Maye Musk: Redefining What’s Possible
Maye Musk combines experience in nutrition, modeling, and entrepreneurship to share perspectives on resilience, women’s empowerment, and pursuing reinvention at every stage of life.
Quick Facts:
- International career spanning nutrition, modeling, and writing.
- Established her nutrition practice at age 21.
- Built businesses across three countries.
- Holds two master’s degrees and an honorary doctorate in dietetics.
Formats:
- Keynote presentations, moderated conversations, and interviews.
Audiences:
- Women’s leadership groups, entrepreneurs, corporate teams, wellness events, professional associations, and audiences exploring career change or personal reinvention.
Outcomes:
- Explore approaches to rebuilding confidence through change.
- Recognize the value of experience at different life and career stages.
- Identify practical choices that support independence, persistence, and continued growth.
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **US Fee range: $100,000 - $250,000
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Keynote Topics:
Resilience and Reinvention at Any Age
Maye Musk’s life has been a series of bold restarts, from divorce and single motherhood to rebuilding her practice across three different countries. She shares the mindset, habits, and decisions that allow professionals and leaders to face change with confidence and reinvent themselves without losing their footing.
Healthy Aging and Wellness: A Dietitian's Perspective
With over four decades of clinical practice as a registered dietitian and a parallel career as a global supermodel, Maye reveals what truly works for energy, longevity, and wellbeing, and what doesn’t. She translates evidence-based nutrition into practical, sustainable choices for executives, employees, and modern audiences.
Raising Resilient and Successful Children
As a single mother who raised three of the most accomplished entrepreneurs of our time, Maye offers candid lessons on parenting through hardship, fostering independence, and instilling work ethic. The session is equally valuable for parents, educators, and leaders building high-performing teams.
Women's Empowerment and the Confidence to Lead
Through her Dress for Success ambassadorship and her own career, Maye explores how women can claim space, build economic independence, and own their voice at every stage of life. Audiences gain practical strategies and a powerful dose of confidence drawn from a life of breaking ceilings.
The Entrepreneur's Mindset: Building Careers Across Decades
Maye built and scaled her nutrition business across three countries while simultaneously rising as a supermodel and bestselling author. She breaks down what it takes to keep evolving: staying relevant, marketable, and ambitious decade after decade in any industry.
Talent Short Bio
Maye Musk is a dietitian, international model, author, and keynote speaker with a career spanning more than five decades.
She established her nutrition practice at age 21 and built her career across South Africa, Canada, and the United States. Her qualifications include a degree in dietetics and two master’s degrees, alongside an honorary doctorate recognizing her professional contributions.
A model since age 15, Maye became a CoverGirl spokesperson at 69, bringing visibility to conversations about age and opportunity.
Her memoir, A Woman Makes a Plan, shares lessons from entrepreneurship, parenting, and personal change. Her presentations explore resilience, women’s empowerment, and the practical decisions involved in building a fulfilling life across different stages and circumstances.
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