Speaking Topics

Kate Kelly’s presentations offer solutions that enable audience members to achieve both professional and personal goals. Arrange for Kate to address your group:

Build a Winning Team:

“What We Can Learn from Athletes of the Past: Farm Boy Football Players and Blue-Collar Runners and Boxers,” reminds audiences of the stamina and strength of athletes from earlier times and shows what can be learned from their stories. Discover blue-collar workers who used marathon-running as a way to get ahead and hear about football games behind the front lines in World War I. Athletic competition creates a get-ahead, winning mentality. Learn team building through inspirational stories and images of athletes of the past.

Profit from Employee Strengths:

“Every Barnum Needs a Bailey” begins with the story of P.T. Barnum, the master of promotion, and tells how his circus would have been nothing without the business smarts of James Bailey. Kelly also highlights other business enterprises and some of the lesser-known geniuses who helped build them. Transport audiences into a “can do” state of mind. Kelly’s remarks remind audiences that each employee contributes an important piece to a successful enterprise.

Motivate Donors or Volunteers for Nonprofits:

In “Benjamin Franklin’s Fire-Fighting Bucket Brigade and Other Volunteers of Note: The Proud Tradition of Volunteering in America,” Kelly highlights some of the important volunteers of the American past. Inspire audiences to give or get involved in accessible ways.

Increase Voter Interest and Participation:

“Beyond Ballot Stuffing and Voting the Dead: The Top Ten Election Day Shenanigans—and Why the System Works Anyway” focuses on some of the remarkable stories from Kelly’s book, Election Day: An American Holiday, an American History. Benefit from this timely reminder of how the responsibility of voting is actually a hard-won right.

Honor Medical Progress:

“From Prehistoric Man and Skull Surgery to the 19th Century Discovery of Germs,” is an entertaining reminder of some of the high—and low—points in medicine from Kelly’s upcoming The History of Medicine. Inspire your group through Kelly’s stories of medical progress. Her tales of the profession will remind current practitioners how far medicine has come.

Attract More Clients:

From millionaire Elias Hasket Derby—one of America’s earliest rich men—to Cornelius Vanderbilt and Bill Gates, the founders of the greatest American fortunes have understood the keys to success. Discover methods to stand out from the pack and be a magnet for new clients based on Kelly’s insights into the past.

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