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Attaining Competitive Advantages by Managing & Embracing Change
How do you find the will to move on when faced with life challenges?
This transformational experience will empower audience participants to embrace change, improve performance, and unlock their competitive advantage. Your organization’s associates will be revitalized and recharged - leaving with restored hope, happiness and an improved vision of their future.
Attendees develop an Action Plan with staying power that will support them in achieving their goals and taking charge of their lives today and in the months and years ahead.
Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D. is a recognized role model and agent for change. Her own life was changed while riding a bicycle in 1998 when a 3 1/2 ton tree came crushing down on her. Paralyzed from the waist down with a spinal cord injury, Rossetti looked deep within herself and found new strength and new resolve.
Rossetti uses the 5 Lessons To Live By, learned during her recovery, to revitalize and recharge her audience. She taps into what motivates people to change their behavior, awaken their inner gifts, and find meaning in their lives.
As a recognized industry expert, rather than lecture, Rosemarie inspires participants to bring out the best in themselves through developing tenacity, perseverance, and resilience. She encourages taking advantage of opportunities following adversities so audience members can accomplish more with greater confidence.
Rosemarie taps into what motivates people to change their behavior, awaken their inner gifts, and find meaning in their lives.
Rosemarie’s positive approach to life touches all who hear her. Audiences are captured by her emotive speaking style that rallies them to her message. Her sensitive use of humor encourages laughing while you learn, a proven technique for greater retention of the core messages Rosemarie delivers.
Goal: Helping participants to …
- Develop the motivation to push on when faced with adversity
- Find the resilience to live life with conviction
- Experience the sense of confidence and fulfillment in knowing the impossible is possible
- Cope with change by adapting more quickly, modifying attitudes, and finding the courage to act rather than being acted upon
- Move beyond fear to hope
- Turn negatives into positives
- Overcome obstacles
- Recognize the key segments of the Wheel of Life that are deficient in their lives
- Adjust their perspective and reduce stress when faced with adversity
- Set realistic goals that balance life
Participants leave with new hope, happiness and a restored vision of their future!
Outline of the Program:
- Living with Conviction
- Lessons to Live By
- Wheel of Life
- How Motivation Drives Behavior
- Exploring Goal Setting
- Methods of Reducing Stress When Faced with Adversity
- Focusing on a Hopeful Future
- Fear as a Fuel to Courage
- Examining Methods to Turn Negatives into Positives
- Designing a Plan to Overcome Obstacles
- Utilizing Your Inexhaustible Inner Reserve of Potential
Multimedia
The presentation is enhanced with a handout and high quality graphic slides which serve to illustrate the main points. Audiences in this emotionally powerful presentation are better able to retain the core messages by having visual illustrations.
Rosemarie is the RIGHT Choice
for Your Next Event!
A proven (40+ year) success record in corporate & organizational settings, speaking to groups from 10 to 10,000.
Stellar evaluations from both participants & meeting planners, time after time.
A skilled, approachable, ethical professional industry expert you can count on.
Captivating, engaging, well researched, high content / high value presentations.
Pre-program interviews with persons you select allows Rosemarie to dig deep to customize programs tailored to your organization's desired outcomes. You will experience enterprise-wide satisfaction and measurable success.
Credit-ready programs encourage attendance.
Attentive, organized, upbeat and easy to work with.
Clients Say It Best
"Rosemarie provided the right balance of humanity and reality to challenge my group to focus on the opportunity in front of them versus barriers they may perceive. We adopted her guidance on trying new things every day and empowering others in our culture action plan, so that we keep her grounding perspective at heart when facing adversity."
American Electric Power
"Rosemarie Rossetti spoke to my Vistage members and guests -- who she engaged with her story and insights. Rosemarie can bring an audience -- or workshop participants -- into greater self-awareness and greater contact with daily and lifelong challenges. Her personal testimony and her methods for her own rejuvenation are instructive and easy-to-grasp."
Vistage Chair
"Please accept this enthusiastic recommendation on behalf of Rosemarie Rossetti as a motivational speaker extraordinaire! Rosemarie addressed The Ohio State University Football Family of some 125 players and coaches, and had us spell-bound for sixty minutes. Her message, "Just Like Riding a Bike", was tremendous. She tailored her presentation to our audience with extensive research and conveyed the message of handling adversity as well as I have ever heard! Rosemarie has an inclusive style delivered with force and grace. Our young people were on the edges of their seats the entire time. It will be an evening we will never forget, and one that truly affected lives. I would recommend Rosemarie to any group and promise that she will make a difference to every person in the audience! Rosemarie Rossetti is special!"
President, Youngstown State University
Former Head Football Coach, The Ohio State University
"Our 420 donors, volunteers, students and University administrators in attendance on November 2 were overwhelmed with emotion and motivation as a result of your outstanding message. In fact, several individuals came up to members of our staff immediately following your speech and made commitments of scholarships or endowments to benefit the College and NC State. In my line of work, it is very rare to see such an immediate response to an event. One of the many very impressive aspects of your presentation was the manner in which you wove specific details of our College and Campaign into your message. I can honestly say that the investment our College made in bringing you to our 2003 Gala was one of the best decisions we have made in my 16 years at NC State University. In addition, I would highly recommend you to any organization in need of a highly motivated and focused speaker with a truly inspirational message."
North Carolina State University
"Her story is touching, powerful and relevant to anyone who has ever faced a personal challenge. Her delivery style captivated the audience and kept listeners engaged throughout the presentation. Dr. Rossetti puts into perspective the power of the human spirit within each of us urging others to look within themselves for strength and rely on it when facing challenges in their lives. By simply being herself and sharing her story she is an inspiration. The world is full of people who are speakers but short on speakers who inspire in the way that Dr. Rossetti does. We highly recommend Dr. Rossetti as a speaker."
YMCA of the USA
"Her presentation was remarkable as evidenced by the standing ovation she received from the nearly 90 federal employees in attendance that day. Ms. Rossetti speaks from the heart and from experience. She gains instant credibility from her audience since she lives each day by the motivational words she speaks. It was obvious that at the conclusion of the presentation our staff had been impacted positively by the words and the life of Ms. Rossetti. I am confident her words of encouragement will have a long lasting effect on the professional and personal lives of those in attendance that day. She is a tremendous speaker and an amazing human being. I highly recommend Rosemarie Rossetti as a motivational speaker. She is able to show an audience, first hand, the accomplishments that may be derived from positive thinking, goal setting and personal determination."
Supervising, U.S. Probation Officer
US District Court, US Dept. of Justice
"Rosemarie Rossetti was a smash hit as the banquet speaker for our recent 11th annual National No-Tillage Conference. There wasn't a dry eye among the 660 conference attendees who heard her inspirational story and her remarkable story on how anything is possible if you set your mind to it. Her presentation was well thought out, zeroed in on the specific needs of our conference attendees and was presented in dramatic fashion. We've heard nothing but favorable comments from conference attendees. In fact, many have told us that they are already talking about making significant changes in their lives as a result of her encouragement."
National No-Tillage Conference
"The feedback from your talk last Tuesday was very positive and fit our theme perfectly - facing adversity and overcoming obstacles! Your presentation was both humorous and entertaining, while still getting your message across to the entire audience. That's a hard combination to achieve, but you did it with style and grace. You would be a huge asset to any group who is looking for an amazing, one-of-a-kind speaker. Your ability to connect with a variety of people is a true gift!"
The Crane Group Companies
"Rosemarie did a terrific job, she was an inspiration to our audience and my team, and was a complete professional to boot. Rosemarie is a woman filled with moxy and her indomitable spirit shone through her remarkable story. I would not hesitate to recommend Rosemarie to any group looking for a motivational, pick yourself up by the bootstraps, speaker. The common denominators among the audience were cheers and tears. Rosemarie is a class act that could hold her own with any of the top keynote speakers I've heard in the past."
Aquascape Designs, Inc.
"I cannot express how much your presentation meant to me. It brought the reality of how your life can change in a instant. Your dedication and determination is inspiring. After my father had his stroke it took my family and me months to adjust to the situation, then we realized the trauma it must be for him. If we had had the opportunity to speak with someone experiencing the difficulties encountered with a physical limitation we might have eliminated some of the frustrations and emotional outburst. It is one thing for a physical therapist to tell you how they feel but another in knowing how they feel. Your presentation was overwhelming and an eye opener."
ASID Texas Chapter President
"Rosemarie Rossetti gave the keynote speech [where] she addressed the issues of change and accepting responsibility for one's own life. Prior to the event she took time to contact several employees and conduct interviews so as to customize the presentation for our organization. During the presentation she made references to the issues facing our company and related them to the subject matter about which was speaking. Rosemarie radiated with enthusiasm and passion throughout her entire speech.
Employees commented that following the keynote address they were "impressed" and "reflective," and that Rosemarie gave them a new view on how to turn tragedies into opportunities. Her program was insightful and poignant, and she encouraged each person to look inward as to what they are capable of and if they are motivated to reach for these milestones. She spoke about the importance of having one's life in balance and nurturing each facet in order to have a productive and satisfying existence.
Rosemarie did a tremendous job and I would very highly recommend her. Her planning and preparation were impeccable, her demeanor was friendly and inspirational and her presentation skills were captivating."
Innovative Mattress Solutions
"Please accept this enthusiastic recommendation on behalf of Rosemarie Rossetti as a motivational speaker extraordinaire! Rosemarie addressed The Ohio State University Football Family of some 125 players and coaches, and had us spell-bound for sixty minutes. Her message, "Just Like Riding a Bike", was tremendous. She tailored her presentation to our audience with extensive research and conveyed the message of handling adversity as well as I have ever heard! Rosemarie has an inclusive style delivered with force and grace. Our young people were on the edges of their seats the entire time. It will be an evening we will never forget, and one that truly affected lives. I would recommend Rosemarie to any group and promise that she will make a difference to every person in the audience! Rosemarie Rossetti is special!"
Former Head Football Coach, The Ohio State University
The audience became more and more intrigued and energized by her enthusiasm and strength. The motivational strategies that she provided were uplifting and valuable from both a business and personal standpoint.
"Our 420 donors, volunteers, students and University administrators in attendance on November 2 were overwhelmed with emotion and motivation as a result of your outstanding message. In fact, several individuals came up to members of our staff immediately following your speech and made commitments of scholarships or endowments to benefit the College and NC State. In my line of work, it is very rare to see such an immediate response to an event. One of the many very impressive aspects of your presentation was the manner in which you wove specific details of our College and Campaign into your message. I can honestly say that the investment our College made in bringing you to our 2003 Gala was one of the best decisions we have made in my 16 years at NC State University. In addition, I would highly recommend you to any organization in need of a highly motivated and focused speaker with a truly inspirational message."
"Her story is touching, powerful and relevant to anyone who has ever faced a personal challenge. Her delivery style captivated the audience and kept listeners engaged throughout the presentation. Dr. Rossetti puts into perspective the power of the human spirit within each of us urging others to look within themselves for strength and rely on it when facing challenges in their lives. By simply being herself and sharing her story she is an inspiration. The world is full of people who are speakers but short on speakers who inspire in the way that Dr. Rossetti does. We highly recommend Dr. Rossetti as a speaker."
"Her presentation was remarkable as evidenced by the standing ovation she received from the nearly 90 federal employees in attendance that day. Ms. Rossetti speaks from the heart and from experience. She gains instant credibility from her audience since she lives each day by the motivational words she speaks. It was obvious that at the conclusion of the presentation our staff had been impacted positively by the words and the life of Ms. Rossetti. I am confident her words of encouragement will have a long lasting effect on the professional and personal lives of those in attendance that day. She is a tremendous speaker and an amazing human being. I highly recommend Rosemarie Rossetti as a motivational speaker. She is able to show an audience, first hand, the accomplishments that may be derived from positive thinking, goal setting and personal determination."
"Rosemarie Rossetti was a smash hit as the banquet speaker for our recent 11th annual National No-Tillage Conference. There wasn't a dry eye among the 660 conference attendees who heard her inspirational story and her remarkable story on how anything is possible if you set your mind to it. Her presentation was well thought out, zeroed in on the specific needs of our conference attendees and was presented in dramatic fashion. We've heard nothing but favorable comments from conference attendees. In fact, many have told us that they are already talking about making significant changes in their lives as a result of her encouragement."
"The feedback from your talk last Tuesday was very positive and fit our theme perfectly - facing adversity and overcoming obstacles! Your presentation was both humorous and entertaining, while still getting your message across to the entire audience. That's a hard combination to achieve, but you did it with style and grace. You would be a huge asset to any group who is looking for an amazing, one-of-a-kind speaker. Your ability to connect with a variety of people is a true gift!"
"Rosemarie did a terrific job, she was an inspiration to our audience and my team, and was a complete professional to boot. Rosemarie is a woman filled with moxy and her indomitable spirit shone through her remarkable story. I would not hesitate to recommend Rosemarie to any group looking for a motivational, pick yourself up by the bootstraps, speaker. The common denominators among the audience were cheers and tears. Rosemarie is a class act that could hold her own with any of the top keynote speakers I've heard in the past."
"I cannot express how much your presentation meant to me. It brought the reality of how your life can change in a instant. Your dedication and determination is inspiring. After my father had his stroke it took my family and me months to adjust to the situation, then we realized the trauma it must be for him. If we had had the opportunity to speak with someone experiencing the difficulties encountered with a physical limitation we might have eliminated some of the frustrations and emotional outburst. It is one thing for a physical therapist to tell you how they feel but another in knowing how they feel. Your presentation was overwhelming and an eye opener."
"Rosemarie Rossetti gave the keynote speech [where] she addressed the issues of change and accepting responsibility for one's own life. Prior to the event she took time to contact several employees and conduct interviews so as to customize the presentation for our organization. During the presentation she made references to the issues facing our company and related them to the subject matter about which was speaking. Rosemarie radiated with enthusiasm and passion throughout her entire speech.
Employees commented that following the keynote address they were "impressed" and "reflective," and that Rosemarie gave them a new view on how to turn tragedies into opportunities. Her program was insightful and poignant, and she encouraged each person to look inward as to what they are capable of and if they are motivated to reach for these milestones. She spoke about the importance of having one's life in balance and nurturing each facet in order to have a productive and satisfying existence.
Rosemarie did a tremendous job and I would very highly recommend her. Her planning and preparation were impeccable, her demeanor was friendly and inspirational and her presentation skills were captivating."
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- American Electric Power
- Vistage
- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
- Ohio State University Football Team
- Hafele
- Craig Hospital
- Young President's Organization
- Sales and Marketing Executives International
- Easter Seals
- McDonald Investments
- Chase Bank
- YMCA
- National Association of Realtors®
- National Association of Home Builders
- The Scotts Company
- Susan Komen Foundation
- Crane Group
- Aquascape Designs Inc.
- Innovative Mattress Solutions
- United States Department of Justice