discuss how to improve it, Where to access resources.
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Federal Government Retiree: How to maximize your benefits
Jacqueline Schadeck, CFP ®, AWMA ®, Certified Financial Planner® Professional, Golden Wealth Strategies
TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial
Request This Free SpeechThis educational presentation is tailored to Federal Government workers within the FERS system who are retiring within the next 3-5 years. The goal is for attendees to leave with clarity on how to maximize their pensions, carry on their benefits after retirement. and utilize their TSP so they don't run out of money.
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Searching for the Truth… What is Truth?
Mark Karapetyan, Founder / President, What If UR Wrong Apologetics
TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous
Request This Free SpeechAsk anyone today if truth exists, or if it can be defined, and see how fascinating and edgy the conversation will get in a second. Ironically, we live in a pluralistic post-modern world where truth is subjectively recognized, widely suppressed, and regularly denied. You have probably heard someone tell you "I have my own truth and you have yours” or “all religions are true.” MORE >
The problem with these types of statements is that they are opposing and mutually exclusive by nature. If they can't logically be both true, for they are self –defeating, how do we define truth and find out what is the truth? -
Your voice creates: Men should not yell at women
Gary Gracia, Zilah
TOPIC CATEGORY: Self Improvement
Request This Free SpeechI had to learn the hard way that talking, yelling, screaming and shouting in high volumes does something to women. Women have tolerated a lot because of how people talk to them but as my wife has taught me (she likes to use the word train), women should not accept being spoken to like that. Someone needs to educate men and women to love with women even when someone is rude. MORE >