Experience Marissa Speaking
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.
Marissa's Most Requested Presentation Topics
Leadership Topics
Personal Growth Topics
Leadership Topics
Awaken the Conscious Leader Within
Today’s complex business environment demands radically different leadership. More than ever, employees crave deep connection, clear purpose, radical trust, and emotional safety.
Your greatest leadership impact lies in the opportunity to elevate your leadership consciousness. Be the leader your employees deserve.
It’s time for you to discover:
- What conscious leadership is and why its time has finally arrived
- How to connect with and awaken your conscious leader through the 5 Conscious Leadership pillars: Identity, Intention, Integrity, InSight, and Inspiration
- How to leverage your conscious leadership skills to engage your people, elevate their commitment to your organization, and achieve measurable organizational growth
The Role of Self-Awareness in Leadership
Self-awareness is a foundational leadership skill for the 21st century. Leaders who have a strong sense of identity, are clear and connected to their values, and are aware of both their strengths and weaknesses are regarded as more authentic, trusting, and credible.
It’s time for you to discover:
- What self-awareness is and is not
- How to ask for feedback from co-workers throughout your organization to understand how others perceive you
- How to remove conscious and unconscious barriers to connection through elevated self-awareness
- How to strengthen your self-awareness to improve relationships and communication within your organization
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Lack of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace comes at a sky-high cost. Employees leave because they don’t feel understood, seen, relevant, or safe. The cost of replacing an individual employee ranges from one-half to two times the employee’s annual salary. Lack of EI shows up in many ways within the organization: time wasted in unnecessary conflict, unrealized employee and team potential, lost customers, costs associated with stress-related absenteeism.
It’s time for you to discover:
- How EQ influences the way you respond to others and yourself
- How to grow your skills of Emotional Intelligence so you can tune into the challenges your people are facing before it causes them to leave
- What empathy is and how to build it to empower employees and keep them performing at a high level
Seeing The Soul Behind the Role: A Leader’s Greatest Human Capital Opportunity
The most foundational human need is emotional and psychological safety.
A leader’s greatest human capital opportunity is to create an environment in which their employees feel seen, heard, safe, and significant to something larger than themselves.
It’s time for you to discover:
- How to look beyond the role that an employee fills and see the multifaceted human being that shows up every day for work
- How to see the whole person – the soul behind the role – to connect on a deeper level, and harness all that an individual is, rather than focusing on skills
- Why the result is greater awareness, deeper connections, a more compassionate culture, and measurably stronger employee engagement; which directly impacts revenue and profits
Personal Growth Topics
Demystifying the Spiritual Path
Awareness, Awakening, Consciousness, & Enlightenment
No longer on the fringes of everyday conversation, the spiritual path has evolved into both a journey and a destination for people seeking a deeper connection to themselves, others, and the world around them, regardless of culture or religion.
Everybody’s path is uniquely their own. The concept of “trans-spiritual” – the integration of many beliefs, paths, and customs – continues to gain popularity.
In this informative, entertaining, and “enlightening” keynote:
- Marissa shares her own personal spiritual evolution that has unfolded throughout her current lifetime and how it has shaped and informed her entrepreneurial journey.
- She also demystifies the four foundational pillars of the spiritual path: Awareness, Awakening, Consciousness, and Enlightenment, and shares her most profound lessons from her most important teachers that have provided her guidance, wisdom, and comfort as she continues her own journey of Awakening and Enlightenment.
Stepping into Your POWER to Reach Your Highest Potential
We all temporarily forget the inner strength we possess, which is an unlimited, transformative resource we can access to create the life we want.
It’s time for you to discover your POWER:
- Your life Purpose: Why are you here? For many, the answer to this question is unclear, elusive, and ever-changing.
- How you take Ownership for their outcomes: Do you take full responsibility for where you are in your life, for how you feel, and for the path ahead? Or do you turn over your power to others around you?
- How you define their self-Worth. What is your level of self-worthiness? No one will ever value us more than we value ourselves.
- The strength of your self-Efficacy. What is your capacity for producing your desired result? Have you defined and evaluated all that you need to move from Point A to Point B?
- The strength of your Resilience. How strong is your ability to rise once you’ve fallen? Strengthening our Resilience muscle is essential for building our most joyful life.
Accessing Your Most Joyful Life
All human beings seek a joyful life, one in which they feel connected to oneself, to others, to their purpose for being, and to the world around them. They also intuitively know that life is not always easy, and they sometimes doubt their ability to overcome their difficulties and emerge in a stronger and more peaceful place. There are 6 elements that are the foundations of a joyful life and peace-filled life.
In this inspiring and thought-provoking seminar or workshop, attendees will:
- Explore the 6 Elements of Joy: Path, Purpose, Power, Potential, People, Play
- Evaluate how each element is present in their life
- Explore how to strengthen each element through facilitated discussion, group work, and self-reflective work
- Create an action plan for strengthening and creating each element so that they may step further onto their own path of Joy
The Five Pillars of an Intentional Life
What does it mean to be intentional? What does it mean to commit to an intentional life? How does intentional living improve your health and happiness, and contribute to your sense of inner peace?
It’s time for you to discover:
- What is Intention, and why is it important?
- The five pillars required to build an intentional life, and how to apply them:
- Presence: Deciding to be present in your life & with the people around you
- Perspective: Understanding the power of our perspective because it drives our reality
- Possibility: Remembering that our possibilities are limitless
- Priority: Reengaging with our priorities and core values
- Self-Perception: Focusing on how we view ourselves as that drives how we show up with intention in this world
- Specific steps you can take today to move towards an intentional life that improves your health, elevates your joy, and activates greater inner peace
