Eileen McDargh
Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, can tackle your business's toughest messages with a no-nonsense, "hard truth" approach. Connect with Eileen to address your "all- hands-on-deck" employee meetings, facilitate intense senior management retreats, and provide executive coaching. Using her consulting wisdom, business know-how, ready wit, and captivating energy, Eileen generates excitement and rekindles commitment while delivering lasting results.
Eileen McDargh's Topics Include:
Work/life integration
Professionals in all types of organizations share a common struggle: work/life balance. Eileen energizes and empowers your participants to make positive improvements in their jobs and home lives.
- "Work for a Living and Still Be Free to Live"
- "The Energy Connection"
Resiliency
How can professionals cope with change while staying focused on their jobs and organization goals? With compassion, insight, perspective, humor, and joy, Eileen will challenge your group to be resilient and move forward.
- "Radical Reslience"
- "Navigating The Rapids of Change: Thinking Ourselves New"
- "The Resilient Spirit: Staying Right side Up when the World is Upside Down"
Eileen also offers facilitated, day long-sessions to help groups identify issues related to change, organizational and personal barriers and bridges to change, and how to create effective transitions.
Leadership
With straight talk, grounded advice, and compelling, humorous stories, Eileen crystallizes methods for leading oneself and leading others.
- "Inside Out Leadership"
- "Connecting the Human Web: Plain Talk for Complex Times"
- "Relighting and Retaining Good People"
- "Mountain High Wisdom"
Inspiring Women: Developing a capacity for creativity, leadership, and contribution
Women in the workforce offer unique talents while facing exceptional challenges. Eileen rekindles passions, reinforces work/life balance, and re-energizes women in leadership with innovative thinking and fresh insights.
- "Remaking Our Lives Remarkable"
- "Lead-Her-Ship™ - Claiming The Power, Passion, Play and Purpose Of Our Lives"
- "In Her Own Voice™: Coming into Your Own—A Women's Retreat"
Communication for Relationships
Ask anyone what is the consistant challenge in building a great business, a solid community, or a cohesive team and you'll get a dominate answer: relationships! Use these programs to understand what you bring to the table and how to influence and work better with others. Resource materials that support these programs include Talk Ain't Cheap, It's Priceless and a series of online communication behavioral instruments.
- "Surviving and Thriving With Difficult People"
- "Understanding Communication Behaviors: Upping the E-Quotient"
Since beginning her consulting and training practice in 1980, Eileen McDargh has become noted for her ability to speak the truth with clarity, wisdom, humor and compassion. Long-standing clients and repeat engagements attest to her commitment to make a difference in minds, hearts and spirits of organizations and individuals.
She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine selected Eileen McDargh as one of the top 100 thought leaders in leadership and among the top ten consultant providers of leadership development.
Eileen McDargh authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance—a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless - Connecting in a Disconnected World can be found in offices around the world. Her newest book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, is a featured title with award-winning publisher, Berrett Koehler.
She's been a guest on CNN as well as other television and radio programs and has created an exciting Chicago-based radio commentary, Celebrating the Human Spirit. She is a featured author in A Women's Way to Incredible Success: Real Life Lessons from 20 Prominent Business Women and a contributing author in Meditations for the Road Warrior. Her three-part video training program, Engaging the Spirit of Nurse Leadership is in constant demand within the healthcare arena.
Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith, William Bridges, and boardroom poet, David Whyte.
Eileen McDargh is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of the 4000-member National Speakers Association. She's served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of NSA and also currently on the national board for Take Back Your Time, an international initiative for work/life integration practices. Eileen's articles are published on- and off-line around the world and she frequently offers her insight in her "Plain Talk" blog.
Please contact us for more information on any of Eileen's programs. We highly recommend her keynotes and look forward to hearing from you.
