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.jpg) Lisa
Montanaro is a skilled motivational speaker that also
delivers highly valuable content. Her background as an
educator, lawyer, and performer has provided her with
years of experience and expertise in speaking before
live audiences. Lisa is a member of the National
Speakers Association (NSA), the premiere organization
for professional speakers. Her presentations at national
conferences, local forums, and in numerous workplace
settings are informative, interactive, and entertaining.
Lisa has been interviewed by television and radio hosts,
and is a frequent guest expert for national teleclasses
and webinars. Indeed, Lisa was ranked the number 1
speaker of the 2008 NAPO Conference by attendees,
sharing the spotlight with such notable speakers as
Peter Walsh of TLC’s Clean Sweep and the Oprah Winfrey
Show.
Lisa offers a wide range of speaking topics, including
organizing and productivity, time management,
leadership, entrepreneurship, and life-work balance.
Speaking engagements are offered in the form of training
workshops, staff retreats, breakout or concurrent
sessions, and keynotes.
Don’t see a topic that matches your group’s needs?
Ask for Custom Presentations.
Lisa works with you and your group to deliver
presentations that address individual, organizational,
and meeting objectives.
Organizing/Productivity Presentations
Ask the Organizer
Do you have organizing challenges that you deal with on
a daily basis at home, at work, and in life? If so, you
are not alone. In fact, many highly functioning people
have organizing challenges. Bring your organizing
challenges with you to this Ask the Organizer forum.
Learn tips and tools of the trade as Lisa provides
solutions to participants’ real-life organizing
problems. Interactive and fun, while also informative!
DECIDE™ to Be Organized! An Empowering Process for
Change (Keynote or Workshop)
The single most important characteristic that separates
organized people and organizations from disorganized
people and organizations is decisiveness. Too often seen
as completely separate efforts, organizing and
decision-making skills amplify the power of each other
when properly combined. In this entertaining and
engaging keynote, Lisa will share valuable tips on how
to effectively organize your time, space, paper and
possessions by practicing good decision-making
techniques, creating a system that works, and
integrating the system into your life. This presentation
empowers participants to discover their unique
organizing style and develop organizing systems tailored
to their individual work habits and life style. Discover
how to manage shifting priorities, time constraints, and
juggle multiple projects by modifying behavior, learning
effective planning skills, and knowing when and how to
let go and say no. Become an effective and quick
decision-maker. If you've never seen Lisa in action,
this is your chance to come away with great new ideas
that will help you achieve results at home, at work, and
in life!
DECIDE™ to be Organized: Achieve Results at Home, at
Work, and in Life (Workshop)
Too often seen as completely separate efforts,
organizing and decision-making skills amplify the power
of each other when properly combined. In this
entertaining and engaging talk, Lisa will share valuable
tips on how to effectively organize your time, space,
paper and possessions by practicing good decision-making
techniques, creating a system that works, and
integrating the system into your life. Topics include:
• Sobering statistics about how disorganized we are as a
society;
• What is clutter?;
• Decluttering tips and tools;
• Benefits of being organized;
• Changing behavior;
• The DECIDE method.
Plus, as an added bonus, there will be an interactive
Organizing Vision Drilldown session, during which Lisa
will provide tips, ideas, and strategies that will solve
challenges while motivating and inspiring you into
action. If you've never seen Lisa in action, this is
your chance to come away with great new ideas that will
help you achieve results at home, at work, and in life!
Decrease Stress, Increase Productivity: Time Management
Time is one of our most precious resources. Yet we
battle daily to make the best use of it. This workshop
addresses how to get more done in less time with less
stress by maximizing your productivity and setting
priorities. Learn to pinpoint where you need to take
control. Improve your comprehension and focus and more
effectively perform when juggling people, paper, and
priorities. Topics Include: self assessment, tools of
time management (calendars/PDAs/daily planners), how to
say no, project lists and to-do lists, conquering
procrastination, the myth of multi-tasking, and dealing
with interruptions.
Make Time for This! Effective Time Management for
Lawyers (CLE approved in NY)
This workshop is similar to the general Time Management
workshop, but is specifically geared towards lawyers and
the nuances of the work, billable hours, and
professional demands that they face. This workshop can
be offered for continuing legal education credit, as
Lisa is an approved CLE provider.
Take Control of Your Work Day: Get Organized & Get
Things Done for the Busy Law Firm Professional
This fast-paced and entertaining seminar provides
practical techniques for managing time, paper,
information, projects and yourself. Enhance your
organizational and time management skills to become more
productive, achieve your priorities and make more time
for yourself. Program highlights include practical
techniques to:
• Take control of your day by effective planning &
scheduling.
• Focus on your priorities and work more productively.
• Manage competing demands with a minimum of stress.
• Handle interruptions and time wasters that drain
productivity.
• Overcome procrastination and minimize management by
crisis.
• Delegate, communicate and use support staff more
effectively.
• Manage information overload (including the deluge of
e-mail).
• Process paper efficiently and eliminate clutter in
your office.
• Set up action files to find things when you need them.
• Develop a personal action plan to enhance organizing &
time management skills.
This program on Practical Time Management for Lawyers is
one of Lisa’s signature programs. It has been presented
as an in-house training programs to partners, practice
groups, associates, paralegals, professional development
and administrative staff. Sometimes a law firm decides
to focus the training on a particular group, such as
senior associates, practice group leaders or brand new
associates. On other occasions, such as at an off-site
firm retreat, all lawyers in the firm or a practice
group will participate. The program is customized for
each firm through preparatory telephone interviews with
selected lawyers and staff in order to get a
cross-section of concerns to focus the training on the
most important issues.
Do Less, Achieve More: The How-To’s of Organizing at
Work
Create an exciting and stress-free work environment.
Learn hands-on, practical solutions that will not only
improve your work performance but also assist you in
becoming and staying organized. Develop smart, efficient
systems that are easy to follow for both packrats and
neat-nicks!
Downsizing 101
Are you retired and want to downsize? Thinking of moving
to a smaller space? Do you need to prepare and stage
your home for sale? Learn how to bring order to the
chaos of downsizing possessions, so you can be ready to
start a new life. This seminar will enable you to begin
the process of decluttering and downsizing your
possessions. You'll be able, with confidence, to
determine what to move or not move with you. If you
dread the process of decluttering, and need expert
advice on where and how to start, this seminar is for
you.
The Organized Mobile Professional
Designed for the mobile professional that has to
maintain a system while constantly in motion, this
workshop teaches effective methods and tools to stay
organized despite a heavy travel schedule, shuttling to
and from various offices, or working out of your car.
Get Organized for Students
Missed deadlines, lost homework, messy desks, backpacks
and lockers… Is your child overwhelmed at school and you
know he/she has the potential if only he/she could get
organized? Organized students are better prepared to
learn at school, complete homework assignments in less
time, and experience less stress (and so do their
families). Children who develop and maintain good
organizational skills will not only be prepared for
today's academic challenges but to excel in tomorrow's
world. Develop a system for tackling all of the papers
that come home from school! Discover what your child's
unique organizing style is, and how to customize a
system that works for him or her. Organizing is a skill
that can be learned, but is not taught in schools. Learn
tips that will help your child get and stay organized
the whole year through!
The Zen of Organizing
Learn the psychology of clutter and how to make peace
with the things in your life. Discover the principles of
organization and how to apply them to all areas of your
life. Incorporates life coaching principles to help
individuals develop an action plan to start the process
of getting organized.
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Business/Entrepreneurship Presentations
Creating Your Business Plan & Goals
Designed for budding or new business owners looking for
a great starting point. Learn how to create an
effective, workable business plan, and set goals for
your business that are actionable.
Conducting Effective Meetings
Learn how to prepare for and conduct effective meetings,
including how to set and stick to an agenda, who to
include, how to encourage participation, and how to get
people out on time and with a purpose!
Conflict Resolution: Become an Amateur Mediator
Of all the resources we manage, people are the most
complex and difficult. This workshop is designed to help
employees assess themselves and those they work with to
strive for a harmonious work environment. Concepts of
facilitative mediation will be introduced and
role-playing will be utilized to instruct employees on
how to make the most of those on their team.
Dynamic Communication
Learn the craft of communicating well to effectively
convey your message to others in a way that promotes
understanding and encourages dialogue and productivity.
Covers telephone, email and in-person communication.
Effective Business Writing
This workshop teaches how to drive action through more
readable, clear, and direct business letters, emails,
memos, marketing letters, and technical reports. Learn a
process that helps to save time and increase efficiency
in business writing.
Entrepreneurship 101
Learn how to start a business from the ground-up. This
workshop covers setting goals for a new business,
choosing a business entity, drafting a business plan,
and creating a marketing and networking strategy. If you
have always wanted to be an entrepreneur, this workshop
is for you! Learn how to join the ranks of the
successfully self-employed.
Networking That Works
This presentation reveals smart networking and public
relations strategies for business owners. Hear about the
mistakes most business owners make and how to avoid
them. Learn to establish power partnerships with other
businesses, the media, and networking groups. Covers how
to develop an elevator speech, a Unique Selling
Proposition, a tag line, and write and disseminate press
releases.
Setting Your Fees & Sticking to Them
Learn the major components involved in establishing a
pricing strategy custom tailored to your business.
Discover major price objections and how to overcome
them. Be prepared to view yourself and your business
offerings with increased value. Come ready to run
formulas and leave with a plan of action!
Stand and Deliver: Dynamic Presentations
Want to learn how to be a great public speaker? Look no
further! Learn how to conduct engaging, informative, and
interactive presentations to audiences large and small.
Discover tips to improve your oral and nonverbal
communication styles, inspire and motivate participants,
and exude confidence and enthusiasm, while establishing
credibility. Lisa's background as a teacher, lawyer, and
performer has provided her with years of experience and
expertise in speaking before live audiences. Lisa is a
member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), the
premiere organization for professional speakers, and was
voted number 1 speaker by participants at the 2008
National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO)
Conference. Lisa's presentations are informative, as
well as interactive and entertaining. So get ready to
have fun while learning how to be a dynamic speaker!
Develop Stage Presence to Improve Your Business Image
What do you get when you mix the stage presence of an
accomplished performer, with the brains of a lawyer, and
the heart of an instructor/interpreter of the deaf? A
totally unique perspective on how to brand your
business, improve your image, and highlight your
uniqueness! Using a combination of public speaking
exercises, networking tips, brand identification, and
acting/improvisational exercises, Lisa assists
participants in developing “stage presence” in their
business and life so they can shine.
3 Steps to Next Level Business Success: Ready, Set, Go!
Are you a business owner who is ready to take your
business to the next level? This presentation will help
you create a plan designed to implement business growth
by focusing on three key elements: where your business
is now, where you want to take it, and how will you get
it there. Get ready to assess the strengths and
weaknesses of your business, and identify the
opportunities and how to act on them. Create a strategic
plan for growing operations, delegating and outsourcing,
hiring employees or subcontractors, creating passive
streams of income, establishing a Board of Advisors,
participating in a Mastermind group, engaging in
meaningful peer coaching, and focusing on your unique
areas of brilliance within your business. Learn how to
work on your business, not just in it.
Don’t Go It Alone: It Takes a Village to Run a
Successful Business
Are you a solopreneur and often find it lonely? Maybe
you are you a small business owner with employees or
subcontractors, but find yourself wanting to brainstorm
with those outside your business? You can! Imagine a
group of people that are available to bounce business
ideas off of, help you make pivotal business decisions,
and serve as a sounding board. Set your business up for
success by enlisting the help of others. Options are
plentiful, from using virtual assistants, independent
contractors, and employees, to brainstorming with
business colleagues, setting up a formal Board of
Advisors, participating in a Mastermind group, or hiring
a business coach. Studies show that business owners
achieve success more frequently when they set up
accountability programs. Identify different ways to
partner with others to improve your business, and learn
the differences between various types of accountability
tools. Determine which accountability tools are the best
match for your business, and how to implement them. Hear
about what your colleagues are doing. Walk away with a
plan to enlist the help of others in your business in a
way that makes the most sense for your business model,
stage, and needs. Get ready to create your village!
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Leadership Presentations
Coaching for High Performance
Enhance team performance and maximize motivation and
retention when you learn how to communicate performance
expectations, assess employee skill levels, and agree on
a coaching contract. Learn how to fine tune the critical
skills needed to conduct coaching conversations, adapt
one's coaching style to different situations, and create
a coaching plan.
How to Motivate Staff
Learn how to motivate people to work together in a
spirit of cooperation and harmony. Inspire, mentor, and
lead your staff so that they are motivated to deliver
the best performance possible. Explore what truly
motivates employees in the workplace, how to set up and
deliver an effective incentive program, and what you can
do to contribute to a motivating work environment.
Mastering the Art of Delegation
Mastering the art of delegation is the idea of utilizing
the knowledge, strengths, creativity and ingenuity of
all employees toward creating continuous improvement in
the workplace. This workshop helps supervisors learn to
move away from directing the activities of workers and
begin to move towards being the facilitator, coach, and
counselor who creates an effective team-building
climate.
The Proactive Leader: Build Support to Get Things Done
The proactive supervisor is a leader who constantly
seeks ways to improve performance and makes timely
changes to stay competitive. This workshop provides the
supervisor with skills in problem solving, improving
productivity, communicating ideas, and implementing
changes in order to become a successful proactive
leader. Most importantly, learn how to be proactive --
not reactive -- in your management style.
Team Building and Change Management
Team building and change management are closely
intertwined. Change cannot work without teamwork. Team
leaders who are able to build fractured teams during
change make the difference between thriving or simply
surviving. Change heightens the need to hone basic
leadership and supervisory skills, which are the same
skills used to build teams.
Turning Managers into Coaches
Managers today have more pressure to get results from
their teams. Promotions occur because these managers
know how to get their job done, but they may not have
the people and management skills to match. Managers that
develop effective coaching skills produce significantly
better results. Developing a coaching culture in the
workplace includes focusing on solutions (not problems),
inspiring people to achieve their best, opening up
communication channels, reducing conflict, and
increasing staff retention. Effective coaching leads to
increased productivity, greater happiness, and
satisfaction at work.
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Legal-Related Presentations
Documentation for Supervisors
The objective of this workshop is to provide managers
and supervisors with the information necessary to
maintain proper documentation. Learn how to write
effective reviews, performance appraisals and memos.
Proper documentation helps supervisors and organizations
to track changes, assess employees’ performance, and
effectively avoid and defend lawsuits.
Navigating the Legal Landmines of a Small Business
Designed to assist small business owners in identifying
legal issues that may arise, this presentation covers
choosing a business structure that best meets your
needs, securing adequate insurance and knowing the
difference between various types of insurance, the use
of a written agreement and the terms it should contain,
classifying team members as independent contractors or
employees, understanding the basics of intellectual
property, and the prohibition against conspiring to set
fees within an industry. This workshop unveils the cloak
of complexity of the legal world involved in running a
small business. Armed with basic legal terms and
knowledge, participants will be aware of when it may be
necessary to seek professional legal advice, what type
of attorney to contact, and what issues they may be able
to handle on their own.
Sexual Harassment and Discrimination: Awareness and
Prevention in the Workplace
Learn the difference between illegal behavior and an
“equal opportunity jerk” in the workplace! Through role
playing, quizzes, and interactive discussion, become
familiar with one of the hardest areas of law to grasp –
sexual harassment. Become familiar with the various
“protected classes” that make up the area of
discrimination under federal and state law. It is
imperative that business owners, managers/supervisors,
and employees are familiar with sexual harassment and
discrimination, and know their role in preventing claims
in the workplace. Come raise your awareness and learn
effective strategies for dealing with this pervasive
workplace problem from an attorney/consultant/trainer
who has trained, represented, and mediated on behalf of
employers, employees and unions in the area of sexual
harassment and discrimination.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Discrimination in the
Workplace
This workshop is designed to bring together people from
a variety of backgrounds to make contact and acknowledge
their similarities in a safe, supportive, and
interactive environment. Through role-playing, quizzes,
and interactive exercises, participants will engage in
discussion designed to flesh out attitudes and behavior
with regard to diversity in the workplace, and shift
thinking from “How are we different” to “How are we
alike.” Participants will become familiar with the
various “protected classes” that make up the area of
discrimination under federal and state law, but will
also be exposed to diversity and inclusion thinking that
goes beyond just meeting the law’s requirements.
Participants will explore tools for positive action
regarding being open to and including different groups,
and will brainstorm ways to deal with sensitive issues
that might arise in the workplace.
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Life-Work Balance/Career Transition Presentations
Create Your Purpose, Live Your passion
What did you want to be when you grew up? It is never
too late to be who you meant to be! Are you afraid to
even say out loud what you want for yourself this month,
this year, or this lifetime? What would it be like to
receive acknowledgment and support for your vision, not
to mention a complete toolkit for getting exactly what
you want? In this inspiring presentation, you will be
introduced to and have the opportunity to dream big,
stake your claim and begin to take action toward
creating the future you desire and deserve. Learn how to
surround yourself with “believing eyes,” tap into your
passions, and think holistically about how to be a
multi-passionate person in your career/work, hobbies,
volunteer opportunities, and travel.
Leap… and the Net Shall Appear: Live the Life You’ve
Imagined!
Are you itching to try a new career but fear is holding
you back? Are you ready to take the plunge but need some
concrete ways to package yourself and identify your
transferable skills? This presentation is a unique
combination of life coaching exercises and solid career
transition skills, designed to assist you in following
your dreams to a new career. With her background in
career counseling, and her own successful career
transition from lawyer to entrepreneur, Lisa guides
participants down the path of leaping, while helping
them to set up “the net” so they have a place to land!
The Brand Called You: Personal Branding in the 21st
Century
An interactive, inspiring, and informative presentation
designed to assist participants in identifying their
personal brand. Through interactive exercises and
examples, learn what makes you unique, how to stand out
from the crowd, and how to use your brand to be
successful in your personal and professional life.
Popular with audiences of all ages, including the youth
market.
American Sign Language 101 and Deaf Culture
Learn one of the most beautiful and expressive forms of
communication -- sign language! This workshop introduces
the hearing adult to the manual alphabet, finger
spelling, and basic conversational vocabulary. It also
covers common myths about deafness and sign language,
and raises awareness about the Deaf community. Whether
you are interested in communicating with deaf and
hearing-impaired individuals personally or
professionally, or just want to have fun learning a new
form of communication, this workshop is a real
eye-opener.
Develop a Can-Do Attitude: Success Principles Learned
from Teaching the Deaf
American Sign Language is one of the most beautiful and
expressive forms of communication, and is the language
of Deaf individuals in the United States. What most
people don’t realize is that sign language is not
Universal -- each culture and country has its own
language – and that it is a real language, with its own
syntax and grammatical rules. The Deaf have a popular
phrase: “I can do anything but hear!” This presentation
uses the visual-spatial native language of the Deaf to
challenge outdated stereotypes and belief systems, and
inspire people to develop a Can-Do Attitude. With some
“deaf humor,” and entertaining anecdotes involving deaf
family members and friends, as well as stories from her
days as an instructor and interpreter for the Deaf, Lisa
helps participants rid themselves of negative feelings
that get in the way of their success. A real eye-opening
experience, participants learn a fun new skill, and walk
away feeling empowered. For a keynote, this is an
inspiring snapshot into a unique world, and for a
breakout/concurrent session, Lisa can go even deeper and
add interactive exercises that drive home the impact of
the message.
Decrease Your Stress: Managing Your Life in the Age of
Overload
Stress is unavoidable in today’s fast-paced world.
However, you can learn effective tools to decrease your
stress. Come learn tactics, ideas, and strategies for
changing one's life by learning to cope with the
complexities of daily living. Leave with a personal
stress reduction plan.
Goal Setting for Your Career & Your Life
Want to not only set goals, but achieve them? Then this
program is for you! Goal setting is a powerful process
for thinking about your ideal life, and for motivating
you to turn this vision into reality. The process of
setting goals helps you make choices in alignment with
your true desires and needs. Discover what you really
want, how to set up benchmarks, choose an accountability
partner, and get motivated. Learn how to identify and
conquer the distractions that threaten to lure you from
your set course. With tips that cover your business and
personal life, this well-rounded program will get you on
the right path to achieving your goals.
Women in the Workplace
Being women in today’s workplace is not always easy.
Come engage in discussion about striving for work-life
balance, breaking the glass ceiling, overcoming gender
stereotypes, and other issues that uniquely affect women
in this fast-paced society.
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