Selected Past Speaking Engagements

"You, Inc. - Beyond Your Career: How to Uncover your Life Purpose and Infuse it with Passion, Energy and Joy!"
Cornell Silicon Valley

We all deal with it – juggling professional obligations, personal needs and social responsibility. So often we get caught up expending most of our energy for our ‘career’. Sometimes it seems like there’s just no time for YOU.
NEWSFLASH: Life is a journey, and Career is not a destination, but a stepping stone in your journey. Focus, productivity, happiness and results are all easier to achieve when you FLOW with your life force instead of burning it up by focusing on one thing. Fulfilling and balancing the integrated needs of your body is required to effectively run the (ad)venture called your LIFE. Where are you in your journey and what possibilities lie ahead?

Come learn from organizational psychologist and energy expert Rachael Collins how to elicit the best from yourself and create the life of your dreams. Prepare to laugh, maybe cry, but most of all – dare yourself to be your best!

"How to be Wildly Successful in Today's Business Environment!"
The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

Learn how to identify your true purpose, turn your business vision into reality and do it all with less stress.

"Are You Running on Empty? How to Prevent and Treat Burnout"
4th Annual Women in Business Symposium

Learn how to recognize the symptoms of health issues and exhaustion before they become a serious condition. Explore why optimal health is so much more than stress management. Understand the dangerous consequences of living a fast paced lifesytle. How to diagnose, treat and recover from adrenal fatigue, illness and burnout.

"Unlock Your Potential and Energize Your Career"
International Association of Administrative Professionals

Learn how to maximize your job satisfaction and your future career opportunities. Know what you truly love to do and are excellent at and pursue it with passion and persistence. Make personal and professional development an integral part of your life. Re-invent yourself as you grow and your interests, aspirations and needs change.

"How to Avoid Recruitment Burnout"
Recruiters Roundtable

Tips for handling the demanding job of being a corporate recruiter. Strategies for managing this critical, high-volume and stressful function in uncertain times of a slowing economy, downsizing and continuous change.

"How to Pick a Start-up and Not Get Burned"
Cornell Entrepreneur Network Silicon Valley - (cen.cornell.edu or csv.cornell.edu)

For candidates, learn how to evaluate a company or offer. For start-ups, learn how to select the right people. The post-boom job market places an enormous research burden on both candidates and hiring managers. This program will help alumni develop a frame work for tackling research by focusing on the types of hard questions smart entrepreneurs should learn to ask. How can you tell if a company really has the customers, funding, or new technology they talk about before you join? How can you tell if a candidate really has the skills they claim before you hire them? Learn from the mistakes of others, develop a set of best practices and Don't Get Burned Again!

"The Right Team - Building Your Management Force"
San Diego Regional Technology Alliance (sdrta.org)

This seminar addresses how to build a management team - attracting, selecting and retaining superstars, building and leveraging a board of directors, creating a comprehensive human resource system, and developing a competitive compensation package. For entrepreneurs and leaders building their companies.

"Burnout in the HR Profession - Caring for the HR Caregiver"
HR Solutions (hr-solutions.com)

HR professionals are increasingly caught in the dilemma of having to "do more with less" and juggling the needs of the organization and it's employees in difficult economic times. How do you assist your workforce to be high performers, meet their personal and professional goals and have balance in their lives? How do you simultaneously protect yourself from stressful situations such as layoffs, overworking, and the frustration of having little resources to work with? Come explore the symptoms and support systems related to burnout - how to spot it, treat it and beat it!

"Work/Life Balance: How to Detect the Warning Signs of Burnout"
All-Ivy Alumni San Diego hosted by the Cornell Club

"Burnout" is being called an epidemic in the United States! I will tell you how to identify the symptoms of burnout and then pose and discuss the following questions: Why do we often feel compelled to push ourselves to the point of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion? Are you spending your time doing the things that bring you the most happiness and satisfaction? Is there a way to better manage or reduce stress from work, relationships, and family responsibilities? If you are burned out, how do you heal the physical aftermath of adrenal overload and where do you go for help? Burnout is a very serious condition that can lead to severe medical conditions and long term illness. Learn more about it and save yourself or someone else now!

"Career Mapping; Building Organizational Resilience and Excellent Performance"
Otay Mesa HR Professionals

Learn how to build a flexible and committed workforce that can accommodate your changing business needs. Stop recruiting for traditional department functions. Hire for key competencies, skills and attitudes that will "best fit" your positions and strengthen your organization's ability to weather changing economic conditions. Reduce the need for layoffs with strategic workforce planning. Improve communication, motivation, productivity and retention!

"Demystifying the Role of the CEO"
Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (fwe.org/sandiego)

Join our moderator, Marie Henseler and CEO panelists, Gina Stack, Jerry Yacatan, David Stech, and Lee Sharp as we explore and "demystify" the role of the CEO in today's entrepreneurial high tech and life sciences companies. Questions to be posed include, what are the internal and external expectations of the role? What are the differences between a founder CEO and a rolodex CEO? What prisms do we evaluate CEO's through including age, sex, experience and performance?

"Become a Strategic Partner to Your Executive Team"
National Human Resources Association (humanresources.org)

Achieving partnership with your executive team is essential for demonstrating the critical value that HR plays in the successful operation of your organization. The presentation will provide insight and strategies to understand the keys to developing credibility and influence with your executive and managerial teams, get executive attention and support for the resources you need, and gain clarity on the priorities, expectations, and needs that senior management has for HR leaders.

"Work/Life Balance: Detect and Halt the Warning Signs of Burnout"
Otay Mesa HR Professionals

Don't be a burnout company! U.S. companies are increasingly being accused of fostering a work environment which demands dedication, time and energy to the exclusion of an employee's personal life. The resulting dissatisfaction leads to an exodus of the best talent from companies just when retention and loyalty is our highest priority. Companies become the losers when motivated and bright individuals feel forced to separate themselves from the company to regain control and quality in their lives. As a result, monitoring work/life balance and striving to support high performance become seemingly conflicting priorities for the HR professional. Explore how you can help to unleash your employees' motivation, enthusiasm and energy to optimize performance and minimize burnout. Learn strategies to protect yourself from stress as well.

"Recruitment and Retention: Mastering the Challenge of the Decade!"
Society for Human Resource Management (shrm.org/san diego)

Recruiting, committing and retaining excellent talent is of utmost importance in our increasingly competitive work world. Learn how to utilize leading edge technology to increase the accuracy and efficiency of your recruitment processes. Consider a new way to think about building a more flexible, change resilient organization by hiring talent who can move within the company, adding and shedding responsibilities as changing needs require. Discover the top ten keys to employee loyalty and best practices to commit and retain your human capital. Decide to become one of the Best Companies to Work For, hire and develop the best talent and crush your competition with exceptional customer and employee care!