As a professional with a variety of expertise and interests, I have spoken at many meetings, conferences, and conventions. I welcome hearing from you if you believe I can fulfill a role for an upcoming engagement. I enjoy connecting with and impacting my audience. In many of my talks, I relate my experiences and successes that allow me to guide leaders, teams, and professionals through various business and personal challenges. What I do is combine my practical experience and your goals to demonstrate to the audience how to overcome the particular obstacles you are facing.
I am flattered that I receive very positive reviews whenever I speak at organizational workshops, conferences, and corporate events. I can connect with audiences across all industries. I focus on giving them strategies and tools to implement in their professional and personal lives.
I speak on a variety of subjects that are beneficial to large corporations, smaller businesses, nonprofit organizations, and any gathering of entrepreneurs. All of my workshops can be adapted to fit into the constraints of speaking to a group.
The Dynamics of Leadership and Influence
Once you learn the techniques of leadership and influence, your confidence to lead will improve. Leadership does not necessarily come naturally to everyone, but you can learn its techniques. Then experience refines it. Leadership is never easy, as you will need to make decisions and face challenges, but it can become natural and rewarding.
This talk educates the audience in the finer points of leadership and influence. I go through the components of both skills and then illustrate how to weave them together to be an incredibly effective leader.
Speech Highlights:
- The true meaning of leadership
- How to develop a leadership mindset
- Your leadership style (and that of others)
- How to influence others towards a mutually desired vision
- Five keys to working with your team to achieve your desired results
Team Development of High Performing Teams
For most of us, teamwork is a part of everyday life. Whether it is at home, in the community, or at work, we are often expected to be a functional part of a performing team. Having a strong team will benefit any organization and will lead to more successes than not. This workshop encourages you to explore the different aspects of a team, as well as ways that you can become a top-notch team performer.
Mindfulness Mastery: Cultivating a High Performance Mindset
Mindfulness is a term frequently misunderstood. Pure mindfulness encourages a person to live in the present while addressing the danger of distorted thinking. By learning to stay in tune with both their mental and emotional sides, people can improve their perspective to enhance their personal and professional success. I show you how to deal with the unexpected situations that can otherwise trigger emotions that make us behave in an unpredictable or self-sabotaging manner.
7 Simple Steps to Emotional Intelligence: Best Emotional Intelligence Secrets Revealed
An employee with high emotional intelligence can manage his or her impulses, communicate with others effectively, manage change well, solve problems, and use humor to build rapport in stressful situations. These employees also have empathy, remain optimistic even in the face of adversity, and are gifted at educating and persuading in a sales situation and resolving customer complaints in a client service role.
Results Based Resonant Relationships©: You Matter! People Matter! Community Matters!
Business relationships have become a crucial part of the world today. As a leader, achiever, or an entrepreneur, business relationships are your currency. It is important to focus attention on building resonant relationships. To be truly effective, relationship building must become one of the priorities of your professional life. I show you that relationships can turn your life around.
Discovering Your Purpose: The Driver of Success
Knowing your purpose allows you to succeed in life. A clarity of purpose blossoms into the passion, vision, goals, and a mission to achieve them. The purpose is the “WHY” that galvanizes passion and allows a person to make a difference. Passion is the energy that produces brilliance. What a person loves to do is what makes
Testimonials
“If you want to experience more love, joy and happiness, then follow and use the strategies by my friend Divya! They will help you to achieve greater success and live a more abundant life!“
James Malinchak, Featured on ABCs Hit TV Show, “Secret Millionaire”
The World’s #1 Big Money Speaker® Trainer & Coach!” Founder, www.BigMoneySpeaker.com
“Divya Parekh is a versatile international speaker and mentor. She presented at several biopharmaceutical conferences and was invited by the organizers repeatedly, always receiving great reviews. You can learn and grow to the next level with Divya. If you want stellar success in accelerating your personal, professional and financial goals, you’ve got to work with Divya!“
Becky McCuen, Senior Quality Manager Argo therapeutics
“Divya Parekh, one of our professional speakers, has provided leadership presentations, that includes topics such as: Diversity, Communication Across Generations, The Art of Appreciative Leadership, Stress Management, Communication; to numerous corporate clients. Our clients enjoy having her speak to their employees year after year. Divya easily connects with the audience. She makes a difficult topic easy to understand and gets her audience excited. Her energy is contagious. Not only does she receive very positive feedback from the attendees, they also learned practical and professional tips they can use immediately.“
Betsy A. Haas, CEO Esteemed Human Development International, Inc.
“Divya Parekh is a remarkable person who brings great intelligence, warmth, and insight to everything she does. Divya is serious in helping her clients invest in their future where she partners on a level that gives them the space to explore, expand and focus on the critical parts that will help them achieve their goals while overcoming roadblocks. Divya works with people to find their inner leader and express it in everything they do. She creates the safe harbor so her clients can ‘test the waters’ while knowing the shore is close by. I would recommend Divya to everyone who is committed to understanding themselves better and devoted to making a difference in their world.“
Dr. Karen Keller, Author Keller Influence Indicator® www.Karen-Keller.com
“Divya spoke as our keynote speaker at the NAFE NC Network Meeting in 2015. Divya inspired the audience to discover and understand their hidden motivators. Attendees walked away with action items that they can implement right away and were given a 1:1:1 challenge to fulfill.“
Michelle Rogers, Executive Director National Association for Female Executives North Carolina
“While speaking with our Students and Young Professionals, Divya inspired the audience to action. Attendees commented that her speech really resonated with them and they walked away with tips they could immediately apply at work.“
Marisol Patino, Student Affairs Committee Chair
International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers –CASA Life Sciences Technology Conference – ISPE Carolina South Atlantic Chapter
“Divya Parekh kept our group engaged throughout her inspiring presentation. Her in-depth knowledge and personal stories elevated our thinking about business to a higher level and gave us tools for continuous personal growth and success. I am delighted to have discovered Divya and look forward to working with her in the future.“
Mary Ann Bella, Freelance Writer/Producer – Organizer, Independent Communicators Alliance Group
“Thank you for your fantastic presentation, you more than lived up to your promise. It is rare to find a speaker who can effectively blend a positive message with humor and real life examples. You really captivated our audience with your style, enthusiasm and unique ideas for using mindfulness as a success tool.“
Kathryn Roberts Founder of Purpose ~ Passion ~ Prosperity
“Divya’s presentation was helpful and enlightening. Can’t wait to look for her books to learn more! Thanks!” – Jill Lycan, Cary NC
“Very insightful presentation, balancing “doing mode” and “being mode” is a priority for me. Also enjoyed hearing about biases and “should”. Thank you so much for sharing!”- Nancy Terry, Cary NC
“The presentation covered interesting information that is also helpful and practical for daily life. Divya, you were very enthusiastic and passionate about the subject, and helping others find ways to practice mindfulness and use it as a tool to facilitate success.” – Beth Worek, Owner/Coach, Cary NC,
“The Mindfulness Presentation was very good and very informative. Divya explained it so well. It was done very professionally. Divya is a very warm and enthusiastic person. Whatever she does, she does it with passion. She is very optimistic in whole approach to life.”- Aruna Shah, Coach, Cary NC
“I gained so many new ideas and insights from Divya’s presentation. I can’t wait to implement the practices and learn more from her webinar program.”- Kathryn Roberts, Business Mentor, Wake Forest, NC
“I found the presentation inspiring. I had a couple of “Ah-ha!” moments, which I intend to move forward on. Good humor.”- Vi S., Durham, NC
“I enjoyed Divya’s excellent presentation on mindfulness. She gave a wonderful introduction to key mindfulness concepts with material that can be easily accessed, remembered and utilized. Thank you!” R. Ford, Raleigh, NC
“An elevator speech in 15 minutes? Impossible, you might say! Not so! Divya sat down with me and absolutely transformed my self-introduction. I was stuck, stuck, stuck! In such a short time, I had my direction. I am now excited, confident, and ready to meet my new clients! The light bulb is now burning brightly!”- Connie Killebrew, CEOof CK Productivity, Newbern, NC