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Rita Emmett

Can you imagine the impact on productivity and on your business if each of your staff members could contribute 2 additional highly effective hours of work each week because they have learned skills that eliminate procrastination?

Rita Emmett is a “Recovering Procrastinator”, Professional Speaker, consultant and author, whose first book THE PROCRASTINATOR’S HANDBOOK in its first 18 months:

  • *sold over100,000copies
  • was featured in over 92 newspaper, radio and TV interviews, including The Today Show with Katie Couric, as well as Family Circle, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Christian Science Monitor.
  • is sold in over 26 countries, and selected for the Book of the Month Club.
  • was named the top selling non-fiction e-book of 2001 by Digital Palm Media. (Stephen King was the top selling fiction e-book of the year.)

Her recently published second book, THE PROCRASTINATING CHILD: A Handbook for Adults to Help Children Stop Putting Things Off was sold to 7 other countries and featured in TIME magazine before it was released.. Also, it sold out in ten days and the publisher had to do a second printing.

Rita’s High Content / High Fun Interactive presentations cover subjects such as Blast Away Procrastination, Generate Fabulous Customer Service, and
"While You Take Care of Others, Who Takes Care of You?"

Her customized and interactive keynotes and training seminars have helped hundreds of organizations improve their performance and profitability, and head off burnout before it starts.

Some of her clients are Kraft Foods, AT&T, Northwestern Mutual Life, Mercedes Benz, National Kidney Foundation, Re/Max Realtors, University of Chicago Medical Center.

Rita uses principles of Accelerated Learning; her stories & humor help people
absorb more ideas and retain them longer, and her enthusiasm leaves people
feeling energized and motivated.

Rita is convinced that learning can be fun. As a result, most people attending her
presentations agree:

  • they actually enjoyed the process of learning
  • they learned valuable information which can be used RIGHT NOW and
  • they definitely were NOT bored.

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

  • Procrastination
  • Burnout
  • Customer Service
  • Communication Skills

TARGET AUDIENCE:

    Businesses, Healthcare groups and associations that want to help their people eliminate the procrastination habit in order to increase productivity & energy, improve customer service, and avoid burnout.

TOP 3 REASONS TO HIRE THIS SPEAKER:

  1. One of the best evaluations Meeting Planners give to Rita is that they often invite her back to present more programs for their people.

    For the second time in 9 months you have addressed our organization, and no doubt our group is more productive and creative as the result of your insights. - R. Brown, President, Banner Personnel Service, Inc.
     
  2. Meeting Planners love Rita’s High Content / High Fun style.

    Informative, fun and filled with real-life, down to earth strategies for tackling life problems. So glad we've already scheduled you for next year.
    - K.Messer, Life Service Network of Illinois
     
  3. Participants often consider Rita’s presentation to be the most important
    part of the meeting.

    The account executives rated you as the highlight of their daylong meeting. Your presentation was truly a value and valuable! - N. Gilpin, Nicor

FEE RANGE:
$3,500 Keynote, General Session (60 to 90 minutes)
$5,000 Half day
$7,000 Full day

PROGRAM TITLES:

    Blast Away Procrastination

    Strategies to Avoid Burnout: While You Take Care of Others, Who Takes Care of You?

    Generate Fabulous Customer Service

    Improve Communication Skills

TESTIMONIALS:

Once again - another excellent presentation and another set of rave evaluations.
- S. Donnellan, Kraft Foods

What a tremendous amount of "take away" content to use in our professional and personal lives. Weeks later, people are still commenting on how they have been able to put your time management principles to work.
- M. Hawley, The Talbott Hotel

We asked participants if they would recommend you to speak again at U. of Chicago Hospitals. They responded with an enthusiastic "YES". We'll have you back soon!
- J. Schueler, The University of Chicago Hospitals

This is the second time you've presented at our conference, and you are a pleasure to work with. You received outstanding evaluations.
- D. Vickery, Manpower

Ours is a very stressful occupation and your insights and observations as to how our members can find ways to effectively reduce their stress were right on target.
- M. St.John, Risk Management, Menomonee Falls, WI
 

 

 

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