Speaking

We’re all differing in our capacities for change, impact, and personal growth.  But anyone can build their resilience to grow their business, expand their life, and build something they never thought possible.  Bashing the proverbial ‘glass ceiling’ for anyone is a process that requires deep personal work, and expanding personal resilience.  In this talk, Makenna will show the audience concrete ways they can change their resilience and expand their grit to be more effective humans, and leaders–for themselves, their community, and the world at large.

There are so many how-to books on leading a team, but what if we told you that none of it will be effective for YOUR team?  Why?  Because while the elements are the same for all teams, the nuances are where the magic happens.  In this talk, Makenna will illuminate how to start building intuitive leadership skills to allow managers and executives to lead their teams with heart, joy, and for the benefit of all.

Marketing has changed.  The game is no longer driven by advertisers in ivory towers on Madison Avenue, and it no longer simply a ‘let me show you how with my offering you can have this perfect life’.  Marketing is now now a process of culture change and it is driven by all of us.  Learn how the REAL Marketing™ framework is utilized by corporations as large as Apple to as small as the Etsy seller down the street from you.  And learn how you too can leverage the framework to shift your business for Good–permanently and for positive impact in the world at large.

Sometimes we must shatter ourselves, our expectations, and our dreams to clean the slate and start over.  Through her story of coming out, weathering melanoma at a young age, achieving your bucket list too soon, and turning divorce into a positive experience–Makenna shows how the process of breaking oneself to come back together can be truly beautiful, and that no matter how broken we may feel we are indeed perfect, whole, and beautiful no matter what.

There are three types of leadership–personal, community, and global.  At each of these phases of growth and capacity there are stumbling blocks that arise.  In this conversation, Makenna will elucidate how to avoid the common missteps, and be a more effective leader by crafting your own leadership recipe.  Participants will leave with a keen understand of where they are, and where they are going on their own leadership journey.

We’re in the midst of a massive culture shift, and times are challenging.  But, there is a way to be more effective in leadership in the current culture–craft new systems.  In this presentation, Makenna will give a road map on how to be more effective in leading a team by understanding the ‘soul of team leadership’.  Audience members will leave with a clear action plan and concrete steps to shift their leadership and as a result?  Their teams capacity.

What is ‘feminist leadership’?  Answer:  It’s not enough.  But it’s a great place to start.  During this keynote, Makenna will discuss how Feminism has failed women and men, and how moving to an inclusive, intersectional form of leadership is crucial if we want to truly understand how to lead, and not simply command.  Audience members will leave this conversation with a keen understanding how how we cannot build new systems using broken ones, and how cultivating new pathways for leadership and personal growth is the only way to create true, systemic change.

As the saying goes “The road to hell is paved in good intentions”.  So if good intentions aren’t good enough how do we do better?  In this keynote, Makenna will show how intentions are often misused and misunderstood, and how we’re ultimately a culture that thrives on expectations not intentions and how to shift back to focusing on true intentions and the relevant impact they create.

Corporate social responsibility.  Give back campaigns.  Building schools, water wells, one-for-one marketing models.  There are so many ways in which businesses–from the tiny to the massive–can utilize their profits for good.  But there’s a dark side to giving back–what are the long-term impacts and ripple effects of the work you’re trying to do?  What are the underbelly results that may or may not have been thought of?  In this round table discussion or talk, Makenna will illuminate how give back campaigns can be misused and abused to the detriment of the communities you’re trying to ‘help’ and she’ll cover the ‘how to do better’ and think more globally.