EILEEN MCDARGH
TESTIMONIALS
“Our event was absolutely spectacular! Judging from the buzz during the event and the written evaluations, I can safely say this was our most successful event ever (our eighth). The credit for starting the day off on the right note goes to you. You certainly did your homework and provided a perfect fit in presentation style, content, and audience appropriateness. The goal of the conference, which was to facilitate women to integrate new and healthy lifestyle behaviors into their daily lives was enhanced by your strong and motivating message.”
Mayo Clinic Office of Women’s Health
“Thank you, once again, for the excellent presentation that you gave to the Michigan Department of Transportation Leaders at the Leadership Conference. The verbal comments we received were all very positive and enthusiastic and the conference has been rated as the best ever. Your energetic presentation first thing in the morning, was the perfect way to energize the conference and to get the participants thinking about how to become a better leader. You also did an excellent job weaving our Director’s position comments into your custom designed.”
Michigan Department of Transportation
“Eileen McDargh served as the opening keynote at our recent 15th annual patient safety conference. Her talk on resilience was inspiring and energizing. Participants were thrilled with the talk and one participant that has attended for years commented that Eileen was “the best opening keynote you have ever had!” I highly recommend her as a speaker.”
Maryland Patient Safety
“Eileen McDargh delivered the opening presentation to a full day Compliance Conference organized by First National Bank of Omaha with high-level employees in attendence. Eileen energized the audience with her opening presentation, “Radical Resiliency: Transforming in Changing Times.” Eileen was able to relate to the audience with very powerful, positive messages that set the right tone for the rest of the day. Several executives reached out to me to describe what a powerful impact Eileen’s opening remarks had on them and how important they thought would be for them to have Eileen speak to their teams. Throughout the planning process for the conference Eileen was very interested in our company, our audience, and our goals. She was very responsive, reliable, and proactive.”
Chief Compliance Officer First National Bank of Omaha
“What a pleasure it was to meet you last week! You are really a delight and an inspiration. Everyone really enjoyed your seminar “Staying Rightside Up When the World is Upside Down.” They are still talking about it. It was exactly what everyone needed to hear. It was one of the most interesting seminars I’ve ever heard. Your creative ways of using cartoons, examples and quotes made this an excellent presentation. Eileen brings energy, expertise and leadership relevance to organizations! She has a special passion for helping women in leadership roles realize our capacity for achieving work/life balance, resilience and a seat at the table!”
Rebecca E. Steele
Chief Human Resources Officer
AVN
“Eileen is a consummate professional, full of energy, and a pleasure to work with. She spent almost a full day with the group before she ever spoke and interacted with a number of different attendees during that time. Her willingness to get to know the organization and her interest in doing so is the exception not the rule. Her customization of the presentation to the group truly made the difference and made her message that more impactful! If resiliency is your topic, Eileen is the one to deliver it!”
Tracy Newell, CMP
CMM President
MeetingWise, LLC
Association of California Community Colleges Meeting Planer
“Whenever I worked with Eileen, she loved my clients like a baby. She held them... She fed them... She looked into their eyes and communicated so clearly & caringly. Eileen embraced every single project as if nothing else mattered on this planet other than the success of my clients program. Her enthusiasm, spirit and devotion rippled through the ballrooms. Her smile, her sparkle, her gift for listening and responding so articulately made her the bar that I compare all others to. With Eileen, I always knew my program would be stellar and memorable. We are all so fortunate to have the likes of Eileen McDargh in our wonderful meetings industry.”
Tom Smith
“Eileen’s presentation was insightful, engaging and most importantly made a lasting difference for our global leadership team. Within the short amount of time we had for her on the agenda she was able to give our team tools to use when dealing with organizational change. The leadership team is already adopting some of her language and tool that help identify ways of thinking that either support or impede change adoption. Feedback from the program was overwhelming positive and in fact the highest rating general session of our two and a half day meeting. It is rare that a speaker makes such a lasting impression but Eileen has done just that. We plan to use her again with our larger IT organization to reinforce the messages and methodologies she shared with the leadership team.”
Cisco Systems Worldwide
“Eileen McDargh’s energy and power causes some people to wonder what air she’s breathing! She’s not one to mince words and unequivocally declares that long-term competitive advantage is possible only when the hearts of your employees and your customers are engaged. For 25 years she has been a successful business woman, an award winning author, and an influential executive coach. By the time she is done with you, it is almost impossible to have a superficial conversation.
Transforming our work, Eileen asserts, comes through transforming ourselves. Her way of explaining the interconnectedness of our lives and our work will move your people to seek-and find-new ways to fulfill their true potential. And don’t worry about her entertainment value-her engaging style and humor, as well as her depth, got her into the Speakers Hall of Fame.”
Ian Percy, CPAE
“I did not want another day to go by without sending you my sincerest thanks for a job well done at our association’s annual convention. As you know, the keynote speaker plays such an important role in a convention-setting the state for a positive experience for all in attendance. You were not only excellent to work with in advance but onsite you were prompt and easy to work with. The best part of all - YOU DELIVERED! Your message was on target, and our members are still raving about your presentation!”
Minnesota Health & Housing Alliance
“From our first telephone conversation, I knew you would do an outstanding job and you lived up to our expectations! I was most impressed by the amount of homework you did in order to customize your program to our needs. You showed great flexibility when the topic shifted and changed as we approached the meeting. It was not easy to come up with a program that would please both employees and their spouses, but you managed to do so beautifully. Most importantly, the spouses left feeling that they had been included in the World Savings family.”
World Savings
“As a result of your work, the senior leadership team walked away as a cohesive unit, reenergized and more hopeful. We are committed to a new future which we now own. You helped us learn how to be resilient change masters.”
Stanislaus County, CA
“Our department had gone through some significant change, requiring a much different approach to this year’s conference. We decided to change direction a bit and bring in an outside motivational speaker to help break the ice and enable better communication. We were referred to Eileen by a colleague who was very happy with her work at a previous conference and based on conversations we had leading up to our event were confident she would be a perfect fit. And of course, she was! Eileen met and exceeded our expectations, was a critical part of our creative planning design, a joy to work with and remains one of the best speakers we’ve ever had.”
Jason Linder
Corporate Credit
Intel Corp.
“How great it was to work with you and how impressive it was that you tailored your keynote session for our program. I am so glad you were able to join us a day earlier and that you used your time wisely while you were in Louisville… sitting in on the Friday morning keynote speaker, visiting with our members, staff, committee and sponsors, and joining us for the Comedy Hour. Many speakers remain in their guest rooms, but certainly you see the value in networking with our attendees and immersing yourself in our program. Your hard work and dedication certainly paid off in your presentation to our members. How clever you were to include the B&B joke which fit our industry well. I also appreciate your recognizing our premier sponsor NOVALIS as a part of your session. I am thankful to have worked with you professionally and glad to get to know you personally.”
American Nursery & Landscape Association
“As a meeting planner, I was so surprised and excited by your ability to become part of a very complex and highly demanding group. While you were speaking, I felt like you had known the audience for a long period of time because you connected with them so well!”
Procter & Gamble
“There are speakers who run in and deliver. There are speakers who say customize and then do little of that. You delivered a message that just plain exceeded our expectations. I appreciate that you actually took the time to learn our language, arrived early, paid attention to what the other keynote speakers said and wove it into your speech, picking up on the key themes. This makes you a rare breed.”
Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services
“Thank you for speaking at our Tuesday luncheon during the Ingenix Health Care Information Summit in San Diego! Your topic and your knowledge of our audience made you an immediate hit with our group. One of our senior vice presidents came up to me after your presentation and said, Eileen really understands the diverse audience we have here. You can certainly tell that she did her homework. Your talk on the Mastery Model is so appropriate for those in health care and technology jobs. You have given us a great foundation on which to build our success.”
Ingenix
“On behalf of The Canadian Payroll Association and the Conference delegates, please accept my sincerest thanks for your contribution to the success of our Conference in Vancouver. Your presentation on Work for a Living but Still Be Free to Live was so meaningful for so many of our delegates who feel the stress and pressure of being outstanding employees, managers, parents, daughters or sons, friends etc—all at the same time. Among other things, your thoughtful stories and lessons sent us all away with the resolve to spend more time on the things that truly matter in life—and less time fretting about the things we can’t control. Judging from the number of books you sold after your presentation, your words really hit home for so many people!. I have to tell you what a true pleasure it was to work with you in the planning stages of our conference. You were so flexible and accommodating and dare I say it—so darn easy to work with. Thank you for making my job so much more pleasant!”
Canadian Payroll Association
“Eileen really connected with our group of executives. She did three consecutive sessions that grew in attendance each time and quickly became the talk of the national conference. We look forward to working with her again in the near future!”
Chain Store Age Magazine