Leading Through Change and Uncertainty
Virtual keynotes & livestream workshops
Margie shares proven strategies to:
- Keep anxiety in check, and avoid fear-casting the future
- Strengthen decision making to transform results
- Engage virtual teams, getting everyone behind a compelling vision
- Unlock collective brilliance and bold thinking
- Embed resilience habits for people to do their best work under pressure
“When I called Margie to help my leadership team through one of the most difficult periods in aviation industry history, I knew I wouldn’t be disappointed. What a difference that virtual session made: we felt reassured and equipped as leaders to navigate through the eye of the storm. Even more powerful was how much our positive energy and courage was heartfelt within Shell.”
– Anna Mascolo, Vice President, Shell Global Aviation

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Now offering virtual keynotes & workshops
In times such as these, it’s easy to operate from fear. It’s imperative right now to ‘lead from within’ and transform this turbulent time into a catalyst for greater connection, collaboration and creativity to meet the challenges at hand and do business better when we emerge the other side of this crisis. To that end, Margie is now offering virtual keynotes and workshops to support organizations in doing business better.
In particular to:
- Embolden leaders to make better decisions, faster
- Foster trust, alignment & collaboration around a shared mission and key initiatives
- Expand behavioral agility to adapt to new ways of working across remote teams & geographies
- Support employee wellbeing and resiliency – individual & organizational
“If you want to embolden your teams and leaders to raise their sights and take more courageous action, Margie is the perfect adrenaline-like shot of inspiration you need.”
Sarah McKensey, Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Johnson & Johnson

FIND COURAGE IN CRISIS TO TRANSFORM UNCERTAINTY INTO OPPORTUNITY
Unlock the potential of remote teams to use disruption to do business better
No one is immune to fear. Yet in the midst of change and uncertainty, only those who’ve learnt to lead with courage can harness the potential in themselves and others to turn uncertainty into opportunity, gain competitive edge and do business better.
Drawing on 25 years working with organizations globally plus the latest research, Margie will embolden your people to step up to the leadership plate, in more wholehearted ways, to lead through change with greater clarity, confidence and courage.
- Engage remote teams around a big Why that fosters shared purpose, unlocks ingenuity and dismantles change resistance
- Reframe ambiguity to make better decisions, faster amid VUCA
- Identify blind spots and foster a risk-ready mindset
- Harness ‘emotional contagion’ to build psychological safety, nurture diversity and expand collective change-agility
- Create resilience rituals that expand bandwidth and behavioral agility to thrive under pressure
“Margie’s opening keynote at our annual conference was nothing short of spectacular! She has my highest recommendation for any event – in fact, her message is one that everyone should hear in their lifetime.”
Mike Morini, CEO, WorkForce Software

BUILD HIGH TRUST TEAMS THAT EMBOLDEN EVERYONE TO LEAN IN & LEAD
Exceptional leaders liberate the boldest thinking to produce the strongest outcomes
The greatest threat to any organization is the fear that stifles ingenuity, fuels risk aversion and drives highly capable, creative people to play it safe and make short-sighted, over-cautious decisions.
Harnessing the human capital in your organization has never been more critical. Embedding the value of courage within an organizational culture sets it up for competitive edge, greater agility, stronger engagement and improved performance in today’s VUCA global marketplace.
Only leaders who have found their courage to embrace vulnerability and show up authentically can build the psychological safety net required to harness the potential in others, grow high-trust teams that collaborate across silos and tap the full value of diversity in their ranks.
Drawing on the latest ideas in leadership and neuroscience, Margie will share a powerful research-backed framework to equip leaders to foster a culture of courage that emboldens disruptive thinking to ensure organizations remain competitive in an increasingly uncertain, globalized and accelerated world.
- Create unconscious inclusion that harnesses the full value of diversity
- Build the loyal cohesion needed to challenge outdated paradigms that stifle innovation
- Engage people around a compelling Why that unlocks a deep sense of shared purpose
- Identify blind spots and foster a risk-ready growth mindset
- Role model decisiveness amid uncertainty and ambiguity
- Counter the unconscious forces that undermine change initiatives, inhibit crucial conversations and stifle bold disruptive thinking

EXPAND ‘BANDWIDTH’ TO THRIVE UNDER PRESSURE & AMID UNCERTAINTY
The Covid-19 pandemic shone the spotlight on the importance of resilience – individually and collectively – and our ability to adapt quickly to change and thrive under pressure. For leaders, it’s upped the ante on taking care of employee mental health and wellbeing. For everyone else, it’s reinforced the importance of self-care and doing more of what helps us do everything better.
This tactic-rich program draws on the latest neuroscience, psychology, and leadership research and will help your organization build teams of engaged, motivated, recharged employees and leaders who bring their best selves to work and support others in doing the same. Margie will unpack the science of resilience and share practical ways to:
- Disrupt default fight or flight stress responses to spread calm and can-do optimism
- Embed resilience rituals & routines that ward off burnout yet take up less than 2% of your day
- Harness neuro-linguistics to rechannel stress in positive ways
- Build psychological immunity against the stressors that undermine mental health and wellbeing
- Embrace the discomfort of change in ways that optimize agility, boost creativity and improve outcomes

ADVANCE MORE WOMEN TO TOP TABLES
Embrace their feminine leadership and harness their power as change-agents
Despite the compelling case to have more women seated at decision-making tables, too few currently are. Empowering women to challenge gendered norms and expectations, own their unique feminine leadership strengths and step fully into their power as change-agents is a vital lever to achieving gender parity.
Drawing on her doctoral research of the interplay between gender, power and leadership as well as her extensive experience working with women around the world, Margie will share her personal stories as a ball-dropping working mother of four while providing proven and practical strategies to:
- Counter chronic self-doubt, conquer the imposter syndrome and close the confidence gap
- Power up their language to develop authentic leadership influence and executive presence
- Counter agentic ‘think male, think manager’ gender norms, manage likeability and competence double binds as well as mitigate against the backlash effect
- Secure the right sponsors/mentors to open doors and grow visibility
- Practice self-compassion to get off your own back by embracing ‘done is better than perfect’
- Prioritize what empowers — expanding capacity to thrive under pressure (and avoid burn out)

COMMUNICATE TO GROW INFLUENCE AND AMPLIFY IMPACT
Harness the power of conversations to grow, learn and thrive
The hardest conversations are often the most critical yet too often the issues that most need to be addressed aren’t. Research shows that over 80% of workers are avoiding at least one uncomfortable conversation at work — a conversation they know they need to hold but are dreading.
In this insightful, interactive and powerful program, Margie deep dives into the DNA of communication, sharing a framework of how to engage in the crucial and courageous conversations needed for individuals, teams and organizations to learn, grow and thrive.
Attendees will learn practical frameworks and skills they can apply immediately to:
- Bridge organizational silos and get everyone pulling behind the same mission
- Address conflict and build collaboration
- Provide constructive feedback in ways that produce optimal outcomes
- Speak with greater authority, presence and impact
- Listen beyond what is being said to get to the heart of issues that derail
- Text or talk: discern the right mode for communication and avoid the pitfalls of hiding behind technology
- Express anger without insult and disagree without being disagreeable
- Build a culture of accountability and manage conflicting commitments with integrity
Why Book Margie For Your Next Event?
As an internationally recognized expert in human behavior with a background in Fortune 500 business, psychology, and coaching, Margie draws on the latest findings in neuroscience, positive psychology and performance science blended with her own hard-won wisdom to provide practical advice and proven strategies that create stronger results and braver people.
Margie’s ability to get to the heart of what holds people back combined with her engaging style has made her an in demand speaker around the world. Her work is helping people and organizations overcome the number one barrier to growth – the fear that hinders crucial conversations, stifles innovation, undermines collaboration and breeds a deficit of trust.
Margie’s extensive experience as a keynote speaker and facilitator enables her to craft highly engaging sessions that equip people with hard skills and confidence. Organizations that have benefited from her customized courage-building programs include NASA, Oracle, British Telecom, The Body Shop, Accenture, Wells Fargo, Mars, American Airlines to name a few.