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Melanie Drake MA
Melanie Drake Quick Facts
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Melanie L. Drake focuses on the publishing and marketing sides of the AchieveMax® company, which provides professional, motivational speakers to custom-design seminars and keynote presentations to meet an organization's needs. Seminars can be scheduled for half-day, full-day, or multiple-day sessions. Keynote presentations and break-out sessions for conferences and conventions can be scheduled according to an organization's needs.
Additional experts from the AchieveMax® company include:
Motivational Speaker Harry K. Jones
A straight-forward, "tell-it-like-it-is" approach to current issues coupled with more than 30 years of management and leadership experience makes Harry K. Jones a dynamic and much sought-after motivational speaker. Harry has appeared all over North America addressing topics such as change, customer service, creativity, employee retention, goal setting, leadership, stress management, teamwork and time management. During his career, he has worked in and consulted for a number of industries, including education, financial, health care, government, manufacturing, radio, retail, television, transportation, and sales. As one client so aptly said, "Harry may not tell you what you want to hear, but he'll certainly tell you what you need to hear!"
Motivational Speaker Jeffrey W. Drake, Ph.D.
With more than 30 years of experience in the management, psychology, and training fields, Dr. Jeffrey W. Drake is an exceptional motivational speaker. Jeff has made presentations on subjects such as communication styles, creative problem solving, goal setting, leadership, project management, stress management, teamwork, and time management. As a trainer and professional speaker, Jeff has been characterized as motivational, unique, informative, practical, inspirational, enjoyable, and fun.
Motivational Speaker Kathleen J. Wheelihan
Combining enthusiasm with an energetic speaking style, Kathleen J. Wheelihan is an inspirational and motivational speaker. Kathleen has made presentations on topics such as creativity, customer service strategies, employee retention, leadership, project management, and teambuilding. Kathleen has worked in and/or consulted for the credit union, education, financial, government, health care, manufacturing, and real estate industries.
Inspirational Speaker Shelley R. Riebel
With more than 20 years of experience working in positions from management, customer service/sales, and training, Shelley Riebel teaches from experience. Her energy and enthusiasm makes Shelley a motivating and inspiring speaker. Shelley makes presentations ranging from supervisory skills to sales to professional development topics. She helps businesses develop business plans, training plans and resolve internal conflict. Shelley is instrumental in developing sales cultures and helping to improve company morale, motivation and productivity.
Other Programs & Highlights
Top 10 Seminars and Keynote Presentations
1. Productive Chaos: Riding the Wave of Change
Are your organizational arrows aligned to prepare you for the chaos awaiting you? Will you be a victim or a benefactor of this inevitable trend? The choice is yours! This seminar or keynote provides participants with specific hands-on techniques to break out of old traditional thought patterns and develop new ways of thinking and responding. It examines and integrates the very latest research, development, and theories into a simple, easy-to-use formula for success at a time when we're all being asked to accomplish much more with less.
2. Becoming a Choice Employer: Attracting & Retaining World-Class Talent
Business success and growth in any industry is clearly linked to the attraction and retention of talent. In fact, there is no issue with greater urgency, or more far-reaching consequences. It has been identified by numerous resources as the #1 business issue of the 21st Century! In this seminar or keynote, examine solutions and examples of how Choice Employers deal with this most vexing problem!
3. Leadership Boot Camp
This leadership boot camp educational seminar is action-packed and filled with practical tools that will help leaders create a more effective team. Throughout the sessions, activities will help participants apply what they have learned. They will also have valuable networking opportunities to help them learn from each other.
4. Creative Innovation: Out-of-the-Box Thinking
Today's leaders are in the business of creative innovation. Whether the creativity is expressed in new products and services, new public relations approaches, new programs, or new marketing or merchandising methods, success in the long run depends on creativity and innovation! This creativity seminar or keynote shows how to generate ideas alone or in a group, how to brainstorm for increased productivity, and how to encourage a creative organizational climate.
5. The "I Hate Time Management" Seminar
This time management seminar or keynote was not designed to sell a daily planner, a diary or a new philosophy. It was, however, created to provide participants with tips, guidelines, time-proven methods, systems, surveys, and analysis to establish a plan for improved task and time management. This time management seminar or keynote is essential for anyone who might benefit from better task and time management.
6. Customer Satisfaction Strategies
A powerful wave is shaking the already turbulent business world. It is a wave of service-or more specifically, an intense interest in quality of service and satisfaction. This customer service seminar or keynote provides knowledge, methods, and expert guidelines to help you establish the competitive edge as we prepare to face a truly challenging marketplace.
7. On Your Mark, Get Set, Goal!
Today, we live in a microwave, throw-away, live-for-the-moment society. Successful goal setting is the continual process of making a goal and achieving it, and making still more goals and achieving them. This goal setting seminar or keynote helps you take control of many areas in your life so that you can determine where you're going, how to get there, when you'll get there, and what you want to do when you arrive.
8. Stress: The Ultimate Paradox
Do you thrive on stress? Or does stress make you anxious? The critical difference between positive and negative stress lies in the way we perceive and deal with each potentially stressful situation. Stress management is, simply, effective coping. This stress management seminar or keynote provides a practical presentation of time-tested techniques to reduce both our perception of stress and its harmful consequences.
9. Project Management
In today's workplace, the ability to manage projects is an essential skill. Effective project managers are increasingly in demand, while people without those skills will be left behind. Whether you realize it or not, everyone manages a project at some point. Almost every employee, regardless of job title, will spend more and more time focused on projects. In fact, everyone will soon be expected to be project completion experts.
10. Developing Empowered Teams
The emergence of empowered teams isn't just another management fad "here today and gone tomorrow." Empowerment renders obsolete the traditional management methods used in organizations for the last century. This team building seminar provides participants with the skills, knowledge, and guidelines to develop winning teams by improving each person's team leadership and team membership skills.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Melanie Drake
Words of Wisdom
- Random Thoughts on Attitude
- Random Thoughts on Change
- Random Thoughts on Chaos
- Random Thoughts on Creativity
- Random Thoughts on Customer Service
- Random Thoughts on Employees
- Random Thoughts on Empowerment
- Random Thoughts on Enthusiasm
- Random Thoughts on Execution
- Random Thoughts on Fear
- Random Thoughts on Gender
- Random Thoughts on Goals
- Random Thoughts on Leadership
- Random Thoughts on Mentoring
- Random Thoughts on Motivation
- Random Thoughts on Networking
- Random Thoughts on Passion
- Random Thoughts on Persistence
- Random Thoughts on Politics
- Random Thoughts on Potential
- Random Thoughts on Random Acts of Kindness
- Random Thoughts on Reading
- Random Thoughts on Repetition
- Random Thoughts on Sales
- Random Thoughts on Sense of Urgency
- Random Thoughts on Teamwork
- Random Thoughts on Time Management
- Random Thoughts on Women
Contacting Melanie Drake
For more information about our seminars and keynote presentations, please visit www.AchieveMax.com or call 800-886-2MAX. You may also contact us via our form at www.AchieveMax.com/contact_us.htm
