Crowned Miss MS Wheel Chair Ohio 2004.

Could your team improve its attitude? Do they need to find ways to deal better with change? Would your group benefit from ideas that will help them work better together and find the silver lining? If you want to hear practical ideas from someone who 'walks her talk' and has handled life changing challenges then you'll want to hear Rosemarie.

Rosemarie Rossetti is a survivor and a fighter.

On June 13, 1998, her life dramatically changed in an instant. While riding her bicycle along a wooded bike trail, Rosemarie was suddenly crushed by a falling tree. She was paralyzed from the waist down.

Rosemarie understands the true meaning of a challenge, how to overcome adversity and adapt to change. Her courage, commitment and personal stories inspire audiences to focus on the positives, find their inner-strength and set and achieve goals.

For the past 1 4 years, Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., has been a professional speaker, trainer, writer and consultant, spending the majority of her career in university education. She founded Rossetti Enterprises Inc. to work with organizations to improve their employees' communication and speaking skills.

Designing and Building Sustainable Homes That Make Life Easier

This fundamental program is an overview of residential universal design and green building practices. It will include aspects relative to the design and construction of a universal design home that includes green building practices and products. Home features and building concepts will focus on enhancing living environments while providing for independence, accessibility, safety, comfort and convenience.

From the basics to insider practical tips, participants will learn what it takes to develop a timeless and high performance, energy efficient home. Industry trends and resources will be included within this program.

Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D. will share her personal experiences from the perspective of a person who uses a wheelchair. She will share her knowledge of space planning and accessibility, which she used when she designed her new home, the Universal Design Living Laboratory - a national demonstration home.

At the conclusion of this program, the audience members will be able to:

• Incorporate universal design and green building features into residential housing.
• Recognize universal design features in the kitchen, bath and entrance that provide for accessibility, independence, safety and comfort.
• Recognize problems in existing homes that limits accessibility and provide solutions to improve accessibility.
• Identify adaptive hardware and mechanized products to provide for accessibility in the home.
• Bring up the subject and conduct conversations about utilizing universal design and green building to future clients who are building or remodeling their homes.
• List the benefits of universal design and green building features.
• Identify fundamental components of a universal design and green home.

Selling Disability Income Insurance with Conviction

Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D. was paralyzed from the waist down while riding her bicycle when a 3.5-ton tree crushed her. More than a motivational story about her comeback, this presentation equips insurance professionals with valuable tools and practical sales advice to close more disability insurance business.

Rossetti credits her bicycle helmet for helping to save her life. She credits her disability income insurance for maintaining her financial security and helping her to get back on her feet again.

In her dramatic presentation, she shares the intimate details of how her life was drastically changed after her injury. She also shares how her life was buoyed by disability insurance. Her unique point of view demonstrates the reality of a disability and the benefit of disability insurance. Her story alone is a selling point for disability income insurance.

The main focus is to better equip insurance professionals to sell more disability income insurance. She helps her audience recognize that personal crisis can come at any time and impact financial stability. Her powerful message and keen insights clearly show the value of disability income insurance through her case study. Rossetti's testimonial on the value of disability insurance is both powerful and inspirational, delivered with conviction.

This content rich program is laden with wisdom and laced with humor. It contains factual information about the likelihood of a disability, as well as the costs associated with a disability throughout a lifetime.

The presentation is supported with photos to illustrate her key points, graphics to present statistics, and sales strategies to motivate. These high quality visuals serve to reinforce her message, teach, help in audience retention, and powerfully describe what her life was like after her injury.

The information and practical advice she presents can be applied immediately by insurance professionals in order to sell more DI policies.

Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, the audience members will be able to...

1. Recognize that personal crisis can come at any time, and can impact financial stability.
2. Trace the history of disability income insurance.
3. Cite statistics related to the likelihood of being disabled.
4. Identify the costs associated with being disabled.
5. Describe the consequences of being disabled and its effects on individuals, families, businesses, and society.
6. Recognize the limitations in Social Security Disability Insurance.
7. Identify the value of disability income insurance to the family of those insured.
8. Recognize the legal liabilities an insurance professional faces in presenting disability income insurance to prospects.
9. Put more effort and conviction into their sales efforts and close more disability income insurance business.

Outline of the Program:

1. History of Disability Income Insurance
2. The Facts about Disability Income Insurance
3. The Likelihood of a Disability ? National Statistics
4. The Cost of a Disability
5. Consequences of a Disability
6. Social Security Disability Insurance
7. The Value of Disability Income Insurance
8. Your Liability as a Financial Planner
9. Key Points to Remember About Disability Income Insurance
10. Tips to Increase the Sale of Disability Income Insurance

Read Rosemarie Rossetti's Health Insurance Underwriters article, How to Sell Disability Income Insurance with Conviction