Eileen McDargh

Featured Keynote Programs

KEYNOTE 60-90 minutes or half-day session

“Nobody ever downsized their way to greatness.”
- 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. Eileen’s book The Resilient Spirit is an ideal gift that can be personalized as a take-home reminder of powerful lessons.
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:
Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, laugh-ability, and alignment for producing results that put YOU in control of your ship.

Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
Explore what great leaders do to inspire teams to stay in the game and thrive. (And it has NOTHING to do with money!) Get them energized, actualized, authorized, and gratified.
Develop a personal legacy leadership goal that defies downturns and disappointments.

Coming into Your Own—A Women’s Retreat

You’ve given much of your life to your work, your family, your friends, your community. Busy beyond busy. And now-it is your time. Time to come away. Discover the song you are now meant to sing and the life you are now meant to live.

Come away with other women who bring their own wisdom to the fire. Be supported and taught skills for leading a life by design and not by default. Allow your voice to be finally heard above the chatter of others. Allow your body and soul to be nurtured by the warmth of nature and the ambiance of luxury.

You will learn how to powerfully and positively shape the direction of your future. You will honor the place of NOW in your life. You will explode the myth of balance and replace it with a model that recognizes the challenges of life. And from a place of self-leadership, supported by a community of women, walk away with skills and insights for the next part of your journey.
You’ll also walk away with:

JourneyWork, a 52-week workbook and journal for navigating your progress.

LEADERS FOR THE RETREAT: Dr. Eunice Parisi Carew and Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Howard Thurman
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.

KEYNOTE, BREAKOUT—anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes.

Can also be a 3-hour with JOURNEYWORK

A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic.
Make no mistake—everyone works—whether for free or fee!
How can you work smart and live happier? Is it even possible in this fast-paced, frantic world? From senior executives to front line employees, this issue is key to the changing nature of America’s workforce and today’s world.
We hear about the need to balance personal and work priorities, but how do you go from burned out to fired up? How can we juggle the many responsibilities and demands on our busy lives?

In this insightful and interactive program you will:

• Understand why traditional models of balance no longer work in these times of change.
• Discover how to conduct your own “CAT” scan of life.
• Acquire the skills to “sail” within the five critical areas of living.
• Create your own action plan for juggling the demands of your fast-paced life.
• Develop personal strategies for creating “a life by design, not be default”.
• Learn at least three methods for effective self-management and self-improvement that you can put to work immediately.

KEYNOTE 60-90 minutes

At the end of the day, you too yearn for a way to let your spirit soar and your gifts shine. The competitive global 24/7 world of heart-stopping competition puts personal energy at risk. We too yearn to connect with new possibilities for people, productivity, profitability and purpose.

This keynote is based on the premise that transforming our work requires nothing less than transforming ourselves and together we take a look at four inner skills essential for coaching ourselves along this journey. Our own “work in progress” becomes the touchstone for connecting at a deeper level with our work mates and our soul mates. As we ease on down this road, we find our wisdom, ah-ha moments and greatest learnings through the context of our lives. This wisdom becomes deeper if it is forged in a furnace fueled with mind, heart and spirit.
You’ll never think of energy in the same way again. Forget OPEC and prices at the pump. Discover your own reservoir of power and purpose with five tools to drill down into your own internal well of possibilities. Human energy is a priceless commodity. Learn a new formula for E=MC 2 . When it comes to energy and the capacity to do work, discover how to get it, renew it and stop giving it away.

At the end of the day, our very success hinges on relationships.
These relationships grow or die based on a skill too often we forget: CONVERSATION. How meaningful are yours?
The proliferation of cell phones and the glut of chat rooms show us what society yearns for: meaningful human connection, community, and the value of relationships.

The pace of change, the lure of dazzling technology, and the speed of life have created the opposite. The most human of all connections is conversation – an internal and external event that has become blurred. We’ve forgotten how to talk to each other – if in fact some of us ever knew. In many instances, we have never been taught how to listen. At the deepest level, we’ve probably never stopped long enough to even listen to ourselves.

And at times of crisis, these conversations become even more important. This presentation explores a model for understanding and growing the conversations we have with ourselves and with each other so that everyone becomes fully engaged in the work we are tasked to do. And you’ll also celebrate the power of humor to connect. Be prepared to think, laugh, and learn.

Workshop: 90 minutes to 3 hours

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:

• Understand techniques for “scripting” and creating rapport
• Identify the behavior of difficult people and personal responses to such behaviors
• Focus on effective responses to the hostile-aggressive trio
• Discover the 4-step model for handling anger on and off the phone
• Learn the difference between difficult people and people within a difficult situation
• Identify self-management tools for developing rapport and maintaining inner calm and integrity under pressure
Please note: This session can also be interactive; including role-play, phone practice, etc.

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:

• Learn an easy-to-grasp framework to improve communication skills long after the workshop is over
• Discover why some people “bug you” and why you do well with others
• Find out how to work with peers and bosses using key information on “what makes them tick”
• Learn how to “sell” different people, differently
• Understand how to select a dynamic and productive team, valuing individual differences
• Improve communication skills with clients, colleagues, friends and family
• Look at every human interaction differently, using new-found knowledge and insights