Speaking

Looking for a speaker for your business or organization?

Lesa brings more than 20 years of experience in career coaching, resume writing, and human resources to deliver engaging, humorous, and customized presentations that will provide your audience with tremendous insights and practical strategies for their career and professional advancement.

Presentations offered:

  • Why Aren’t They More Like Me?

    Leveraging Personality Differences in the Workplace

    In this engaging and highly interactive presentation, you’ll develop techniques for communicating with, assigning tasks to, and scheduling the work of team members by taking into consideration their unique personality characteristics. This session, based on the MBTI personality inventory, will give you:

    -Keys to recognizing the personality preferences of team members

    -Techniques for “speaking the foreign language” of various personalities

    -How to maximize your team’s effectiveness using personality type

  • It's Not You - It's Your Brain

    Minding Your Mind as a Primary Tool for Career Advancement

    So many trainings focus on the doing part of managing your career...in this presentation, we will focus on the thinking part. The tool Lesa teaches has completely changed her life, and with regular use, it will change yours too. By gaining clarity around how your thoughts directly impact your results, you'll:

    -Cultivate a practice to become more aware of your current thoughts

    -Begin thinking thoughts that better serve you

    -Learn how to think to achieve any goal you set in life

  • What Did You Just Say?

    Active Listening and Effective Communication in a Distracted World

    Listening and communicating are skills that can - and should - be developed and honed throughout your career. With lots of activities and opportunities for feedback, this program teaches:

    -The steps to active listening and how to develop your listening "weak link"

    -The foundations of effective communication: clarity and conciseness

    -How to minimize distractions that impede listening and communicating

  • MBTI for Corporations

    As a Master Practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Lesa has worked with major corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions to develop teams, improve communication, resolve conflict, and identify leadership strengths.

    She is available for four- or six-hour retreats at an offsite location of your choice. To speak about your organization’s needs and Lesa’s availability and fees, please contact us.

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Organizations Lesa has worked with include:

Career Thought Leaders National Conference

National Association of Colleges and Employers

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences

Missouri Librarians Association

Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers

Bank Midwest

Missouri Young Bankers’ Association

Macon Women of Today “Job Searching for Women” Conference

Gutensohn Medical Clinic

Topps, Inc. (Bazooka Bubble Gum)

Truman State University

Diageo (formerly Guinness)

Florida Virtual School

Community South Credit Union

Kirksville Leadership Institute

Capital City Bank

Walton County Sheriffs Office