Stefanie Zizzo is an energetic, engaging speaker who offers interactive seminars and workshops focusing on getting the most out of your life and work to:. • organizations• professional associations• civic groups• women’s groups• business groups and more

Are Your Colleagues or Members…

Eager to grow personally and professionally?

Are they satisfied with how they are progressing in their careers and lives?

Do they want insights, tools, and processes to move farther ahead more quickly?

Variety of Topics

Focus on Discovery, Rejuvenation and Transition

Stefanie offers a variety of topics, focusing on both personal and professional issues that address:

Career managementGoal setting and planning

ChangeCommunication

Building confidenceDesigning our best work and life environments

And more…

Format and Types of Programs

Stefanie offers her interactive group programs in a variety of formats including:

• Half day on-site workshops• Lunch and learn seminars• 60-90 minute day or evening on-site seminars• Teleclasses for on & off site employees & members

Who Will Benefit?

All of Stefanie’s seminars and workshops are appropriate for anyone who is eager for personal and professional growth and development including:

• Administrative staff• Front line employees• Association officers and members• Contract employees• Managers and leaders

Topics – Personal and Professional Development

Taking Ownership of Your Career

Are you satisfied with how you are progressing in your current job? Do you wake up every morning eager to start your day, excited about new possibilities waiting to be explored? If you cannot answer a resounding YES to the above questions, I invite you to discover how taking ownership of your own career will bring you greater satisfaction than you thought possible. Waiting for things to happen to you does not bring fulfillment in your career – making things happen for yourself does!

Getting Noticed, Known and Connected in Your Career and Life

Are you often uncomfortable in situations when you must interact with people you don’t know? Are you longing to cultivate new relationships in your professional life? Is being connected to people important to you, but you just are not sure how to do it? Whether you are embarking on a career transition, are self-employed and need to market your services, or just want to cultivate relationships with colleagues, you will have to reach out to people. Relationships, whether personal or professional, develop over time and are based on trust. First impressions are also critical, as they determine whether you will have the opportunity to develop a stronger relationship. So how do you do it? This seminar will give you the steps.

Topics – Personal and Professional Development

Inspired To Action: Making Commitments and Maintaining Momentum

Do you have a specific vision and goals for your life? Are you frustrated that you are not getting closer to achieving them? We all want to move forward in our lives, to achieve, succeed and find that sometimes elusive “happiness”. Yet often we feel stalled in our progress, standing still instead of taking action. This workshop will show you a process that will help you get moving again!

Stretch out of Your Comfort Zone: 7 Clues You Are Ready and Small Actions to Get There

Our comfort zone is a space we create that surrounds us, filled with all that is familiar. It is our safe place that helps us feel grounded and secure in the world. There are times in our lives, though, when we outgrow our current comfort zone. This seminar will offer you some clues to let you know when you are at the edge of yours, ready to step out!

Topics – Personal and Professional Development

Clarifying Your Life Purpose

Have you started to wonder why you are here? Have you begun questioning whether this what you are supposed to be doing with your life? In this interactive workshop, you will begin a process of discovering your answers to these questions. You will come away with a better understanding of life purpose, uncover what you are most drawn to and begin to determine the impact you want to have in your work and with your life.

Rejuvenate Your Passion: In Your Career and Your Life

We all want happiness, passion and fulfillment in our lives and careers. I believe it is there already, just under the surface of our awareness. In this interactive seminar, you will scratch that surface and catch glimpses of what happiness and passion means to you. You will learn where and how to dig deeper to uncover the ingredients that when combined, help you to create an environment that brings both rejuvenation and new sparks to your life and work.

Topics – Personal and Professional Development

Building Your Confidence: Discover Your Inner Strength When surveying my readership and workshop attendees on what they most want in their lives, an overwhelming number talked about greater confidence. That lead me to thinking about the role confidence plays in our quest for a better life and the way we can all enhance ours. I believe we all have it within us to be incredibly confident. It is right there, sometimes just under the surface, sometimes deeper below – waiting to show itself to the world. This seminar will take participants through the steps we can all take to begin to discover and strengthen ours.

Just Do It: Life is Too Short to Let Fear Stop You

Have you found yourself wanting more in life, but fear is holding you back? Change, and stretching out of your comfort zone, is scary. Why? Because it means stepping away from the familiarly and safety of what is known. We know fear us lurking when we hear ourselves say “I could do x, but what if…” or in response to a suggestion from another we say “Yes, I could …. but…” The challenge is to have the courage to move forward, through the fear, to grow. Join us during this presentation where, through interactive discussion, participants will begin to discover how to move past their fear and experience more of life!

Topics – Personal and Professional Development

Embracing Change

When you hear the word change, what thoughts come up for you? Change involves shifting, moving or altering - perspectives, behavior, environments, expectations, conditions and more. Change could be something we want, something we resist or something we fear. This seminar will take you through the different emotions of change and how embracing change can help you grow and prosper.

Strategies for Staying Positive and Focused in Challenging Times

In challenging times like those this country is facing today, it is often a challenge itself to stay energetic, focused and feeling good about your work and life.  This presentation will offer you strategies to do just that, despite the economy, despite other challenges you may be facing, you still have more choices than you may currently believe!

Topics – Half Day Program

The Journey From Comfort to Possibility

Delivered as a half-day program in a small group format for personal attention and greater growth. This is an intensive, interactive, experiential group coaching program where, through a series of exercises and discussion, participants will learn how to:

• shift from an energy draining to an energy generating lifestyle• begin to shape their own vision of what they want for their future• discover what new possibilities they would like to explore (and how to explore them)• learn what propels them forward toward possibility & what keeps them stuck in comfort• strategize a plan of action to take their life in a new direction.

The half-day program includes four hours of group coaching and discussion.  The program can be delivered with a professional or personal focus (or both) depending on your needs. 

Participants walk away with…

Professional benefits:

• Reclaimed passion for their work • Transformed attitudes about work • Greater sense of ownership of their own career • Tools to seize/seek opportunities instead of waiting for them to knock • Enhanced communication and assertiveness skills

Personal benefits:

• Revitalized passion for life • Greater awareness of their needs, values and strengths • Discover their greater purpose in life - what drives them • A vision for their ideal lifestyle and how to create it • A plan to take action and stretch beyond their comfort zone

What participants are saying…

"The Cisco Women’s Resource Group that I work with set up a day-long event “Career Management Day.” This event was open to both men and women at our company and showcased motivational speakers, teams to discuss other opportunities within the company and mock interview sessions.

I had the great fortune to escort one of our motivational speakers, Stefanie Zizzo, through our event and got the opportunity to sit in on all three of her sessions “Taking Ownership of Your Career.” I was amazed at how powerful her message is and yet so easy to do if you follow her recommendations. After the first session, I felt empowered to do what I needed to “take ownership.”

What was even more amazing to me was how Stefanie delivered the same content to all three sessions, yet each one was uniquely and personally tailored to the session and how the audience responded—it really seemed like three different sets of content. The one resounding message received by myself and the approximately 200 employees Stefanie spoke with that day was keeping positive. Look at what is positive in your life and your job. Use these things to boost your energy and spark your passion.

There were several people that day that had “AHA” moments as Stefanie drew them into drilling deeper into what they were happy or proud about within their work environment/job. I believe they expressed, out loud, for the first time something that they hadn’t realized about what they really wanted to do with their work. I cannot speak highly enough of Stefanie’s work with our group—you need to hear her to believe her."   Kerry F, Cisco

Who has Stefanie worked with?

Stefanie has worked with the following organizations delivering a variety of seminars and programs to audiences ranging from 10 to 200.

Association of Government Accountants, NC Chapter Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP

Building Together Ministries Cary Women Business Owners Network

Chix in Business Cisco Systems, Inc.

International Association of Administrative Professionals International Association of Business Communications

Meredith College Community Programs NC State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Right Management Consultants SAS – Work Life Department Society of Women Engineers

Wake County Libraries Staff Development Day

Learn more about Stefanie

Stefanie is a career coach, life coach, speaker and workshop facilitator with more than 15 years experience working with individuals and groups who are seeking greater fulfillment in their careers and lives.  She is also the author of The Journey From Comfort to Possibility: A Workbook of Self Discovery and Personal Transformation.

Prior to launching her coaching and speaking business, Stefanie served as Associate Director of Career Services at St. John's University in New York, delivering hundreds of seminars to students and alumni around career planning, fulfillment and change in her 11 year career there. 

Stefanie holds her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation through the International Coach Federation, is a graduate of Institute for Life Coach Training, holds a Masters degree in Counseling and a Bachelors degree in Psychology.   She also serves as an affiliated coach with Think Work Play.com, an organization specializing in performance on and off the golf course as well as VocationVacation.com and The Coach Connection. She also serves as Vice Chair of Chix in Business, Inc., a Triangle-area non-profit organization of women business owners who support and educate each other. 

In addition to her seminars and workshops, Stefanie offers one-on-one career and life coaching as well as small group coaching.

Schedule Stefanie to Speak or Facilitate

Stefanie is available for association meetings, lunch-and-learns, business or social group luncheons and meetings and more.  She offers a variety of seminar formats, from 30-90 minute interactive seminars, to half day programs. 

All of Stefanie’s topics can be customized based on your organizations needs and the results you are seeking. Custom programs can also be created specifically to fit your needs.

Rates vary based on topic, length and needs or the organization or group.

If you would like to learn more about scheduling a program, please contact Stefanie to review your needs, audience, focus and timeframe.

Stefanie Zizzo, Career & Life Coachwww.stefaniezizzo.com

stefaniezizzo@yahoo.com919-744-9722