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Keynote Speaking

Beyond inspiration. Laurie will empower your audience to not just think differently about leadership, but make lasting change.

In Person and Virtual Customized Keynotes

Laurie Maddalena

Professional speaker, executive coach, and leadership development consultant.

As a former VP of Human Resources with over 15 years of consulting experience, Laurie knows how to equip leaders with modern practices that support the needs of their people and build healthy workplace cultures.

Laurie’s engaging, research-based keynotes will inspire your audience with actionable strategies to elevate their own leadership and create exceptional workplaces.

Laurie’s Keynote Topics

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Elevating Leadership: Elevate Your Leadership and Your Team

With five generations in the workplace and people feeling less engaged at work, it’s never been more challenging to be a leader than it is right now. In this session, Laurie shares the most important elements of modern leadership, and the common behaviors that hold leaders back from maximizing their potential.

Best suited for:

Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Associations, Sales, Marketing, Leadership events, executives, managers.

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Laurie’s Keynote Topics

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Elevating Success: Maximizing Leadership Performance

If you want engaged employees, you need to be an engaging leader. This interactive session teaches leaders how to build better relationships, take more personal accountability, be more influential and get better results from their team. Laurie also covers five important elements of team success: trust clarity, accountability, ownership and action.

Best suited for:

Corporate events, Leadership conferences, Women’s leadership conferences, Associations, Sales, Marketing, Leadership events, All staff meetings, CEOs, executives, managers, front line employees.

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Laurie’s Keynote Topics

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Leadership Detox: Reenergize and Elevate Your Leadership

Today’s leaders are overwhelmed with data, decisions, and distractions that make it easy to stall progress and slip into negative habits. In this interactive session, Laurie shares the three most common unproductive leadership behaviors and her signature framework describing the key pillars of an exceptional leader.

Best suited for:

Corporate events, leadership conferences, Associations, leadership events, CEOs, executives, managers.

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"Brilliant discussion by Laurie!! I learned some new leadership ideas to shift from manager to leader. Please have Laurie return and expand on this topic! Lots to learn."

Session attendee

Community Online Academy

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"Loved it! Laurie is an engaging speaker who provided good information on how to be a better leader. I wish there was more time to hear from her."

Conference attendee

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"The topic was relevant, and Laurie did an outstanding job conveying the most important parts in the time allotted. It's rare to walk away with so much from a one hour session."

Conference attendee

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"As the opening keynote speaker, she immediately engaged the group with a presentation full of research, insights and great ideas. Laurie is personable and positive and, because she knows credit unions, her credibility was solid. Laurie exceeded my expectations and she fully delivered as our opening session speaker.”

Linda Scott

Conference & Event Manager - Maine Credit Union League

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"Brilliant discussion by Laurie!! I learned some new leadership ideas to shift from manager to leader. Please have Laurie return and expand on this topic! Lots to learn."

Session attendee

Community Online Academy

view all testimonials

"Loved it! Laurie is an engaging speaker who provided good information on how to be a better leader. I wish there was more time to hear from her."

Conference attendee

view all testimonials

"The topic was relevant, and Laurie did an outstanding job conveying the most important parts in the time allotted. It's rare to walk away with so much from a one hour session."

Conference attendee

view all testimonials

"As the opening keynote speaker, she immediately engaged the group with a presentation full of research, insights and great ideas. Laurie is personable and positive and, because she knows credit unions, her credibility was solid. Laurie exceeded my expectations and she fully delivered as our opening session speaker.”

Linda Scott

Conference & Event Manager - Maine Credit Union League

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Get more information on hiring Laurie to speak at your next event.

Let’s rid the world of bad managers and create cultures where people love to come to work.

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Get more information on hiring Laurie to speak at your next event.

Let’s rid the world of bad managers and create cultures where people love to come to work.

Book laurie

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