Misc Business Speaking

Selected Topic Titles:

• Manage Mandated Change Before It Manages You – This pandemic has taught us how responsive we are (or are not) when we must change now. In this presentation you will learn the Five Actions every organization must do to effectively manage the difficult changes you inevitably must make.
• The 5 Skills Every Manager Must Have in a Post-Pandemic World – The way we work has forever changed as we face a pandemic that does not seem to end. Some managers and organizations will fall victim to avoidable and costly pitfalls – don’t let that be you!

As the CEO of Aikerson Consulting Group, Inc., LaShanya Aikerson works with corporate and government organizations to turn managers into leaders. She believes you grow your leaders to grow your bottom line. Successful organizations have one thing in common – they empower all levels of their organization with leadership skills. The Aikerson Consulting Group team empowers organizations with leadership principles, using engaging and interactive techniques
based on advanced adult learning techniques. Learning becomes fun and sustainable. Organizations realize immediate results.

LaShanya began her career over 30 years ago, in Chicago, as an electrical engineer for a major
telecommunications company. Because she was good technically, she got promoted to become a
supervisor. Unfortunately, her engineering education did not empower her with the tools to be
effective with people. As a result, not long after her promotion she found herself fired. This
experience inspired her to learn what separates the best from the rest when it comes to being
effective withing teams and organizations. She is a certified speaker, trainer, coach, and consultant.

Today her company offers training, coaching, meeting facilitation and more in the following areas: leadership, change management, emotional intelligence, effective communications, team building, sustained inspiration, and more.

Partial client list: The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, Eastex Credit Union, Fiserv,
Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Caterpillar, Boeing, Cox Communications, Florida Crystals,
Stihl, Air Liquide, Go Balto, Hyundai, Austin Industries, Agile Thought, Southern Glazer’s,
Greenway Medical, Walmart eCommerce, McKesson, Optim Healthcare, Texas A&M
University, Spelman College, Fulton County Schools, MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid
Transit Authority), OSHA, FEMA, Clayton County (Georgia), CGI Federal, CDC (Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention), U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of
Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, National Urban League Young Prof., etc.

Laura Morlando speaks on:

• Got Stress? Get Me Time! 5 minutes to nirvana! (really)
• Stress Relief Book Camp without breaking a sweat!
• ABWA – What is it anyway?
• Energizing Your Networking Attitude to Market Your Business and Yourself in 5 Easy Steps!
• The 3 keys to Direct Sales Success!
• Starting a Home Based Business
• Trade Show Know How: Don’t just sit there!
• What do I want to be when I grow up? – Pinpoint a profitable marketing focus for you and your business with a simple 4 step process.
• Professional Polish – The image you need to get the results you want!

Laura Morlando ~ The Stress Commando empowers men & women to de-stress and erase the signs of stress by teaching them how to create their 5 minute me time in their day to recharge their mind, and renew their personal image.

As an accomplished 14-year sales veteran, servant leader and businesswoman, Laura understands the challenge and stress associated with balancing a career and home life. Having endured the bust of the High Tech Bubble, successfully re-inventing her career, then making the transition from corporate America to home based business entrepreneur, Laura also recognizes the obstacles professionals face marketing themselves and their business in a constant changing environment. Laura is also, all too familiar with the many life happens moments that can derail a person personally and professionally. Especially when they happen all at once!

Laura is passionate about helping individuals and businesses find simple solutions to the common every day stresses and equip them with the quick tips to manage those unexpected moments. Life can be overwhelming but living can be simple. Laura’s clients include individuals, groups, corporations and National Organizations.

Laura serves as the Speaker Repository Coordinator for the Dallas Area Council of ABWA (American Business Women’s Association), 2008 National Chairperson for the ABWA Nominating Committee and Vice President of the Swim Plus Foundation Executive Board. Laura has also served as Formation Co-Chair and President of the ABWA Outlook Positive Express Network (OPEN) for 2004-2007 and was on the Office Depot Event Council for their one day conference in February 2007. Most recently, Laura was chosen 2007 Woman of the Year for ABWA OPEN and ranked 1^st for sales and recruiting in her BeautiControl Team for 2006/2007.

Dora Islamovic Speaks on These Topics:

• Operations Happens Whether I Like It Or Not – Too many business owners get lost in the weeds and the daily tasks. Success only comes with thinking outside of the box and expanding your business by implementing automated systems and putting procedures in place. Dora draws from her deep experience to offer tools attendees can use right away to exponentially improve their businesses.
• Did You Start A Company or Just Buy A Job? – Dora has seen time and time again business owners working harder than ever in their new business without actually running their operations. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is about building something, not being buried in tasks. This talk is all about the advantages of reaching that vision of a successful future.
• Business Operations: The 7 Differences Between Working ON Your Business and IN Your Business – The old cliché about not seeing the forest for the trees happens every day to business owners and managers. It’s easy to get bogged down by to-do lists and putting out fires and pushing crucial plans to another day. In this talk, Dora helps create benchmarks and strategies to make sure businesspeople manage growth instead of staying buried in minutia.
• 12 Ways to Increase Revenue without Losing Your Staff or Your Mind – When growing a business, we discover we can’t be all things to all people. So we learn to delegate and outsource. Dora empowers business owners and management with real world tools that help manage staff and operations and build leaders and teams.
• We Only Live Once: 7 Methods To Make it Count; Taking the Risk to Be Your Best – In life and in business, those that succeed make it a habit of sticking their necks out; standing out from the crowd by being different. Dora teaches the benefits of smart, strategic risk taking. She shares ways to take calculated risks with a stronger outcome when implemented.
• Splitting Yourself Up: The 7 Necessary COO Personalities – There’s a reason successful businesses have a Chief Operating Officer. Different COO’s are required for different situations. Sometimes we have to take on more than one of these personalities to foster success. Dora talks about the 7 key roles you or your COO may have to take on to benefit your organization.

Born in the Deep South and raised in California, Dora grew up around, and learned from, a plethora of leaders. Throughout High School, College, and Graduate School she surrounded herself with scholars and mentors.

For four years, she was the Chief Operating Officer for twelve of the fastest growing healthcare and franchise companies in the Mississippi Delta, where she was responsible for the company’s daily operations and growth throughout the Southern states.

Dora has often been referred to as the Motivator in Stealth Mode for her Consulting skills that bring out the best in people. She’s also been lauded for her practical street-savvy style. Her ability to fuse real-life testimonials along with her conversational and approachable demeanor connect with clients and audiences on an intimate, intense, and individual level. She revels in challenging the status quo, asking business professionals, “Would you do business with yourself?”

She has logged an innumerable amount of business hours coaching, speaking, and wading knee-deep in the trenches with applicable business experiences. Her view is radically different. Dora candidly shares with listeners that business leadership is a moment-to-moment choice and not about job title or possessions.

Dora excels in focusing on business operations, leadership, success strategies, and leaving a legacy.

Alana Hill speaks on:

• What’s Your Catalyst: The Power of Managed Change – We learned in science that change needs a catalyst, but what about in life? Ms. Hill demonstrates how passion can reinforce your career, personal, or project goals.
• Love is a Catalyst – In this revealing talk, Alana goes beyond her book of the same title to tell the story of the most important project she has ever managed. This is a story of faith, family, love, and living through the most difficult of times, the life-threatening illness of a child. We learn from Alana how powerful it is to be able to rely on others at the same time we are being strong for them. And how much of our strength comes from our faith.
• You’re Not Their Parent, Even If They’re Behaving Like Children: Leading and Developing Talent – Dealing with people on your team can often seem like dealing with an unruly child. This presentation features techniques for handling non-compliance on your team to ensure that deadlines and deliverables are met, while keeping team morale high.
• They Always Fire the Coach: Effective Leadership that Wins! – In today’s performance-based workplaces, leading a team to victory is not just desirable, it is necessary. Learn strategies to improve team dynamics and ensure a victory. Participants will learn objective-setting and communication skills that win the game.
• Promoting Workplace Diversity: It’s More Than Skin Deep – Workplace diversity is not just about color, but about different ideas, talents, and goals. In this talk, Ms. Hill relies on her years as a project manager to explore how to promote and manage diversity.
• Preparing for Life the Ms. Engineer Way! – In this talk, aimed at youth, Ms. Hill encourages and inspires teens to prepare for their futures, despite the obstacles that life may bring.
• Raising Your Boys the Ms. Engineer Way! – Drawing from her experience as a mother, combined with her tireless service in schools, churches and community organizations, Ms. Hill delivers an inspiring talk about raising future husbands. Witty and to the point, this speech can be tailored for a variety of audiences.

Alana M. Hill, PMP is a passionate speaker, author, trainer, and mentor. Her experience as an engineer and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) in upstream oil and gas provides a real-world insight into how people and teams can excel. She has been recognized for her excellent communication, leadership, and team-building skills. Her international, cross-cultural business knowledge shapes her perspective of developing talent. Ms. Hill holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University and 20 years of leading successful projects.

Ms. Hill began her career as a Field Engineer in South Texas for Schlumberger, where she led an oilfield services crew. Ms. Hill was promoted to Headquarters after displaying a strong interest in business systems and workforce automation. In her ten years with the oilfield giant, Ms. Hill advanced from Field Invoicing Process Engineer to Program Manager for Training Technologies, leading numerous projects of varying size and scope. In 2006, she established a consulting practice leveraging her expertise in learning technologies in the Talent Management space.

Ms. Hill is a member of Project Management Institute (PMI), Toastmasters International, the Association for Talent Development (ATD), and Sugar Creek Baptist Church. As a strong advocate for corporate and personal philanthropy, Ms. Hill donates her time to the Fort Bend ISD School Health Advisory Committee, local Texas PTA boards, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and other civic and charitable organizations.

Together with her husband, she has raised four handsome boys as part of a beautiful blended family. As a passionate ministry leader and teacher, Ms. Hill continues to pour God’s love into the children and youth she encounters. As an involved mother, she offers encouragement and advice to parents of children of all ages. Her faith, perseverance, and desire to encourage others inspire her speaking and writing. She is the author of Love is a Catalyst, where she shares her family’s trials and triumphs over cancer. When she is not traveling the globe, you will find her running and serving in her church and community. Ms. Hill resides in Sugar Land, TX.

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• How to Laugh to Keep From Crying: How to Parent Your Parents – “About 10 years ago my live-in Father-in-law developed dementia, at the same time my Mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and unknown to me at that time my Father was in the early stages of Parkinson’s. I speak to caregivers and teach them, among other things, how to journal to deal with stress, etc. I share anecdotes and advice to help others who are Parenting their Parents, build and reinforce happy memories by remembering to find humor during an otherwise arduous and often overwhelming end of life journey.”
• Gardening Texas Style – As a Master Texas Gardener, Charlotte customizes this talk to each audience to educate and entertain about the variety of opportunities for gardening in the Lone Star State.

Charlotte Canion has been published in many magazines and several of her works are part of the Who Who’s in the Library of Congress in Washington DC.  “You Have To LAUGH To Keep From Crying/ How To Parent Your Parents” book is not only an Amazon Best Seller, but was awarded the BEST SELF-HELP in the State of Texas, which led to her interview on “Good Morning Texas”.  Canion was just awarded, Empowered Woman of the Year by IAOTP.  She has written several short stories that are part of “Short Stories by Texas Authors” and “Angels on Earth” magazine. Canion is a Host on Indie Beacon Radio, where she interviews fellow authors.  Power Magazine wrote a full-page article on Canion and she was on the cover of the “SPEAKERS and Continuing Education” magazine.  Advancing her knowledge, she has completed the National Senior Caregivers Certification and NSA’s Professional Speakers Academy.   Reading, learning and always listening to the other experts are tools that keep Canion one of the most sought-after speakers.  She has just completed a children’s book intitled “Charlie is Looking for a Mate” and  “SPARKS  Ignite Your Way To Success” is her latest collaborative book that is also an Amazon Best Seller. Her mother always told her to “Treat others the way you want to be treated” and that is how Canion lives her life.

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Jonathan Peters speaks on these topics:

• Introducing Don’t Change Who They Are, Change Where They Are: Recruiting and Motivating the New Workforce – What motivates you, probably doesn’t motivate them. And no matter how hard you try to put the right person in the right job, or get them to be successful in the job they have, you feel like they aren’t hearing you. It all comes down to 16 Motivators. Once you understand the 16 Motivators, you’ll be able to work with people and predict their behavior. Better yet, you won’t be wasting your breath.
• Cavemen Can’t Market: WOO Customers Instead of EWing Them – In the old days, companies pounded their message over their prospects heads. And those methods no longer work. In this presentation, Jonathan not only exposes why Cavemen don’t fit into the current business and consumer environment, but he also maps a three-stage process to WOO our prospects, develop loyal customers, and lead your team to apply the latest in marketing approaches.
• WOO Selling – Imagine prospects wanting your product… They’re coming to you, instead of you doggedly chasing after them. Imagine learning techniques that not only make you attractive to prospects, but that also convert them into long-term and loyal customers. Perhaps now is the time to commit to change, and begin to enjoy the rewards of top salespeople. It’s easy to implement a few key strategies, apply simple persuasion techniques,  to attract customers into a conversation that evolves naturally into a significant relationships.
• Present, Persuade, Profit – Whether speaking to clients, presenting before potential clients, or simply sharing a message that needs to be heard, your team must understand the principles of persuasive presentations. Learn to compel audiences to take action and make changes. How will you construct your presentation so that audience not only listen, but take action? What few simple things can you do visually and physically to cause the to listen and applaud?
• Be Read: Copywriting that Attracts, Connects, and Get’s Results – Do the words in your marketing collateral grab your readers and guide them to take the actions you’re wanting? You might think that writing is a talent you’re born with, but don’t buy into the myth. Writing clear, compelling copy is a skill that can be taught and learned. In this seminar you’ll learn, step by step, how to shape your message and organize your words. Forget about what you were taught in school; this program shares the secrets of the most successful copywriters. Learn to write the way they write, and witness the results.
• Be Correct: Mistake Free Grammar and Proofreading! – One typo can destroy a message, ruin a reputation, or cause a loss of opportunity. Misunderstanding and not knowing a grammatical rule can make us look silly, stupid, or incompetent. The good news is you don’t have to sit through a boring grammar class to refresh your grammatical knowledge or learn how language has changed since high-school. A workshop that makes proofreading and grammar fun? You bet. This program is based on the latest research on how adults learn. It’s fast-moving, so you stay interested. It’s engaging, so you learn by doing. And it’s fun, so you happily give it your all.
• Be Read: Advanced Business Writing – What you learned in high school doesn’t apply to the real world. When was the last time your wrote a five-paragraph essay on what you did for summer vacation? If you write the way you were taught, you’ll confuse your team, lose customers, and bore potential customers. We used to focus on grammar and proper structure, but writing is a visual form of communication with music in the background. Literally, how we write it is more important than the message we want to convey.
• Unlearn what you were taught in school to create copy that your boss, team, customers, and potential customers will read. This full-day seminar give tricks, tips, and techniques you didn’t learn in school. There are ways to get people to read what you write. Learn them.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Booked – When you are an author, you are THE authority. This seminar helps you become the obvious expert with your own book. Few things establish authority more easily and cheaply than a book. Participants in this seminar learn writing techniques and promotion tips to make sure you are the recognized authority in your field.
• Be Recognized: Book 2B Books as a self-publisher – This seminar may be incorporated in the first Book 2B Booked seminar, or it may be offered as a separate educational experience for those who have a manuscript ready and a clear marketing plan. Once the realm of people who could not make it in the real publishing world, self-publishing is now the most profitable method of producing your book.
• Be Heard: Make Sure Your Prospects are Listening – This half-day, full-day, or two-day seminar explains the fundamentals of presenting ourselves visually to our customers and potential customers. Learn the secrets of room position and the hand motions that keep your audience involved in what your are saying. The two-day seminar gives participants the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned and receive immediate feedback from their audience.
• Be Heard in the Office – This seminar gives supervisors and mid-level managers insights into what motivates and de-motivates their team. More than a basic management seminar, participants learn how to use their position in the room, body language, tone, even wording techniques to get their teams to not only perform, but to also want to perform.
• Be Heard by Your Customers – Much of customer service is perception. This seminar instructs front-line and customer service professionals on the art of finessing customers, especially in moments of crisis and complains. Participants learn skills to avoid caving to customer demands; even better, they learn how to get customers to agree to a compromise and feel good about it. Your goal is to keep the customers you have, and to intensify their loyalty to your organization.

Jonathan Peters, Ph.D. is a recognized trainer and writer with an emphasis in business communications. If it involves words, it involves him.

He has trained thousands of people across the country. His audiences have learned better presentation skills, improved their business communications, beefed-up their writing and document designs, boosted their management skills, even increased their reading rates and memory retention.

As a writer, Dr. Peters has written everything from a fourth-grade history textbook to the technical manual for the command-and-control system for a nuclear weapons plant that may or may not exist. He has been involved in a variety of writing projects, including marketing copy, web content, and book summaries. Dr. Peters has authored 5 books under his name and ghostwritten 16 others.

As a writing instructor, Dr. Peters has worked with corporations as well as universities. He has given corporate training in business writing, consulted with companies on marketing copy and documentation processes, and teaches senior-level business writing courses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
During his doctoral studies, Dr. Peters became interested in how the new sciences influence our culture. He is now excited about what the emerging science of networks says about how we conduct our social lives and our businesses.

Selected Speaking Topics:

• Someone Found Your Blog! Now What? – A breakdown of why storytelling in marketing is so important, and how to incorporate stories into your blog posts and other marketing materials.
• Is SEO Important? How Can People Find You Online? – A breakdown of how SEO works and how business owners can use it to their advantage to get in front of prospects when they’re looking for them.
• 10 Things You Can Blog About Right Now – A list of 10 ways you can come up with topics to blog about, regardless of your industry.
• Who Are You Blogging For? – Actionable tips people can use to identify their target audience and create their marketing personas.

Alison Ver Halen is a content marketer and SEO strategist who helps small business owners such as yourself attract, engage, and convert high-quality leads online so you don’t have to go hunt them down. She does this by creating long form website content that is engaging, SEO friendly, and leads readers to the next step in the buyer journey.