Eileen McDargh: Motivational Resilience
Keynote speaker and resiliency expert Eileen McDargh equips organizations with practical, energizing strategies to strengthen adaptability, foster connection and elevate performance through conversations that matter.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- CEO and Chief Energy Officer of McDargh Communications and The Resiliency Group
- More than four decades helping organizations and individuals build resilience
- Extensive consulting experience with global corporations, the US Armed Forces, healthcare and nonprofit sectors
- Known for highly customized, interactive and humorous programs
- Formats: Keynote speaker, resilience strategist and organizational consultant
- Audiences: Corporate teams, associations, leadership groups, military organizations, healthcare entities and event audiences seeking resilience, engagement and practical inspiration.
- Outcomes:
- Practical tools to strengthen resilience and adaptability during change.
- Strategies for building meaningful connections that support performance and well-being.
- Highly customized insights aligned with the organization’s challenges and goals.
- Travels from: Dana Point, CA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
Burnout to Breakthrough
Building Resiliency to Refuel, Recharge, and Reclaim What Matters
This presentation affords a way to step back and identify what burnout is, how it is triggered, how to break out of dysfunctional patterns (both personal and within the organization), and how to breakthrough to cultivate resilience through four critical connection/energy points.
The Power of Engagement
Crafting Connections That Count For People Who Matter
It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation.
Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.
Discover the secret of viewing points from Eileen McDargh, orange batons and Little David’s in creating teams and fostering loyalty. The latest report from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others.
The results will be:
- Clear understanding of what energizes employees and what depletes.
- Connected and cohesive stakeholders.
- Candid conversations that can generate a renewed commitment.
- The “soft stuff” of business is always the hardest part of business.
It’s time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation.
Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement.
Surviving & Thriving
With Difficult People for Resilient Relationships
This session focuses on improving relationships at work through successfully dealing with people. Using humor and examples, Eileen McDargh will guide participants through the process of learning how to defuse anger in themselves and others.
They will discover how to identify and understand problem behavior and how to use systematic methods for handling such behaviors.
Participants will also:
- Understand techniques for “scripting” and creating rapport
- Identify the behavior of difficult people and personal responses to such behaviors
- Focus on effective responses to the hostile-aggressive trio
- Discover the 4-step model for handling anger on and off the phone
- Learn the difference between difficult people and people within a difficult situation
- Identify self-management tools for developing rapport and maintaining inner calm and integrity under pressure
Talent Short Bio
Eileen McDargh is the CEO, Chief Energy Officer and founder of McDargh Communications and The Resiliency Group. Since 1980, she has guided organizations and individuals in transforming the life of their business and the business of their life through meaningful conversations, intentional connection and resilience-based leadership. Her work centers on the belief that resiliency is a critical life skill powered by relationships, awareness and personal energy.
Drawing on decades of consulting experience with clients ranging from global pharmaceutical companies to the US Armed Forces, healthcare associations and faith-based institutions, Eileen blends real-world insight with humor, interaction and inspiration. Her programs are known for being content rich, highly customized, provocative, playful and unforgettable, offering audiences both depth and delight while equipping them with tools they can use immediately.
Eileen is recognized as one of the most sought-after female speakers in the country, renowned for her commitment to customization.
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Eileen McDargh is the CEO (Chief Energy Officer) and founder of the consulting firm, McDargh Communications and The Resiliency Group.
Since 1980, she has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count.
She believes that resiliency is a critical life skill and one that requires the energy of connections.
Eileen McDargh 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.
Her programs are content rich, interactive, provocative and playful—even downright hilarious.
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