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Business author, commentator and Hall of Fame speaker helping organizations and individuals transform themselves
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About Eileen
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Eileen McDargh draws upon practical business know-how, life’s experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from healthcare associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranks her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development. Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, also named her as one of the World’s Top 30 Leadership Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.
She authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance—a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain’t Cheap… It’s Priceless – Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life’s Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in 2008, My Get-Up- and-Go Got Up and Went! was written for the tired and overwhelmed and her newest book Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing Through Life is being used by clients and individuals all over the world.
As a business author and commentator, she’s appeared on network news, on radio programs and in business journals and in major metropolitan newspapers.
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 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 speakers in the United States. She received the Legends of the Platform Award in 2011 and has been awarded the Top5 Speaker designation in Management/Business by Speakers Platform five years in a row.
See keynotes with Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAEThis keynote is designed to open a conversation about what we can do as individuals and professionals to move from pandemic panic to realistic responses. Fear paralyzes us. Clear thinking moves us.
Audience takeaways:
Alone again—and not so naturally. With employees scattered in various locations—even within the same city— a leader’s job becomes a blend of psychologist and coach, teacher, and student.
Audience takeaways:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
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 not about hanging on while holding back. It’s about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good. How can professionals cope with change while staying focused on their jobs and organization goals? The answer is resiliency – the ability to find the inner strength to grow through a set-back, challenge or opportunity.
Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit, and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows. Based upon the length of the presentation, participants will:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
Forget bouncing back in the face of rejection. That’s old school. Resiliency today is so much more.
Challenging, changing times require a mindset that constantly looks for how to improve the pipeline that traditionally is bogged down with unproductive actions.
Bottom line: Break-through results require grow-through strategies
Let Resiliency Expert, Eileen McDargh, offer provocative, pithy, profound yet personal insights into four resiliency skills. She’ll challenge your thinking while you interact and laugh—yes laugh. Laughter is a critical resiliency skill that binds us together.
Watch the results with increased sales, better retention of staff and customers, and an energized, resilient team.
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
Surprises are the new normal. Change is the new constant. Stress and burnout have reached epidemic proportions. Yet, not all is lost. Using the book Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work author and professional speaker Eileen McDargh will guide your audience on a different path.
This workshop is for everyone from the leaders of Fortune 100 companies to small business owners to the unemployed. Workshop pricing includes a copy of Your Resiliency GPS for each participant.
Based upon the length of the presentation, participants will:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
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.
A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic.
In this insightful and interactive program you will:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
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. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refresh, realign, reawaken, reflect, refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember and renew.
Participants will learn:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
A good career fit is not like squeezing into Spanx. Nope! It means thinking, listening, and sensing where, when and how to craft actions that bring you from good work to great work! The result: you feel GREAT and you stop the busywork and start the work that matters. It begins from the inside out.
In this session, you will:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
The “soft stuff” of business is always the hardest part of business.
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. The latest report from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.
The results will be:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
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 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.
Participants will also:
Keynote by Speaker Eileen McDargh
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 ‘meat’—high content, useful information you can put to work at the office and at home. You will:
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