Motivational Speaking for Businesses

Mary Key, Ph.D., Speaker

In addition to her writing and consulting work at Key Associates, Dr. Mary Key is a sought after professional keynote speaker. As a motivational speaker for business, she has brought her messages on how we all can learn to be entrepreneurial leaders in our own lives and find balance as well as fulfillment to thousands of people annually. She has been the motivational keynote speaker at industry conventions, association meetings, and management seminars. Among Key Associates’ speaking clients are some of the largest public and private companies in the United States, major colleges and universities, non-profits, and charities.

Target Audience:

Decision makers, top leadership, executive leadership teams, anyone in a leadership role or who aspires to be, all associates in an organization

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To check Mary’s availability or book her for your next event, contact us at 813-831-9500 or email us at mary@keyassociatesinc.com.

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Keynote Topics

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A not-so-gentle slap into the realities of truly successful leadership

Sometimes we just need a slap to wake us up. This keynote presentation by Dr. Mary Key wakes people up to the true realities of successful leadership and successful living.

“We’ve been tricked,” she says, “into using the wrong rule book.”

The tragedy of that deception is that many of us are losing the game so badly we can’t even talk about it. Some won’t even know they’re losing until it’s too late. We pulled off the ultimate merger, but our marriage split up or important relationships ended. Our shareholders love us, but our kids don’t call. Our business has never been healthier, but we’ve been sent to three specialists about our stress level.

“This is successful leadership?” challenges Dr. Key. Backed by extensive research and true senior executive stories, Dr. Key takes us step-by-step to a new awareness of how we can literally have it all. She introduces us to new Road Rules that enable us to have the Right Focus, assemble the Right People around us and strategize the Right Execution.

Forget “life balance,” she says, that whole idea is part of the deception. It’s not about “balance”; it’s about being totally and fully “present” -- intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Her wise insights as a keynote motivational business speaker will prove beyond a doubt that the right blend of purpose, passion, people, plans and performance will lead to a level of peace and prosperity we can barely imagine.

Change: Are you Resilient and Agile?

Practical and effective strategies for responding to continuous or traumatic change for leaders with the duty to formulate winning responses.

How leaders respond to change is the most important factor in determining their success or failure. Yet few business schools teach future leaders what they need to know about change for today’s business climate. In this engaging talk, Dr. Key shares her proven formulas and strategies for responding effectively to both continuous and traumatic change.

It’s no secret that the inability to effectively deal with change is among the biggest reasons executives fail. Hear about strategies and tools that can make you more effective in your work and life.

Performance Leadership

High-octane fuel for managers looking for ways to sharpen their leadership skills and achieve measurable results for their enterprises.

“There has never been a time when effective leadership was more difficult or more crucial for business and government leaders than it is right now,” says professional keynote speaker Dr. Mary Key. In this talk, Dr. Key reveals how to make the leap from managing to leading. Based upon her extensive study of the most effective leaders and their practices, Dr. Key will offer practical steps that those in a management position can take to become more effective immediately.

“Even a tiny improvement in leadership skills can produce dramatic results in the business world,” says Dr. Mary Key.

A dynamic and interactive motivational keynote speaker, Dr. Key has helped thousands of new and experienced managers achieve their number one objective: effective leadership. As an experienced manager and international consultant, she shares the secrets to high-octane leadership performance with warmth, humor, and high energy.

Right Focus
The foundation of great achievement is focus. As a keynote motivational business speaker, Dr. Mary Key draws on her recent interviews with the nation’s top CEOs for her book, CEO Road Rules, and shares what she knows about setting the right priorities for explosive business success.

Every executive has experienced the frustration of being forced to set aside a long-term objective to deal with a short-term crisis. In this talk, Dr. Key outlines what she has learned from the nation’s top private-company CEOs about setting the right priorities and enduring until those goals are met.

“These CEO interviews were very revealing,” says Dr, Key. “Some of what managers face at every level is universal and so are a few of the strategies that the most successful executives use to set priorities effectively.”

Along with some not-to-be-missed stories and practical tools, you will learn winning strategies to increase your effectiveness at work and in life.

Right Focus, Right People, and Right Execution

Dr. Key’s careful study of the world’s most effective teams and organizations has revealed some insights into why they outshine the competition.

Would you like to know what makes some work teams champions and others merely average -- or worse? Would you like to know what the market-leading companies know about organizational effectiveness?

In the course of writing her new book, CEO Road Rules, Dr. Key gathered some vital answers to these questions by interviewing CEOs of America’s best privately held companies. As a motivational speaker for business, she shares those insights in this informative talk about winning in all three crucial phases of business success: Right Focus, Right People, and Right Execution. You will also learn more about what creates not only success, but true Significance.

Developing a Genius Level EQ

EQ stands for emotional intelligence and Dr. Mary Key will share some battle-tested techniques for improving your EQ and your results in the workplace.

Participants will learn how EQ is measured and how to use it to attract the “Right People” for their teams and projects.

“High Emotional Intelligence is a greater predictor of success in business than high IQ,” says Dr. Mary Key. “And EQ can be developed.”

This fun, interactive learning session will help you begin the journey to a higher EQ and also help you to better select and hire those who have it.

Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture: A Cat’s View

Using a fun analogy, Dr. Mary Key explores the many lessons cats can teach business people seeking to infuse their organizations with entrepreneurial spirit.

“Many businesses would love to have cultures that celebrate the best attributes of the entrepreneur,” says Dr. Key. “And by following the ways of the cat, they can.”

Drawing from her popular business book The Entrepreneurial Cat: 13 Ways to Transform Your Worklife, Dr. Key will give you practical techniques and strategies for producing a culture that thinks and acts with the best entrepreneurial instincts.

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