Misc Business Speaking

Speaker’s Selected Topics:

• The Million-Dollar Mistake: How Having It All” Is Costing You Everything (And Your Roadmap Back) – Discover “The Million-Dollar Mistake” high-achieving professionals make when striving to “have it all.” This powerful talk reveals how the relentless pursuit of success can silently erode your well-being, relationships, and joy. Learn your roadmap back to a life of sustainable success, vibrant health, and deep fulfillment without sacrificing what truly matters.
• Beyond Burnout: The SHIFT Framework for Sustainable Leadership & Unstoppable Impact – Discover the groundbreaking SHIFT Framework, designed to move high-achieving professionals beyond the brink of burnout. This empowering talk provides actionable strategies for cultivating sustainable leadership, ensuring your impact is not only powerful but also enduring. Learn to lead with renewed energy and achieve truly unstoppable results in every area of your life.
• The Divine Disruption: How High-Performing Women Make Courageous Life Shifts – Discover “The Divine Disruption,” the powerful catalyst that empowers high-performing women to embrace pivotal moments for profound change. This inspiring talk reveals how making courageous life shifts allows them to break free from limitations and design a life truly aligned with their deepest desires. Learn to recognize your own divine disruptions and boldly step into a life lived without limits.

Dr. Tamara White is a Divine Disruptor. For over 25 years, she has been a powerful force in the lives of thousands of women, guiding them to courageously disrupt their own cycles of fear and doubt. As a faith-based life coach, licensed counselor, and speaker, she helps women move from a place of overwhelm to a life of purpose and profound peace.

Through her signature program, The Courageous Woman Effect, Dr. White equips professional women with the tools to manage stress and burnout, heal emotional scars, and build brave, authentic lives. She is the author of two impactful books, including Courageous Women Rise: Their Journey, Their Strength, Their Purpose, and is the founder of the “Courageous Woman Network.” Dr. White’s unique blend of professional expertise (holding a Master of Science and a Doctor of Divinity degree) and personal passion makes her a transformative voice for women everywhere.

When she’s not helping others, she’s celebrating life with family especially her grandchildren, enjoying chocolate, and dancing in her kitchen.

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’s Topics:

• The Confidence Paradox: How to Build Confidence and Create Unprecedented Results
• Beyond Elevator Pitches: How to Introduce Yourself in Style
• Getting to a “YES”: How to improve the follow-up activities to get the outcome you want
• Ignite Sales Results: How to use the proven 4 P’s system in your sales process

Alla Bardov, Founder of “Sell Yourself For Success,” utilizes sales education to help organizations, entrepreneurs, and sales professionals optimize each stage of the sales process to achieve and sustain extraordinary results.

Drawing on over three decades in corporate America, retail entrepreneurship, sales, and training, it’s her experience that sales skills offer universal applicability, cutting across professions and industries. 

Alla’s signature program, “Ignite Your Results,” focuses initially on building confidence—a crucial trait she learned to value firsthand, that elevates and sets apart individuals beyond their qualifications or levels of success. Her quest to define confidence-building fundamentals started early in life, selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door. Alla’s bestselling book Get Out of the Rabbit Hole and accompanying workbook, available on Amazon, is a guide for how to build Confidence to Overcome Self-Doubt, Improve Performance, and Reach One’s Ultimate Potential. 

Through her relentless philanthropic efforts, Alla aims to change the lives of underprivileged youth via her work with Nancy Lieberman Charities.
She’s been married to Louis for 34 years, and they are proud parents to three wonderful kids.

Selected Speaker Topics Include:

• Claim Your People at Work: How Inclusive Leaders Keep Employees Engaged and Productive – In this talk, Dea shares her 5 Facets of Magnetic Leadership to expose the bottom line causes of the Great Resignation and how to keep your best people from leaving for greener pastures. There are workshops and team activities available for this topic as well.
• 3 Components of a Yawn-Free Meeting – Dea teaches how to create FIT Meetings, those that are full of value, where the team knows where they’re going and where they came from, and leave the attendees energized and ready to implement the tasks the meeting outlined. She has shared this topic in-person and online, to rave reviews.
• Connecting is More Powerful Than Collecting – Dea is a Master Networker and has Built Communities of Professionals and Supporters several times. This talk about fostering relationships instead of gathering business cards and data is ideal for Networking Groups and Chambers of Commerce.

Originally from Mississippi, Dea Irby has lived in 5 Southern states, in 15+ different homes serving churches with her pastor-husband, owning & operating a tea room, and now as a Realtor® in North Carolina. The common thread throughout her life is building real community wherever she has lived: in the home with 8 children, in their churches, and in her businesses.

She is a TEDx Speaker (The Magic of the Meal), a published author (A Dollop and a Pinch: Recipes and Stories from the Baron York, An Ox in Your Kitchen: A Devotional Journal for Young Mothers, Like Dew on the Grass: A Devotional Journal for Women Seeking God, Molding Global Citizens: a Guide for Parents, Nurturing Visionary Dreamers: a Guide for Parents,) and a contributing author in 9/11 That Beautiful Broken Day and in three Chicken Soup for the Soul Collections (Set Outside Your Comfort Zone, The Forgiveness Fix, and Believe in Angels.)

Now an award winning speaker, she is also a frequent podcast guest, finally an empty nester after 45 years, and occasional sprint triathlon participant.

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A fun and enthusiastic expert, Cindy consistently achieves outstanding results for her clients, whether that’s in leadership training or social media. For the past 21 years, Cindy has been dedicated to sales and marketing with a special focus on Social Media Marketing. She recently launched her first book about Facebook Personal Profiles.

Speaker’s Topic Titles:

• 5 Steps to Having Your Best Day Ever! – Tired of showing up to work grumpy, unorganized, and unhappy? Do you dread calling your clients or meeting a new group of people? Cindy has put together a list of ways you can have a great day every day. This step-by-step guidance will show you how to set better priorities, make our time go further, ace every interaction, be our smartest selves, strengthen our personal impact, be resilient to setbacks, and boost our energy and enjoyment. Not only will this boost your job satisfaction, but also your performance at work. Your family will notice a difference the very first day you begin to implement the 5 Steps to Having Your Best Day Ever.
• Cindy Shares Outta The Box Leadership Lessons for Women – Not so long ago, most people only associated leadership with men. The fie following leadership lessons are ones that men can learn from their female counterparts and appreciate them more. You will enjoy an outta the box speaker that is funny heart breaking honest and motivational. The intent is to give you knowledge and skills that you need to be the best leaders you can be.
• 5 Elements to Turning a Failure into a Success – The greatest lessons we learn in life are from our losses. Everyone experiences loss, but not everyone learns from it. We will explore the most common lessons we learn when we experience loss within our business and personal lives. Learn how to turn a set-back into a step forward by using 5 Key Elements that make up the DNA of those who do turn their failures into successes. It does take discipline to do the right thing when you may find yourself in the dumps. You will not only gain knowledge, but a roadmap to help you change your mindset.
• A True Sales Leader is One Who Knows the Way, Goes The Way, and Shows the Way – Leadership may seem like a simple concept, but it perplexes many. So many of the best sales managers still mistake the job title for something more crucial to sales success – leadership. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked: leadership is defined by results, not attributes. Cindy offers practical insight into learning how to lead the person who matters most – yourself.  Everyone will learn, whether you are aspiring to positions of leadership or a veteran leader who aims to build and improve upon the steps that led you to the front of the line.
• Leadership is not a Plaque on the Wall or a Corner Office – We strive for positions and put our hope in recognition, but that’s not all. You don’t need to hang a plaque on the wall; your actions will tell your team what type of leader you are and how you will create a good environment for their personal growth. Leadership is an Action, Not a Position. Remarkable leaders add value to the growth and development of others. Get beyond the plaque on the wall and learn how to enhance your personal leadership skills beyond the corner office and into a successful team.
• 5 Essential Qualities for Entrepreneurial Leadership – Are entrepreneurs born or made?  This is a question endlessly debated in startup circles. Entrepreneurs are a different breed of leader.  Renegades, rebels, world changers, innovators, black sheep, risk takers, workaholics – these are just a few of the names we are called by both who love us, and those who don’t understand us. As you grow your business and make your mark on the world in your own unique way, it will be useful to keep the 5 Essential Qualities top-of-mind when defining your own leadership identity. These are fundamental and unforgettable for success.  Your leadership skills can only show improvement if you are committed to daily personal growth activities.

Cindy has successfully trained more than 5,000 people in positions of CEO, CFO, Entrepreneurs, Upper Level Managers, and more. When Cindy speaks, attendees leave with a deeper understanding of her topics and how they relate in the real world. She delivers consistent value with strategies that can be implemented immediately. Her enthusiastic attitude is contagious and her audiences always want more.

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.

Andre Costa speaks on these topics:

• If You Don’t Have a Video, You Don’t Exist. – Understand why 86% of Internet users prefer a video over text and why having a video can help your search results.
• Technology for Presenters – Everything a presenter should know to make an impactful presentation.
• Make Money While You Sleep – How to digitize your message and sell it on the web.

Andre Costa has 25+ years of business experience mostly spent in the Information Technology field creating computer-based training and training curriculums.

He currently holds the position of E-Learning Director at ReachLocal and owns Orion21, a company dedicated to create on-line presentations (videos, podcasts, audio books and e-learning) for speakers, coaches, ministers, and trainers.

Selected Topic Titles:

• Caregiver’s Guide to Self-injury
• Practitioner’s Guide to Self-injury
• Stress in the Workplace
• Time Management
• Leader, Dictator, or Avoidant: What Makes Someone a Great Leader
• Dating Beyond the Swipe: next steps for a great first date
• When Making the Grade Causes You to Fail: the problem with perfectionism
• Walls, Windows, Walkways: Boundaries in Personal, Professional, and Academic Life
• How to Ride the Roller Coaster of Life with More Thrills and Less Spills
• The Best Way to Save Someone Happens Before You Need to: Life-Threatening Epidemics
• Help! I’m on Fire! Putting out the Fires of Stress with Burnout Prevention
• Taboo! Uncomfortable! Is This Healthy? Am I “normal”? Let’s Talk About MH!
• Take Back Control Today Over Your Stress, Worries, and Anxiety
• Are You Talking to Me or At Me? Aggressive vs. Assertive Communication

Do you want to know how to spot the difference between someone who is a professional speaker with training and experience versus someone who happens to speak for an occasional paid event?

Lori Vann has been a professional speaker for over twenty years who has received training from multiple internationally known coaches, in addition to the lessons that she learned as a performer and a professor for two colleges. Having presented on national and international stages for a wide variety of audiences and event types, Lori is regarded as a speaker who provides value for the audience and organizers; this is one of the many reasons why she has been a repeat presenter for numerous organizations.

Many speakers can provide information, but few speakers are able to present the information in a way that is meaningful, memorable, and usable. Lori is able to connect with your audience by providing a tailored talk with examples that will resonate with your attendees in a down-to-earth, genuine manner. Whether she is the keynote speaker for a large conference or providing a workshop to a small group of individuals, she gives every talk her full attention to make sure that your goals for the event are met.

Contact Lori today to learn how you and your attendees will have the WOW factor with her as the speaker for your next event.