Misc Business Speaking

Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• Before You Build the Bridge – I help people see how they can grow their business with the right tools, using sales and marketing automation.

Darin Adams is an award-winning communication and marketing expert who has coached thousands of businesses how to build connections with their audiences.  All success starts with relationships and he has taught people all around the world how to build those relationships through automation.  Now he wants to show you how you can get organized, get customers, and get paid.

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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:

• Build Your Success with M*S*G — Get the Right Mindset and Skillset, then Get Off Your Asset to get the results you want to see in life.

Sallie Wagner is a speaker, author, lawyer, real estate broker and instructor, and life coach/life alchemist. 

Your What’s Next Strategist, Sallie incorporates outcome-based techniques such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), and trauma-aware modalities so you’ll see concrete results, as you ditch those unwanted behaviors and habits, fears and phobias that keep you from living your best life.

Sallie’s continuing mission is to impact lives as she coaches and guides you to get rid of behaviors, beliefs, and decisions that hold you back, so you can fully embrace and integrate the challenges that life brings, in order to discover, create, and live the life that makes YOU come alive. 

She spent the majority of her law career in the corporate world, in various industries.  She currently provides broker and contract compliance services to real estate brokerages throughout Florida. 

Sallie also owns and operates a real estate school, providing exceptional educational opportunities for real estate professionals throughout Florida. 

 

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Selected Speaking Topics:

• Get Known Everywhere: If you want to be the #1 Influencer in your industry, you’ve got to get bigger media visibility. Based on her international bestseller, Guerrilla Publicity, Jill shares simple strategies to help you go from unknown to newsworthy. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media wants, Jill provides you with short-term, doable tactics that boost visibility for you and your brand. Jill Lublin’s expertise will drive prospects to your door and profits to your pockets!

With 200+ speaking engagements each year, master publicity strategist and consultant, and bestselling author, Jill Lublin, consistently wows audiences worldwide with her entertaining and interactive keynotes, seminars, and training programs on publicity, networking, kindness and influence marketing. Jill is the author of four bestselling books, including: Get Noticed…Get Referrals (McGraw-Hill), Networking Magic (Morgan James), and Guerrilla Publicity (Adams Media), which is regarded as the “PR Bible”, and her latest book The Profit of Kindness (Career Press.)

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Selected Speaking Topics

• Spiritual Entrepreneurship – Fulfilling Your God-ordained Destiny – My purpose in life is to empower others to succeed by helping them to discover their own life purpose and encouraging them to passionately pursue it until their purpose is fulfilled. This requires them to leave their comfort zone and engage in difficult and risky endeavors with no guarantees of success. In other words they must develop an entrepreneurial spirit. The ultimate key to success then is to do this with the guidance and empowerment of God’s Holy Spirit. Hence I call this process spiritual entrepreneurship.

Bill Harrison is a spiritual entrepreneur and life coach. Having enjoyed successful careers in several different industries (manufacturing, construction commercial real estate, telecommunications, marketing consulting and academia) we have learned that our talents, skills, experience and God-given gifts can be applied in different ways in many diverse situations. All that was required was a willingness to go wherever God led us and to do whatever he asked us to do. In the process of so doing we learned that God had a plan for our lives that was more challenging that our own plans, but also far more exciting and rewarding. In the process we have been afforded opportunities to go places (including all 50 of the United States and some 60 foreign countries) and do things that have gone far beyond what we expected for ourselves.

Based on our life experiences as a married couple with dual professional careers, my wife and I developed the concept that we call spiritual entrepreneurship. The challenges we faced in fulfilling the requirements of two separate careers without neglecting our family obligations led us to the principles and practices of this concept.

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Insignia Training Partners

Insignia Training Partners is a full-service learning company with an extensive network of training and learning development resources nationwide providing fractional, project and contract-based L&D support, and recruiting services for skilled L&D talent and executives. Insignia has supported over 3000 virtual events and counting since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic for companies, like EY, Johnson & Johnson, Jansen Pharmaceuticals, McKinsey & Co, and many more! In all of those events, not a SINGLE facilitator has ever turned around after an event and told us they would rather facilitate alone, without a producer.

Managing a Zoom or Teams meeting can be a large task in and of itself, especially if you have hundreds of attendees and plan to use any of the built in engagement features of your platform, like breakout rooms and polling questions. If you have been struggling to run the virtual platform while facilitating alone, you know how challenging it can be to manage logistics and technical support of participants while also engaging and delivering a focused and concise presentation. If you need your next virtual event to go off without a hitch, ask us to support it and you will see the Insignia difference!

Bernie DeSantis – President & Owner, Facilitator, Virtual Producer

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Catherine Hatcher’s Speaking Topics:

• Assessing Non-Verbal Language – Subliminal messages are given and received by all of us. Those around you can pick up on your attitude and gage what they think are your real intentions from looking at your body language. Discover how to focus on bringing out the good parts of you, especially if you have acquired some bad body habits or insecurities.
• What’s Your “R Quotient”? R = Relationship! – “People do business with people they Know, Like and Trust” Perry Belcher. At Personas Image Dynamics, we refer to this as the “R Quotient”. From an Image perspective, there are many things we can do to increase our ability to attain and retain clients. Learn how to quickly be more Relatable, how to enhance your Rapport with others and build successful Relationships.
• What Your Image Is REALLY Saying About You In The Social Media World – Today, marketing ourselves online is critical to the success of our businesses. Online, we have shorter and shorter attention spans … the average is about 5-9 seconds mainly because we have so many options and many of us have no time to search for needed information. Learn how to design your site for greater impact by using color and visual aids. You will Learn what type of profile pic works best for you and how much and what type of pictures communicate the best messages.

Cathrine Hatcher is a Professional Speaker, Image Communications Expert, Color Coach and Founder of Personas Image Dynamics. Cathrine works with individuals and with companies who want to offer their customers and/or sales associates top-notch training that leads to improving outward appearance, inner presence and the ability to communicate effectively by aligning the non-verbal messages we project with our verbal messages. She coaches presenters on how to gauge the audience’s non-verbal messages to give them the ability to react and transform their presentations in a meaningful way. Cathrine is a graduate of the London Image Institute and a certified Image Consultant.

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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.

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SUICIDE PREVENTION SPEAKER AND TRAINER

THE MENTAL HEALTH COMEDIAN

Selected Speaker’s Topics:

• Suicide Prevention in the Workplace as a Health and Safety Issue – Frank King helps workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention, creating a forum for dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health challenges. It builds a business case for suicide prevention while promoting help-seeking and help-giving. Interactive exercises and case studies help employers and their staff apply and customize the content to their specific work culture.

Frank King, Suicide Prevention and Postvention Public Speaker and Trainer, was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years, is a Corporate Comedian, syndicated humor columnist, and podcast personality, who was featured on CNN’s Business Unusual.

Depression and suicide run his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. He’s fought a lifetime battle with depression, and thoughts of ending his life, turning that long dark journey of the soul into a TED Talk, “A Matter of Laugh or Death,” www.FrankTEDTalk.com and sharing his lifesaving insights on Mental and Emotional Health Awareness, with corporation, association, youth (middle school and high school), and college audiences www.TheSuicidePreventionSpeaker.com.

As an Inspirational and Motivational Public Speaker and Trainer he uses the life lessons from the above, as well as lessons learned as a rather active consumer of healthcare, both mental and physical, to start the conversation giving people who battle Mental and Emotional Illness permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences surrounding depression and suicide, and to create a common pool of knowledge in which those who suffer, and those who care about them, can swim.

And doing it by coming out, as it were, and standing in his truth, and doing it with humor.

He believes that where there is humor there is hope, where there is laughter there is life, nobody dies laughing.

He is currently working on a book on men’s mental fitness, Guts, Grit, and the Grind, with two coauthors.

He lives in Eugene, OR and speaks around the US, and all over the world.

 

 

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Selected Speaker Topics:

• Is Your Superpower Actually Your Kryptonite? – “You’re great at THAT!” Have you ever heard those words and felt a little twinge deep down? The truth is, you ARE brilliant, talented, and amazing. Sometimes, your superpower comes from this beautiful well of talent that you were born with; and, sometimes, that superpower comes from a more difficult place, a wound, a hardship, a trauma, which can make it like kryptonite to your long-term peace and sustainability.  In this talk, Gini discusses her walk through darkness to discover that the very things she thought were her superpowers were actually the coping mechanisms of a traumatized childhood. Through awareness, she was able to transform daily trauma at work into peace, joy, and nurturing her true talents and now she is passionate about helping others do the same. Get ready to embark on a journey of gentle self-realization that will provide real-life tactics for differentiating wounds from true talents, allowing you to step fully into your REAL superpowers!
• Generation Why: How to Stop Hating Your Most Important Customers – Millennials get a bad rap from just about everyone, in this talk Gini will take a deep dive into the Millennial mindset and how to win over the generation that are soon to be their most important customers. Millennials simply will not do business “old school,” and in this talk she will discuss why and how to adapt business to win in the “new school.”
• Solve it Forward: The WIN-WIN-WIN of Selling the Solution – In this talk Gini goes in depth on how to quickly identify the driving human need and position solutions to appeal to that need so to create a win for both company and client.
• Psychic Solutions for Non-Psychic People: It’s Not What You Think – In this talk Gini will detail how to make their clients feel like they are a mind reader by giving exactly what their clients want, often before they have to ask. There is nothing better for a client than to feel that a company “really gets them” and when there is a problem, that the solution is even better than what they had expected.
• Rock the Stage – Gini teaches speakers and aspiring speakers to create a talk that is clear, concise, and converts, learn the easiest ways to get paid on stage, map your talk to attract your Ideal Audience, and get your audience to lean in and say: “I Want That!”

Gini Trask was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated with a BA in Theater from the University of Northern Colorado. By that time Gini Trask was already an entrepreneur. She moved back to Texas and launched into partnership with her mother in a Bus Charter business that expanded to a multi-million dollars enterprise. Her ability to operate and grow companies to multi-millions of dollars in revenue for other people became the driving force for Gini Trask to start her own Company Top Tier Travel which has since become a multi-million-dollar success, creating one-of-a-kind incentives and experiences for tens of thousands of travelers in the corporate and network marketing space.

Throughout her professional life Gini has been sought after for her ability to make find solutions and facilitate outcomes as if by magic. Her attraction to running businesses in the travel, hospitality, and retail space and working with corporate and network marketing clients is their need for solutions are a win for both the customer and the company. Her turning point came when she realized that the need for solutions that bridge the gap was bigger than her small sphere of companies and clients. Everyone should understand how to create solutions that go beyond compromise. So, she set to bring her methods for “Solving Problems Forward” and “Creating a WIN WIN WIN” to the world at large.

Gini Trask now travels the world as a speaker and consultant helping companies and individuals to go beyond compromise to creating solutions that truly make everyone feel that they have “won”. She teaches the understanding of core needs, solving problems “forward”, and the super powers that can transform any issue into an opportunity to WIN.

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