Speaker

Minette's passion to improve communication in all walks of life drives her presentations, whether speaking to a group of parents, a business organization or to a sales force. Effective communication is the ultimate key to success in life and in business. In her presentations, Minette focuses on skills that anyone can use to be a compassionate listener and a passionate speaker.

Understanding Personal Style - A Simple Tool for Improving Communication at Home & At the Office

We all have a unique personality that makes us who we are but we also have certain predispositions to how we interact with other people and the world around us. If we understand our own style and our children's style, we can learn to work together and communicate more effectively with each other. By identifying our children's personal style, we can support and guide them towards activities that support their temperament and help them be successful in school and in life. The same is true of the people we work with. If you are in a leadership or sales position, understanding personal style will help you be more effective in your job. Minette will teach you tips and tricks to recognizing 4 unique categories of personal style and teach you how to style-shift so that you can interact successfully with people, even if they are very different than you.

Marketing to Moms: Ten Tips You Need to Know to Successfully Target this Lucrative Segment of the Market

Moms control a trillion dollars in spending annually, they make 85% of all household purchasing decisions and they are generally ignored by mainstream media. This is a group of buyers that loves information, that does the purchasing for the entire household and extended family, is a great referral source and a loyal customer once you gain her business and her trust. Are you reaching her where she is looking for information?

Life is too Short to Wear Diamond Studs or How I Found My Inner Gypsy

This is a motivational talk that will inspire attendees to discover their inner passion and to live a bolder, brighter life. Minette has an amazing collection of earrings that people have given her over the years (think the Imelda Marcos of earrings). She realized that each pair symbolizes a stage in her life that has led to her success, fulfillment and ultimate acceptance of who she is. In this fun and enlightening talk, Minette will focus on 6 keys areas of living a bolder, brighter life: vision, passion, creativity, authenticity, spirituality and integrity. Through a retelling of her life in earrings, Minette will show how focusing on each of these areas at key moments in her life helped her to find her inner gypsy and achieve success and happiness in all areas of her life.

Heart-Centered Parenting: How to Connect to Your Children By Listening to Their Feelings

This talk emphasizes the ways in which we shut down our children's feelings without even realizing it, how to learn to listen more constructively and build the foundations of a relationship that will last a lifetime. From the time our children are born, we can help them understand how to express their feelings in ways that are appropriate. By creating a loving, safe environment for our children, they will learn to thrive as independent, happy children in any setting.