Nancy's Keynotes & Seminars

Nancy speaks on a variety of topics related to lifelong learning and motivation including:



Employee Development

Building Your Employees’ People Skills
Great employees are dependable, resourceful, self-directed and demonstrate effective communication. In today’s fast-paced, global marketplace, these people skills, or “soft skills” are more important than ever.

This program is based on Nancy’s popular poster “Experience the Magic! 100 Terrific Tips to Exceed Employer Expectations.” You will learn:
  • What soft skills are and how they complement hard skills, which are the technical requirements of a job


  • Ways to help employees understand the importance of soft skills, with special emphasis on the end result


  • How mastering these skills enables employees to participate as full partners in the mission of the organization and advance in their careers

Helping New Employees Become Part of Your Team
According to a recent work study, companies whose employees understand the mission and goals enjoy a 29% greater return than other firms. This program focuses on ways employees can see the big picture and understand the impact of their piece of the puzzle on the organization’s mission.

You will learn how employees can:
  • Have confidence in their abilities


  • Understand employer expectations


  • Identify challenges faced by new employees


  • Take responsibility for their choices and benefit from the resulting rewards

Keeping Your Best Employees Motivated and Growing
Have some of your best employees lost their enthusiasm and competitive edge? Don’t fire them – fire them up! By relating to employees as assets rather than expenses, you create a culture of interdependence, where employees feel valued and return value in equal measure.

You will learn how to:
  • Focus on building relationships and getting everyone involved


  • Make your reward system a combination of return to the individual for value produced and recognition of the performance of the team


  • Create and maintain systems that allow people to grow professionally, using strategies that recognize the employee as an adult learner


Adult Education and Lifelong Learning

How Lifelong Learning Enriches Lives
Education isn’t just for kids. Adult, continuing and community educators change lives and have a positive impact on all generations.

This program focuses on:
  • The diversity of adult learners and the challenges they face


  • Latest techniques for helping adult learners succeed


  • Recognition of the dedication and professionalism of adult educators and the importance of the work you do

The Magic Word is "Literacy"
The most recent National Adult Literacy survey identified 94 million adults in the United States who do not read, write and comprehend at a level high enough to function well in society.

This program focuses on:
  • Causes of literacy problems and special challenges faced by ESOL students


  • Basic principles of literacy acquisition and concrete ideas that family literacy programs can implement to encourage literacy at every age level


  • Challenges and rewards literacy providers experience in their very important work

Community Colleges: Rapid Response to Changing Needs
Community Colleges are unique educational institutions serving students of all ages and socio-economic groups. Community Colleges are well equipped to respond to the rapidly changing needs of their students and communities.

This program focuses on the following three groups and ways they can work together to help students achieve success:
  • Community College students, both adolescents and adults, and their special characteristics and needs


  • Community partners, including business and industry


  • The college itself – its trustees and staff


Making a Difference in the Lives You Touch

YOU Can Have a Positive Impact
In the last twenty-four hours, how have YOU had a positive impact? How do you decide what is important to you and what isn’t? This is a celebration of YOU!

This program focuses on:
  • How attitude impacts you and others


  • Guidelines for making yes/no decisions


  • Techniques and action steps you can immediately apply to have a positive impact

Community Service and Service-Learning Benefit Everyone
When faced with challenges such as poverty, illiteracy and environmental problems, our nation has always relied on the dedication and action of citizens. Corporate volunteers and service-learning students make a difference in their communities and in their own lives by giving of their time and talents.

This program focuses on:
  • The evolution of volunteerism from altruistic service into programs of reciprocity


  • Ways to design and implement community service and service-learning programs


  • How community service and service-learning change and improve lives and communities

Working Real Magic in the Helping Professions
Educators, health care providers and social service agency staff make a real difference in the lives they touch. This inspiring celebration is highly customized for your industry.

This program focuses on:
  • Current issues facing your professional and support staff


  • Challenges, concerns and joys of working in the helping professions


  • Putting renewed enthusiasm and energy into your own life and the lives of those you Serve


Life Balance

Work-Life Balance Doesn’t Have To Be An Illusion
If we work hard enough, we imagine, we can have anything – and therefore, everything. We are looking for a magic solution. The magic is you. You are in control of the ongoing challenge to reduce stress and maintain harmony in key areas of your life.

This program focuses on:
  • Defining success, at work and outside work. Overcoming guilt by embracing the joys of an unbalanced life


  • Setting priorities and making tradeoffs


  • Techniques to make work and life happen on your terms

Dealing With the Constant of Change
Have you experienced any changes over the years in your personal or professional life? Do you expect to deal with change in the future? Do you work in an industry where the only constant is change?

This program focuses on:
  • The reality of change


  • Why we resist change


  • Ways we can welcome change and take appropriate action to deal with it

Being True To Yourself – Don’t Let Others Steal Your Identity (New Topic)
Who are you? Is your identity lost in the multiple roles you play in life? There are many ways to be a victim and lose your identity. This program can be customized to include as much about actual identity theft as the client requests. Hear it from the perspective of a victim.

This program focuses on:
  • Determining who you are and who you really want to be


  • Setting goals and learning the many ways of saying “no”


  • Identity theft: the fastest growing crime in the U.S., and what to do if you are a victim