Speaking

Invite Bonnie Marcus to your next event to inspire and empower your group to reach their full leadership potential.

Bonnie Marcus is a nationally sought after speaker who has presented to many prestigious academic institutions including Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and New York University.

She has spoken at the Massachusetts Conference for Women and will be one of the featured speakers at Tory Johnson’s Spark and Hustle National Tour.

Bonnie frequently addresses women’s groups. She has presented at the Downtown Women’s Club in Boston, Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, Professional Women in Healthcare, Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network, The Women’s Exchange for The Community Bank, Women in Technology International (Witi).

Bonnie’s articles have been published in ForbesWoman.com and WomenEntrepreneur.com.

Bonnie’s keynotes can be customized to fit your individual needs. All the presentations are available in keynote, breakout sessions, workshops and coaching sessions.

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Assertive Confident Leadership

This keynote provides practical tools to advance your career by learning how to:

• Recognize and deal with gender biases and stereotypes.

• Overcome the Imposter Syndrome.

• Kick the Nice Girl Habit.

• Utilize Assertive Communication to get what you need.

• Avoid the top communication mistakes women make.

• Master guiltless self-promotion.

Understanding Your Value: The Key to Promoting and Positioning Yourself for Success in Business

This stimulating presentation addresses the need to understand your value proposition in order to promote and position yourself authentically and comfortably in the work environment.

Strategic Networking: How to Build and Leverage Critical Relationships to Advance Your Career

Participants will learn:

1. The importance of being strategic and intentional in today’s business environment.
2. A structured approach to building and leveraging relationships to advance their careers.
3. To identify and communicate their value proposition
4. To identify their web of influence within their organization
5. To broaden their influence outside the organization to create visibility and credibility

GPS Your Career: Navigate Your Path to Career Success

This presentation helps attendees to create and maintain a strategic course and take control of their careers. Map the path to your goal. Where are you now relative to your desired destination? Are you on the fast track or scenic route? What are the potential roadblocks? Who do you call for roadside assistance? What is your unique navigation to career success?

Mastering the Art of Authentic Personal Branding for Career Advancement

This keynote addresses:

• The importance of personal branding for career advancement.

• How to identify and overcome the blocks that hold you back from promoting yourself effectively.

• 3 Steps to Authentic Personal Branding.

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: Recreating the Fairy Tale

It is vitally important for women to stay connected to their value and talent in order to maintain their self-confidence. This is a new and delightful version of the fairy tale that inspires women to explore their own unique and wonderful qualities. Your audience will be thoroughly entertained, energized, and inspired to recognize their own greatness and rediscover the self confidence of their childhood. Self-confidence is the key to a successful career, business and life.

Let Go and Crow. The Power of Positive Self-Talk

This topic, inspired by Peter Pan’s bravado, examines how positive self-talk can improve our self esteem and self-confidence. The audience will enjoy this lively presentation. They will all be inspired to “toot their own horns” with confidence.

Promote Your Way to Success. How to Stay Marketable in a Down Economy

This presentation will help your attendees understand and create their personal brand message and learn how to communicate their message to their internal and external network for the visibility and credibility they need to advance their careers.

Ditch the Pitch. A New Approach to Self Promotion

How do you attract clients if you have a stale elevator pitch? This presentation introduces a fresh new approach to elevator speeches that will forever change the way to promote yourself and your business. It’s guaranteed to deliver more clients, more referrals, and more interest in your product or services.

From this powerful interactive presentation, each attendee will:

• Learn how to attract clients with their message
• Understand how to distinguish themselves from the crowd
• Experience a simple step by step process to create a new pitch
• Practice delivering their pitch to their peers

Selling From Your Comfort Zone: How to Feel Comfortable with Self Promotion

This presentation helps attendees to identify what negative beliefs they have about sales and self promotion and assists them to create an authentic and comfortable approach to selling themselves and their services.

	Bonnie Marcus’ entrepreneurial spirit shines through in her speaking engagements and workshops. She is both motivating and thought provoking, and leaves you with a renewed confidence in your abilities. – Linda Moore, IT Professional and Event Director, PMI Central FL
	“Thank you for your wonderful presentation to Entrepreneurial Women’s Network on Ditch the Pitch. A New Approach to Self-Promotion. I cannot even begin to count how many women came up to me after your fabulous presentation to tell me that your suggestions have totally changed the way they will now present themselves to others. Thanks to you they were inspired to change their pitch and knew how to do so based on the exercises in your presentation. No more boring introductions for those of us lucky enough to attend your workshop.” – Scarlett DeBease, Image Consultant. www.scarlettnewyork.com
	“Thank you Bonnie for your wonderful insights at Harvard Business School’s Dynamic Women in Business conference this past week. Your words at the “Working in High Heels” panel discussion gave future female leaders clear tips and actions that we can use to deliver and promote ourselves going forward. Too often we talk only about the issues created by our unique gender qualities, and instead we were able to energize the crowd by teaching them to understand those qualities, address them, and even understand how to use them to our advantage. The Harvard Business School was lucky to have you as part of the day!” Sarah Hoopfer Harvard Business School | MBA Candidate Class of 2012
	“Thank you for your wonderful presentation to Entrepreneurial Women’s Network on Ditch the Pitch. A New Approach to Self-Promotion. I cannot even begin to count how many women came up to me after your fabulous presentation to tell me that your suggestions have totally changed the way they will now present themselves to others. Thanks to you they were inspired to change their pitch and knew how to do so based on the exercises in your presentation. No more boring introductions for those of us lucky enough to attend your workshop.”