Speaking Topics:
Awkwardness to Awareness:
Relating to People Who are Different from Us
People with disabilities, whether temporary or permanent, have ways they adapt. How your employees, members of your organization or your students react to their peers, clients or guests who are disabled is key. It determines the level of independence, equality and acceptance of those who have disabilities.
Fear of offending, of saying the wrong thing can often hold us back from including the person with a disability.
Through customized workshops, lectures, discussions and experiential exercises, Nancy will create an informative and fun atmosphere to examine attitudes toward and comfort levels with people with varying disabilities.
Using music and humorous examples, she will help shed stereotypes and prejudices and show how to work and socialize with people who have disabilities.
Your people will leave the workshop with changed attitudes and know the appropriate language and etiquette. She will explain the Americans with Disabilities Act, how to make it user-friendly and how it affects us all.
Disability Awareness for Young People: Helping children get used to people's similarities and differences, Nancy explains various disabilities and how people adapt. She lets them see and feel Braille and other blindness-related equipment.
Nancy is happy to customize the disability program to fit the needs of your educational facility, nonprofit organization, small business or corporation for groups of all ages and sizes. She can provide presentations from 45 minutes to half day training sessions.
"Through the High Country Options Program we were able to hire a mentally challenged individual who is still with us today. Prior to the employee's starting date, Nancy gave our staff a disabilities clinic which was a superior learning tool. She not only gave us knowledge on our specific situation with the new employee, but also showed us how to better serve customers with disabilities."
AR, Manager, Nike Factory Store, Silverthorne, CO.
Jump Start Your Heart: CPR For Your Dreams
This lively entertaining 45 minute keynote presentation will inspire audiences of all ages.
Have you ever had an inkling of an idea flash through your brain something like "I wonder if I could?" What happens to those flashes? Do they fade away in to the recesses of your mind, or can they become realities? In all areas of your life whether it be exercise, creativity or a new career find out what resources are available to you.
When you can accomplish the small goals along your journey, you build the courage and confidence to turn the ideas in to realities.
Nancy has been able to accomplish many of her goals in music and athletics. She can share practical experience to demonstrate how to keep the ideas from "I wish I had" to "I'm glad I did."
- Increase your productivity both in your personal life and on the job. Don't hesitate - motivate!
- Do you spend too much time and energy avoiding difficult challenges at work, school, or home?
- Discover what prompts you to set a goal. What barriers stand in the way?
- Utilize the abilities of other members of your team to assist you in accomplishing your goals.
- Learn Nancy's CPR for your dreams.
- How can you keep the initial energy of excitement when the odds seem to be against you?
- Take action! Explore all your options.
- What's your perfect vision? Nancy's is 20/20 hindsight!
Stress Management and Self-Esteem
When we begin accomplishing our goals, there'll be times when stress blocks us from thinking we can keep going forward. What messages stop us from believing in ourselves? They can be very subtle.
Explore with Nancy the signs and symptoms of stress and practice alleviating them with simple exercises included in this 45-minute presentation.
Then start with small goals which will help improve self-esteem and work up to the bigger ones.