Leadership and Business Programs

1. Boost Your Mental Fitness to Speak from Your Authentic Voice! Be Your Most Creative, Inspiring and Effective When You Speak, Lead and Communicate

Your internal “Mental Saboteurs” infuse negativity in the way you respond to challenges, and cause stress, anxiety, self-doubt, frustration, regret, shame, guilt, and unhappiness. You may recognize these Saboteurs operating in your mind as the voices of the Judge, Controller, Hyper-Achiever, Avoider, Victim, Hyper-Vigilant, Stickler, Pleaser, Hyper-Rational, and Restless. The voice of your inner wisdom or “Sage,” lives in a different region of your brain and handles challenges in ways that produce positive emotions like curiosity, empathy, creativity, calm, and clear-headed laser-focused action.

In this 60-90 minute presentation, I speak to how you can weaken your saboteurs and bring the strength of your sage to all your communications to perform relative to your potential and experience more effectiveness and happiness! The Positive Intelligence® Mental Fitness program is based on the work of Shirzad Chamine, New York Times best-selling author, and synthesizes the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, cognitive and positive psychology, and performance science.

2. Why Speak? To Empower Your Leadership! A Presentation on the Power of Speaking

• Do you want to become a thought leader in your industry? Increase your influence? Elevate your visibility? Establish your expertise?
• Do you need to empower your leadership to share your organization’s message with clients, donors or team members?
• Do you want to position your team as experts at workshops, conferences or community events?

Choose speaking! Speaking is one of the most powerful choices you can make to spread your message to the world, garner support for a cause dear to your heart, grow your business, and influence your clients, employees, and stakeholders. It is one of the best investments you can make in yourself.

In this half-hour presentation, audience members learn:

• The two most important gifts you bring to speaking
• The three elements that will ignite your signature presence
• The three reasons speaking will support your success and serve as a catalyst for others

3. How to Communicate with Respect, Clarity and Skill!

The quality of our communication with others impacts every aspect of our work and has everything to do with how successful we can be. In this program, participants learn specific tools and techniques to navigate the tricky communication landscape to become effective, compassionate communicators. This includes:

• Understand your communication intention and style
• The drama triangle – how you get in and how to get out!
• Communicate through conflict

4. Tell Your Story for Impact and Investment!

Storytelling is the most powerful form of communication and persuasion we know. In this workshop, I teach participants how to define, develop, and deliver a story about their organization to their target audiences; identify the core point and the example or anecdote that backs up this point that has personal meaning to them; capture their story through a structured and creative writing process; and deliver their story using emotional engagement and creative expression techniques that amplify their own natural skills and abilities. Participants have the opportunity to share their stories with others and, in longer programs, receive individual coaching from Andrea.

5. Your Story and Brand Walk Hand in Hand!

What is your brand? It is your promise. It is who and what you are in the eyes of your customer. It’s your relationship — all the ways you “touch” your customer through marketing, sales, public relations, customer relations, product/service delivery and more. How do you communicate your brand? How do you tell your story? In this fun and insightful program, you learn how to bring the meaning, creativity and emotional engagement that are essential to creating and securing your relationship. I help you identify and craft your key brand descriptors, stories, and introductory networking pitches which can be incorporated into your marketing materials, presentations, and sales conversations and move your customers from interest to investment!

6. You Have All The Power There Is – Use It!

Authentic power is the only true power there is. Audience members learn the three steps to igniting this power for themselves — Know Yourself, Be Yourself, Give Yourself — in this funny, tender keynote. I use as evidence my journey from corporate America to starting my business and leaving a mark on the international stage!

7. Harness The Power of Your Authentic Voice!

Based on my book, Finding Your Authentic Voice: Seven Practices to Free the Real You and Experience Love, Happiness and Fulfillment, audience members learn how to release their intuitive brilliance – their authentic voice — at work and in their personal lives to create more of want they want.

8. This Would Be Really Funny if it Weren’t Happening to Me! The Three Essential Truths of Leadership

I lay leadership myths on the line with this funny and poignant look at what happens when things go wrong and the buck stops with you! I use hilarious one-liners to communicate her essential truths for leaders in any industry, like these: I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either. Bottom line: Leadership is not about pleasing people. It’s about serving people. During this interactive program, audience members learn about their personality preferences using the True Colors profile and how to use it to better understand and work with their team.

9. The Stage is Yours! Live Group Coaching Program For Next Stage Leaders

To really succeed in a leadership role and bring value to the organization, next-stage leaders often need to step into a whole new level of presentation and representation. I assist leaders in stepping into their next stage of authentic leadership communication.

In this three-part program, participants learn:

• How to Become a Speaker Who Commands Attention and Respect!
• How to Run a First Class, Engaged Meeting That Gets Things Done!
• How to Communicate with Respect, Clarity and Skill!

10. Speaking, Story Performance and Presentation Skills Training: Take Your Speaking from Basic to Brilliant!

A stronger presence as a speaker and presenter can make a dramatic impact on the success of your leadership, fundraising, or sales and marketing team. This training is focused on transforming your team from rote or “salesy” to authentic and engaging. Participants learn to speak with greater clarity, confidence and yes, a charisma. Bottom line, they will have greater impact and experience increased results.

11. LEAP! Lead with Excellence, Authenticity and Presence! A Speaking Excellence Program for Thought Leaders

LEAP! is a fast-track speaking program for those who want to make an impact through public speaking. This is an opportunity to master the art of speaking – a key skill that sets leaders apart. Leaders who make the powerful choice to improve their speaking skills exponentially increase their ability to spread their message, garner support for their cause and influence their clients, employees and stakeholders. Learning how to become a compelling speaker will position you to command respect and garner positive visibility for yourself and your organization.

Inspirational/Motivational Programs

1. How to Face a Mountain of Adversity and Use It for Good! When Life Changes, and Not in the Way You Wish or Expect

Imagine yourself casually walking down a mountain trail, enjoying the weather, and laying out your day, and in what seems like one split second, you’re in surgery to repair multiple bone breaks! Not exactly what you’d planned.

I know from experience the daunting task of recovering from a serious injury. I use my experience to encourage and empower others to face their own mountain of adversity through this powerful new speaking program. In this 30-minute keynote, “How to Face a Mountain of Adversity and Use It for Good!” I share three mindset tools I used to get through months of recovery filled as much with gratitude and love as with uncertainty and pain.

My hopeful message is filled with humor and tenderness and speaks to the resiliency of the human spirit. You will leave knowing that whatever you face now or could face in the future, you can move through it with courage, grace, and compassion.

2. Be You, Be Great!

There is something greater in you than any challenge you will face – your authentic power! I share the three steps to igniting this power – Know Yourself, Be Yourself, Give Yourself – and how to use that power in leading others. I customize this 45-minute presentation with a humorous theatrical story reflecting the trials and tribulations your audience faces and ends with a powerful personal story of transformation and how they can be themselves and be great.

3. How Do I Take Care of Myself When You’re the Only One Who’s Important?!

In this funny and tender 45-minute program targeted at women, audience members laugh and cry as they experience the crazy things we do when we are codependent, raving relationship junkies! Laced with heartwarming stories, audience members learn three self-care tools to give them the best chance of creating and maintaining healthy relationships, or at the very least, not driving them into the ditch – respect, trustworthy communication and being true to yourself.

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Finding Your Authentic Voice
Seven Practices to Free the Real You
and Experience Love, Happiness and Fulfillment

By listening to Your Authentic Voice, you naturally communicate more clearly, powerfully, and passionately; you make wise choices that reflect your unique strengths and produce the best result; you navigate change and transitions more easily; you apply greater focus, relevance, and creativity in your day-to-day decision making; you have greater access to your knowledge, wisdom, and creativity. And perhaps most amazingly, you open the door to experience the extraordinary - that sense of aliveness and meaning that results from living an authentic life.

Ah Ha!
100 Flashes of Insight and Inspiration From Your Authentic Voice

Read the first volume of Ah Ha's and savor 100 fun and inspiring insights like: "To live from your authentic voice is to dwell in possibility, to be present and alert to the messages from within and without, ready to explore those ideas that want to take flight, as if by magic. P.S. In fact, it feels like magic, but it's really just me, your authentic voice, doin' my thang. Enjoy the ride."