SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
All of our speaking appearances are customized to meet the interests of our audiences.
Sample Keynote, Breakout or Webinar Topics
1. Creating Boards That Deliver
2. Advancing Director Effectiveness: Evaluations and Risk
3. Women on Boards: How and Why
4. The Trends That are Changing the Face of Corporate Boards
5. The 7 keys to a Successful Board
6. Becoming a Public Company Board Member: From Ideas to Action
7. Leadership Resilience: Gift from Heaven, Gate of Hell or Plain Old Purgatory
Speaking Testimonials
"Tracy Houston wowed our audience of directors and C-suite members with her insights into how to get on corporate boards. She emphasized that it is a process, that it must be worked on with focus and that she has been successful in helping others improve their outcomes. We thought she was great. "
Dennis McCuistion, Executive Director, Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance University of Texas at Dallas
“I attended Tracy’s presentation on Board involvement at SIMposium in Orlando, Florida. Tracy is a great speaker and had an engaging talk. Her session was informative, a pleasure to attend, and she is definitely a high energy presenter.”
Andrew Jackson, President, Information Technology Staff Augmentation, BravoTECH
“At one of the 2011 CBA leadership training sessions, Tracy made a presentation on “Leading with Authenticity: A Dialogue into our Dreams and Fears.” She was enthusiastic in her approach and drew out the class members during the discussion of the concepts being presented.”
Dana Collier Smith, Assistant Executive Director, Colorado Bar Association,
“Tracy was a pleasure to work with on the Women In Leadership event. She provided truly insightful experience, passion and knowledge to our panel. Tracy is a genuine leader.”
Amy Fowler Stadler, Owner, Lewis & Fowler
Webinar Testimonials
"Tracy always provides great insights for board candidates. Women2Boards has conducted two webinars with her as our presenter. In addition to providing great content, she’s wonderful to work with and is always very focused on making sure that the content is exactly what that audience needs. She provides tremendous value for boards and board candidates. We are very proud to have developed an alliance with her to assist advance more women into the corporate boardroom."
Nancy Sheppard, Founder & CEO, Women2Boards
“Tracy presented a webinar on ‘How to Become a Board Member’ to our executive audience early this year. The webinar broke previous attendance records and garnered interest from across the globe. Tracy was very knowledgeable on the topic and provided great insight for our members. She was an excellent resource and we most definitely would ask her to participate in a future webinar.”
Sarah Wright, Blue Steps
“I am so very pleased about your Becoming a Board Member webinar that we hosted in September 2011. Your presentation was excellent, with wonderful information and a perfect style and flow. Registration reached capacity within a few weeks and the evaluations showed interest in another session.” Participants said the information was excellent and motivated them to move forward with efforts for board membership.”
Howard G. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Career Consultant, Daniels College of Business
"Tracy Houston wowed our audience of directors and C-suite members with her insights into how to get on corporate boards. She emphasized that it is a process, that it must be worked on with focus and that she has been successful in helping others improve their outcomes. We thought she was great. "
Dennis McCuistion, Executive Director, Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance University of Texas at Dallas
“I attended Tracy’s presentation on Board involvement at SIMposium in Orlando, Florida. Tracy is a great speaker and had an engaging talk. Her session was informative, a pleasure to attend, and she is definitely a high energy presenter.”
Andrew Jackson, President, Information Technology Staff Augmentation, BravoTECH
“At one of the 2011 CBA leadership training sessions, Tracy made a presentation on “Leading with Authenticity: A Dialogue into our Dreams and Fears.” She was enthusiastic in her approach and drew out the class members during the discussion of the concepts being presented.”
Dana Collier Smith, Assistant Executive Director, Colorado Bar Association,
“Tracy was a pleasure to work with on the Women In Leadership event. She provided truly insightful experience, passion and knowledge to our panel. Tracy is a genuine leader.”
Amy Fowler Stadler, Owner, Lewis & Fowler
Webinar Testimonials
"Tracy always provides great insights for board candidates. Women2Boards has conducted two webinars with her as our presenter. In addition to providing great content, she’s wonderful to work with and is always very focused on making sure that the content is exactly what that audience needs. She provides tremendous value for boards and board candidates. We are very proud to have developed an alliance with her to assist advance more women into the corporate boardroom."
Nancy Sheppard, Founder & CEO, Women2Boards
“Tracy presented a webinar on ‘How to Become a Board Member’ to our executive audience early this year. The webinar broke previous attendance records and garnered interest from across the globe. Tracy was very knowledgeable on the topic and provided great insight for our members. She was an excellent resource and we most definitely would ask her to participate in a future webinar.”
Sarah Wright, Blue Steps
“I am so very pleased about your Becoming a Board Member webinar that we hosted in September 2011. Your presentation was excellent, with wonderful information and a perfect style and flow. Registration reached capacity within a few weeks and the evaluations showed interest in another session.” Participants said the information was excellent and motivated them to move forward with efforts for board membership.”
Howard G. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Career Consultant, Daniels College of Business