Melissa Majors
Melissa Majors is a seasoned consultant, author, and speaker with expertise in optimizing the impact of education, innovation, inclusion, and leadership.
Price range
- $15,000
Expert
- Attitude
- Business
- Change
- Empowerment
- Female Speakers
- Goal Setting
- Inspirational
- Leadership
- Motivation
- Success
- Unconscious Bias
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About
Melissa Majors, CEO of Melissa Majors Consulting, is an innovator and optimizer of education, inclusion, & leadership strategies. She has dedicated her career to maximizing the business impact associated with these areas of focus.
The team at Melissa Majors Consulting has extensive experience and a proven reputation for driving better business outcomes through innovative and inclusive strategic planning. They bring deep expertise in improving profitability and innovation, boosting organizational performance, and optimizing inclusion strategies. Melissa formally studied strategy and innovation at Harvard University.
Melissa Majors is a crowd-pleasing speaker who masters brain-friendly talks that engage her audiences and spark not just inspiration but action as well.
Melissa is featured in publications such as Forbes Magazine, Smart Meetings, The Meeting Professional, NorthStar Meetings Group’s Eventful Podcast, The Event DR, and on the keynote stage at events such as Meeting Professional’s International’s WEC, The Northwest Event Show, Catalyst Events, Legg Mason’s DEI Conference, and many more.
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Video Clips
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Topics
The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders
Savvy leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. These behaviors fall into seven categories:
- Perspectives
- Hiring Decisions
- Empathy
- Collaboration
- Mindset
- Values and Strategy Design
- Leading People and Self
Melissa delivers clarity on how our brains are to blame for why leaders unintentionally exclude others. Through storytelling, research, and personal experiences, she offers a common-sense yet compelling and actionable approach to inclusion.
Help Her Thrive: Leadership Strategies for Women’s Success
Ethical leaders share power and put the needs of others first. They are committed to helping all people develop and perform as highly as possible.
Women commonly experience unique workplace challenges due to covert competition, microaggressions, lack of sponsors and mentors, balancing authenticity and assimilation, gaining and retaining power, being heard, increased scrutiny, etc.
This engaging session examines research, scenarios, and best practices for leveraging ethical leadership to mitigate barriers to women’s success.
Busy Bosses: Leadership Lessons for Leaders Who Don’t Have Time for Leadership Lessons
Want to be an even better leader? Of course! But really, who has time to invest in leadership training? Not the leaders who need it; they’re too busy leading! Yet, our organization’s health and success heavily rely on leaders who evolve their skills and become the best leaders possible. See the quandary?
Busy Bosses is a fun, efficient, and, most importantly, an actionable course on the leadership trends needed to excel as a leader in today’s environment.
During this talk, Melissa synthesizes best practices for evolved leadership into a comprehensive course that you actually have time to take!
Mesmerize: How To Design and Deliver Brain-Friendly Presentations
Discover how to deliver presentations that work with the brain and not against it! This highly engaging and fun session explores the neuroscience behind designing and delivering mesmerizing presentations.
Inclusion In Practice
How do we intervene when we see non-inclusive behavior? How do we ensure all voices are heard and considered? How can we better understand the adverse impacts of our unintentional exclusive behavior and take action to improve? What is the best approach to providing feedback on non-inclusive actions?
Continue evolving your team’s capabilities and inclusive maturity through learning and practice.
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Testimonials
1 person has recommended this speaker
“Over my many years in association management, few speakers have made as big an impact on audiences as Melissa Majors. Texas Nursery & Landscape Association (TNLA) had Melissa speak twice in 3 months. The TNLA Board of Directors engaged her regarding a diversity message that could be carried forward to the membership. Because of the overwhelming strength of her message and delivery, the Board participated in, understood, and celebrated her message of inclusiveness. The messages resonated beyond their roles as Board members but also as small business owners and their relationships. Of course, we had her back!!”