Sharon Melnick, Ph.D. is a motivating speaker who has received rave reviews from groups of business owners, corporate employees, salespeople, and women’s associations.  A psychologist informed by 10 years of research at Harvard Medical School, her techniques help talented and successful people “get out of their own way” and beat the odds of the current stresses in their lives.    She has shaped emerging leaders at Deutsche Bank, Oracle Corp, Deloitte Consulting, Pitney Bowes, Visiting Nurses Service NY, FreddieMac, and others; and has helped numerous business owners have the confidence to grow their business more than 50% in difficult economic times. She is a leading authority helping people be resilient -  at their best and balanced under stressful conditions.

Dr. Melnick has appeared as an expert for Success Television, American Management Association, Huffington Post, American Staffing Association, Monster.com, Natural Health, and Ebony Magazine. The range of groups she has given keynote addresses for include: The New York Post Entrepreneurs Week, Working Mother Work-Life Congress, Real Estate Internet Marketing Conference, Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, Walter E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College, New York Women in Financial Services, Department of Children’s Services (in over 10 states), as well as numerous organizations in the field of real estate, law, finance, and social work, etc.

Dr. Melnick’s ideas have been likened to “California Closets for the Mind”, “A slingshot for an enormous leap forward in your career”, “Empowerment on steroids“, and “A life transforming experience.”

Dr. Melnick’s Presentations

General Audience: Business Owners, Corporate Employees, Salespeople, Women’s Audiences

Success under Stress

Discover a ‘Batman utility belt’ of practical strategies to be resilient in the face of stress and achieve desired work life balance. Learn to have more control over stressors such as career anxiety, “politics” or difficult people at work, and staying motivated in difficult times.   Participants learn practical tools to stay focused and at their best in stressful conditions, including how to:

• • Stay focused and positive by taking charge of internal messaging
  • Motivate yourself or employees who are distracted
  • Remain poised and not reactive when others are ‘on edge’ or negative
  • Stay confident and proactive to create opportunities and approaches you didn’t see before

Prior attendees report feeling empowered by the “action packed wisdom” and were able to immediately use the tools to deal with professional and personal stress “like water off a duck’s back”.   Come hear this leading authority share cutting edge techniques so you control what you can control to stay resilient under stress.

Momentum!  How to Beat the Odds by Working Less To Earn More in Difficult Times

Business owners who are doing business ‘the new way’ are seeing their growth skyrocket.    When you reach your customers with this approach, they immediately know you are an expert or that your products are the solution they need — and they want to buy from you. This inspiring presentation gives you the toolkit to

• • Create momentum again when things feel stuck
  • Turn your experience into new ideas that attract customers and compel them to buy from you
  • See and take action on the untapped business opportunity in every challenge
  • Remain confident, focused,  and motivated no matter how stressful your situation

Hear stories of business owners who Beat the Odds with recent business growth – and learn how you can create your own story.     Following one or two of the ideas you learn in this high energy, interactive workshop has the power to turn around the growth of your business – and bring you momentum you haven’t seen in a long time.

Work-Life Balance: How to Give Your All and Support Others…Without Depleting Yourself

You have to “do more with less” and support everyone else, how can you maintain your desired work-life balance? This presentation is for anyone ready to feel more accomplished from your work time and more
rejuvenated from your personal time.   You will be able to:

• • Maintain your energy and engagement throughout the day so stress doesn’t accumulate until the end of the week.
  • Prevent stress side effects such as gaining weight, burning out, not sleeping well, “keeping it all inside”, etc.
  • Care a lot about your work, yet keep a healthy detachment if change progresses slowly.
  • Influence business partners who are change resistant, so you can reduce take home frustration
  • Use empowered ‘pushback’ approaches to managing your workload
  • Cultivate a new approach to work life balance that makes full engagement sustainable

This workshop will give you tools to control what you CAN control and deal more effectively with what you can’t in order to create the work-life balance you desire.

How Talented and Successful People Get in their Own Way – And How to Breakthrough to the Next Level, Fast!

This dynamic and thought provoking presentation is based on Dr. Melnick’s award winning research at
Harvard Medical School. She reveals the “real reasons” you may not have gotten the career success and relationship ease you imagined at this point in life.  Audience members have reported that this presentation is “the single best explanation I have ever heard for how people get in their own way and how to move forward to the next level“; and offers tools that are “better, deeper, faster, and far more effective than every other program I’ve taken.” Dr. Melnick consistently receives letters from audience members who made life changes after her talk.  This fun and enlightening presentation is not to be missed if for anyone ready to break patterns and be inspired to arrive quickly at a life of success and ease.

Procrastination to Productivity: Stop Putting Off and Start Profiting (Business Owners)

Procrastination to Productivity: Stop Putting Off and Start Outperforming (Corporate)

In a recent report, 70% of North Americans report procrastinating more than an hour a day. If you know you “should be doing” something but haven’t, this presentation will enable you to move past procrastination with   ease.  You will identify your ‘procrastination type’ and then find the matching solution that guarantees you will get more accomplished. You will learn how to:  get yourself started when you don’t feel like it, make sure you follow through with what is in your schedule, stop yourself from surfing the internet (or your other favorite procrastination behaviors), stop worrying “what other people will think”, and deal with others’ interruptions.   In the American Management Association’s recent evaluation of this presentation, 90% of attendees reported it was “very useful”.

Audience: Middle Management/Emerging Leaders

Next Level Leadership: Executive Coaching Secrets that Ensure Effective Leadership

This presentation will go over the single biggest – yet overlooked – mistake that emerging leaders make when transitioning from a “doer” to a leader.  Audience members will know how to command more respect and deepen the collaborative connection with colleagues – so that business gets done quicker, more enjoyably, and with less aggravation. Participants will bring back to their organization the abilityto be ‘in control’ of results and of one’s career, but without being controlling. Special emphasis will also be placed on carrying the organization forward and dealing effectively with stressed employees.

Sharon M. Melnick, Ph.D.
71 Madison Ave. Suite 1000
New York, NY  10016
Office (212) 842.4638
Sharon@sharonmelnick.com
www.sharonmelnick.com

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