Speaking Topics

Marie speaks on a wide variety of topics from technology to career and professional development. Her in-demand seminars have been offered to companies and conferences around the world and her webinars have reached thousands of students. Marie can customize a program for your specific audience, from a one hour educational webinar to a multi-day training and motivational workshop.

Technology

Automation and the Impact on the Workplace

Automation is impacting every area of the workplace, from the reception desk to the executive suite. Learn what is here already, what is on the horizon, and how you and your office can be prepared for the coming Artificial Intelligence tsunami.

Google Workspace
(formerly G-Suite)

Learn Google G-Suite and how you can use it more effectively. Programs can be customized for your audience from beginner through advanced topics.  

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote)

Any Microsoft Office topic can be covered from tips and tricks for beginners through advanced topics, including going in-depth on specialized narrowly focused topics. Custom programs can created as needed.

PowerSearching the Internet

Being able to search for information on the internet in a more focused way can save you hours of time and loads of frustration. Learn the ins and outs of advanced internet search techniques that will narrow your results down from millions to precisely what you need.

Tech Tools for the Savvy Admin

Staying aware of websites, software and apps that can help us do our jobs more efficiently will ensure that our skills stay cutting edge. Learn about some of the newest programs out there to help us get more done in less time and with less effort.

Troubleshooting Technology

Virtual meetings save us so much time and money, but they can be extremely frustrating when something goes wrong. Learn some of the most common issues and how you might be able to address many of them without involving your IT folks. We’ll also discuss best practices for preventing issues in the first place.

Windows Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Windows provides myriad ways to customize your computer, search your files and control your user experience. Learn more about what you can do with this program and how you can modify everything from how your screen looks to how it functions .

Career Advancement​

Building Your Skills Portfolio

You can’t wait for Corporate America to build a career path for you. Carve out your own niche in the world. Learn the secrets of making yourself marketable by building a skills portfolio that will carry you through the challenges that life throws at you. Create simple tools to document your past accomplishments and assess your current skill set. Build a career map and develop an action plan to highlight your strengths and circumvent your weaknesses. Enhance your reputation and improve your career opportunities. Whether you are just starting out or are a career veteran, you need this edge.

Negotiating Your Career

As the old saying goes, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. Discover why people don’t try to negotiate better terms in job offers and why they SHOULD! Understand the various factors in a job offer and which have room for flexibility. Learn about the timing of your negotiations and how to start as well as how to put yourself in a position of power. We’ll look at your available options and the key factors to success. These tips will help you become more confident when negotiating your career choices!

Social Media for Career Advancement

Explore the many ways you can utilize social media for career advancement – from networking to job searching to skills development and more. We’ll delve into the pros and cons of social media as it relates to your professional development. Take full advantage of technology and communication to enhance your career.

The 21st Century Job Search

This enlightening program will walk you through the steps of the electronic job search from determining which sites best meet your needs to setting up job search agents and identifying the most effective way to enter your data into online application forms. We’ll discuss key factors of formatting your resume whether it is being submitted as a cut and paste résumé or attachment and also look at the various ways hiring companies will be searching their database of candidates so that your resume will float to the top in their searches.

Professional Development​

Becoming the Renaissance Employee

All too often, our employers pigeonhole us into certain roles, convinced that we have a certain set of skills and they know our potential. This program will help you to get beyond feeling like a small cog in a big machine and discover new ways of encouraging your employer to consider your skills in a new light. We’ll explore critical thinking skills and suggest methods to become more of a partner to your boss and company. Discover how you can expand your role into new areas and develop new skills (but more importantly new approaches to your current job). You’ll get a better understanding of the different perspectives you can bring to your job to solve problems and become a more valued employee in the process.

Planning Large Scale Events

Pulling off a large-scale event flawlessly requires months of intense planning and action. Learn the key components of organizing a large event and ensuring everything goes smoothly. We’ll also discuss the important debriefing steps to ensure future events build on the success of the past and eliminate any past oversights.

Proofreading 101

Developing your proofreading skills means that you look at much more than whether words are misspelled or not. Learn about the many different facets of proofreading and why each is a critical component in your documents.

Working More Effectively

Are you overwhelmed by having too much to do? Would you like to have more balance in your life and more time for YOU? This energetic and informative presentation will showcase tips to shave time off your tasks both at work and at home with advance planning, streamlining, reorganizing, eliminating, delegating, utilizing technology, and combining tasks. You’ll learn to work more effectively and accomplish more in less time. Cumulatively, these tips will add up to HOURS earned. How would you spend an extra hour a day?

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