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  Optimal Performance

  Dr. Frank Sassetti, PsyD, CPT

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Dr, Sassetti has created a curriculum of how to be at your best to do your best. By creating a healthy body along with a focused and resilient mind, anyone can position him/herself to perform at optimal levels, no matter what the endeavor. Any audience will learn the importance of the relationship between the body and mind and how a this relationship forms the foundation for optimal performance/success. Participants will learn practical tools to implement immediately to being on their path to optimal performance. MORE >

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  Investing for the Future: Considerations and Strategies for Any Type of Market

  Krzysztof 'Kris' Garlewicz, CFP, CRPS, Founder, LPL Registered Principal at Prosperifi

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  There's a full court press on how one should invest their hard earned money. Active vs. Passive. Mutual Funds vs. ETFs. Stock, bonds and alternatives too. Is one approach superior to the next? Do they fit together? What's the appropriate blend and where does one begin? These are just some of questions we'll cover in a fast based, ambitious environment covering the strategies and considerations needed for any type of market. MORE >

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  Generation Z (Zoomers) in the Workplace

  Mary Erlain, President, Peak Development Strategies

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  We have taken a generation and placed them in a boat, we gave them no navigation system, no map, no destination, and no plan. We set them in an ocean filled with icebergs and sharks and told them to figure it out. Based on the new book, The Zoomers Book, the presentation addresses the fact that this generation is "not wrong, just different" and how to navigate them and encourage them in our workplace. We offer hope and a plan that is further explained in the future book The Zoomer Project. So if you are confused about how to help this future generation and truly want to help them become the productive individuals they can be, then this presentation is for you. The first step in helping someone is to learn who they are and not rely on assumptions. MORE >

  Whether you are a solo business owner, a large company, or any point in between, we will change how you view your business world (and maybe help you on the home front too).

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  Start Early, Start Smart: How to Choose a Motivating College Major

  Georgia Koch, Community Outreach Coordinator, Career Vision

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Educational

  Is it possible for students to identify potential college majors and career directions while still in high school? You bet! Students and parents will learn what they need to know before choosing a college, and how identifying a college major and career direction can build a student's motivation and confidence while reducing college expenses. MORE >

  Receive information and resources to guide your student and take the stress out of making these important decisions. This program is for parents and students of high school and college age.

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  How the Illinois Foreclosure Process Works

  Bryan Sims, President, Sims Law Firm, Ltd.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Bryan presents information on the foreclosure process in Illinois, including typical timelines and what one can expect during a foreclosure action.

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  What Happens After the Paychecks Stop? A Retirement Income Primer Seminar

  Roger Smith, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Examine how to budget for retirement expenses, potential sources of retirement income and potential risks such as LTC and health care costs.

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  Measuring Results From Training

  Bette Lawrence-Water, Founder and Principal Consultant, Spectrum Strategic Solutions

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  Although we all know that training can have many amazing benefits, sometimes it can be hard to prove those benefits and attach a dollar value to training. Some topics, like sales training or time management, might have direct, tangible benefits. Other topics, like communication or leadership, might have benefits that you can’t put a dollar value on. MORE >

  Through this discussion participants will learn about the different ways to evaluate training progress, and how to use those results to demonstrate the results that training brings. Once the training has been evaluated the next step is to modify and updated the curriculum to create a content that is better suited for the participants.

  Presentation Objectives:
  • Understand learning styles and learning cycle
  • Understand levels of evaluation
  • Be familiar with many types of evaluation tools, including goal setting, tests, reactionary sheets, interviews, observations, hip-pocket assessments, skill assessments, and learning journals
  • Understand when to use each type of evaluation tool
  • Be able to perform a needs assessment
  • Know how to write learning objectives and link them to evaluation
  • Be able to write an evaluation plan to evaluate learning at each stage of the training and far beyond
  • Know how to identify the costs, benefits, and return on investment of training
  • Be familiar with the parts of a business case

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  Computer Security Essentials

  Jody Jankovsky, Founder and Managing Member, Black|Line Consulting

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Black|Line's Security Essentials presentation focuses on the most common computer security issues facing people and businesses today. The talk describes the 4 primary threat categories and a series of technologies and best practices to protect yourself. The presentation can be made to fit a 30-60 minute format.

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  Seeing Into Strength

  Robert Kingett, Author

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  Robert Kingett is no longer accepting speaking requests through Free Speakers so visit Robert's website for the most up to date speaker topics and pages at https://blindjournalist.wordpress.com/live/

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  Accelerate Your Mojo: 7 Simple Steps to Ignite Intuition, Shake the Fear, and Unleash the Real You

  Allison Sutter, Founder, Living 360, LLC

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Self-Improvement

  Do you put decisions such as sharing your authentic Self with others, your health, forgiveness, loving yourself fully, or living the way you'd prefer because of fear or doubt? Does it feel too hard to change the way you're living so instead you just settle for an uncomfortable status quo, hoping that ache in your gut, or low-grade stress or anxiety, will just disappear somehow? MORE >

  Do you hide who you really are from the world or worry what others think of you and your choices because rejection is too painful?

  If so, this talk is for you, or your group. Hello. My name is Allison Sutter. I'm the creator of the Accelerate Your Mojo (AYM) formula.

  Accelerate Your Mojo is a simple 7 step formula proven to ignite your intuition so you always know what your next best step is and feel confident making it. It's a unique and sustainable way to swap fear, doubt, and anxiety for ease, clarity, and excitement in life.

  The seven AYM steps are:

  1. Ask ... (for what you want and get it).
  2. Desire ... (is a potent fuel. The force is in you).
  3. Beliefs ... (must be analyzed. They are the fabric of your reality).
  4. Allow ... (in the good stuff you asked for in step one, got all excited about in step two, and went to the trouble of changing your beliefs for in step three).
  5. Focus of Attention ... (is the power that creates your world).
  6. Inspired Action ... (is different from struggle and trying really hard. This action starts within, not without).
  7. Detached Optimism ... (is the paradox of increasing positive manifestations. Focus with intense excitement. Then, let go of what you think needs to happen).

  AYM is a process that dispels the myth that the spiritual you and the physical you are separate, and that only those who have 'spiritual practices', or look, act, and talk a certain way, are allowed to call themselves 'spiritual beings'.

  Being a talk specifically designed to unleash the real you, the 20-30 minute talk highlights on how you can use this idea of being a spiritual being to help to solve everyday problems, repair relationships, increase abundance (in all forms), as well as helping eliminate the mental and emotional discomfort that comes from thinking you are 'less than' or need to have more (time, money, health, happiness, success) in order to be worthy, or feel safe.

  This talk has nothing to do with religion It has everything to do with using the idea of who you are and the resources and knowledge you have at your disposal today (intuition and love) to live a more awakened, empowered, happy life.

  The self-assessment questions below are a prerequisite to booking this talk. Please ask potential audience members for this talk to answer yes or no to the following questions. If you answer yes to any of the follow statements, the AYM talk can help provide sustainable solutions and jumpstart your desired AYM transformations (listed below).

  1. I want to get to the root cause of my emotional discomfort.
  2. I struggle to make decisions because I worry I'm not making the right choice.
  3. It feels as if fear and doubt are stopping me from having the awesome experiences I want in life.
  4. Sometimes I say, "I feel stuck," or "It feels like something keeps getting in the way of success."
  5. I experience strong thoughts of self-doubt, anxiety, or unworthiness.
  6. I can't seem to figure out why what I asked for in life isn't showing up.
  7. I often think, "Why does that keep happening to me? I'm a kind, positive person."
  8. I keep some aspect of myself hidden from others because I worry I won't be accepted as I truly am.
  9. The unknown aspect of new experiences, and even my future success, makes my uncomfortable.
  10. I experience skepticism or emotional discomfort even when things are going great in life.
  11. I desire a more in-depth conversation about how I create my own reality as both a physically and non-physically (spiritual) being.
  12. I want to uncover why problems and challenges (which Allison refers to as contrast) are a necessary aspect of life and foster appreciation for them.
  13. I want to learn how to use both positive and negative feelings as a diagnostic tool for empowered, happy living.
  14. I tend to put the needs of others before my own and experience resentment, disappointment, frustration, or anger because of it.
  15. I want to be a good person and help others, but sometimes I feel depleted in the process.

  The transformations from implementing the AYM process are:

  1. Clearly understand the root cause of your emotional discomfort and free yourself from its burden.
  2. Always know what your next best step is in any situation and confidently take inspired action.
  3. Use fear, doubt, and anxiety, as well as positive emotions, as the guidance they're designed to be. You'll uncover restricting beliefs and definitions of yourself and life, and rescript them ensuring more ease and appreciation.
  4. Experience daily thrill bumps of self-love, self-appreciation, and witness how life is always working out for you.
  5. Be comfortable in your skin and enjoy the good things in life, fully and unapologetically.
  6. Practice your way back to centered stability; uncork your natural vim and vigor for life.
  7. Clarify your true spiritual nature, embracing this aspect of yourself as your most cherished, trusted, and dependable relationship.
  8. Fully understand why contrast (problems and challenges) are a necessary part of life and how to use contrast as a diagnostic tool for positive transformations, instead of a reason to feel victimized, depressed, angry, or jealous.
  9. Learn to be selfish in a healthy way, benefitting both yourself and those you connect with daily. Own and honor the idea that wen you're depleted mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually, you can't truly help others anyway.

  Please note: My speaking events are online only.

  Please note: I'm not a motivational speaker; I'm an educator who teaches her students to be more in alignment with who they really are and to transform fear and anxiety into something better, every time they show up. This talk is designed for individuals who are already up to speed with the idea that we are spiritual creatures having a physical experience. It works best when the audience has a preexisting belief in infinite intelligence and that we are Source connected beings.

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