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With years of research, two award-winning books, and many repeat customers, JJ will customize a topic and take-ways that align with your audience and empower your event! Her more popular topics include leadership and inclusion strategies that retain, develop, and advance professional women, but she also empowers men as sponsors and allies and mixed audiences to accelerate their impact!
Words of praise and honest reviews from event planners, attendees, and professionals.
“I can’t tell you the number of times the words, ‘As JJ said…’, ‘As I learned from JJ’s presentation’, came up over the last day and a half! You clearly made an impact on us all, and helped many of us realize we could be doing more to focus on relevance to accelerate our influence.”
“STEM seriously would not have been the same without you.”
“JJ added such warmth and fun to a bleak January day when she spoke to our Glass Ceiling Group at Cuyahoga Heights High School. The ‘real life’ information JJ presented to the girls was invaluable! The life lessons she shared with the girls were things I wished I had known at a much younger age. I watched the girls’ faces as JJ spoke and I know they were really taking in her words.”
“You are great business leader, Shero, and example for women on how to be happy and successful.”
“Loved hearing your speech and story. I’m a recent graduate, and I enjoyed hearing the things you talked about & will definitely take in what you spoke on to better myself and my career. Looking forward to reading your books & gaining mroe knowledge.”
“I found JJ’s presentation to be inspiring. The content around leadership, networking and professionalism was shared from a personal perspective of lessons learned and was complimentary to learning technical and relational skills needed as a fund raising professional. As an older professional, it was refreshing to hear the questions of younger conference participants and JJ’s response. She kept the audience engaged and we were inspired as she delivered an energizing workshop.”
“When she talks I listen! Forbes does too.”
Here are some of JJ’s most sought after speech topics & actionable takeaways.
Are you working ON your Career or only IN your Career?
Duration: 45-90 Mins
Audience: Professionals – geared toward women but men often attend
Topics Covered: Sponsorship, Self-Efficacy, Self-Doubt, Promotion Paths, and Project Alignment
Description:
In her work and travels, JJ DiGeronimo, award-winning author, has found that many women in business are so busy working in their careers that they do not have time to work on their careers. The sad truth is: Working hard and delivering results within your current role does not guarantee future opportunities or impact, especially today.
Of course, for some, opportunities and promotions appear, but for many, it takes more than just great results in your current role.
The good news: With today’s access to information, people, and groups, there are easy yet actionable strategies to elevate your relevance, brand, and sponsorships to influence and accelerate your professional goals. Prioritizing the right activities will create the foundation to accelerate your future influence and impact.
Join JJ for a memorable keynote as she shares insight and strategies reinforced by industry research to empower women to level up their careers.
Professionals who attend this session will gain:
Testimonials: https://www.jjdigeronimo.com/programs/testimonials/
Publications:
Free Chapters from Accelerate your impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path – https://jjdigeronimo.com/accelerateyourimpact-free-chapters
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Accelerate Your Impact
Duration: 45-120 mins
Audience: Professional women and Leadership Groups (10+ years)
Topic focus: Women in leadership, career advancement, self-worth, alignment, authenticity, confidence, sponsorship, and executive exposure
Description:
As research shows, the business benefits of having more women at more tables are undeniable.
JJ DiGeronimo, award-winning author and former tech leader, answers the question all women want to know, How do we get there?
Many professional women desire more influence and impact but often struggle to find the time and alignment necessary to make their desires a reality. With these same desires, JJ spent years researching successful women and men to learn the specific actions they took to advance their careers and navigate a path to success.
Get ready to supercharge your career with JJ’s interactive keynote. She shares proven insights highlighting easy, yet actional strategies for experienced women in business to accelerate their professional journey. Dive deep into the subject matter in round table discussions exchanging experiences with other women who also desire more. JJ provokes enthusiasm for your career and shines a light on opportunities to enhance your path. Throughout her career, she learned that securing that next position, a board seat, or even starting a new initiative often requires professionals to enhance their brand, align to specific projects, and strategically expand their network.
This keynote is based on her six-time, award-winning book: Accelerate your Impact: Action-Based Strategies to Pave Your Professional Path, which is a professional playbook that empowers women of all ages to step into their goals while positioning themselves for their next level of impact!
Professional Women who attend this session will gain
Testimonials: https://www.jjdigeronimo.com/programs/testimonials/
Program Resources:
JJ’s Award-Winning Books can be included as a tool for attendees to follow along!
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Aligning with Your Life’s Work
Duration: 45-90 Mins
Audience: Professional Women, all ages
Topic Focus: Self-doubt, The “I Shoulds” of Success, Fear of Failure, & Breaking Away from Perfectionism
Description:
Many of us know we have a bigger purpose than the one we are living.
Through JJ’s professional journey, she discovered that many women are experiencing some level of misalignment because they’re working on projects or tolerating relationships that are draining their good energy and often preventing them from unleashing their life’s work.
Many people assume that when you are successful or get to a certain level at work or in life, you’ll experience a sense of bliss. However, after interviewing professional women, many had moments of joy, but most had more hours, days, and years of feeling less than good enough, doubting their purpose and impact.
This keynote is based on her third book, Seeking: 74 Key Findings to Raise Your Energy, Sidestep Your Self-Doubts, and Align with Your Life’s Work, where JJ unpacks the strategies that helped her infuse more purpose and meaning into her work and life.
Let’s take time to define a misaligned purpose and how this may be showing up in your life today. We will explore strategies for unleashing your potential and tapping into your inner wisdom to empower yourself to achieve true alignment in your life from within.
The next step toward your life’s work is often right inside you.
Professionals who attend this keynote will have the opportunity to gain:
Testimonials: https://www.jjdigeronimo.com/programs/testimonials/
Program Resources:JJ’s Award-Winning Books can be included as a tool for attendees to follow along!
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An Executive Session – 5 Strategies to Sponsor More Women into Leadership Positions
Audience: Experienced Leaders, HR, Male Executives, Talent Managers, Board of Directors
Duration: 30-60 Mins
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If you are like most organizations, finding the right talent is a critical initiative. Navigating the changing market today is expensive and time-consuming, making the process much more intentional.
With the known benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion, many executives and Boards of Directors are recognizing the importance of educating existing leaders to hire, retain and advance diverse talent within their teams, projects, or departments.
For leaders looking to increase gender diversity across departments, there are proven tools and techniques to maximize their efforts to enhance their ability to attract and retain employees, increase business performance and productivity and service an increasingly diverse customer base.
JJ DiGeronimo, an award-winning author for professional women, shares action-based strategies with leaders and male executives interested in retaining and advancing women within their organizations. With over 20 years of experience in high tech, JJ brings forward obstacles and solutions based on research to executive teams focused on cultivating gender-diverse momentum to increase their business impact.
Join this session to discuss your challenges and opportunities to foster women leadership within your teams, companies, and industries.
Professionals who attend this session will gain insight into
Strategies to Sponsor Women at Work Related Articles written by JJ DiGeronimo
Strategies to Sponsor Women at Work on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjdigeronimo]:
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Duration: 30-60 Mins
Audience: Professional Men & Women
Topic Focus: Mindfulness, Time Management, Guilt, Alignment, Self-empowerment & Impact
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Yes. Sure. OK. Yes, I can do that. No Problem. I have it handled.
No matter which way you say it, the many commitments you accept may be preventing you from reaching your goals.
How many “yeses” do you think you say in a day, a week, a month, or a year?
JJ, an award-winning author, is a woman on a mission to support YOU to live a life filled with joy, purpose, and impact. But how does she do it all? By using a powerful framework that she applies every day to cultivate meaningful experiences.
Through an engaging keynote, she shares her simple, yet powerful framework that has transformed women’s impact and mindsets for over a decade!
If you are a woman or man, yearning for authentic strategies to experience more joy while harnessing your unique gifts to reach your desired goals, this session is for you!
JJ brings her active mindfulness practice to every aspect of her life as an author, podcaster, retreat director, and community leader and shares her first-hand experience. And the results speak for themselves – she’s exceeded her professional goals and found a deep sense of fulfillment along the way.
Professionals who attend this session will have the opportunity to gain:
Testimonials: https://www.jjdigeronimo.com/programs/testimonials/
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The Whispers within Your Work
Duration: 30-120 Mins
Audience: Women Professionals
Topic Focus: Self-Empowerment, Alignment, Fuel Stations, Perfectionism
Description:
Many of us have ups and downs, sidesteps and restarts in our careers and lives.
JJ’s career was no different. She had the typical twists and turns, lessons and triumphs.
Yet, as she advanced in her career, she did not anticipate the whispers of uncertainty and the desire to seek beyond her to-do list.
Get ready to gain the insights that inspired JJ, a persistent woman who refused to settle for the external measures of success in her career and life.
She started seeking off the side of her desk by launching a women’s group in 2008. As that quickly grew, she started writing her first book filled with inspiring strategies for working moms with young children in 2011. The whispers intensified, and she continued to feel the pull towards something more, leading her to write a second book in 2016. This six-time award-winning book promoted action-based strategies for women to advance their careers to leadership positions and launched her speaking career. Her speaking invites gave her a view of women from all corners of the globe, where she recognized that she once again was not alone.
JJ’s journey was far from over as her whispers continued. She followed the universal pull and launched Together We Seek, a retreat for professional women, including JJ herself, to reconnect with themselves and sit with their whispers.
Through it all, JJ remained determined to honor her whispers, even when it meant juggling multiple activities and projects off the “side of her desk” while continuing to show up for her work and family. These activities fueled her work and life, and many of her current projects came to her as whispers first.
This program will inspire beyond the room as JJ gets real and shares insight on how a woman in tech, reaches beyond the success and accomplishments of a 20-year career, including leadership positions, two IPOs, hundreds of business trips, the launch of women in tech group, writing her first book, and multiple board seats, to follow a whisper to seek more ways to work from the inside out.
Join JJ as she shares how her plan had a plan of its own with key findings and lessons from her third book, Seeking: 74 Key Findings to Raise Your Energy, Sidestep Your Self-Doubts, and Align with Your Life’s Work so you too can tap into your whispers to illuminate your path ahead.
Women professionals who attend this session will have the opportunity to gain:
Highlighted key findings that facilitate great conversations and round table discussions:
Testimonials: https://www.jjdigeronimo.com/programs/testimonials/
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Jabra - Women Business Network, Ingram Micro - Women's Forum, IBM - The Women of Watson Health, Vertiv - Executive Women's Network, GE's Women's Network, MCPC, Karpinski Engineering, and KeyBank's - Women in Technology & Operations
Progressive Insurance, Bank of America, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Ohio University, Women in STEM, Girls Coding Project, University of Buffalo's 3rd Annual Women in STEM Summit, The Ohio State University, OSU Women in Engineering, and Rochester Institute of Technology - Women in Engineering WE Explore
Jo-Ann Stores, Union Pacific Railroad, Discover, Timken, Lubrizol, and Nestle
Get in touch now to check JJ's availability to speak at your next event.