Why Maxine Shapiro
From The Feds to FOX, Papyrus to Zappos, find out why clients call Maxine “Phenomenal!”
Maxine motivates, inspires, entertains, and transforms groups using one of the most exhilarating forces in business today – IMPROViSATION. No death-by-PowerPoint here! The take-aways are used immediately at your conference, workshop or meeting, and for years to come. These unique presentations translate to every industry who crave boldness, agility and more positive communications that quickly move into innovation and implementation.
Experience what 100’s of organizations, call “Phenomenal!” “Transformational!” “Energetic!” & "Contagious!"
All Programs are tailor-made to your organizational needs, opportunities and/or conference theme.
Maxine motivates, inspires, entertains, and transforms groups using one of the most exhilarating forces in business today – IMPROViSATION. No death-by-PowerPoint here! The take-aways are used immediately at your conference, workshop or meeting, and for years to come. These unique presentations translate to every industry who crave boldness, agility and more positive communications that quickly move into innovation and implementation.
Experience what 100’s of organizations, call “Phenomenal!” “Transformational!” “Energetic!” & "Contagious!"
All Programs are tailor-made to your organizational needs, opportunities and/or conference theme.
Topics
Customer Experience/Service, Motivation, Collaboration, Communications, Team-building, Leadership, Creativity, Innovation, Humorous, Engagement
Collaborcate!™
Imagine, 7, 70 or 700 of your leaders and/or teams fully engaged, interacting, laughing while learning AND experiencing new ways to have productive, speedy and fun Collaborations, respectful and generous Communications, while Creating big BOLD solutions. Your conference or meeting will become a playground for fearless and unfettered ideas with enthusiasm and commitment for implementation. Applying the components of improv, old ideas of collaboration are quickly transformed into a process that works and is even looked forward to.
Be a great Leader – and get out of the way
As improv is now being taught at every business school from Harvard to Stanford, potential leaders are learning how to face the fear of failure and uncover ways to be solution, instead of problem focused. This highly experiential program will address those fears and get your leaders and managers to embrace, and again experience, agility, collaboration, creativity and risk-taking. Deep listening and curiosity will replace cynicism and fear. This will be Collaborcate!™ for the Leaders. They will love it.
Inspiring an Awesome, Outrageous Legendary Customer Experience
“By 2020, Customer Experience will overtake price and products as the key brand differentiator” (Walker)
And, 86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. So, let’s give it to them.
In this lively session, we’ll have our own experience and learn what are the key components of an Awesome Experience. How to manage expectations and exceed them everytime. And, how can we excite your customers to be your best marketer/promoter. Are you ready to make really make your culture customer-centered?!
How to Keep a Millennial Longer Than 6 weeks - It’s more than a ping pong table
How do you position your company to acquire and retain the best and the brightest employees? You become the best and the brightest place to work, making you the Employer of Choice.
In this keynote/workshop through highly interactive exercises, we'll identify and define YOUR Culture. Not Google’s, not Zappos’. Yours. It's important to recognize that what Millennials want in the workplace is shared by the majority of your employees. Nobody graduated college says, “I can’t wait to be micro-managed...”
In this presentation you will experience how to:
And, for managers, we'll answer the question, "Do I have to treat everyone different?” As in all my keynotes and workshops, I use the application of improv which allows for more authenticity, agility, and risk-taking.
It’s What’s INSIDE that Counts (no really!)
No more thinking outside the box. (yippee) This highly interactive, entertaining presentation teaches you the process on how to unleash the Creative Genius INSIDE you and your organization. You'll begin with expressing your own creativity and break down the barriers that block unfettered innovative thinking and doing. You’ll leave with actions you can do right away for yourself and your group. Your conference or meeting with turn into a playground for Bold Possibilities, Generosity, and Highly Positive Communications.
Imagine, 7, 70 or 700 of your leaders and/or teams fully engaged, interacting, laughing while learning AND experiencing new ways to have productive, speedy and fun Collaborations, respectful and generous Communications, while Creating big BOLD solutions. Your conference or meeting will become a playground for fearless and unfettered ideas with enthusiasm and commitment for implementation. Applying the components of improv, old ideas of collaboration are quickly transformed into a process that works and is even looked forward to.
Be a great Leader – and get out of the way
As improv is now being taught at every business school from Harvard to Stanford, potential leaders are learning how to face the fear of failure and uncover ways to be solution, instead of problem focused. This highly experiential program will address those fears and get your leaders and managers to embrace, and again experience, agility, collaboration, creativity and risk-taking. Deep listening and curiosity will replace cynicism and fear. This will be Collaborcate!™ for the Leaders. They will love it.
Inspiring an Awesome, Outrageous Legendary Customer Experience
“By 2020, Customer Experience will overtake price and products as the key brand differentiator” (Walker)
And, 86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. So, let’s give it to them.
In this lively session, we’ll have our own experience and learn what are the key components of an Awesome Experience. How to manage expectations and exceed them everytime. And, how can we excite your customers to be your best marketer/promoter. Are you ready to make really make your culture customer-centered?!
How to Keep a Millennial Longer Than 6 weeks - It’s more than a ping pong table
How do you position your company to acquire and retain the best and the brightest employees? You become the best and the brightest place to work, making you the Employer of Choice.
In this keynote/workshop through highly interactive exercises, we'll identify and define YOUR Culture. Not Google’s, not Zappos’. Yours. It's important to recognize that what Millennials want in the workplace is shared by the majority of your employees. Nobody graduated college says, “I can’t wait to be micro-managed...”
In this presentation you will experience how to:
- Address, laugh and move beyond the generational stereotypes to authentic empathetic conversations.
- Tap into dormant talent – to have ideas heard - more collaboration and creativity on-demand.
- Trust and engage employees to implement their solutions and ideas.
- Inspire an authentic culture that expresses the business goals through solution-focused communications.
And, for managers, we'll answer the question, "Do I have to treat everyone different?” As in all my keynotes and workshops, I use the application of improv which allows for more authenticity, agility, and risk-taking.
It’s What’s INSIDE that Counts (no really!)
No more thinking outside the box. (yippee) This highly interactive, entertaining presentation teaches you the process on how to unleash the Creative Genius INSIDE you and your organization. You'll begin with expressing your own creativity and break down the barriers that block unfettered innovative thinking and doing. You’ll leave with actions you can do right away for yourself and your group. Your conference or meeting with turn into a playground for Bold Possibilities, Generosity, and Highly Positive Communications.
