Conference Keynotes
inspire
Conference Keynotes
What is a Keynote?
The goal of a keynote is to get people excited and inspired. Real Change Consultants provide high entertainment and education value and motivate people to make small steps for real change. Sessions are usually 45 to 90 minutes, and usually take place at the start or completion of your conference.
Sample Keynotes by Andrea Holwegner, Registered Dietitian:
Can I Really Have it All? Views from a Chocoholic Dietitian
Balancing ALL foods is the recipe for success
We are a nation obsessed with dieting, gimmicks, and the "latest and greatest" cure all health books. We are also a nation full of "fat-free, low-carb, low-calorie, high-fibre" specialty foods with a promise for health and weight loss. We see lists of "good foods" and "bad foods", and programs that replace meals with boxed portioned food and special shakes or bars. Yet despite all this - we are experiencing growing health problems, obesity, and disordered eating patterns. What is the reason for this interesting parallel? Andrea, a passionate chocoholic, speaks about her observation that many people have stopped trusting their intuition and in some cases no longer enjoy eating. She believes that when we allow flexibility into our eating, our choices don't have to be "black or white" and we can sustain our motivation to fulfill our goals. Learn how Andrea's winning combination of "guilt-free" eating and balancing ALL foods is the recipe for success.
Bite Sized Changes for Supersized Results
Nutrition for better energy, health, and weight management
Have you ever set a healthy eating goal only to find out that a few weeks later you have failed? Have you ever bought a fridge full of veggies with good intent on eating them but found most of them went rotten in your fridge? Have you ever planned on giving up chocolate or chips and found yourself eating them the next day? When you strive for perfection, set rigid goals, and deprive yourself of enjoyable foods, you set yourself up to fail and revert back to your old habits. What if instead of an "extreme makeover" you decided to set realistic goals and learned how to challenge yourself to succeed rather than challenge yourself to fail. Hear Andrea speak passionately about how little changes in your eating can have profound changes in your energy, health, and weight management each day. If you take nibbles at the big nutrition goals you are striving for, you will get there faster than you think - and be able to stick with it!
Nutrition at the Speed of Life!
Sound bites for busy people
Do you often reach for packaged convenience foods? Find yourself gulping down fast food? Look for snack foods for emotional comfort? Eat unconsciously as you drive, watch TV, or work on the computer? Have you forgotten what it is like to sit together and eat as a family? When you don't take the time to prepare and focus on foods that you body needs, your health, weight, and energy levels fall apart. Sound nutrition is crucial to perform at your best and provide the essential energy you need to keep up with a faced paced lifestyle. Can there be a way to make your choices nutritious and delicious at the same time? Can you still squeeze healthy eating into a packed schedule? You bet… let Andrea show you how! Andrea's voice of reason amongst a maze of clutter will guide you through a journey of mindful nutrition that gets you finding a balance between quick and healthy.
Sample Keynotes by Michelle Cederberg, Fitness Motivation Expert:
Your Real POWER SUIT is the Body In It!
Balancing Life, Fitness and Energy to Optimize Success
First impressions or lasting impact? Your best business suit may get you noticed, but it's your real 'power suit' - your physical body - that will catapult your business practices to new levels. Get your 'power suit' energized with personal 'tailoring' tips in fitness, stress management and rest. Energy feeds productivity, and if you've got more of it, your business will thrive. Fitness Motivation Expert Michelle Cederberg draws on over 17 years of experience and education to bridge what you already know in business with what you should be addressing with health. Michelle uses humour and expertise to cut to the chase with strategies and insights that will help even your top performers operate at a higher level - with less time and effort than you thought possible. If you're not making time for your health you're losing energy for your business!
Balance, Passion, & Perspective:
The Start Small Solution to Finding Time for Yourself
An essential part of feeling good about yourself and the life you lead comes in understanding the essential link between the physical, social, intellectual, spiritual and emotional capacities that you possess as a leader and a human being. Michelle explains the importance of each of these areas for life balance and introduces self-awareness and time management concepts to help you free up essential time for yourself. Get inspired to establish a realistic (and success oriented) plan for finding greater fulfillment in work, fitness, and life, and be reminded of the positive elements that are already in place in your life so you will remember to nurture them as well. Find your balance, live your passion, maintain your perspective.
Exercise Less for Success?!
An Innovative Approach to Finally Fitting in Fitness
Exercise less? It goes against everything you've ever heard about exercise doesn't it? If 'conventional wisdom' has failed you on the fitness front perhaps it's time to consider a different approach? Success in fitness requires time and effort, and most people simply don't have the time to take care of themselves the way they should … so they don't. If you knew better would you do better? In this innovative session Michelle reminds you that it's not laziness or lack of willingness that stops fitness progress - it's unrealistic scheduling and big expectations. You can experience fitness success through realistic planning, and Michelle's 'start small solution'! So simple you'll wonder why you didn't think of it sooner. Prioritize your health and longevity by finally fitting in fitness!
Sample Keynotes by Dr. Colleen Cannon, Clinical Psychologist:
REAL Change for REAL Life!
How to make it happen
Healthy changes seem like such a good idea…until 'real' life gets in the way and we lose our focus. What happens to our good intentions? Whether it's changes in work, relationships, or other life goals, if you find making and sustaining change hard, you are in very, very good company. How do you bridge the gap between wanting things to be different, and being ready to make changes? Stop waiting for an epiphany! Stop 'should-ing' on yourself! Stop telling yourself "I'll start again on Monday"! Learn how to chart a course for change that engages your curiosity and accommodates your many other life priorities. The tools for moving forward successfully are as limitless as your own imagination. Join Colleen as she draws on real stories, of real people, making real changes.
Put Stress in its Place!
Paths to stress resilience for more joyous living
Why is watching the final period of a Flames game 'fun', but public speaking or renovating your kitchen 'stressful'? Why do some people flock to sing karaoke, and others dive under the table? Stress is a remarkably powerful influence in our lives, but it means different things, at different times, to different people!! Learn how stress jazzes up your life, and how it weighs you down. Hear Colleen make sense of it all, and become an expert in identifying your own stress response and building your "stress resilience". Colleen's inspiring and humorous presentation will fortify and inspire you to move stress to the periphery of your life.
