Misc Personal Speaking

Author Nation takes professionals and entrepreneurs from idea to successfully published author. Years into a career or business, high achievers realize it is time to level up and share their experience with the world. Is that you? Deciding to write a book is an exciting and challenging journey. From trying to wade through all the information on publishing to wondering who will read your book to having your writing dry up, most would be authors meet many obstacles. Many people shelve their books before they get written. Only 3% of people who want to write a book actually finish writing their book. Author Nation offers a publishing system and community based on five pillars.

Pillar #1. Author Pro Roadmap: This includes creating your plan. Meaning I’ll teach you how to create your outline, timeline, and budget. After you get this work completed, you and I will conduct a 1:1 call where I review your book outline and author plan and give you required feedback and direction.

Pillar #2. Author Pro On-going Training: This includes just-in-time training modules. Meaning you will receive on-going training to continue progressing into the completion of your plan. You will have access to writing sessions, paths to publishing resources, educational events, author success journals, networking events, ask us anything, and a replay library.

Pillar #3. Author Pro Group Coaching: This includes a monthly call to keep you accountable and obtain motivation to keep moving forward. Meaning every month, you’re able to get on a call with me and other entrepreneurs learning with you, learn from them and their questions, state your goals, and ask your specific questions so you never feel alone.

Pillar #4. Direct Access to Melody: This includes access to me between regular group calls via your Author Journal and our Ask Us Anything section of the community. Meaning you will have the founder and creator of this program in your back pocket, so you never have a chance to get stuck.

Pillar #5. Author Pro Community: This includes an invitation to our member-only private Circle community of other entrepreneurs. Meaning you can use this to meet, learn from and connect with other men and women just like you working to finish their books.

This is a unique publishing system that works with nonfiction authors whether they are self-published or traditionally published. You also get to work on your timelines and benefit from having the support of a community. This is not a cookie cutter approach. You and your book are unique and your life busy. You deserve the level of support you need while still maintaining control of your content and creativity.

Author Nation gives you a path to success that works for you.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Overcoming Shiny Object Syndrome

Consuela Munoz is a Speaker, Focus Strengths Coach, Founder of Impact Makers Playground. Author of H.E.R. Story – The Day She Stopped. For over 12 years she has worked with leaders, corporate teams, and business owners to ignite powerful leaders generating unexpected results. Today, she works with entrepreneurs and executives to defeat shiny object syndrome by increasing focus through the Get Into Gear program.

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.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Double Your Productivity Using Proven Brain-Based Learning Strategies – Imagine completing your required reading in hours instead of works. Imagine being able to spice up your existing presentations with new information that makes them irresistible. Now Imagine, increasing productivity, increasing profits, and having more time to do the things you love. You Can Have All That. The World’s Fastest Reader will reveal his super-fast learning strategies for zipping through information at blazing fast speed so you can accomplish this and much, much more.
• Maximum Power Reading: The Speed Reading And Accelerated Learning Secrets of the World’s Fastest Reader – Each day the decisions you make are only as good as the information you base them upon. Let the world’s fastest reader share his reading and learning strategies with you! Howard describes a more visual method for reading and guarantees your total satisfaction with how his techniques help your reading needs.
• The Super Writing Secrets™ of The World’s Fastest Reader – Howard shows how to output text in record time by overcoming writer’s block. Put this problem in the past as he shows the audience, among other things, How to organize their thoughts so their complex writing assignments can be completed quickly and efficiently, How to sustain writing under the pressure of a deadline so the job gets completed on time, and How to juggle multiple writing tasks to achieve peak efficiency.

Howard Berg helps professionals, associations, companies, colleges and universities, students, and baby boomers maximize their ability to learn faster, comprehend better, and retain more in this information-rich world. For the past 30 years, he has been teaching people how to increase their reading speed, but more importantly how to develop a total learning solution in their lives. 
His work has been featured on over 1,100 radio and television programs. You might have seen him with Justin Timberlake and Peyton Manning as SONY’s E-Reader spokesperson, or reading the 1,500-page Health Care Bill on Cavuto in just 50 minutes, and then performing a complete analysis. 

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.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Communication Is PRIME! (Taking Communication To The Next Level) – Communication is one of the most important and impactful skills we can develop as a leader.  It is important that we are intentional about improving this fundamental skill.  Coach Keith will show you systems and frameworks that will improve you and your team’s ability to communicate more effectively. In this session, attendees are provided with Frameworks that simplify communication, Confidence in their ability to handle difficult conversations, and Tips, tools and techniques they can use immediately.
• Leadership Reimagined! (Focus. Accelerate. Serve. Transform) – In today’s changing times, leadership skills are no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. This high-impact keynote provides attendees with a roadmap for growth and challenges them to become the leaders their teams crave and deserve. In this session, attendees will be provided with A roadmap to take your leadership to the next level, Behaviors and activities that demonstrate leadership and bring to life, A better understanding of leadership and a commitment to continued growth, and Clear steps to implement these practices and become the leader you were always meant to be.
• DISC Behavior Style Leadership DISCovery Experience & Team Building Event – Provide your leaders with an engaging, educational and interactive DISC Behavior Style Experience that includes an assessment, group debrief, personal development challenge and leadership connection skills event that is uplifting and entertaining. Leaders become aware of their own styles, the styles of others and why all styles are an important ingredient for organizational success. Attendees build skills that will improve relationship building, communication and teamwork. They learn that practicing the “Platinum Rule,” treating people the way they want to be treated is a magical game-changer. This program is perfect for Leadership Teams, Team Building Events, Sales Meetings, or Off-Site Meetings. The DISC Team Building Event is a great ice breaker for off-site meeting or a great way to help newly formed teams get to know one another better.  This event is presented in a fun and interactive way.  Attendees will get out of their seats, cheer one another on and laugh at themselves.  It is an injection of fun, but also a meaningful activity that can be a nice change of pace or transition during an off-site meeting or a great way to create a bond between new team members.  Most importantly, attendees receive a 30-page report that provides a roadmap for improving self-awareness, communication effectiveness and business/personal relationships beyond the event. 

Available for In-Person, Virtual or Hybrid Presentations

Leadership and Behavior Style expert Coach Keith Shaw equips organizations with skills and a roadmap to navigate the challenging and rapidly changing workplace.  With over thirty (30) years of corporate human resources and leadership development experience, he takes the abstract topic of leadership and translates it into simple actions, activities and behaviors that bring leadership to life inside individuals and organizations.  

Keith has had the pleasure of serving top tier clients like Raytheon, Safran, L3Harris and USPS.  He is a dynamic speaker that that educates, entertains and uplifts event attendees.

Selected Speaking Topics:

• Market Dominating Position – Mike shows business owners how to generate more clients, close more sales, and increase their overall revenue and profits; quickly and inexpensively. He has helped business owners find $17,000 in potential new revenue is as little as 45 minutes.

Mike Montes is a Kingdom Entrepreneur. Although the statement seems simple, it’s from that statement, he finds his purpose.

He is the founder of Breakthrough to Impact, an online platform designed for people who are looking to break through their limiting beliefs and take their business or life to the next level. He has also founded Yavin Digital, a digital marketing agency that specializes in helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses using social media. Mike also co-founded CoPlay which helps people live out their passions by connecting them with others who share those same interests.

Mike is the author of a book on entrepreneurship, Don’t Pee In Your Lemonade and is working on his second book, Finding the Great in all Your Good. He is also getting ready to write his third book, Give to Give. His YouTube channel features videos about how to make money online, Mike’s entrepreneurial journey, and how you can become a better leader.

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Trust, Trustworthiness, Trust Habits™ – What is trust? How does it behave (through the 8 laws of trust)? What makes a person trusted by another person? How to form habits that change behaviors, build trust, and transform organizations.

Dr. Yoram Solomon is the author of The Book of Trust (now in 3rd edition, and the most comprehensive book ever written about trust), the book series Can I Trust You? and host of The Trust Show podcast. He has published 16 books, 22 patents, and was one of the creators of Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 technologies, for which he was dubbed “TI’s Great Innovator.” Dr. Solomon was named by Innovation Excellence as one of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers,  and by Thinkers 360 as one of the top 20 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Culture.  He was a columnist at Inc. Magazine,  Innovation Excellence,  and other publications, where he published more than 300 articles.

Dr. Solomon holds a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an LLB from the Tel-Aviv University Law School, and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ort Singalovski College. He completed the executive Marketing Management Program at Stanford University and the Developing the Strategic Leader program at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Colorado Springs. Dr. Solomon is certified by CCL to administer the KEYS and SKILLSCOPE assessments and is an authorized provider of school board training by the Texas Education Agency.

He has founded several startups and sold a startup company in Silicon Valley. He has held various positions from General Manager of a $100m business unit in a Fortune 200 company to a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, and to CEO.

Dr. Solomon is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and formerly at the University of Texas at Dallas.

A National Speakers Association Professional Speaker, he spoke in several different national and regional conferences, including the Human Resources Southwest Annual Conference, the Association for Strategic Planning National Conference, CDX Annual Conference, Meeting Planner International (MPI) Annual conference, and many more, to audiences in excess of 2,000, both in-person and virtually.

Yoram was the host of the first TEDxPlano in 2014, and spoke at TEDxOakLawn in 2018 and TEDxPlanoSeniorHS in 2022. His customers include a wide range of Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations, in a broad spectrum of industries from technology to retail, healthcare, defense, and education. He served companies such as AT&T, Dannon, Amway, Texas Instruments, Medical City, and many more, who described his keynotes and workshops as transformative.

In 2015, he was elected to the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees. Yoram served in the IDF 35th Airborne Paratrooper brigade and as a USAF CAP pilot and Aerospace Education Officer.

Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• Speakers on Fire: Ignite Your Success – Why speaking is the #1 way to ignite your success.How to stand out from the crowd and be memorable. 3 ways to light up your audience. Become hot off “The Press.”
• The Art of Presence: Entertain, Build Trust, and Magnetize – How to build your presence and master your energy. Entertain without staying in performance mode. How to receive the audience and build trust. Magnetically attract who you are there to serve.
• The Art of Feminine Presence – Explore whether repressing your femininity is affecting your work and your relationships. What are the misconceptions about masculinity and femininity? Become powerful and feminine by connecting to your creativity, flow, receptivity, collaboration, and best balance.
• Turn Your Relationships into E-lationships – How to have passionate, meaningful, fulfilling relationships and keep the excitement and connection going.

Marla Press, aka “Igniter of Speakers on Fire,” is a Public Speaking Coach, Life Coach, and Art of Presence™ Trainer. She helps you build your presence, master your energy, and make a bigger impact by increasing your wow factor and your trust factor. Her life-changing exercises, group bootcamps, and 1:1 coaching give you immediate results. Bootcamps: “The Celebrated Speaker,” “The Art of Feminine (also coed classes) Presence,” and “Turn Your Relationships into E-lationships.”                                                                                                               

Marla has a degree in psychology, has worked as a Practice Management Consultant, and has been an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant. She has authored 3 books on psychology.   

An international speaker, Marla’s presentations include, “Speakers on Fire: Ignite Your Success,” “The Art of Presence: Be Seen, Be Heard, Inspire Change,” and “The Art of Feminine Presence.”  

Marla loves being on stage, and it shows! She’ll have you yelling out, standing up, and witnessing transformation. Marla Press is on fire and ignites her audience to feel motivated and inspired. Her interactive and enthusiastic style fires up every presentation. She invites volunteer to do her powerful exercises, and she always gets the crowd up on their feet (in-person or virtual.)

If you want to attract more clients, more wealth, more joy, better relationships, and be “Hot Off The Press,” Marla Press is your coach!   

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.