THINK BIGGER.   LIVE BOLDER.   ACHIEVE OUTSTANDING RESULTS.

Margie’s upbeat and down to earth Aussie style, fabulous stories and powerful message will challenge the minds, touch the hearts and ignite the spirits of your audience. 

Margie has an extraordinary ability to get to the heart of the issues which keep people stuck and hinder them from fulfilling their full potential. Margie empowers her audience with fresh perspectives and practical strategies they can use immediately to rise above their fears and limiting beliefs and step into action to enjoy greater success, more fulfillment and a deeper sense of purpose in their relationships, career, business and life!

Margie's five programs center around four key areas - Vision, Communication, Leadership and Life Balance.  Details of the following programs are provided below:

• Courageous Conversations: Speak up in ways that build trust, grow influence and strengthen relationships
• Think Bigger, Live Bolder! What's holding you back from creating outstanding results in your life?
• Leadership is a Choice, Not a Position: Redefine the leader you are and re-ignite the results you achieve.
• Courageous Leadership: Inspiring positive change and heightened performance through greater leadership clarity, confidence and courage.
• Success is a Balancing Act:   Let go the illusive search for balance by learning to say no to the good to make room for the great!

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Courageous Conversations

Speak up in ways that build trust,

grow influence and strengthen relationships.

What's your toughest situation? Talking with an employee about his performance? Saying no to your boss? Telling someone her behavior is inappropriate? Handling an angry employee or customer? Difficult situations have a thousand faces- but one common structure. This program will show you the structure of tough conversations, how to prepare for and get them started, how to keep them focused and productive, and what to watch for so you don't get derailed. Come with some situations, and get ready to practice.

Inability or unwillingness to engage to address the issues which undermine performance, damage relationships and limit success can be profound. In this presentation you will learn not only how to muster up the courage you need to speak up but also:

• Strengthen your EQ and use it to better manage negative emotions in yourself and those around you
• Remove barries to meaningful conversation (including self limiting beliefs about your ability to handle confrontation)
• How to bridge the "communication gap" to avoid misunderstanding
• Express anger without insult; disagree without being disagreeable
• Ways to stand firm in the face of those who seek to intimidate
• Use 'awkward silences' to enrich the conversation with greater ease

Target Audience: This program is designed for people at all levels of the organization as no matter where anyone is in an organization, their ability to communicate effectively is crucial to their own, and their teams, success.  It is particularly helpful to employees moving into management positions as it equips them with the skills and tools they need to manage more effectively.

“What doesn't get talked out, gets acted out.

The price you pay for not speaking up far exceeds

the discomfort you will feel in doing so."

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Think Bigger, Live Bolder!

Are you harnessing the Power of Vision?

For any great feat to be achieved, it must first be imagined. Drawing on the power of vision, your audience members and your organization can move forward more productively, purposefully and passionately. In addition to drawing from psychological research and contemporary examples, this program introduces concepts from Ontological Coaching, in particular, the conversations that required to harness the power of vision. 

Program Deliverables

• The three key conversations that take you from complaining about ‘what is’ to speculating about ‘what could be’ to coordinating the actions required to get from where you are to where you want to be
• The power of stories and how to recognize the stories and fears that are sabotaging success
• Craft a clear, compelling and achievable vision for yourself, your team or organization and then break down your vision into S.M.A.R.T. Goals with clear actionable steps
• Dealing with ‘naysayers’ and enlisting others in your vision 
• Strategies to meet personal & organizational challenges, deal with change and overcome adversity
• Identify where fear and limiting beliefs are sabotaging success
• Why taking risks is essential to success and three key steps to assess which risks to take

Target Audience: This program is designed for people at all levels of the organization and can be tailored to address the vision of the individual as well as the vision for the team or organization they are part of. It is a great tool for newly created teams or teams/departments which have come through periods of change/restructure and are looking to gain alignment around a common set of goals and vision.  This dynamic presentation lends itself well to both keynotes and workshops (it has been presented in as little as a 30 minute keynote and as much as a 2 day workshop).

A one page hand-out summarizing key points of discussion will be provided. A Think Bigger Workbook available for longer programs.

“The greater danger is not that your dreams are too lofty and you fail to reach them but rather that they are too small and you do!"

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Success is a Balancing Act

Find the courage to say No to the good to make room for the great!

In this fun and highly interactive presentation Margie shares entertaining stories of her own “balancing act” as a working mother of four along her reasons why she thinks perfect balance is a myth.  She will empower your busy, often overwhelmed, audience members with fresh ideas and practical strategies for designing a work/life balance that will enable your audience to live a truly successful life—with more ease and less stress! Guaranteed to Refocus, Rejuvenate, and Re-energize.

• Uncover the disempowering myths around work/life balance to stop ‘shoulding’ on yourself
• Learn the #1 key to avoiding overload & burnout
• Set boundaries (for yourself and others) by saying No with more grace and less guilt
• Make more powerful requests (and why it’s just dumb to try doing it all yourself!)
• Three daily  life enrichment strategies to reduce stress, increase energy & stay motivated
• Why the super woman cape is 'so last century' and needs to be left behind... forever! (female audiences only)

Target Audience: This program is designed for professional audiences, where attendees are juggling multiple conflicting demands on their time and resources. It is ideal for female audiences who are not only juggling busy careers, but also the demands of children, dual partner careers, volunteer commitments and the like and who often fail to make the time for themselves in the midst of looking after everyone else.

“The challenge to finding balance is first being clear

about what you want to say 'Yes' to

so you can find the guts to say 'No' to the rest!”

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Leadership is a Choice - Not a Position!

How others see you begins with how you see yourself!

This powerful presentation will challenge self-limiting beliefs about what it takes to be a leader, teaching that few people are "natural born leaders” but that everyone has the capacity to lead themselves and others to superior performance, better results and a more valuable contribution.  Margie will share skills, strategies and poignant stories guaranteed to empower every member of your audience to greater confidence, competence and recognition as a leader.

• Why how you see yourself determines how others see you and how to rewrite stories that undermine effectiveness and stifle potential
• The importance of leading from a foundation of robust integrity (and how to repair any cracks!)
• Why self-awareness and EQ are critical to success and how to use yours to expand your circle of influence and recognition as a leader
• The 5 fundamental conversations leaders must engage in—with themselves and others—to achieve maximum performance, contribution & potential
• The three elements of trust and how to repair damaged trust

Target Audience: This program is ideal for employees in positions ranging from junior entry level through to emerging leaders and those up to mid-management level.   

“True leadership is about inspiring others to do more, learn more, dream more and be more than they may otherwise have done. Every time you do any of these you are being a leader."

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COURAGEOUS LEADERSHIP

Inspiring Positive Change with greater Clarity, Confidence and Courage

Aristotle wrote “Courage is the greatest of all virtues because it is the only one that guarantees all others”.  Great leaders have many strengths. From their ability to solve complex problems to their managerial skills and ability to align people around a common goal.  But without the courage to create a truly compelling vision, to confront the forces that threaten to undermine it and to take the risks necessary to change what no longer serves the interest of the organizations stakeholders, a leader cannot lead. They can only manage.

This powerful presentation will challenge beliefs that limit leadership effectiveness, enabling attendees to lead themselves and others to superior performance, stronger results and a much more valuable contribution.  Your audience will leave feeling more purposeful in what they do, more passionate about why they do it and more courageous in pursuing the vision that inspires them.   

• The importance of leading from a foundation of robust integrity
• The three core elements of trust and how to rebuild it when damaged
• Why E.Q. is critical to a leaders success and how to use the E.Q. matrix to manage the negative emotions which can undermine it
• The 5 fundamental conversations leaders must engage to maximize performance and potential
• How leaders can apply the Ontological coaching framework to improve collaboration, communication and influence across their team and organization

Target Audience: This program is most valuable for people in positions of leadership from mid-level managers up to senior executive.  The ontological coaching material used in this  program can also be customized into a more indepth half or full day workshop or ongoing coaching program for people wishing to expand their leadership competence, influence and impact.

Margie has spoken to audiences across the United States in Fortune 500 companies, national associations and global professional services organizations including:

• Accenture
• American Airlines
• American Business Women's Association (ABWA)
• American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)
• British Telecom Americas
• National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC)
• ExxonMobil Corporation
• Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group
• Medical Society of Virginia
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Assocation of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
• Sabre Holdings
• Southern Methodist University
• Verizon
• Virginia Medical Society

For a full up to date listing of clients please contact Margie's office.

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Margie works closely with meeting planners to customize each of her presentations to the specific needs and concerns of her audience. Each of her speaking topics can be presented as a:

• keynote address
• breakout session
• half day or full day workshop.