Pushing YOUR Edge to Personal & Professional Potential – All in one Hour

Suzanne F. Stevens, Chief Edge Optimizer of the Ignite Excellence group of initiatives, incorporates over 24 years of sales experience, influential communications knowledge, leadership insights, training execution, and entrepreneurial capability with her adventure travels to over 40 countries to bring audiences to the front row.

As a speaker, host, trainer and coach, Suzanne’s mantra is: “We perform at our best at the edge or our comfort zone”. In Suzanne’s high-energy, interactive presentation, her goal is to take people to the edge. She achieves that by bringing her backpack, briefcase and boardroom experiences to inspire individuals to elevate their personal backpack (everyday living), briefcase (business success) and boardroom (engaging many) performance to reach their personal & professional potential.

Explore your Edgeness

The intersection of discovery & potential

What is your Edgeness? In order to discover it, you need to be pushed far enough outside your comfort zone that you see an incredible thing occur. You meet someone you never met before – an enhanced version of you. We often stay in our comfortable place, as it is secure. We know what to expect, and therefore have limited opportunity to be judged, emotionally crippled or condemned. But this is where life gets exciting! The place where no woman has gone before is the place to explore, to put your toe in the water and experiment. To start challenging the “What if?” “ Can you imagine?” “What would it be like?” These are just questions, and without a little risk of letting go of our self-imposed possibilities our view is limited. This is where Suzanne F. Stevens comes in.

Suzanne F. Stevens will work with you asking the questions that you often don’t ask yourself. She will share how women who “imagined”, and pushed their beliefs of self, environment and others, and what they achieved just by pushing their edge. More importantly, Suzanne will show you how to take these learnings and push your edge, finding your personal and professional potential – your ‘edgeness’.” Finding your ‘edgeness’ is a solo journey. Having a little guidance toward what is possible is just the push we often need.

Learn how to explore and discover your edgeness.

• Experiment with your self imposed limitations
• Discover your gifts
• Grab your potential
• Express yourself
• That is what makes your edge. Your N.E.S.S you will learn together

From Problems to Possibilities

Achieving a sustainable mind shift

How do you start your week? Do you say: “Thank goodness it is Monday morning? Or do you say: “I can’t wait for Friday?” What would it take to go from the later to the prior?

The wrong attitudes often unbalance us and ultimately manifest as a problem. Problems are those things that get in the way of personal and professional potential. As a leader, Suzanne often heard problems. As a trainer she looked for problems, and as a speaker, she was the problem. Did you see that coming?

Problems are what weigh us down in life and in business. We sabotage individuals with new ideas, we scrutinize people who do things differently, and we judge those we do not understand.

Society is constantly held back in what is and what was, rather than what could be. Suzanne brings business and personal examples of choices she makes to start looking at her possibilities while inspiring individuals and organizations to start dreaming about what could be if we just let go of what was.

Learn how to turn problems into possibilities:

• By changing your personal focus – making a mind shift
• By embracing possibilities
• By creating an environment of what can be
• By keeping the frame of possibilities sustainable

Challenge yourself and your team!

Power Your Personal Potential

The 5 ingredients to achieve any objective

We all know what we are capable of achieving in our business life. We have dreams and aspirations. We work hard. We are intelligent. We are open to new ideas. We have everything we need to get to our next level of achievement, and yet we still haven’t been able to get over the hurdle, get noticed, or carve a niche for our talents.

Suzanne F. Stevens shares the recipe to achieving and maintaining success. She inspires us with her five ingredients to making a powerful presence and explains how each ingredient is co-dependent on the others in pursuing personal and professional potential.

Learn how to power your personal potential:

• By utilizing persuasive communications
• By tapping into your passion
• By gaining insight into each ingredient and knowing how to act on them to reach your objective
• By knowing which order to use the ingredients to achieve any objective

Present like a Leading Lady

Presenting techniques to move individuals to action

Some of the top leaders have said the skill they have found the most useful in growing their business, engaging their employees and gaining buy-in is their ability to present their vision and objectives. Presenting is a skill needed to help build credibility, make a lasting impression and move people to action. It can impact your company, community and your career.

Presenting in front of an audience, however, is the biggest fear of many people. Feeling nervous, forgetting what to say and worrying that a message will be lost are all negative thoughts that can preoccupy a presenter. Unfortunately, these feelings all focus on the presenter and his or her own capability, not on the audience and their reaction.

As an expert in influential communications and a presentation coach of many organization leaders, Suzanne knows that nerves are a hurdle, but not a barrier. The bigger issues tend to be the ability to connect with the audience and achieve your objective.  As women, we face unique challenges in presenting to get our messages heard and acted upon.”
The key to opening the lock to personal potential in presenting is the appreciation and the action of INTENTION when we present. With intention we can create a powerful presentation that is persuasive and has clear purpose.

As a speaker, trainer, and coach, Suzanne’s mantra is: “We perform at our best at the edge of our comfort zone”. In Suzanne’s high-energy, interactive presentation, her goal is to take people to the edge.

Learn how to present with intention and persuasion:

• How to take the focus off yourself and put it on the audience
• How to get the audience to move to action
• How to engage an audience so they remember you
• How to be a lady and a leader that relates, initiates and differentiates