Keynotes

Mary Holevas turns ordinary people into powerful leaders. With a passionate and inspiring message, Mary Holevas shares proven techniques to take your leaders to higher levels of success.

Mary delivers keynotes, presentations, seminars, and workshops on leadership. She also offers follow up leadership training with a series of integrated processes phased in over a period of months.

Your talk is customized to meet your organizations unique challenges and needs.

FACT: Employee Engagement scores in the top half of rankings have: - 86% higher customer satisfaction scores - 70% more success in reducing turnover - 44% higher profitability * The Gallup Research Organization

Here is what People Are Saying About Mary's Leadership Programs:

"Mary Holevas is a must hear speaker for all dental practices. She touches on tough topics (such as gossip and lack of teamwork) while at the same time, touching your heart. Her compassionate and personable style appeals to all audiences. She uses great imagery for illustrating key points. And she makes audiences laugh by stepping on their toes but not messing up their shine! It's nice to hear a tough topic from such a dynamic and sincere lady." – Linda Miles CSP, CMC, CEO Linda Miles & Associates Premier Dental Consulting Firm "Mary has been an outstanding leader with a proven track record at several fortune 500 companies...leading teams and organizations to ever increasing levels of great performance! She has provided conceptual and practical advice for developing leaders. You will learn from her and be inspired." - Susan L.W. Madonia Vice President of Human Resources Sara Lee Corporation “Mary has a great ability in identifying systematic issues and designing programs that add immediate value and results.” - Fox Valley Smiles Dental Group “I appreciate your high integrity, professionalism and depth of knowledge. You are a class act.” - Steve Tofanelli Regional Manager Delta Airlines “Outstanding! Your program was one of the best we have seen in a long time. Your business acumen balanced with the Four Cornerstones of Leadership has made a significant contribution to our business." - Sharon Lydon PepsiCo National Account Manager ITW Hi-Cone

 

Mary's Most Requested Leadership Programs Include:

Ignite the Passion from Within: Discover the Hidden Potential According to the Gallup polls, less than 30% of 4.5 million employees surveyed are engaged and willing to perform at their fullest potential. What would your organization be capable of if every person shows up to work “tuned in” and ready to perform at their best? What would happen if everyone on your team was as passionate as you? What would it look like, feel like and sound like if everyone was connected and working well with one another…everyone getting along? What if everyone was doing what they are supposed to be doing, plus more? This program reveals how to: Inspire people to become engaged, creative and accountable for their work. Maximize human potential using the Four Cornerstones of Leadership Motivate team members to perform at the top of their game Access what level your team is operating at Realize what it is costing you when a team isn’t operating at full potential

How You Get Ordinary People to be Extraordinaire? In the book, Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman says, "Even if they get everything else just right, if leaders fail in this primal task of driving emotions in the right direction, nothing they do will work as well as it could or should.” That's why it's so important for leaders to learn how to motivate employees in ways that they respond to. In this program you discover how to: Create an environment where people want to and can perform at their best Develop personal and interpersonal competencies for building positive relationships Foster the four essential behaviors for building trust Get people to take responsibility for their own behavior Understand the ways that individual expectations affect performance, commitment and job satisfaction Coach people to take responsibility for their own expectations

Eliminate the Headaches of Teamwork How does a leader build trust and command the respect of a team? In the book, The Wisdom of Teams, Jon Katzenbach points out that, "Team training efforts continue to miss the target by focusing on togetherness, open communication and interpersonal dynamics rather than simply getting the basics right” In this program, we uncover the keys to team work success including: • The # 1 key ingredient for team success • Secrets to balancing individual accountability with teamwork • What the relationship is between performance impact and team effectiveness • Ways to preventing the Five Dysfunctions of a Team • Key elements of trust in team behavior…and what they look like

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