Marie Hale: Sales & Marketing
Resilience and change leadership speaker Marie Hale combines entrepreneurship, sales and marketing expertise with powerful storytelling to help leaders navigate disruption, deepen relationships and create meaningful change.
Quick Facts:
- More than 20 years of sales and marketing experience
- CEO, entrepreneur and business leader
- International speaker and change-maker
- Expertise in resilience and navigating organisational change
- Formats:
Resilience keynote speaker, change leadership speaker, women's leadership speaker, sales and marketing speaker, entrepreneur and workplace culture speaker.
- Audiences:
Business leaders, entrepreneurs, sales teams, women's leadership groups, HR professionals and organisations navigating change, workplace disruption and evolving employee expectations.
- Outcomes:
- Develop a more adaptable approach to change that moves beyond simply reacting or "pivoting" whenever disruption occurs.
- Understand how stronger relationships, authentic leadership and resilience can support innovation and better organisational results.
- Recognise practical ways leaders can better support working parents, retain talented employees and build more sustainable workplace cultures.
- Travels from: Chicago, IL
- **Fee range: $5,001 - $10,000
Keynote Topics
Resilience Doesn't Roar
At 37 years old, Marie sat in a late meeting with a client, celebrating their success until the phone rang. No one had come to get her little one from daycare.
And then the world changed. After a lifetime of carefully assembling the life of her dreams, Marie found herself widowed, a single parent, and the sole owner of a family business that they had just sunk their life savings into seven months ago when they opened.
4 years later she found herself as a new (terrible) 3rd-grade teacher, CEO, and managing everything…including her sanity. As she began to see the feminine/diversity recession, the damn broke. She funneled her experience and fury into a plan to change the way that work works permanently.
fwdrEvolution formed to care for the person first, providing them with the kind of resources that take care of their whole family and give people choices and money…and that is POWER!
Marie shares her touching journey through the pain and how she found a purpose in it that will change the world. Take your audience on a journey of empathy, fear, grace, and humor as her story not only lifts the audience but offers tools and insights that can’t possibly come from a book.
What will your audience take away?
- The power of intuition and how to reconnect to it
- How to leverage community and relationships to foster resilience
- Tools to train their minds to work towards solutions and innovation in times of challenge
Talent Short Bio
Marie Hale is a resilience and change leadership speaker, entrepreneur, CEO and sales and marketing veteran who helps audiences navigate uncertainty with greater confidence, connection and adaptability.
For more than 20 years, Marie built her career helping small businesses improve sales and marketing through practical, no-nonsense strategies. As her work evolved from business growth into international change-making, her own experiences of success, profound loss and reinvention gave her a powerful new perspective on resilience.
Marie believes that in a world of constant change, simply learning to pivot is no longer enough. Instead, leaders and organisations need to learn how to “pirouette”, developing the agility to move through disruption while strengthening relationships, encouraging innovation and protecting performance.
Her perspective became particularly relevant during the pandemic, when Marie simultaneously navigated the demands of leading a business, single motherhood and remote education. Witnessing the pressure facing working parents, particularly women, inspired her to advocate for workplace approaches that better support families and retain talented people.
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