Stacy brings a depth of personal and professional experience to speaking platforms that engages audiences and inspires them to do more. Her tenure as a social issues journalist, corporate newsroom employee, and entrepreneur and coach, paired with the discipline and focus she has developed as working mom, fuel the hope she gives to others.
For corporate and civic groups, Stacy renders inspiration and information that helps employees and/or volunteers grow personally and professionally, and as a result, improves the company’s bottom line. She specifically speaks to professional women about the unique challenges they must overcome to excel.
For collegiate and women’s groups, Stacy helps college students, recent grads, professionals, volunteers, and women from all walks of life examine their strengths and weaknesses and create action plans to thrive. Specific presentations help emerging leaders soar.
She can also speak on one of the Signature Topics below.
Consider the "what ifs" and ponder what you would do differently if you were more courageous, smarter, wealthier, wiser.... The list could extend forever. This message encourages audiences to give merit to their dreams or unexpected opportunities, and in the process, surprise themselves with fuller, happier, more prosperous lives. Stacy infuses powerful real-life examples of people who have overcome challenges or obstacles to empower themselves or assume a meaningful
leadership role.
Stacy weaves her experiences as a mother of two, with the knowledge she has gained as a long- time parenting columnist, to inspire parents to embrace parenting not only as a job they must do, but one they can enjoy. She encourages them to view their children as people with a purpose, and to hunt for the gems in their sons and daughters lives that can lead them to their destiny.
Stacy culls her expertise in journalism, publishing and marketing to deliver a keynote message or lead a 60-minute workshop that helps audiences or participants become adept at assessing the strengths and skills that their corporate division, nonprofit, small business, or entrepreneurial dream can leverage for success. She helps clients improve their ability to market their product or service with creativity, with consistency and with heart, to raise awareness, engage customers or supporters, and increase their bottom line.
Stacy guides aspiring fiction and nonfiction writers through a series of steps in this 60-minute workshop that helps them take a serious look at their writing goals and develop a roadmap to achieve them. By the end of the session, participants will have a solid plan of action and a firmer idea of how to move from the idea stage to finished first draft. Appropriate for writers’ conferences, writers’ small groups, schools and universities, libraries and other literary organizations.
