Speaking + Workshops

Your attendees will feel

INSPIRED, ENLIGHTENED & ACTIVATED TO CHANGE THE GAME.

How can empathy transform your leaders, culture, and brand? Let me tell you.

Keynotes + Workshops | Inspirational | Corporate Workshops

Inspirational keynote speaker.
Best-selling author.
Savvy brand strategist.
Transformative workshop facilitator.

Maria’s unique blend of passion, emotion, humor, and practicality consistently engages and delights her audiences. Event planners love her professionalism, preparedness, and her ability to make their lives easier AND their events memorable.

TEDx Talk: How to Trojan Horse Leaders Into Becoming More Empathetic

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If your people want to become stronger leaders, create thriving cultures, and build engaging brands, bring Maria in as a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, or guest speaker.

All my talks blend proven content and an amazing attendees experience, tailored to your event goals. And all can be customized to fit your industry’s specific challenges and language. We’ll discuss your vision for success and ensure the talk knocks it out of the park!

Maria offers virtual or in-person:
Conference keynotes
Customer presentations
Employee resource group talks
Leadership training programs
Team strategy sessions
Brand workshops

Example Virtual Talk

Popular Keynotes + Workshops by Maria Ross

THE EMPATHY EDGE:
Harnessing the Value of Compassion to Boost Innovation, Engagement, and Performance

Every problem that exists in the business world can be traced back to a single, common origin: LACK OF EMPATHY.

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THE EMPATHY DILEMMA:
How Successful Leaders Balance People, Performance, and Personal Boundaries

All across the globe, organizations are becoming more human-centric. They’ve jettisoned old paradigms of success that center on endless overtime and constant employee sacrifice. They’ve tied success to purpose and workforce morale and helped people balance personal and professional needs as their priorities change. They’ve made shifts that are both necessary and positive.

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THE ROI OF EMPATHY:
How to Create an Empathetic Culture to Boost Innovation, Productivity, and Talent Attraction

Workplace culture has changed, but some organizations are struggling to keep pace — yet wonder why sales or growth is stagnant.

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CREATING AN EMPATHETIC BRAND IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Today’s savvy customers demand empathy from the brands they choose. In fact, doing business online and social media requires us to be more empathetic than ever before — if we want to keep customers, gain market share, and thrive.

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HOW TO “TROJAN HORSE” LEADERS TO EMBRACE EMPATHY

This keynote, based on my popular TEDx talk, presents the business case for skeptics to encourage more empathy to take root and transform people from the outside in. And inspires listeners to smash outdated success paradigms for a more hopeful and connected future.

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Inspirational Keynotes

REBOOT + REFRAME:
How A Freak Aneurysm Flipped My Entrepreneurial Switch + Reframed My Life

Come hear Maria’s powerful, inspirational, and humorous story as she shares her journey back to strength and success. Her hard-won insights into life balance, work, stress, gratitude, time management, and focus are guaranteed to give you new perspective and insight on your own life and work. Maria’s tale of deep resilience will have you laughing and crying, and the practical lessons she shares will show you how to handle adversity … rather than waiting for a life-threatening crisis to hit.

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Resilience:
Three Keys to Reclaiming Your Identity After Crisis

We will all experience crises at some point in our lives. Death. Divorce. Medical diagnosis. Loss. Hardship. Such adversity can turn our worlds upside down and cause us to lose sight of who we are. But in that breakdown, there are opportunities to reclaim your identity and emerge even stronger on the other side as a result. Maria shares her powerful recovery journey from a near-fatal aneurysm , where her skills and personality changed with a jolt. She was forced to ask what makes us who we truly are? And it’s not often what we think! In your search to redefine or adapt to a New You, enjoy Maria’s three valuable keys to bouncing back and reclaiming your identity.

Corporate Workshops

SLICE Brand StrategY Workshop

As a skilled brand strategist, Maria can facilitate a powerful and efficient brand workshop for your team to align everyone on the same mission, ferret out your secret sauce to share with the world, and build a compelling and clear brand story that attracts your ideal customers.

The core of a power brand is empathy: Who are your ideal customers as people? Whether you sell B2C or B2B, they are still human. Empathetic insights will help you unlock what your perfect-itl customers value, fear, want, need – and who they aspire to be. So you can speak their language, connect, and engage more of them with the value you offer.

If you are looking to simplify your message, create a more meaningful brand story, or more clearly communicate to drive engagement, accelerate revenue, and stand out from the crowd, let’s talk about what we can do for your team.

THE EMPATHY EDGE:
Boost Innovation, Engagement and Performance

Learn how you can amplify empathy through your work and bring your organization along with you to create a better world. Empathy speaker Maria Ross reveals exactly how empathy makes leaders (and organizations) stronger and more sustainable, and offers five concrete ways to flex your empathy muscles for great success. If your team is struggling to do good while still doing WELL financially, this is the workshop to choose.

THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF BRANDING:
How To Avoid Eternal Stagnation

Forgive us: We know not what we do. 

Effective branding is within everyone’s grasp, from massive corporations to small businesses to solopreneurs. But we make so many mistakes when we build companies because we are too busy fighting short-term fires to think about a targeted strategy that will reap exponential rewards in the long run.

Discover how to avoid the Seven Deadly Branding Sins that most organizations commit so you can engage, inform, and delight more clients and customers … and keep them coming back for more.

STAND OUT!
3 Keys For Differentiating Your Brand From The Pack

The business world is more challenging today than it was even two years ago,  packed with “me-too” competitors and an overwhelming number of marketing options. Prospects are too busy and the market is too crowded for them to figure you out. So how do you stand out? How do you tell your story and convey your value?

Speaker, author, and facilitator Maria Ross will help you get crystal clear about your brand, your story, and your target audience. She’ll show you how to craft an irresistible brand and share it with the right people at the right time, dramatically impacting your bottom line and separating you from the pack.

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