She's been a guest on CNN as well as other television and radio programs and has created an exciting Chicago-based radio commentary, Celebrating the Human Spirit. She is a featured author in A Women's Way to Incredible Success: Real Life Lessons from 20 Prominent Business Women and a contributing author in Meditations for the Road Warrior. Her three-part video training program, Engaging the Spirit of Nurse Leadership is in constant demand within the healthcare arena.
Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith, William Bridges and boardroom poet, David Whyte.
Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of the 4000-member National Speakers Association. She's served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of NSA and also currently on the national board for Take Back Your Time, an international initiative for work/life integration practices. Eileen's articles are published on- and off-line around the world and she frequently offers her insight in her "Plain Talk" blog.
Work For A Living And Still Be Free To Live Make no mistake-everyone works-whether for free or fee! How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front-line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America's workforce and today's world. We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands on our busy lives? Balance is baloney! Discover a better metaphor for the realities of living in a 24/7 world. Learn the power of choice and how to conduct a "C.A.T." scan of your life. Develop strategies to create a life by YOUR design and not by default.
The Energy Connection You'll never think of energy in the same way again. Forget OPEC and prices at the pump. Discover your own reservoir of power and purpose with five tools to drill down into your own internal well of possibilities. Human energy is a priceless commodity. Learn a new formula for E=MC2. When it comes to energy and the capacity to do work, discover how to get it, renew it and stop giving it away.
Radical Resilience Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns. It's not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It's about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good. Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows. Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, ah-ha, and alignment for producing results that put YOU in control of your ship.
Navigating the Rapids of Change: Thinking Ourselves New This inspiring keynote is based on the belief that successful organizations and individuals continually hone their thinking and self-management skills in order to survive in rapidly changing times. They are experienced 'navigators' who lead their people and their organizations through tough times to smoother waters. You'll find much to think about, talk about and laugh about, as Eileen provides an understanding of the 'mastery' model and explores what it takes to deepen our professional and personal lives in order to be better tomorrow than we are today.
Resiliency: Staying Right Side Up When the World is Upside Down In times of uncertainty and life-altering events, the ability to not only survive but also thrive is an inside out task. This is no Pollyanna presentation but rather the results of research and interviews with people who have "made it through." You'll learn coping strategies, how to self-talk for optimism and the power of synchronicity. You'll reach deep for your own WHY that must precede the WHAT. There's something here for everyone-laughter and tears all flow from the same well.
Inside Out Leadership: The Power of Engagement It's time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation. Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement. Discover the secret of viewing points, orange batons and Little Davids in creating teams and fostering loyalty.
Connecting the Human Web: Plain Talk for Complex Times The pace of change, the lure of dazzling technology, and the speed of life have created the opposite. The most human of all connections is conversation - an internal and external event that has become blurred. We've forgotten how to talk to each other - if in fact some of us ever knew. This presentation explores a model for understanding and growing the conversations we have with ourselves and with each other so that everyone becomes fully engaged in the work we are tasked to do. And you'll also celebrate the power of humor to connect. Be prepared to think, laugh and learn.
Relighting and Retaining Good People In this interactive program, you'll learn that star performers aren't always looking for more money, but rather career growth, learning and development, exciting work, meaningful work, making a difference and the chance to make a contribution on a team. And, of course, a good manager who makes the difference in winning the talent war.
Mountain-High Wisdom for Every Day Living From backpacking in the High Sierras to trekking remote regions of the western Himalayas, Eileen takes audiences on the adventure of discovering what lessons for work and life can be learned from the high country. Your audience will join Eileen on this walk in the wilderness to discover fresh perspectives, practical practices and laugh- out-loud-joy in the process. Whether they are a world-weary worker juggling the demands of a hectic life or a seeker of soul-satisfying experiences, this speech is their key to refresh, renew, rethink and recharge.
Lead-Her-Ship™: Claiming The Power, Passion, Play And Purpose Of Our Lives Gather women together and you have an energy source to light even the darkest corners of the world. Eileen puts a match to that energy. A keynote presentation for reliving and laughing about our foibles, for celebrating our uniqueness, for renewing our passion and commitment to life, and for establishing the common traits which allow all of us to bloom where we are planted. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children.
Surviving and Thriving With Difficult People Life would be easy if it weren't for other people! Would you like to turn from mad to glad with your colleagues and customers? Eileen can show you how.
This ninety-minute to three-hour session focuses on improving relationships at work through successfully dealing with people. Using humor and examples, Eileen will guide participants through the process of learning how to defuse anger in themselves and others. They will discover how to identify and understand problem behavior and how to use systematic methods for handling such behaviors.
Understanding Communication Behaviors: Upping the E-Quotient and Your Emotional IQ Talk is never cheap. It's priceless! How would you rate your communication efforts? Better still-what would others say? Using a personal communication profile (the DISC), you'll discover your unique behavioral preferences. You'll gain insights on where and why relationships grow or suffer. This workshop is designed to open channels for sharing communication preferences and valuing differences. With interaction, humor and high content, Eileen will help you walk away with ideas for improving your own communication while understanding others. This program provides plenty of high content, useful information you can put to work at the office and at home.
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