Speaking

  In 1987, Melissa Giovagnoli founded an organization named after her seventh, best-selling book, Networlding, to teach professionals how to lead their organizations more effectively, producing exceptional results. Her clients have included organizations like Motorola, UBS, American Express as well as Fortune Brands, Accenture, Diamond Consulting and hundreds of smaller organizations. Melissa has also spoken for hundreds of associations that include The American Management Association, The American Marketing Association, The Pennsylvania Bankers Association. Her methodology Networlding has also been licensed by organizations like Motorola and schools such as Yale University. Her unique edge is teaching how to integrate communication and leadership skills into a world filled with more and more complexity in what is being called, “The Age of the Network.” 

Melissa speaks from the heart with warmth and sincerity. She is able to take complex ideas and simplify them so that they are easy to implement immediately. She is able to speak to an audience and communicate with each person as if they were alone and talking one-on-one. She has designed and delivered dozens of customized leadership programs for senior executives and individually coached several hundred more. Winning a consummate speakers award created by a leading, national speakers bureau, Melissa has continued to engage and wow audiences with her creative, tailored presentations. She takes the extra time to thoroughly research her topic and customize her talk to the needs of the audience. 

If you do see something here of interest, please don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and call for more information at 312-421-4213.

Leading in Tough Times

With these increasingly difficult times more and more employers are wondering how they can stop their employees from continuing in a downward spiral of negativity. Throughout history, the greatest leaders have found ways to connect with their employees and inspire them to move through negativity, becoming proactive leaders themselves, gaining more success as they build internals networks of support. Melissa will show your audience participants how they can grow strong leadership skills and networks of support in their own organizations, quickly and effectively. 

The topics covered in this talk include:

• How to be right without making people wrong
• Dealing with resistance to change
• The truth about trust
• Listening like a leader
• Developing buy-in and loyalty 
• How to get difficult people engaged and more collaborative
• How to be more approachable
• Managing expectations and emotions 
• Miscommunication and how to handle it
• How to repair relationship damage fast
• Understanding your contributions

Networlding: Creating Success in Our New Networked Society

Building mutually beneficial business relationships today involves so much more than simply exchanging business cards and giving away promotional items. Those in your organization need to form relationships that produce win-win solutions for everyone involved to co-create transformational opportunities such as strategic alliances and new products and services. This process called Networlding, is a system that shows you how to build and leverage a more powerful and successful network that shares better information, knowledge, leads and referrals to create truly transformational opportunities.

People with complimentary values serve as Networlding partners who help you achieve your goals as you help them achieve theirs, cutting down sales cycels by upwards of 50%. Learn the powerful yet simple Networlding process from nationally renowned author, Melissa Giovagnoli, as she shares with you fast, effective strategies for thriving in today’s new Networlding society.

Word of Mouth Marketing Through Networlding

How do you build a network that will double your sales success? You must know how to reach those who are influential in their respective networks and then provide an easy, consistent and expanding process to turn those relationships into sales.

After more than twenty years helping people learn the power of Networlding or what Melissa calls “The Network Effect” you will learn the marketing strategies that will finally get the results that you deserve.

Questioneering:A Better Way to Innovate

Innovation is necessary to success but how do you make it happen in your organization more easily? Try using Melissa’s process she created with co-author, Dick Whitney in their best-selling book, 75 Cage Rattling Questions to Change the Way You Work! These presentations are fully interactive, fun and engaging. Your employees or association members will learn not just what to do but how to ask better questions to get better answers for business growth and innovation. Sal Marino, chairman emeritus of Penton Media, Inc. and a top columnist had this to say about the Questioneering process, “Melissa Giovagnoli and Dick Whitney are my kind of people. They’re out of the box, off the wall and out of this world.”