Edie's inspiring and empowering keynotes consistently bring people to their feet and make meeting planners proud. Known for her "total conference package," Edie's alter ego, Ethyl Ann Thornby, is a delightful bag lady who brings cerebral confusion and comic relief to every banquet she attends. As a sports mentalist and performance coach, Edie's "inner-focusing" strategies and visualization increase golf performance and add pizzazz to corporate outings.

A Change Strategist and Human Asset Manager for over 30 years, and one of the few motivational speakers awarded the distinguished designation of Certified Speaking Professional, Edie is a nationally recognized authority on people and performance and an acclaimed author. Helping people bridge the gap between knowing and doing, Edie's mind-empowering strategies provide the power tools for mastering change from the "insight" out, transforming untapped potential in to peak performance. With primary expertise in practical intuition, instinctual and emotional intelligence and thinking/behavioral styles, Edie's refreshing approach inspires action. Whether it is a seminar on leadership, team building, change, customer service, negotiations, sales, marketing or safety and stress management, Edie's motivational systems will fire 'em up! A restructuring-recovery specialist, her thrive ship programs empower the working wounded to restore morale after crisis or layoff.

MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:

KICK YOUR DREAM INTO ACTION
What would you be doing if you knew you couldn't fail? Overcome emotional blocks and barriers to empower you to transform thoughts into action and dreams into reality. Develop success strategies which create vision, purpose and the power of belief. As your own personal catalyst, you will become the change to which you aspire.

UNLEASH YOUR POWERZONE:
THE OTHER 90%
Ignite your intuitive and emotional intelligence to transform the other 90% of untapped potential into peak performance. (Can you afford not to?) It's not what you think, but how you think. Discover how left-brain leverage and a right-brain advantage will yield a positive ROI on your intellectual capital. Learn mind-empowering strategies to reboot your brain and reprogram your mind for success. From surviving to thriving and from stress to strength, learn the price of negativity, the biology of hope and why optimism is not optional. By getting "in sync" and developing personal alignment, you will experience the optimal performance resulting from focus and flow.

INNOVATE OR EVAPORATE
SOLUTION THINKING TO "EXCELERATE" YOUR SUCCESS
If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Maintain the leading edge by developing a positive, powerful mindset which will ignite creative forces for innovation and change. In our global, "no longer the fifties" economy, where competition is fierce and there are products and services galore, there is only one thing that will make the difference .The U Factor! More than your ability to innovate and create, it is your ability to inspire your team to think "out of the box" as well, but first they must know what box they are in! Identify your personal strengths and learn how growth and business cycles create marketing trends you must anticipate for competitive positioning in today's marketplace.