About Terrie Glass :

Motivational; Team Building; Organizational Change; Effective Communications

Terrie Glass is an energetic, dynamic speaker who connects with audiences in a way that leaves them feeling better for having heard her. She communicates a sincere interest in the development of individuals and a passion for organizations that are mission and values driven. Terrie is a great storyteller. She is funny, honest, down to earth and uses her charisma and humor to captivate audiences. She delivers messages that are both inspirational and content rich. Her motivational presentations provide companies and organizations of all genres with strategies designed to maximize their success. She encourages groups to rediscover their passion by bolstering their strengths to overwhelm their weaknesses.

Terrie has 20 years of experience in leadership and human capital management. She delivers keynotes as well as training for all levels of employees. Terrie has worked with a variety of groups from Fortune 200 companies to small business owners, from national corporations to work teams. She has been a featured writer in a small business trade journal. Terrie regularly crafts new speeches in response to a specific request around a theme or audience need. Although she has her favorite topics, what is most important to her is that your group hears the message they need to hear. Her goal is to connect to others in a way that can make a difference. Her presentations have proven to increase the productivity and morale of many of her former clients, which include Capital One, Virginia Department of Rehabilitation Services and U.S. Inspect.

Terrie has a gift for understanding people. She will help your audience see themselves and others in a fresh, new light. Your leaders will leave feeling challenged and supported, your staff will leave feeling engaged and valued.  She is exceptional at illustrating the concepts behind her leadership theories through simplified, real-life scenarios. Her positive attitude helps people identify the potential they have within themselves and their coworkers.

Prior to founding Leadership Solutions, Terrie worked in a behavioral healthcare organization in several leadership roles, doing extensive hiring, program development and human resource management.

Terrie’s professional experience includes serving as president of Leadership Solutions, serving as an adjunct faculty of VCU School of Social Work and School of Allied Health Professionals; Director of Administrative and Financial Services and Director of Substance Abuse Services of Henrico Area Mental Health and Retardation Services. She has also published several articles in the publication, Rave Reviews!

Her education includes receiving her MSW from Virginia Commonwealth University, a MA from the Presbyterian School of Christian Education, and BSW from Eastern Mennonite University.

Glass is comfortable in front of a crowd delivering a speech (up to 90 minutes) as a keynote speaker, leading a half-to full-day workshops or facilitating a meeting. Her topics will be customized to fit your company's needs and goals.

KEYNOTE TOPICS:

You Are Bigger Than You Think You Are

A motivational speech about your potential and importance in your organization and in your world.  Great topic for leaders as well as a general audience. Could be customized for women’s groups.

Tapping into Talents, Unleashing your Potential

A motivational speech about the power of identifying and developing talents

Not So Random Acts of Kindness

A highly customized speech to specific volunteer associations in appreciation for the work of their volunteers

Being Right is not Enough:  Leveraging the Power of Partnership

A motivational speech for leaders as well as others about the importance of collaboration and partnership at work and at home.

Taking Your Team from Good to Great:

A motivational speech for leaders as well as others about the secrets to great teams.

SPEAKING/TRAINING TOPICS:

(All topics can be presented in 90 minutes, half day or whole day segments)

Building on Your Strength: The Key to Success

It’s not rocket-science, just revolutionary: focus on what you do well rather than on your weaknesses. This inspiring, thought-provoking program is certain to re-energize and evoke a sincere “thank you” from all who experience it.

Keeping the Stars Aligned: Maximizing and Retaining Key Talent

The good news and the bad news:  100% of the staff you hire will be human beings.  As such, they have the potential to significantly contribute or detract from the success of your organization.  Learn what you can do to make sure you are enabling the best from your best.

Why Are We Not Connecting?  The Impact of Style on Effective Communications

If it is just about speaking clearly and listening actively, why does it sometimes still go so wrong? Because there is something you weren’t told: style trumps everything. Learn your communication style and how to identify the style of others so that you can make a real conversation.

Resilience During Change: How to Help Your Team and Yourself

Change is inevitable. Managing the human side of change is on e of the biggest challenges any leader faces. This program will give you the insight into how and why we respond as we do to the changes around us.  It will provide practical tools for you and your team to thrive in times of change rather than simply survive.

Building a Strengths-Based Organization

Designed to facilitate clarity for leaders who want to grow from good to great, this program helps participants focus on the actions that reap the greatest long-term rewards from every employee and every team.

Women's Ways of Leading: Using our Strengths to Create Success

When women lead from a strong sense of who they are rather than from a notion of who they are supposed to be, tremendous things can happen!  What are the unique strengths women bring to leadership roles?  How does one use these strengths to create success?  This program affirms the wonderful, unique gifts of women as leaders.

The Best is Yet to Come: Realizing the Potential in Yourself and Others

Chances are that you are bigger than you think.  You see yourself, and perhaps others, as only a fraction of who you/they are and can be.  This program will leave yow walking taller and thinking bigger about your and those around you.

Other topics related to human capital management and effectiveness in interpersonal relationships can be developed.

TESTIMONIALS:

“If you weren't inspired after the program, you didn't have a pulse. Terrie made each person feel like the message was directed right at them. Her humor and personal stories made you feel like you had known her for years. Since the program I've enrolled in school and have wrapped up a couple other personal items that I kept putting off for tomorrow.”- Bill Conner, US Inspect

“It's not very often that a speaker holds the attention of an entire group - especially when that group numbers 300! You have a wonderful way of capturing an audience and many people said to me afterwards how much they appreciated your presentation. Your stories are great - very real and believable. It is so obvious that you enjoy what you do and you are so good at it!”- Ann D. Powell, Taylor Made for You

“Terrie Glass is excellent! She has an excellent understanding of people, their needs and the way they think. She has worked with both our support and our management staff and is equally comfortable and effective with both groups. She delivers a message that really makes people evaluate their lives both personally and professionally. She is engaging and has a delightful humor that has people laughing while learning.” - Susan Green, Virginia Department of Rehabilitation Services

“Wow! What a tremendous response from the program you presented... An overall rating of 95% is truly remarkable. Your design and content seemed to really hit the mark for those who were present. It was a definite success!”- Paula Reid, County of Henrico