Since founding McDargh Communications in 1980, Eileen McDargh has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count. Her programs are content rich, interactive, provocative and playful-even downright hilarious.

She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranks her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development. Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, also named her as one of the World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

She authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance-a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless - Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations and her newest book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in 2008. This book has been adapted for a training film scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2010.

As a business author and commentator, she's appeared on network news, on radio programs and in business journals and in major metropolitan newspapers.

Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith and boardroom poet, David Whyte.

Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of speakers in the United States. She recently completed two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association and also currently sits on an advisory board for Take Back Your Time, a North American initiative for work/life integration practices. She's also listed as a recommended expert through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College.

CHANGE; LEADERSHIP;INSPIRATION
RADICAL RESILIENCE -- Tough Talk for Tough Times
KEYNOTE: or facilitated session.

Radically turbulent times demand professional and personal responses that transcend our regular work and life patterns.

It's not about happy faces on mirrors and mantras on coffee mugs. It's not about hanging on while holding back. It's about times when you feel someone ate your cheese, drained the swamp, and went from great to less-than-good.

Radical resilience requires the courage to challenge, commit, and contribute in ways that positively impact both today as well as many tomorrows.
• Discover how to grow the skills of adaptability, agility, ah-ha, and alignment for producing amazing results.
• Learn a four-part model for methodically tackling the tough issues you currently face.
• Explore what great leaders do to inspire teams to stay in the game and thrive.
• Develop a personal legacy leadership goal that defies downturns and disappointment

CHANGE; INSPIRATION
Resiliency: Staying Rightside Up in an Upside Down World.
KEYNOTE: 60-90 minutes

Discover the characteristics of resilient people and how to grow the five connections of sustainability that allow individuals and organizations to thrive in a constantly changing world. Eileen's book The Resilient Spirit is an ideal gift that can be personalized as a take-home reminder of powerful lessons.

WORK/LIFE BALANCE
Work for a Living and Still be Free to Live
KEYNOTE, BREAKOUT: 45 to 90 minutes. Can also be a 3-hour with JOURNEYWORK

Balance is baloney! Discover a better metaphor for the realities of living in a 24/7 world. Learn the power of choice and how to conduct a C.A.T. scan of your life. Develop strategies to create a life by YOUR design and not by default. A critical topic for all walks of life and one Eileen has followed since authoring the first book ever written on this topic, Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live.

LEADERSHIP; COMMUNICATION
Inside Out Leadership: The Power of Engagement
KEYNOTE: 60-90 minutes

It's time to START talking and get back to work! Create a competitive edge in engaging and retaining talented employees and customers on the most human of playing fields: conversation. Without that connection, there is no energy of engagement. Discover the secret of viewing points, orange batons and Little Davids in creating teams and fostering loyalty. Latest report (Summer 2007) from DDI reports that more than 40% of leaders crave soft skills that can help them work better with others. Talk Aint Cheap: It's Priceless is a perfect take-home for participants.

WORK/LIFE BALANCE; INSPIRATION
The Energy Connection: How to get it, grow it and stop giving it away.
KEYNOTE: 60-90 minutes

You'll never think of energy in the same way again. Forget OPEC and prices at the pump. Discover your own reservoir of power and purpose with five tools to drill down into your own internal well of possibilities. Human energy is a priceless commodity. Learn a new formula for E=MC2. When it comes to energy and the capacity to do work, discover how to get it, renew it and stop giving it away.

LEADERSHIP; INSPIRATION
Mountain-High Wisdom for Every Day Living
KEYNOTE: 60 minutes.

From backpacking in the High Sierras to trekking remote regions of the western Himalayas, Eileen takes audiences on the adventure of discovering what lessons for work and life can be learned from the high country. Her latest book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, helps participants drive the lessons deeper as leaders, coaches, or community members.

LEADERSHIP/ INSPIRATION
Women to Women: Remaking Our lives Remarkable
KEYNOTE: 60-90 minutes.

A presentation for reliving and laughing about our foibles, for celebrating our uniqueness, for renewing our passion and commitment to life, and for establishing the common traits which allow all of us to bloom where we are planted. We can learn to be heroines of our own story and leaders shaping tomorrow for all our children. This is your time to refreshed, realign, reawaken; reflect; refuel, regenerate, rejoice, release, remember, and renew.