Audiences enjoy and are inspired to hear Dr. Maria speak about leadership, especially leading with love. Her unique insights, intense passion and ability to connect with people produces talks that are thought-provoking, compelling, inspirational, and warm…sprinkled with wisdom and, of course, humor. 

Some of her most popular presentations include:

Leading with Love: The Heart of Success

Leading with Love is not for the faint of heart. It is never easy to truly challenge attitudes you once considered “gospel” or accept the necessity of changing the way you’ve always behaved. Fear is running rampant in many organizations today, paralyzing leaders from making better decisions, stifling innovation, killing loyalty, and negatively impacting productivity. As the economy recovers and the war on talent gears up, love-based organizations are the best defense. The session provides an overview of the tenants of Love-Based Leadership and evidence for its multifaceted organizational success. 

This presentation inspires participants to take an honest look at – and recognize – the destructive nature of workplace fear. Replacing fear with a love-based culture is not for the faint of heart. The most arduous journey many will take is the 18” from the head to the heart. This is not a session of kittens, puppies, unicorns and rainbows. Instead, leaders will learn effective real-world strategies to influence, motivate, and retain employees with practical and tactical solutions for sustainable and innovative workplace cultures.

Objectives:

• Identify fear-based cultures and “go to” strategies

• Understand the value, benefits, and power of leading with love

• Learn the three pillars of Love-Based Leadership: Love of Self, Source, and Others 

• How to apply love-based aspects into your everyday work environment

• Leverage the intrinsic values of employees for productivity, motivation, and loyalty

• Improve workplace cultures for innovation and knowledge creation

Build It and They Will Come...and Stay: Creating a Workplace Culture for Innovation, Productivity, and Sustainability

Some of the biggest challenges facing today’s executives include retaining and rewarding the best employees, developing the next generation of leaders, and creating an organizational culture that attracts, motivates, and keeps the best employees. The next generation of leaders views organizational culture as one of the most important factors in working for and staying with a company.  

Social sites like LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed mean that any company’s employment brand is now public information. If it’s not a great place to work, people find out fast. Deloitte reports that 95% of candidates believe culture is more important than compensation. 

In this presentation, participants will be inspired to recognize the powerful differentiator of organizational culture. Participants will also explore the seven layers of culture and how to influence positive change at each level. Leaders will learn strategies to influence, motivate, and retain employees with practical and tactical solutions to build thriving, sustainable, and innovative workplace cultures.

Objectives:

• Leverage the intrinsic values of employees for productivity, motivation, and loyalty

• Implement appropriate motivation techniques

• Improve workplace cultures for innovation and knowledge creation

• Assess self-values and how those align with his/her organizational culture

• Increase influence and communication with the team 

• Influence positive change at each of the seven layers of culture

• Learn strategies to create desired workplace culture

Cancer in the C-Suite: Leadership Lessons Learned from a Journey through the Big “C”

As a recent cancer survivor, Dr. Church intimately shares the leadership lessons she learned as she walked her own path through cancer. This poignant and powerful presentation invites the audience to view their personal leadership through a perspective lens of vulnerability as strength.

Additional Value

In addition to the proposed presentations, Dr. Church is available to conduct a pre-conference video and webinar to help promote conference registrations by providing additional content beyond the presentation itself, helping to heighten interest in the conference topics. She may also facilitate an executive roundtable, panel discussion, or breakout session during the event. 

Dr. Church is available for speaking engagements with associations, corporations, local governments, industry events, private retreats, and training workshops. For more information, please contact Concierge@DrMariaChurch.com

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