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Get it SOLD with Home Staging
GraceAnn Simoni, President & Premier Home Stager, Staging Redesign Group Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free SpeechSelling your home now or in the future. When you’re ready to put you house on the market will you know where to start? Do you think the Realtor will do everything for you? Does the thought of getting your home ready for the buyer’s critical eye scare you? Are you willing to take a price reduction rather than investing a little into the house? MORE >
Staging a home results in fewer days on the market and a higher selling price. Be one step ahead of the competition. Learn how to stage your home today! Get it ready now before even calling the Realtor!What can be done to get your house ready for little or no money?
From the curb to the back door!
What home Staging is and what it is not.
What are buyers in this market looking for in their new home?
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Understanding Pain Color and Light
GraceAnn Simoni, President & Premier Home Stager, Staging Redesign Group Inc.
TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational
Request This Free SpeechEver choose the perfect paint color only to realize it does not look the same on your walls? Why? Understand more about color, the new light bulbs and how they effect color. Discover how light outside and inside you home effects paint color.
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The Art of Not Being Defeated
Troy Sandidge, Keynote Speaker • Emcee • Fractional CMO • Podcaster • Author, Strategy Hackers
TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational
Request This Free SpeechLife is difficult. Our lives are constantly "under construction" and so are our goals and dreams both personally and professionally. What happens when life throws you a curveball you didn't expect? What do you do when it feels like all is lost and you want to give up? This session tackles the reality and fear of defeat. MORE >
Focuses:
• How to Deal with Life-Altering Situations
• Strategies on How to Dig-Deep & Move Forward Despite Obstacles
• Q & A on Personal Techniques That Helped Me Personally & ProfessionallyBreakdown:
• How to Release What’s Holding Us Back to Pursue the Goals We Want
• Learn & Apply the C.L.O.V.E.R. Business Framework™ to Achieve Your Goals
• Build T.R.U.S.T. within Our Internal Teams & Departments, & Discover as a Whole
• Renewing Our Commitments Professionally & Personally
• Tips to Improve Productivity, Teamwork, & Culture within Micro-Teams & OrganizationIntentional Themes & Emotion Expected to Be Experienced:
• Self-Reflection
• Inspiration
• Transition
• Affirmations
• Objectively Thinking
• Revitalization
• Embracing Change
• Taking Action Toward GoalsActionable Takeaways:
• Get System To Level-Up Your Mindset to Maintain Momentum to Achieve
• Apply Strategies to Obtain Clarity & Directions to Stay in Alignment with Your Goals
• Refocus. Realignment. Revitalization. Moving From Passion to Action** Session can be customized to be more Faith-based or Motivational-Based
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Climate Crisis Urgency and Remedies
Tom Coleman, Sustainability Analyst, Climate Reality Chicago Metro Chapter
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechLearn from Tom about the scientific consensus on climate change, as well as fossil fuel pollution, climate warming problems, and other challenges. Tom will also discuss the pillars of needed change and market approaches and business solutions for change. Also covered is: MORE >
• The role of business in the convergence of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) forces.
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Electric Vehicle Total Cost of Ownership and Role in Sustainability
Tom Coleman, Sustainability Analyst, Climate Reality Chicago Metro Chapter
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechTom discusses electric vehicle (EV) costs from battery manufacturing to charging to driving. He also discusses a comparison of internal combustion engine and EVs on pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and costs. Other points covered are: MORE >
• The current state of EV range and charging.
• The role of hybrid, plug-in-hybrid, fuel-cell (hydrogen) electric, and battery electric vehicles.
• Automaker initiatives and EV availability.
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En-Roads Climate Simulator
Mark Ailes, Climate Advocate, Citizens Climate Education
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechCan the audience solve the climate problem? They get to pick the levers they think will have the biggest impact and see what happens. Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan have worked together to build a simulator with most of the variables in a world wide climate model. I have been trained to run a workshop using the model that has also been used by the US Senate. It is interesting to see what is needed to solve the problem and what factors make the biggest difference. (About 1 hour) MORE >
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How I Became a Climate Advocate.
Mark Ailes, Climate Advocate, Citizens Climate Education
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechMy climate story. A brief tour of how as an active bicyclist I became an advocate for national action on climate change. In particular how an effective nonpartisan solution became a large focus of my retired life. Followed by a question and answer session focused on the interests and concerns of the audience about solving the climate problem. (30 minutes to 1 hour) MORE >
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The Issues & Solutions to Climate Change
Henry Moss, Outreach Educator, Citizens Climate Lobby Education
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechClimate Change is humanity’s greatest challenge. Its solution depends on innovative policy and low-carbon technology that will catalyze and accelerate the global transition to a clean energy economy. Henry’s presentation will increase awareness of the urgency of Climate Change and how your members can be part of the solution to Climate Change. MORE >
Presentation Overview:
How to be part of the solution to Climate Change
The importance of political will
The basics of Climate Change
The urgency of Climate Change
An innovative bipartisan policy solution
Pricing carbon to accelerate technical solutions
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History and current importance of drainage for a healthy and sustainable Chicago Region
Richard Lanyon, Consultant, Retired Executive Director, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechRichard will discuss how the flow in the Calumet and Chicago Rivers was reversed, why this is still important today to protect public health, and how current water infrastructure reduces flood damages, provides recreation, recovers resources and protects Lake Michigan as a clean and safe source of water. Richard’s topics can be tailored to your local interests. MORE >
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Solutions to Climate Change
Andrew Panelli, Group Leader, Chicago South Suburbs, Citizens' Climate Education
TOPIC CATEGORY: Climate
Request This Free SpeechHere’s an opportunity to engage your audience in a fun way to learn more about the climate change issue, solutions, and the relative effectiveness of those solutions. As part of the exercise, we discuss various actions that can be taken. The audience is engaged to offer suggested solutions to slow climate change. MORE >
Our trained facilitator will show the group how each suggested action(s) will impact climate change on a MIT/Sloan simulator that will model their proposed solution(s) instantly in “real-time”. This stimulates discussions as to why an action may or may not be as effective a course of action as expected. We’ll also share bipartisan actions that Congress is considering and evaluate what impact those actions have on climate change.Participants leave the discussion with new insights on how the problem should be addressed.