Joyful Leadership Speaking Topics

Award Winning Business Keynote Speaker

Marissa is a globally known speaker who delivers motivation, engagement, entertainment, and a message that moves people to action!

Her wisdom comes directly from her own experience as a leadership expert, certified coach, and successful entrepreneur who has built 5 companies, and led, mentored, and coached thousands of leaders over more than 30 years.

Marissa delivers an authentic, impactful message. Her presentations are loaded with powerful content, are fully captivating, and creatively impart lessons that audience members can activate immediately. She instantly emotionally connects with her audience, whether it is 10 or 1,000.

Recently voted one of the Top 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership worldwide, Marissa brings her unique vision, passion and style to your stage and leaves your audience changed.

The Joy Advantage: How Positive Leadership Drives Bottom-Line Results

Transform your leadership impact with proven strategies that deliver 23% higher profitability (Gallup, 2023) and drive measurable team performance. Walk away with an actionable framework to build sustainable competitive advantage through joy-centered leadership practices that directly impact your bottom line.

 

Executives will receive:

  • A diagnostic tool to assess their organization's current joy-to-performance ratio

  • Five immediately implementable practices that strengthen both culture and profits

  • A research-backed framework for measuring leadership effectiveness through the joy lens

  • Practical strategies to accelerate innovation and engagement simultaneously

  • A 90-day action plan template for transforming leadership impact

Leading with Joy Through Turbulence: Building Resilient, High-Performance Cultures in Uncertain Times

Transform how your organization navigates uncertainty by building a culture of sustainable resilience. Research shows that organizations with strong, positive cultures are 3x more likely to achieve superior returns during market volatility (McKinsey, 2023). Learn how joy becomes your competitive advantage when facing disruption and change.

 

Leaders will receive:

  • A resilience assessment tool to measure your organization's change readiness

  • Practical strategies for maintaining team cohesion during uncertainty

  • Science-backed techniques for fostering positive culture despite external pressures

  • Clear metrics for measuring cultural health during transformation

  • A framework for communication that builds trust and reduces anxiety

  • Tools for helping teams thrive (not just survive) through change

  • A 90-day culture strengthening roadmap

Building Tomorrow's Organization: The Integration of People, Process, and Purpose"

Organizations with strong learning cultures are 92% more likely to develop novel products and processes (Deloitte, 2022). Leave with a comprehensive framework for building an organization that consistently outperforms in both efficiency and talent optimization.

 

Participants will receive:

  • An organizational effectiveness diagnostic tool

  • Proven strategies for integrating purpose into daily operations

  • A blueprint for creating high-performance teams

  • Metrics for measuring cultural and operational excellence

  • Implementation guides for key organizational processes

  • A roadmap for sustainable organizational transformation

Sustained Leadership: Maintaining Personal Joy and Impact in High-Pressure Times

Research shows that 72% of leaders report feeling overwhelmed by their responsibilities (Deloitte, 2023), yet sustained leadership excellence requires personal wellbeing. Discover how successful leaders maintain clarity, purpose, and joy while navigating extreme pressure and constant change.

 

Leaders will receive:

  • A personal resilience assessment tool to identify strengths and pressure points

  • Practical strategies for maintaining perspective during high-stakes decisions

  • Evidence-based techniques for managing energy, not just time

  • A framework for making confident decisions amid uncertainty

  • Tools for setting sustainable boundaries without compromising impact

  • Methods for modeling joy-centered leadership even in crisis

  • A personal sustainability plan that aligns performance with wellbeing

Building Exceptional Advisory Boards: The SCALE Model for Breakthrough Growth

 

In today's complex business landscape, where 97% of companies report increased revenues after implementing a board, strategic guidance has never been more critical. Yet many CEOs navigate their growth journey alone, missing the transformative power of exceptional advisory boards. Through my proprietary SCALE methodology—Select, Compensate, Associate, Leverage, and Evaluate/Evolve/Exit—I reveal the systematic approach that has helped countless organizations achieve breakthrough growth and sustainable success.

 

Leaders will discover:

  • How to identify and recruit advisors with the specific skills aligned to your growth objectives

  • Proven compensation strategies that attract and retain high-performing board members

  • Effective techniques for integrating advisors into your company culture and operations

  • Frameworks for maximizing advisor contributions across all business functions

  • A structured approach to evaluating board effectiveness and evolving membership as you grow

  • Real-world case studies showing how diverse, strategically composed boards drive 65% average revenue growth

  • Actionable tools for implementing the five-phase advisory board development process

 

This data-driven, immediately applicable presentation equips CEOs and business owners with everything needed to build the high-impact advisory board that will elevate their decision-making and accelerate their company's path to exceptional growth.