Inspire and motivate your audience to change their story.
Why you need a speaker who will focus on your audience...
Most conferences are filled with speakers
who share their heroic stories of overcoming grandiose obstacles and achieving wild success, this is great and the audience is expected to be inspired and follow in their footsteps.
But here's the problem: these speakers often feel untouchable and unrelatable. They're too perfect. The audience may admire them, but they don't truly connect. They feel inferior by comparison. They leave the conference emotionally disconnected from the core learning and more guarded than when they arrived.
You have a choice. Instead of hiring famous headliners who guarantee full rooms but limited impact, consider a different kind of speaker. One who can create genuine connections, make the audience feel seen and heard, and ignite real transformation.
A speaker who will:
- Partner with you to create a high-value, immersive experience
- Tailor their content to resonate with your audience and the goals of your event
- Stick around to engage attendees beyond the stage
- Generously share tools and resources for lasting change
- Empower the audience to rewrite their own stories
That's the kind of speaker I strive to be. With decades of experience in rooms large and small, I've learned that it's not about my ego. It's about your audience's transformation.
When you hire me, you don't just get a skilled presenter. You get a dedicated partner who will go the extra mile to ensure your event is a catalyst for positive change.
My most requested speaker topics are:
Women’s Leadership
When you inspire, motivate and support the women in your audience to feel excited about leadership again, your event can be the catalyst for massive positive impact and transformation. And let’s face it, we need to empower more women to lead in business and all facets of society.
Personal Branding
No matter what role you have or would like to have, you need to have a clear and strategic understanding of who you are, what you do and how you can help people. You get to decide how you want to be known professionally. That is what personal branding can do for you. Defining you is a gamechanger in your career and business.
Networking and Relationship Building
Nobody finds success alone. We all need people to be catalysts and connectors to new opportunities. When your attendees come to your events, their intention is always to network and learn. But they often don’t come prepared. They feel shy and unsure. Don’t let your attendees come and go without a plan to leverage your event as the greatest conference experience in their career.
Added Value Services:
I often provide meeting planners with other high value services for promoting connection, networking and cohesive programming amongst your attendees, staff and speakers.
Services include: Master of Ceremonies, Moderator, Speaker Coach, Breakout Room Facilitator, Book Signing Sessions, Conference Theming, Custom Content Packages, Speaker Search, Networking Sessions, and more.
Get in touch to discuss the needs of your people.
My 4-Part Framework for Engagement:
- Connect
Build authentic bonds through vulnerability and storytelling - Inspire
Ignite emotions and shift mindsets with fresh perspectives - Equip
Share practical tools and strategies for real-world application - Activate
Motivate attendees to take bold action toward their goals beyond the conference
Gift this book to every person in the room to create maximum value.
“Empowering resources and inspiring Shero stories to help you unlock your true potential, blaze your own trail, and soar to new heights!”
~ Jacquelynn Garofano, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Office, CCAT
Gender equality in leadership is not just a moral imperative; it’s a pragmatic necessity. In today's world, women continue to be undervalued and overlooked as potential leaders. Many women don’t even think of themselves as future leaders, despite their significant contributions at work and home.
This groundbreaking guide addresses the obstacles that relegate women to underdog status in the working world, and how these obstacles can be overcome.
This book covers:
- Tools and guidance for women to see themselves through a different lens and uncover their true selves, talents, passions, and leadership potential.
- Eight attributes of fearless leadership, blending the masculine and feminine leadership styles, that are essential for success and wholeness.
- The business world stands to gain
immeasurably from increased female representation in leadership roles.
- By peeling back the layers of self-doubt and societal constraints, this book offers a roadmap for women to rise above the chains of convention and find the fearless leader within.
What Clients Are Saying
“Kathy’s engagement with our global audience was practical, thought provoking and generated a buzz that will deliver incremental results well beyond the conference.”
–Todd Snellenburg, Vice President, Global Licensing, Stanley Black & Decker
“Kathy’s spectacular performance started the day with a creative, upbeat, motivational presentation that brought the audience to their feet.”
-JoAnn Ryan, President & CEO, Northwest Chamber of Commerce, CT
“Kathy’s ability to deeply connect with her audience greatly impressed our leadership and conference attendees. When she speaks, she is 100 percent focused on helping her audience achieve their goals of being better communicators.”
- Henry DeVries, chair of the IMC USA Annual Conference
“The fantastic Kathy McAfee hit the mark perfectly with our audience of top global executives, consultants, Vistage, the Global Chamber of Commerce, and our host leaders from the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.”
- Scott Hamilton, President & CEO Executive Next Practices Institute
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~ Maya Angelou
Official Speaker Bio
Kathy McAfee is an accomplished author and speaker, creative entrepreneur, and business coach. She thrives on helping professional women advance their careers and influence, and partners with organizations and communities to cultivate leadership diversity by investing in and developing more women for their pool of future leaders. Known as America’s Marketing Motivator, Kathy is the founder of The Fearless Leader program and creator of its book series. For the past 19 years she has operated a woman-owned talent development and empowerment company offering coaching, training, and butt-kicking accountability. A bright and resilient woman, Kathy is a graduate of Stanford University in Economics, an ovarian cancer survivor, and holds a double black belt in Taekwondo. Learn more about Kathy at www.TheFearlessLeader.com
