I coach individuals to become powerful influencers, inspiring leaders and who have to present on stage to become EXCELLENT story tellers - REGARDLESS Of the topic! I collaborate with executives, athletes, authors and speakers on creating an AWE INSPIRING SIGNATURE KEYNOTE SPEECHES and help industry speakers using POWERPOINT to come alive and an excellent presentor on stage. I help introverts, leaders and speakers become powerful in life, at business and on stage. I have worked with inroverts to become more social, turned CEOS into Rainmakers, and helped Baby Boomers learn to lead Millennials. There is a DIFFERENCE in how we work. I train future CEOs in charisma and influence in the marketplace, providing instruction in communication, and inspiring leadership, likeability and collaboration and teamwork. I specialize in helping LEFT BRAIN and INTROVERTS individuals become more connected by creating a more dynamic personality. I help you understand business development and how to create authentic connections. Additionally, my firm brands entrepreneurs, athletes and executives, creates speeches, and helps leaders become inspiring through workshops, video, PR campaigns, ,marketing plans, coaching. speaking and consulting.

I work exclusively with celebrities, executives and thought leaders to become the motivators, motivational speakers, great communicators and inspirational forces they know they can be and to develop the professional presence they have always desired which attracts promotions, opportunities to speak professionally and personally to expand their influence and income.I have a unique ability to see YOU (and your audience) at your TOP FORM. I can see your GOD GIVEN POTENTIAL and I can GET YOU THERE. I don't allow people to play small. I can see where there is a self esteem issue that is getting in your way, or anything that we can tweak to help you be more powerful on stage or on the stage of life! Its an amazingly fun process. You need a KEYNOTE SIGNATURE SPEECH and I can help you write it. You want to excel on stage, I can help you get there. And you want to get PR and market your professional speeches? We can help you! We can spend a week together or we can spend a few days together, and throughout this time, we will work towards YOUR goals, whether as an inspirational force in your office, or as a speaker on the stage, or even how you can attract better speaking gigs or a more powerful position in your industry. I can bring out the leader in you. I can help you to SHINE so the whole world sees what you know you can be! It's so fun to see you blossom, and for you to GET IT, that you can be powerful when you want, and that skill of having charisma, can influence the world for GOOD!!As a speaker, I can super charge your audience to help them expand their thinking, eliminate the clutter from their conversations and challenge them to excel. Through exercises, interaction and fun, we explore current beliefs and habits and push ourselves to upgrade. My expertise allows left brain, introverts to shine in a way that they never have before. Learn the fine art of connecting and communicating, with an audience or customers and enjoy it!

Is your team working as effectively to sell your company or cause? Could they be doing better at sales, rain making skills or attracting more clients? If they were better at speaking in front of public, would they have more influence in their communities? Companies and Universities such as:Computer AssociatesSiemensEisner Amper Goldman Sachs - Wall StreetAXA Financial University of New MexicoWeber State UniversityUniversity of Missouri- ColumbiaUnversity of UtahNorthern Illinois UniversityEastern Kentucky UniversityWestern Kentucky UniversityBuilding a team that can WOW others is the goal. Not only do they have to have their technical experience of their job, but in these days in times, in order to get NOTICED, they have to APPEAR to be confident in front of all people at all times! Let me know your energy draining people and I will have everyone do a super fun exercise that will call those people out and allow them to see what they're doing to others by having a defeatist attitude. Do you have extremely shy individuals or those not able to be influential enough to bring in business? Lets get to work! My workshops and keynotes hit home with audiences because they're highly interactive, fun and with deep learning moments. Everyone leaves happy and everyone learns a lot about making others feel good, about keeping a good attitude always at work and performing as a team player at all times! Call me for rates and availability! I look forward to working with your team!

In this role for several years I was a guest on numerous network TV shows such as The Today Show, ABC's Good AM America, CBS This AM, Dateline, 20/20, FOX, CNN, and has appeared in the top 30 TV markets as a TV Lifestyle Professional. In addition, I was a regular guest on QVC, and was an anchor/reporter at FOX in Charlotte, NC.These roles in the media have given me the ability to see what can go right and how much prep there is to make a 3 minute segment go flawless. LOTS! I can also confidently say, that in the midst of difficult things that happen as well, that the ability to go with the flow is an asset. In my media training, I will throw things at you as in real life, and will give you the experience you need to come off flawless when you go LIVE on the AIR!

My current column is on communication strategies as it is a huge problem in today’s workforce. My column was the FIRST to introduce SOCIAL MEDIA to the Orlando Market and I extensively wrote on new issues in marketing in addition to futuristic articles. I predicted that the rise of entrepreneurs would create an opportunities for Malls to become Lifestyles Centers full of services for the individual, and that the role of mediator would become a part of every company as people no longer have people skills but work strictly with technology and will lose the ability to relate well and to negotiate. Out of this article, the National Entrepreneur Center relocated to the Fashion Square Mall. Other articles predicted the rise of social media, the lowering of social skills, and the rise of such jobs as mediators who would come into play. My ability to put a lot of ideas together very quickly allows me to see where things are going, what the pitfalls are, and how you, the consumer can benefit and prepare for whats ahead!

I have written for the OBJ at different times in my career. I was the first to write about social media in the mid 2000's . Communication is my topic and happy to chat with you if you have story ideas! mary@marygardner.com

I launched STAR CAUSES locally as a radio show on CBS SPORTS to determine the interest locally of charities and causes and was pleasantly surprised to see the great length that not only local celebrities would go to promote their cause but national celebrities s well. I hosted NFL players, NBA, world class athletes in extreme sports like downhill skiing, water skiing, NASCAR and other racers, marathoners, and even a high school volley ball player. The show was a great success. The TV pilot with CARROTTOP is an example of the types of celebrities I had on the show!

In this role I represented a local construction company and had to access high level professionals in the Orlando area very quickly. I started several networking groups, I offered to coach the head of several top associations to get to know them, and as a result, became friends with many power players in the Orlando area to which I am still connected.

National TV Lifestyle Spokesperson/Editor- Appearances on ABC's 20/20, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Good AM America, Dateline, and hundreds of TV shows around the country*Coaching and Training in Communicaton Skills*Workshops*Corporate and Individual Social media consulting*Speech coach/consultant/speech writer

First coach training company on the East Coast. CCI trained several hundred people in professional, business and life coaching. Our team co- founder founded the WHARTON Coaching program. We provided 80 hours of training and we offered modules for teleclasses and trained hundreds of people to become coaches.

Corporate Coach - teaching competencies and delivering assessment tests: DISC and MYERS BRIGGSCorporate training in: Coaching, Business Development, Team Building, Professionalism, Best Practices

In this company I created Publicity campaigns for authors and experts. From this role I developed an understanding of anyone's Unique Selling Proposition and could sell it to the media. Not everyone is media worthy. Knowing WHAT is going to sell is just as important as selling it. Then, you HAVE to be good on camera. If you're boring, talk too slow, or don't have a concise message, the media will cut you off. I learned to train my people so that they excelled... and I can teach you too!

Keppler Speakers is the largest privately owned speaker bureaus in the world. Working as a celebrity lecture agent for 7 years was a great thrill and honor to work with such an amazing team at Keppler Speakers, one of the largest and most successful speaker bureaus in the world. I was continually the highest producer in my territory in our industry. At this job I learned how any speaker can make money, create a dynamo campaign, inspire people, be great on stage, contract with agents all over the country, co broker deals, talk with and to celebrities at every level, coach the celebrities to become better, softer, better at relating, and to notice upcoming trends. Working in DC gave me an edge that many people don't have, and as an agent, and now former agent, these contacts and skills are with me still.My former name there was MARY MARCOCCIA