Marilou Seavey
“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business.” — Mark Sanborn
Navigating the Tides of Change
Change is guaranteed… How you use change is choice… but you have to know how!
* Use turbulence when it strikes— instead of fearing it
* Key indicators to accurately predict where your business and clients are in difficult times
* Learn the Stages of the Cycles Change in business and use them to your advantage
* Determine exactly where you are in the Cycles
* Identify the right timing for letting go or continuing on— before a crisis point
* Know how your goals will fit in with the rapid changes in today’s business economy
How you navigate the pull of the tides of change are perhaps the most significant factors that will affect the kind of (business) life you will be living in the years to come.
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”
There was a time when we could reasonably predict what was coming. Most people didn’t think the world was changing very much and the changes that did come were typically rather slow.
Our grandparents had similar lives as their parents and they expected their children and grandchildren would do the same… and that expectation was largely fulfilled.
But times have changed. In our present era the rate of change has accelerated beyond expectations, and the last 20 years are not a good predictor of the next 20 years. We’re doubling the rate of progress and change, every decade. And as the rate of change increases, so does uncertainty and opportunities seem harder to predict.
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” — Machiavelli
Resourcefully predicting and navigating change in your life, professionally and personally, will make a significant difference for you and your clients by understanding and utilizing the natural cycles of change.
Presenter:
Marilou Seavey is a NLP Master Trainer & Practitioner, an international facilitator of personal and professional change and co-founder of MindBridge Training Institute. (www.mindbridgetraining.com) Her clients include Fortune 500 executives, entertainers, small business owners, senior political advisors, educators and entrepreneurs.
Marilou has a special ability to create an ideal atmosphere for growth whether she is working with individuals, seminar groups, company teams, or large audiences. A she is a regularly interviewed guest on Vibrant Living Radio, an Internet and satellite radio station and was recently the NLP guest expert on Raymond Aarons’ Wealth Creator series.
With honesty, clarity and authenticity, Marilou Seavey gets to the heart of the matter; how to move through challenging periods with momentum and keep your focus on a bigger picture of success.
Final Friday Forum: November 20
Alice Osborn
“Choose Your Words Carefully: How to Get Your Message To Your Clients.”
Alice Osborn Bio: (www.aliceosborn.com)
Alice Osborn (M.A., English, NC State) offers editing and writing services to small businesses and creatives. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006), is a former English teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, and offers creative writing and business seminars throughout the Triangle and has recently taught at Whole Foods, Meredith College, UNC-Friday Center and Duke Continuing Studies. She is a regular contributor to The Pedestal Magazine, Wake Living and Triangle Mom 2 Mom, published by the News & Observer. In addition, her poetry has appeared in Soundings Review, Main Street Rag, the 2008 and 2009 Kakalak Poetry Anthologies, the Raleigh Quarterly, and more. She serves as the Raleigh Regional Representative for the North Carolina Writers’ Network and is the Organizer of the North Raleigh Coffee and Contacts chapter. Alice grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and moved south to Charleston after graduating from Virginia Tech (B.S. Finance). She learned how to waitress, drive a car, and sail in the Holy City. A few years later, she learned how to catch a shoplifter, rock climb, sing karaoke, and scuba dive in Myrtle Beach, SC. She now lives in North Raleigh with her husband, two children and two parakeets. When not working, she enjoys hiking, social networking and watching True Blood on HBO.
