Rave Reviews

Associations

	American Nursery & Landscape Association How great it was to work with you and how impressive it was that you tailored your keynote session for our program. I am so glad you were able to join us a day earlier and that you used your time wisely while you were in Louisville…sitting in on the Friday morning keynote speaker, visiting with our members, staff, committee and sponsors, and joining us for the Comedy Hour. Many speakers remain in their guest rooms, but certainly you see the value in networking with our attendees and immersing yourself in our program. Your hard work and dedication certainly paid off in your presentation to our members. How clever you were to include the "B&B" joke which fit our industry well. I also appreciate your recognizing our premier sponsor NOVALIS as a part of your session. I am thankful to have worked with you professionally and glad to get to know you personally. Stephanie M. (Still) Stockton Director of Business Education
	National Community Pharmacists Association In my 25 years in the association business, I have never seen a keynote speaker take as much time and effort to research an audience – including attending sessions and talking to NCPA members on-site to get to know their personalities and interests. Even your advance preparation, in reviewing background material and speeches and in our conversation about NCPA’s issues and objectives, you went well beyond the level of commitment I’ve seen with most speakers. That effort was evident in your speech and the many references you made to our concerns – they all had the ring of truth and understanding. Robert Appel Senior Vice President, Communications
	American Payroll Association Annual Congress As a keynote speaker for the closing general session of our Pre-Congress program, you won the audience over completely! You are a stellar and consummate professional speaker, but add to that your originality, energy and sincerity, and you are a power that is not easily duplicated. These are among the words of praise we received about your presentations: "She got us thinking about where we put the true importance in our lives." "She helped us identify our fear of moving out of our comfort zone into something more challenging." This doesn't account for the power of everything you do off the platform. I am most impressed by and appreciative of the genuine sincerity you show one-on-one and within a group. You are in-the-moment, engaged and "real." You are a special breed!
	American Payroll Association General Management The way you energized and captivated our audience at our conference was magical! From the moment you made your spectacular and surprising entrance, and throughout your often hilarious, yet compelling presentation, you held us in the palm of your hand. Your perspective on human capital successfully combined humor with incredible insight. Feedback on you and your presentation was universally spectacular. Judging from the crowd that rushed to your post presentation book-signing, your success was truly an unqualified triumph!
	National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Well what can I say? You are terrific!! I want to truly thank you for your time, effort and huge talent displayed at the HR conference last week. Our staff, advisory group, and most importantly, our attendees, were raving at the message and the messenger. It is so refreshing to work with someone who takes the time to truly know the group she is speaking to. Personally, I also want to thank you for being so easy to work with and the extraordinary efforts you took to ease my mind when travel became interesting!! You are the best!!
	Alzheimer's Association, Greater Dallas Chapter I would like to thank you for your keynote speech at our recent videoconference, Meeting Challenges, Finding Harmony: A Program for Caregivers. The goal of the conference was to help bring caregivers together to share and be rejuvenated, as well as to provide information and education on available resources. This goal was achieved beyond our expectations due in large part to your excellent presentation. The caregivers all loved the event and we have been flooded with positive comments from organizers and participants alike. The evaluations were excellent. Your speech was perfectly attuned to the needs of caregivers. You truly made a difference in their lives! It was such a pleasure to work with you! You are organized, professional, flexible, and very easy to work with. I appreciate your energy and emotion, not to mention your extensive preparation.
	Association of Legal Administrators ALA and I personally, have worked with you for many years. It is always a pleasure. I know everything will go smoothly when you're in charge. And, most importantly, you will deliver an excellent presentation for our membership. Your session evaluations are consistently among our highest scores. Eileen, your energy and enthusiasm makes working with you a joy. Thank you.
	California Association of College Stores The positive comments from our members are still pouring in. One of the aspects of your presentation that impressed all of us was your ability to concretely tailor your theme, your comments and your examples to apply to our members' professional environment. We were also very pleased and pleasantly surprised with the way in which you used your position as the opening general session speaker to lay the foundation for the remainder of your conference. I have worked with many, many speakers over the past decade of organizing this conference's educational agenda and it is very rare indeed to find a professional speaker as successful as you when it comes to connecting with our attendees.
	Employee Relocation Council Thank you for providing the outstanding session, Work For A Living and Still Be Free To Live, at ERC's Global Workforce Symposium which was held in Washington, DC this past October. To many of our attendees, your session was the highlight of the Symposium, and received a rating of 4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5 (4 = Excellent and 5 = Outstanding). Thank you again for bringing such a positive message to our Symposium. ERC deeply appreciates the time and effort you put into tailoring your session to provide meaningful content to our members and making the meeting a tremendous success!
	Texas Society of Association Executives I wanted to express my personal appreciation for your participation as a speaker at this year's TSAE Annual Conference held in Houston, Texas. I received several compliments from individuals in attendance at the conference, all of who said the programs and presenters were excellent this year. I believe the renewed spirit of TSAE was evident throughout the conference, and your presentation certainly added to its success.
	USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum The Lions of North America at our annual USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum held in Tucson, Arizona had the privilege and opportunity to have Eileen on our program. This is the fourth time we have had her on our program in various locations in North America. That alone speaks to her phenomenal appeal with the audience. We, in time, will have her back again. She brings vitality, energy, motivation and a never ending bundle of enthusiasm to each and every program where we have scheduled her. With nearly 3,000 in attendance, her two (2) seminars, held in a theatre with 1,500 seating, were nearly full both times. Lions members are volunteers in service and pay their own way to these annual functions with a pre-registration each year for the ensuing Forum ranging from 1,000 to 1,5000. They come back each year because of presenters like Eileen. I use the word presenter, because she is much more than a speaker and always has the audience at a "high" when they leave her seminar.
	PCMA Our board met on November 19th at the Renaissance Hotel Long Beach which under the direction of Maribel Denner the Director of Sales and Marketing (and I might add a brand new PCMA member) was kind enough to sponsor our board retreat. Eileen McDargh of McDargh Communications in Newport Beach facilitated the retreat, which exceeded my expectations. Everyone came away feeling a new commitment to his or her positions. I highly recommend Eileen as a keynote speaker or as a facilitator for boards.

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