Topics to inspire your audience
Tom and Dominique will deliver:
- A powerfully prepared, carefully customized and dynamically delivered presentation, in a fun and entertaining format focused on achieving the outcomes you want with your audience.
- A personal consultation with Tom and/or Dominique prior to your event, so we can better understand how to best serve you and your audience.
- Prompt and professional responses to all your requests and communications.
- An announcement about your event on our website and social media channels, if your event is public and you desire the extra exposure.
- Fundraising opportunity for advanced or onsite book sales.
- A follow-up session after the event, with our team, to discuss next-step strategies and possible resource sharing.
Featured keynotes
Who You Are Makes A Difference!TM
An eye-opening and heartfelt keynote that will bring you from tears to laughter.
By Tom Watson
Keynote format: 45-90 minutes
Tom is a master storyteller who was abandoned as a baby and lived in thirteen foster homes before his fifth birthday. His preschool years of abuse and neglect left lasting scars that endured even after he had been placed with a loving and supporting family.
He shares his personal journey and showcases several amazing mentors as well as random encounters that helped him overcome life’s challenges.
This dynamic and enthusiastic presentation will encourage you to create positive moments with others and celebrate You, because Who You Are Makes A Difference!
Audience’s takeaways:
- Find your Purpose and how it drives you to make a difference.
- Grow your Passion in a way that fuels your life and further aligns you with your commitments.
- Show your Pride because it defines you and inspires those around you.
Have your audience realize their true power in making a profound difference.
From Handshakes to HugsTM
Lift people up and inspire them to evolve and grow their appreciation of themselves, their teammates and their paying customers.
By Tom Watson
Keynote format: 45-90 minutes
Business Owners, Senior Management and Frontline Staff rave about this brilliantly conceived, funny, inspiring and memorable keynote address. Tom Watson is a multiple award-winning entrepreneur whose companies thrive on the “From Handshakes to Hugs”TM philosophy.
Simply maintain existing service efforts in today’s increasingly crowded marketplace will not grow your company’s market share in years to come. “From Handshakes to Hugs”TM encourages businesses and their staff to take customer experience to the next level.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Love what you do, who you do it with and never forget why you do it.
- Serve your teammates and paying clients today like there is no tomorrow – see how focusing on serving boosts your effectiveness and leads to positive end results.
- Care about the people you work with and serve more than you care about your pay cheque – watch your business and personal income grow!
Inspire your audience to take customer experience to the next level.
Choose Joy
Living with grief and choosing daily moments of joy
By Dominique MacDonald
Keynote format: 45-90 minutes
Dominique inspires audiences with her lessons on living with tragedy, growing with grief and choosing joy to achieve personal and professional success.
This quote was the spark that she needed:
“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better.
Life will always be complicated, learn to be happy right now.
Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.”
She shares her past and present experiences with trauma, grief and depression and provides hope along her journey to finding joy.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Explore the spectrum of basic emotions.
- Identify what brings you joy.
- Create your personal happiness scale.
- Recognize the healing potential of joy.
- Learn how to incorporate daily moments of joy.
Encourage your audience to find joy… in EVERYTHING!
Breakout sessions and mini workshops
Life’s a Journey — Meet Your Potential
Learn how to bring your team together with everyone moving in the same direction
By Tom Watson
Breakout or webinar format: 45-60 minutes
Life does not come with a manual, but it does come with many challenges. Tom’s rags-to-riches story illustrates the importance of making good decisions and building a strong support team to help you reach your full potential.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Learn what makes a dream team.
- Explore 6 Steps to effective problem solving.
- Practice 10 keys to fundamental teamwork.
Get moving on your journey and call us today.
Building Business Passion from Within
Your passion is your power, add hard work and the formula equals success!
By Tom Watson and Dominique MacDonald
Breakout or webinar format: 45-60 minutes
Keeping a team motivated can be challenging. In this message, we stress the importance of building a strong company culture, the value of superior customer service, and why investing in your team translates to bigger profits.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Find useful tips for handling team cycles.
- Discover 7 false assumptions about mission statements.
- Learn how to pull your goals right out of your vision.
Turn your passion into action, call us today.
Find Your Personal & Professional SUPER-POWERS!
Activate your SUPER-POWERS with intention and purpose
By Tom Watson and Dominique MacDonald
Breakout or webinar format: 45-60 minutes
Research shows that a growing concern for many people is the fear of “having a meaningless life”. Finding one’s personal mission and then fulfilling it, is perhaps the most vital activity in which a person can engage. We will guide you through the process of creating your personal or corporate mission statement. Our toolkit will help you focus your energy towards a more intentional and meaningful path.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Identify your group’s passion and meaning.
- Evaluate past successes.
- Link mission, vision and values.
- Practice using the YBL toolkit.
Engage your SUPER-POWERS and contact Your Better Life today!
P is for Planning
Tips for preparing purposeful, productive and powerful staff training
By Dominique MacDonald
Breakout or webinar format: 45-60 minutes
It’s been said that employees hate meetings, but in fact they hate bad meetings. The same can be said for staff training. Dominique will help you focus your energy on building a training session that will meet your organizational needs and one that your staff want to attend… hint… it starts with a “P”.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Learn how to identify in-service goals and objectives.
- Develop a variety of internal and external resources.
- Work with the provided tools to build a staff training agenda.
- Propel your team forward with a renewed passion to perform.
Peak performance starts here!
Merging Mermaids, Mermen and Water Safety
Creating safe conditions for imaginative water activities
By Dominique MacDonald
Mermaiding is one of the hottest yet controversial trends in aquatics. Take advantage of this hot new craze to increase water safety education in your community by expanding your reach and generating new programming revenue. Keeping water safety at the forefront, we will explore programming options from parented lessons, to camps, to clubs and even fitness classes.
Audience’s takeaways:
- Address the risks of mermaid tails and other aquatic training equipment.
- Analyze the current risk mitigation techniques for other aquatic training equipment.
- Develop a safety plan for mermaid tail use in your facilities.
- Explore mermaid and whale tail programming potential.
Join Dominique as she explores all things mermaid, mermen, and even whales!
Tools for event planners
Getting ready to plan a meeting, workshop, conference or convention?
Your Better Life has a session format that will meet your needs.
