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If you've ever felt that life is a runaway locomotive, listen to Penny, as she is interviewed by Anne Karrick of WICC Talk Radio, tell about how she faced a life threatening illness, and not just survived, but thrived!"
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Penny Pearlman
Westport, CT
Tel. 203-454-5581

SPEAKER - Talk to Penny if you need a speaker and facilitator to liven up your meetings or engage your staff and board in consensus building dialogues and creative thinking.

CONSULTANT - Penny can help your organization manage a change effort effectively, or develop a vision and plan for future success.

ARTIST - Find Penny’s inspirational artwork on mugs, teeshirts, posters and more!

BLOG - Read Penny’s blog, Notes From the Field that chronicles her journey around the country interviewing former Miss Americas and celebrity Miss America Pageant judges.

AUTHOR - Contact Penny for more information and to be placed on her publication list for notification of her book, When Smart Isn’t Enough: Lessons From the Beauty Queens.

PRESENTATIONS &
WORKSHOP CLIENTS

• American Cancer Society

• Area Agency on Aging

• Association of Female Realtors

• Association of Human Resource
Professionals

• Connecticut Hospital Association

• Connecticut Training and Development Conference

• Connecticut Society of CPAs
Expense Reduction Alliance

• Entrepreneurial Woman’s Network

• Fairfield University

• F.I.N.E.

• Laventhol & Horwath

• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

• Mid-Atlantic Health Care Conference

• Network of Executive Women

• New Canaan Rotary

• New England Health Care Assembly

• Pennsylvania Hospital Association

•Sacred Heart University (adjunct professor)

• SACIA

• Southern Connecticut Health System

• Symposium of Health Care Marketing Executives

• University of New Haven (adjunct professor)

•Wilton Continuing Education

• Weston Kiwanis

• Women in Managements


SPEAKER, PRESENTER, TRAINER

Penny Pearlman, a member of the National Speakers Association, is known for her magnetic, insightful and inspiring presentations, her positive and upbeat attitude. Penny engages audiences in a dialogue with themselves and each other.
See what others say
about how she makes them uncomfortable with being average.

She customizes her programs to fit her audiences' needs and challenges. The following are frequently requested programs, available in keynote, seminar, workshop or retreat formats.

Using the WIIFM Factor to Effectively Manage Change

Do you want different results, but keep doing the same things the same way? Change is one of the few things we can count on as a constant. Although most of us know that change can be good for us and for the people we work with, figuring out how to change and getting buy-in for a change management process are never easy.

You will gain an understanding of how the WIFFM Factor in change management is one of the most simple but effective tools to achieving success. You'll come away from Penny's dynamic and interactive presentation energized with tips and techniques to make the changes you've thought about, help you help others to accept and manage change and create excitement about change in your organization.

Improving Personal Performance: Going from Good to Great

The most successful, highly paid athletes, from championship ball players to world class runners, study their performance to identify what they need to do to get to their next level of performance.

In the business world, those with a desire to be successful never rest on their laurels. They too, believe that examining their technical, interpersonal and communications skills, reviewing their achievements and missteps, and devising methods to manage each more effectively will help them achieve higher levels of achievement.

This workshop is designed to assist you in identifying your strengths, the obstacles to getting you where you want to go and what you want to improve so that you will stand out from your peers. You will take that information, and with an expanded set of tools and techniques presented during this workshop, design a plan to take you past your current levels of performance, and yourself for advancement.

This highly interactive program is designed to help you fine tune the competencies that will be valuable in both your professional and personal endeavors. You will assess your skills, develop an action plan for attaining your goals and leave with practical tips, tools and techniques you can use right away to achieve future success.

Managing Change: The Art of Implementation

Successfully implementing an initiative requires more than a project plan. It requires anticipating, acknowledging and integrating the "people issues" into the plan. This program will focus on skills necessary to manage the human side of initiative implementation. Managing implementation with attention not only to the business issues, but also to the aspirations, attitudes and behaviors of employees and clients will go a long way toward ensuring success.

Ready, Fire, Aim!

The best way to predict the future is to create it! Business leaders today have found that developing a compelling vision, innovative strategy and plan is far more effective than leaving the future to chance. Too often organizations either don’t develop a strategic plan or write one that gathers dust on a shelf somewhere. Setting goals isn’t enough. Motivating action to implement the steps to achieve goals will get you where you want to go. Through effective planning you can determine your future and develop implementation plans that spur your organization to act.

If you want to jumpstart your business for the next decade this presentation will light your fire.

Leaders Are Made, Not Born

A leader is someone who will take you where you otherwise might not go. A leader combines the imagination and inspiration of a visionary with the practical engineering of a builder. The capacity for leadership exists in everyone, but most people never take the time to or don’t know how to develop it. This program is designed to inspire all individuals who aspire to develop the characteristics of a leader.

Leadership in Changing Times

Never has change happened so fast. Business is being presented with phenomenal opportunities and great challenges. To get ready for this new era requires business leaders to reexamine the strategic direction and operating principles that drive their organizations.

To create and lead an organization excels, not just competes, that steers a clear course in today’s turbulent business environment, executives must inspire an organizational culture that supports flexible and innovative thinking. Managing change effectively requires everyone within an organization develop a leadership attitude – focusing on the future, finding innovative solutions, communicating effectively, being goal directed, maintaining motivation and commitment.

Testimonials

See what others have to say:

"Penny made me think deeper, and draw from other's experiences as well as my own past I had forgotten."

"I've been to many workshops, but this one is the first that is producing in me the specific changes which are improving my life."

"I really enjoyed this "quality time" I gave myself. I would highly recommend this workshop for anyone who wants to live the life of their dreams but who feels that they lack the confidence and know-how to make their move. The workshop gave me a practical plan to help me make concrete changes in my life, my work and my intimate relationships. I never realized how much fun change can be!"

"She is great at encouraging participation without making me feel self-conscious. I learned things I can actually put into practice."

"Engaging informal speaker. Energetic and knowledgeable. Program was great!"

"Thanks for a great seminar. It was excellent!! And a very positive learning experience."

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