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Speaking
Skilled in-person and virtual keynote, webinar and workshop presenters. Marietta and Heidi share practical insights on what it takes to live an intentional and impactful life, and continuously evolve your career to stay ahead of the competition.
Our Experience
Our founders, Marietta Stalcup and Heidi Thompson, have been Fortune 500 leaders, career pivoters and entrepreneurs.
They have over 20 years’ experience coaching, mentoring and leading high-achieving professionals looking for impactful and meaningful careers. Between living abroad or managing diverse workforces, Marietta and Heidi know what it is like to live, work and lead diverse teams. They use their experiences in their keynotes and workshops by sharing grounded research and compelling, real-world stories to spark practical ideas that you can put to work immediately. With their expertise in leadership, DiSC, strategic career management and cultural competency, they can deliver leadership insights, virtually and in person, to audiences ranging from 10 to 1000. They love speaking at conferences, company events and association workshops. We will work with you to customize a presentation for your audience or select from the list of our most popular topics below.
Speaking Topics
On the Blog
What we Learned…Results from the Evolu Career Survey
Do you love your job? Do you feel your work has purpose and aligns with your values? What leadership skills are you looking to develop over the next two years? We were curious about these topics, so we acted.
Avoid Getting Trapped: 3 Mind Traps to Avoid If You Want to Be Happy at Work
An article from the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Happiness Traps: How We Sabotage Ourselves at Work,” the author suggests we accept this unhappiness because we are trapped. Trapped by one, or all, of three common happiness traps: The Ambition Trap, The Should Trap, and The Overwork Trap. Read on to learn what are they, how they contribute to unhappiness at work, and what can we avoid these three traps?
Examining Your Experience: How reframing your story can change your life
Growing up, my mom frequently asked me, “What will people think of you?” At the time, I did not genuinely appreciate the impact these words had on me until my coach, Jonathan Jerden, assigned me an exercise. He asked me to revisit past events and memories – beginning with my childhood and working my way to the present – to explore and evaluate how seminal events and key people impacted my beliefs, assumptions, thinking, and thus my behaviors. As I did this, the question, “Why do I care so much about what people think of me?” bubbled to the surface. By reflecting on this question while examining my experience, I could trace its origins back to my mom’s recurring question.
The Future of Work – Evolving You and Your Career in Uncertain Times
Evolving You and Your Career in Uncertain Time With the future yet to be written, we are finding ourselves in a moment of reflection. Re-defining the future of work is happening as employers and workers push and pull with each other as they seek to meet their own various needs. The en masse resignation is
CQ: Cultural Intelligence – Why You Need It Now
“Get comfortable being uncomfortable with people from different countries.” Robin Scheffer, Director Price Waterhouse Coopers Netherlands told my MBA students during an interactive Zoom session he was leading. Solving complex global issues requires cultural intelligence. An MBA student once remarked that she didn’t think it necessary to learn about other cultures because she had no intentions
The Great Reprioritization: Should I Stay or Go?
6-Steps To Take To Help You Decide If You Should Change Jobs This year, the question on the minds of many is “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?” According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.5 million Americans resigned in November 2021. And, if you believe the myriad of surveys circling on many
