Connie Podesta
Expert in Changing Lives and Author, Life Would Be Easy If It Weren't For Other People

Using a masterful combination of comic talent, dramatic flair and warm human insight, Connie Podesta tackles the make-or-break issues that control productivity and morale.
Under $25,000
Connie Podesta is not just a speaker. She is an experience. A Hall of Fame speaker, former licensed therapist, and stand-up comedienne with 40 years on stage! Yes, your audience gets all three at once. Because in today's world, who couldn't use a little comedy and therapy?
Her rare blend of real psychology, laugh-out-loud humor, and zero-PowerPoint, no-fluff delivery has made her one of the most original and memorable voices on stage. Connie is an expert in the psychology of human behavior as it applies to sales, leadership, change, accountability, and engagement. She has transformed the way over two and a half million people think, lead, and perform across more than a thousand organizations worldwide. She tackles even the toughest organizational challenges with honesty, humor, and strategies your audience will actually use. The result is not just a great event. It is real ROI your people will be talking about long after the lights go down.
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Connie Podesta’s Speech Topics
StandOut Success: Delivering Reality CHECKS and BALANCE
Success can look different for everyone. It’s personal, and it doesn’t always have to do with the bottom line in a bank account or the title printed on a business card.
In this refreshingly candid presentation, Human Behavior and Success Expert Connie Podesta leads audience members through a serious (but really fun) reality check to first understand why they do and think what they do – then discover where they may be living out of balance and out of alignment for the kind of success that resonates most with them.
StandOut Communication: Cultivating Connection, Collaboration, and Negotiation
Connectivity is vital to business (and life) success, especially in today’s world. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always come naturally, or authentically, or at all!
That’s where Human Behavior and Communication Expert Connie Podesta comes in. With a healthy dose of psychology, humor, and an empowering understanding of human nature, Connie helps audiences connect in proven and powerful ways, and most importantly, instantly recognize the communication styles of both themselves and others – making navigating conversations and negotiating needs a thousand times easier. Want to bring your people together and give them the communication skills they need build relationship bridges and succeed faster? Connie’s got it covered.
StandOut Change: Helping People Navigate Culture, Conflict, and "the Crisis of the Day"
If the last few years have taught us anything – it’s that ANYTHING can happen. To succeed in today’s world, you need the skills that allow you to expand, not decrease, your emotional and business bandwidth in times of stress. The truth is there will always be culture clash opportunities, conflict, and daily crisis. HOWEVER, they don’t have to define you, distract you, or distress you if you have the right tools, mindset, and strategies in your life to navigate uncertainty with confidence.
That’s what Human Behavior and Change Expert Connie Podesta brings to the stage. With a fascinating look at what makes each of us approach change different, Connie brings recipes for resilience, strength, and a solid centered sense of self. If your team is navigating the “deep end” of change – Connie’s got the lifeline and life tools for leveraging change for ALL IT’S WORTH!
StandOut Relationships: Life Would Be Easy, If It Weren't for Other People
Imagine what you could accomplish if you could decode the mystery of human behavior and truly understand what makes people do what they do and say what they say (including yourself!). Research shows that the #1 key to SUCCESS is the ability to get along with other people, personally and professionally.
With laugh-out-loud humor, killer take-away strategies and her amazing insights into others (including a few who "drive you crazy"), Human Behavior Expert Connie Podesta will both challenge you and empower you with the knowledge you need to get along better with the people in your life. Connie will take you right inside the minds and personalities of the people you deal with every day — bosses, colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family so YOU can ACT, rather than REACT to whatever life throws your way. Ready to help your team have less stress and more success
StandOut Leadership: Creating Teams Who are Ready, Able, and EXCITED to Get the Job Done
From hiring to firing to INSPIRING - LEADERSHIP today is about being both the calm in the storm and the step-up example your team needs to succeed. Connie can help you to super-charge your connectivity, collaboration, and team building in energized new ways.
With her signature blend of comedy and "tell-it-like-it-is" delivery, Connie takes you inside the minds of even your most difficult employees so you can turn negative attitudes into positive, entitlement into accountability, complacency into productivity, complaining into solutions and "that's not my job" into ownership in ANY market condition or economy.
StandOut Sales: Out-Think, Out-Negotiate, and OUTSELL the Competition
“Sales” looks very different today. Clients don’t want to be “closed”, “techniqued”, or caught in a canned script loop they can’t get out of.
And frankly, most sales professionals don’t want any part of any of that either. That’s where Human Behavior and Sales Expert Connie Podesta comes in. With proven sales tools and strategies based on the psychology of human behavior (why we do what we do and think what we think) and a healthy dose of humor, Connie has helped millions of people take sales to a whole new level…and have more fun while getting there
What other organizations say about Connie Podesta
Connie Podesta definitely blew the audience away and was a true home run. Everyone walked away from the event with a new perspective and outlook on how to apply Connie's message to their personal and business lives. People could not stop laughing!
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Works by Connie Podesta
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Make a Fortune Selling to Women: Selling to Men
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Life Would Be Easy If It Weren't for Other People
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Texting Harry
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Leadership Like You've Never Heard It Before
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The Best Sales Book Ever/The Best Sales Leadership Ever
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