Michelle Nichols
VIDEO: Click photo to watch her win the 2008 Governor's Award |
Would you like to have a celebrity motivational and educational speaker for your next conference, convention or event? You're in luck! The founder of the Hug Your Kids project, Michelle Nichols, is a professional speaker, and a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA.) A note from Michelle: I can give a keynote or closing talk to a general session, lead a workshop or speak after a lunchtime meal. Fifty percent of my raving fans are dads, so my message connects strongly to both men and women. Those without children also benefit from my message because everyone is one-degree of separation from a working parent who impacts their success. This talk helps them better understand their co-workers, employees, managers, customers and key vendors who are working parents so they work together more smoothly and produce bigger and better results. |
Speech/Workshop Titles
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For general audiences HUG, WORK, LAUGH: 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent - a light look at Work-LIfe issues and how to use laughter to reduce the stress and increase the happiness of working and parenting. From Stress to Success: Work-Life Strategies that Really
Work - a deeper look at Work-Life issues, including how
common they are and their impact to the results of organizations
as well as individuals. Still presented with a humorous touch. Offers
some strategies to reduce the stress from Work-Life issues. For corporate, business, or professional audiences |
Brief Description
Stress levels are rising at businesses everywhere but it’s especially
stressful for working parents. They are working hard to “do more
with less” at work and, at the same time, raise good kids at home
and keep their marriage or other adult-relationships strong. This message
is not just for working parents - it's also for those who hire, work with,
sell to or buy from working parents. In other words, everyone!
The popular prescription is work-life "balance.” Forget it. It’s the wrong goal. Instead, hear Ms. Nichols' solution so employees and business owners will have less guilt, worry and stress, and experience more focus, happiness and productivity. This translates to increased personal happiness and corporate profits. That's SUCCESS!
Ms. Nichols speaks from credibility. She was the sales columnist for BusinessWeek.com for 6 years, was a long-time sales professional and has owned four of her own companies. In 1998, her 8 1/2-year old son, Mark, died suddenly from brain cancer. She understands what's really at stake in work-life issues. She delivers her message with original stories, insight and humor. Come listen, laugh and learn.
Speaker's Brief Biography
Michelle Nichols was the Savvy Selling columnist for BusinessWeek.com for six years and recorded 45 podcasts for BusinessWeek, including an interview with Zig Ziglar.
Now she is the author of Hug Your Kids Today! 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent and founder of National Hug Your Kids Day. Ms. Nichols is a professional speaker, consultant and long-time salesperson.
She believes that work-life "balance" is a dumb idea - and she has a better solution that is sensible, simple - and successful. Her work is based on 5 key lessons she learned since a family tragedy in 1998. She really understands the pressure of working and parenting - and what's at stake.
Ms. Nichols provides keynotes, seminars and workshops to working parents in corporate and association audiences on work-life strategies. Her presentations help organizations increase their revenues or decrease their HR costs, thereby improving their bottom line.
Ms. Nichols has spoken to groups of businesspeople from ten to seven hundred. She is a member of the prestigious National Speakers Association (NSA) and the past Chair of the sales experts for NSA.
Terms
In a typical speaking situation in the U.S., terms are clients pre-pay all travel, hotel, ground transportation and meals or per-diem. Speaking fee is due 50% upon contract to hold the date and 50% the day of the event.
For international speaking, please discuss with our office.
Introduction
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Our speaker is Michelle Nichols. She’s the author of “Hug
Your Kids Today! 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent," the founder
of National Hug Your Kids Day, and a thought-leader on the business impact
of work and family issues.
Her company recently won the 2008 Governor's Award and her book was a finalist for the Best Books Award.
Ms. Nichols went from running several of her own businesses – to writing for BusinessWeek.com for 6 years – to the Business of Hugs.
She’s a wife and the mother of 3 children, a Golden Retriever, and a turtle named "James Pond."
Please help me welcome – Michelle Nichols.
Contact
To discuss dates, speaker fees, bulk book orders and more, please contact Michelle Nichols and her team today!
Michelle Nichols toll-free (877)352-9684 or direct (775)303-8201
email: hugs@HugYourKidsToday.com website: www.hugyourkidstoday.com