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Michelle Nichols
Speaker and Author

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to watch her win the 2008 Governor's Award

Welcome meeting planners!

I know your job is a difficult one so I try to be really easy to work with. Just call me to describe your needs and situation, and we'll settle all the details.

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 like my message because it helps them better understand their co-workers, employees, managers, customers and key vendors who are working parents.

SPEECH / WORKSHOP TITLE

for general audiences
HUG, WORK, LAUGH: 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent

for professsional audiences
From Stress to Success in the Workplace: Why Work-Life Balance is the Wrong Answer

for women's audiences
HUG, WORK, LAUGH: How Women Can Hold Onto Their Families, Jobs - and Funny Bones


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. 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.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Professional working parents - engineers, salespeople, lawyers, doctors, accountants, administrators, managers, executives - who have children living at home. Also human resources professionals responsible for the retention and attraction of key employees who have children living at home.

This message is for mothers, fathers, stepparents, grandparents - and employers.

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BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYEES OR AUDIENCE MEMBERS click here

BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYER click here

WILL YOU HAVE FRIES BOOKS WITH THAT PRESENTATION?

To increase the impact and value of Ms. Nichols' presentation, consider a bulk order of the HYKT handbooks - one for each person in the audience. Be sure to ask us about this cost-effective resource.


SPEAKER'S 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 the sudden death of her 8 1/2 year old son, Mark, 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

Our speaker is Michelle Nichols. She’s the author of “Hug Your Kids Today! 5 Key Lessons for Every Working Parent" and the founder of National Hug Your Kids Day.

Her company recently won the 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, 2 dogs, 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