Topic 1:
Leveraging Your Social Currency

The business community has always been engaged with helping local charities, schools and various associations and other non-profit organizations.  With shrinking advertising budgets, companies are now looking for a way to leverage marketing clout from their community activities.   Edie shares with the audience how they can best leverage their existing and new activities to gain more visibility and new customers by being a good corporate citizen.

Topic 2:
Mopping With Your Pearls On:
Finding the Genuine Pearl within You

Life is tough and your attitude towards situations everyday can make all the difference. When you dress up you feel better, maybe even more special. Edie shares inspirational and humorous stories that show the benefits of building your pearls of many colors necklace. This program is great for a mixed gender audience of men and women.  The audience always leaves with a smile on their faces and a bit more spring in their step.

Edie often does this program together with author and humorist, Martha Bolton. Learn more about Martha Bolton at www.marthabolton.com.

Topic 3:
Finding Strength in Your Spirituality

Forget multi-tasking. Today’s woman is a multi-survivor! By the time she reaches menopause, she may have survived cancer, the death of her parents, a spouse, or other close family members, the loss of a job, a career or dream, the loss of a marriage, and has made more than her share of mistakes.
Edie Hand and Martha Bolton share the little secrets of life through inspiring and humorous stories from their own lives and careers. This heartfelt program is inspirational and makes the audience appreciate the things that really matter in their lives.

Topic 4:
‘You Pave the Way’……………Takes True Grit

Edie shares with women of all ages the important journey of a woman’s worth through her 3’P’s. They are Passion, Perseverance, and Positive Projection. In this program Edie shares some of the tales from her recent book with, co-author Tina Savas, entitled, “Women of True Grit.” Edie’s story-telling will encourage you to set the bar a little higher and pave the way a little farther. You too, can pave the way, and become a woman of true grit, if only you will mentor someone else to pass it on.  After hearing some of the challenges women have faced and overcome the audience will be spiritually reinvigorated and ready to take on the world.

Topic 5:
ABC’s of Relationships

Learn how to build powerful relationships that improve your life, on and off the job. The ABC’s of Relationships are easy-to-remember skills that can help anyone build powerful, positive relationships. Edie along with her co-author Dale Brakhage wrote “ABC’s of Selling with Etiquette” and this program shares how each of us can sell more in a less economy with good manners and with a focus on relationships.

Edie shares how to identify your style of personality, understand other’s styles, identify areas of conflict, and take advantage of strengths to work better as a TEAM player. This is a great program for business breakfast or lunch meetings.

Learn more about Dale Brakhage at www.dalebrakhage.com

Topic 6:
31 Things to Raise a Child’s Self Esteem

Edie focuses on the issues that impact children in today’s environment.  Those are bullying, divorce, being overweight and dyslexia. Being a kid today is tough enough but when you are the victim or experience any of these items the challenges become daunting. 

This program provides guidance, insights and great advice to help anyone keep kids on the right path for growth and development.  Topics discussed come right from the book Edie Hand and Dr. Judy Kuriansky wrote, “31 Things to Raise a Childs Self-Esteem.”

Any of these topics and programs can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the group or audience.  Please call Edie Hand at 205-648-8944 for more details.

 To learn more we invite you to visit any of these websites: www.ediehand.com, www.ediehandfoundation.org  www.youpavetheway.com , www.womenoftruegrit.com and www.healthmattersalabama.com