SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS:
Career Support | Career Success | Breakthrough to Passion, Power and Purpose | Leadership Growth | Work-Life BalanceProsperity Marketing Mindset | Pathway to a Purposeful Life | Midlife Transitions | Embracing Abundance | Delivering Powerful Workshops


Focused on helping professional men and women reclaim passion, power, and purpose in their lives and careers, Kathy is a nationally-recognized women’s work-life expert, career breakthrough coach and sought-after speaker and writer.  She has delivered hundreds of programs to a wide array of national and women’s organizations, Fortune 100 corporations, diversity programs, teen and women’s leadership conferences, parenting groups, entrepreneurial organizations, and national women’s events.   Kathy would love to be of service to your organization.

Below is a sampling of recently requested seminars and workshops. For more information on these programs or to discuss a tailored presentation for your audience, contact Kathy Caprino at kathy@elliacommunications.com, or phone (203) 834-9933.

For Professional Men and Women:

CAREER SUPPORT

Career Enhancement Seminars covering a wide range of topics including:

  • Attaining True Work/Life Balance – 4 Core Steps to Generating More Work-Life Balance, Fulfillment and Control in Your Life
  • Fostering Collaboration in Communication and Interpersonal Relationships
  • Authentic Leadership Success – 7 Key Steps to Developing Your Leadership Strength and Influence
  • Reducing and Managing Stress and Embracing Wellness
  • Navigating Successfully Through Competition
  • Becoming an Inspiring Leader and Manager
  • Speaking Up with Power and Authority
  • Stop “Selling” and Start Engaging – Keys to Achieving Communication Success through Engaging and Connecting
  • Developing Your Personal Brand – Understanding your Unique “Story,” Talents, and Contributions
  • Leading and Managing Through Inspired, Enterprise-Focused Vision
  • Achieving Your Highest Potential and Greatest Success
  • Career Visioning and Planning – Masterfully Shaping Your Career for the Long Term

CLICK HERE for more information about Kathy’s 12-part, yearlong Career Support Series for employers.

OTHER TOPICS FOR PROFESSIONALS:

- Mom’s Returning to the Workforce – 5 Steps to Successful (and Smooth) Reentry
- Career Transition – What You Need to Know and Do to Achieve Successful Career Change
- Women in Business – 5 Essential Steps to Building a Fulfilling Career of Significance and Purpose

For Professional Women:

CAREER SUCCESS BREAKTHROUGH:
Gaining More Success, Fulfillment and Influence in Your Career

BREAKTHROUGH TO PASSION, POWER AND PURPOSE:
How to Shift Your Career To Do More of What You Love, With People You Love, Using Talents You Enjoy

LEADERSHIP GROWTH:
7 Essential Steps to Developing Your Strength and Influence as a Leader

ACHIEVING TRUE WORK-LIFE BALANCE:
Core Steps to Generating More Work-Life Balance, Fulfillment and Control Over Your Life


For Women’s Events:

THRIVING THROUGH MIDLIFE TRANSITIONS:
Embrace Change to Create the Life You Long For

PATHWAY TO A PURPOSEFUL LIFE:
Embracing Change to Create a Passionate, Powerful, and Purposeful Life

EMBRACING ABUNDANCE:
Facilitating Readiness to Open Our Lives to More of What We Want


For Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Writers, and Coaches
:

PROSPERITY MARKETING MINDSET:
Five Steps to Gaining More Success and Fulfillment Doing What You Love

DELIVERING POWERFUL WORKSHOPS:
Secrets to Public Speaking and Workshop Delivery with Confidence, Command and Charisma


LEADERSHIP GROWTH

7 Essential Steps to Developing Your Leadership Strength and Influence
For Emerging Women Leaders

(See Kathy’s recent article on Forbes.com - “Mandating Women at the Leadership Table: Why the Time is Now.”)

Serving as an effective and motivating leader requires great skill, knowledge, confidence, vision, communication expertise, and an inclusive, collaborative style.  It also requires having the strength to live and act authentically and powerfully, and inspiring others to do the same.

In this career-changing program, Kathy shares the 12 “hidden” challenges professional women face today in achieving leadership growth and professional success and fulfillment.  She also shares her national research findings about the traditional competitive career model in place today in corporate America, and the ways in which it currently limits women’s participation at top leadership ranks.

Based on her direct leadership experience as a VP in the corporate arena, her national research, and her work with over 1,000 women nationwide, Kathy shares what she has observed as vital feminine leadership principles that, when embraced in a balanced and diverse leadership culture, pave the way for greater organizational success and flexibility.

These traits include:

  •  Strong interpersonal and empathic relating skills
  • Resilience in applying lessons and learning from adversity
  • Honoring inclusion over hierarchy
  • Risk awareness, appropriate risk-taking and resisting following the “rules”
  • Straight talking and integrity-filled transparency
  • Investing in emotional capital
  • Focus on meaning, contribution and profit with principles

Kathy then teaches a new process of enhancing your leadership abilities so that you may shape your career — and your organization — to achieve the highest level of growth, success and innovation possible — with masterful self- and outer-directed leadership as its natural outcome.

In this program, you’ll learn to enhance the following key leadership behaviors, honoring your own feminine principles and values.  You’ll understand how to:

1) Model the way – Think and act in ways that are congruent to what you hold to be true and valuable, in your company and the world. Learn how to serve as a role model for what you stand for and espouse.

2) Inspire a shared vision – Envision what is possible for the future, and infuse tremendous positive spirit and energy into that vision, allowing everyone who interacts with you a window into what is possible through collaboration, cooperation and contribution.

3) Challenge content and process – Uncover new (yet unthreatening) ways of thinking, being, and doing – and encourage others to do the same — in both “content” and “process.”

4) Empower others – Invest time, energy and commitment in empowering and engaging others, building their self-reliance, independence and growth as individuals and as collaborators.

5) Integrate the whole – Foster integration and wholeness in yourself and others, and throughout the organization.

6) Support inclusion – Become the center of your organization (the heart) of a large and effective web of inclusion that does what it sets out to do, with ease, clarity, grace, and focus.

7) Foster the mind, heart and spirit – Create a supportive, growth-oriented environment that allows all those involved to behave, think, and perform from a heart-based place, where they can feel and experience themselves as personally and professionally aligned.

In short, Kathy helps professional women step up to their fullest power and impact and serve from an authentic and powerfully-aligned position –  as managers and leaders, role models, sponsors/mentors, and as women.  She’ll help you hone a powerful vision for your career and organization, and express your fullest self while making that vision a reality.

For more information or to hire Kathy as your company’s leadership developer for emerging women leaders, contact Kathy@elliacommunications.com.  To book Kathy to speak at your next women’s leadership event, contact Krista Carnes at Krista@bookingauthors.com or phone 203-333-1573.


BREAKTHROUGH TO PASSION, POWER AND PURPOSE

How to Shift Your Life and Career To Do More of What You Love, With People You Love, Using Talents You Enjoy

Are you a working woman wanting a breakthrough to more joy, fulfillment and success and in your life and career?

You’re not alone.

Seven out of 10 working women report that they are facing a major turning point in their professional lives, and over half don’t know what to do about it.

In this powerful seminar, Caprino explores the key findings of her yearlong national study— identifying the 12 “hidden” crises of working women, including chronic health problems, failure to find work-life balance, financial traps, and facing crushing competition.  She also shares personal stories of career and work-life transformation —her own included— and shows how women can overcome their challenges to reclaim the direction of their lives and careers for greater passion, power, and purpose.  Additionally, Kathy introduces a hands-on holistic three-step model for breaking through to greater success and fulfillment: powerful mind-body-spirit solutions and specific advice and tips.

Attendees of this session will:

- Understand the key transitions occurring in your life, and why
- Discover how to tell a temporary “tough time” from a true professional crisis
- Learn the 12 warning signs that your work-life has to change
- Receive at least six new tools to embrace change and create breakthrough to greater success and fulfillment
- “See” and release blocks you may have in achieving the success you long for
- Develop a clear concept of your ideal next chapter
- Leave with concrete “to-dos” and a renewed energy and hope about your ability to create your breakthrough – to live and work as you truly want to

Nine out of 10 working women say they’re facing at least one of 12 common professional crises, and over half say they don’t know what to do about it. But after breakdown will come breakthrough, with the right action.  Caprino offers genuine inspiration and guidance for creating lasting success and fulfillment in your life and work.


 PROSPERITY MARKETING MINDSET WORKSHOPS

You’re a talented professional woman longing to take your small business, ideas, or practice to the next level BUT… Do you have the marketing knowledge and support you need to make your business and creative ideas a success?

Prosperity Marketing Mindset

5 Core Marketing Steps to Generating More Profit and Passion Doing Work You Love

Marketing Workshop for
Women Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners, Coaches,
Consultants and Writers

Led by:
Kathy Caprino, M.A.
– Nationally-recognized women’s career and marketing coach, author, speaker, and Founder of Ellia Communications and Breakthrough Marketing
  • Are you ready to leave your corporate job to become a consultant, but need some help to market your new business profitably?
  • Do you have a new business or practice that is struggling in the current recession, and need marketing help to revitalize it?
  • Do you have trouble communicating exactly what you’re great at, and lose consulting or coaching business because of it?
  • Do you need assistance understanding online marketing and social media to be competitive?
  • Do you have book and seminar ideas and need help making them a reality?
  • Are you committed to becoming more financially successful doing what you love?

Join Kathy as she presents the five most vital marketing steps to taking your new business and creative endeavors to a next level – to abundant success.

Each step involves gaining a new, empowered “Mindset” that will help you see your business and creative endeavors in new and exciting ways, and help you overcome your current challenges.

Literally everything you do as a business owner is “marketing.” Don’t be afraid to embrace your inner marketer – it’s truly the difference between great success and disappointing failure in today’s market.

Kathy shares insider information on the key steps to help you:

Step 1: Get Clear! – Determine your unique value, mission, and core competitive advantage
Step 2: Get Writing! – Use your creative ideas and know-how to expand your platform and community
Step 3: Get Speaking! – Share your wisdom, skills and talents with your community to build customers and clients
Step 4: Get Collaborating! – Create partnerships and collaborations with other like-minded professionals who are mutually supportive, and learn how to love networking
Step 5: Get Envisioning! – Create a concrete S.M.A.R.T plan for your business that will guide you to long-term fulfillment, success, and joy

Questions Kathy will answer:

  • What do I need to do first, to begin marketing my new business
  • I have a great book idea – what do I do to move forward with it?
  • How to I get my work out there in a bigger way?
  • What are the best avenues for me to generate money in this business?
  • I don’t know exactly how my business differs from the competition – do I need to?
  • Do I really need to do social media like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter? What for?

Over the course of this program, you’ll learn insider tips for becoming a:

  • Recognized expert in your field
  • More powerful speaker, consultant, and seminar leader
  • Stronger collaborator
  • More successful marketer, so your services ring with “gotta have” quality so client and customers clamor for your services and products

You’ll also get real-world insight to help you bypass costly and time-consuming marketing mistakes that many entrepreneurs, consultants, and practitioners make. Attendees will leave the event with concrete “to-dos” and a renewed energy and roadmap for taking your small business to the next level of success, fulfillment and joy.


CAREER SUCCESS

CAREER SUCCESS BREAKTHROUGH

4 Core Steps to Gaining More Freedom, Success, and Fulfillment in Your Career and WorkLife

Women’s Career Seminar with Kathy Caprino, M.A. – nationally-recognized women’s career and worklife breakthrough coach, author of Breakdown, Breakthrough

  • Do you desire a change in your professional life or career towards something that will excite you?
  • Do you long for a greater experience of joy and success in your professional life?
  • Are you thinking of  taking a new path or direction but aren’t sure if you should?
  • Do you want to figure out exactly what you really want now in your professional life, and break through your challenges to get it?
  • Finally, are you ready for more freedom – financial, emotional, and professional – in your work or business venture, and want an effective, step-by-step coaching program to get it?

Join Kathy for her exciting career breakthrough seminar, Career Success Breakthrough!, based on her groundbreaking work and book for women Breakdown, Breakthrough and her new national research on Women Succeeding Abundantly.

This powerful seminar draws on Kathy’s proven four-step model for inner and outer change that will make way for professional freedom and fulfillment, teaching you with specific approaches and strategies to:

  • Identify the 12 “hidden” crises working women face today, and learn how to overcome them
  • Tap into your what you truly long for in your life and career, and understand what abundant success is to you
  • Uncover and release the blocks that are keeping you stuck
  • Hear what successful and fulfilled career women do and think that’s different from the rest
  • Discover new ways to do and be what love
  • Learn the four key steps to creating positive change in your life and work
  • Design a specific S.M.A.R.T. action plan to get you moving toward creating what you want now in your professional life
Kathy’s 4 STEPS TO CAREER BREAKTHROUGH:   

  1. Step Back – Learn exactly what isn’t working in your life, and what must change, and why, from an empowered perspective
  2. Let Go – Uncover and release the key challenges and blocks in the way of achieving the career, business, and worklife you dream of
  3. Say YES! – to your compelling life and career visions. Understand exactly what you want in your life and work, and determine the skills, talents and directions you want to focus on going forward
  4. Create It! – Develop a S.M.A.R.T. and doable action plan to achieve your new career path

The ultimate outcome?

You’ll gain insight into your truest values, priorities, and needs, and discover a new path to the career and life experiences you richly deserve.


THRIVING THROUGH MIDLIFE TRANSITIONS

Embrace Change to Create the Life You Long For

bullet Are you at a new stage, finding yourself wanting and needing different things from your life, work, and relationships than you’ve had before?
bullet Have you traveled down one path so long that change feels a bit challenging?
bullet Is there an inner you that longs to be expressed in this stage of your life?
bullet Do you wish for change but feel stuck as to what you really want to do next?
bullet Would you like a roadmap to help you navigate through your midlife transitions?

If the answer is “yes” to any of these questions, this workshop will help you reclaim the direction of your life, navigate your midlife transitions successfully, gain an understanding of messages beneath life change, and explore what is longing to be expressed in the next chapter of your life. By fully examining the transitions you’re experiencing now, we’ll be journeying inward to uncover the next new, exciting chapter for your life, and get on the path to creating it. Through Kathy’s powerful three-step empowerment process, you will gain access to even greater passion, power, and purpose in your life, work, and relationships – and create a roadmap to your midlife breakthrough!

Attendees of this program will:

bullet Understand the key transitions that are occurring in your life, and why
bullet Gain clarity on what needs to be expressed more fully in your life
bullet Learn at least six new tools to navigate successfully through your major midlife transitions
bullet Understand what may be getting in the way of achieving your future visions
bullet Develop a clear concept of the ideal next chapter of life and work
bullet Leave with concrete “to-dos” and a renewed energy and hope about your
ability to create your breakthrough – to live and work as you truly want to


EMBRACING ABUNDANCE

Facilitating Readiness to Open Our Lives to More of What We Want

Kathy leads this enlivening, interactive two-hour conversation with women who are ready to step up to more of what they want in life and work, but wish to understand how to overcome any lingering reluctance or resistance.

In an informal group setting, Kathy will share and discuss what she has observed are the top five obstacles women face in moving forward to change in their lives and new ventures:

  • Fear of expansion – Am I ready to move out of my sphere of influence into a larger one?
  • Money beliefs – Do I have what it takes to make this work, financially, and what am I worth?
  • Competency – Am I good enough or worthy enough to do this?
  • Energy – Will I have the energy to create what I want to?
  • Balance – Can I balance this new venture and still attend to my family and other needs?

You’ll have this special opportunity to share your authentic, candid feelings, fears and thoughts about moving forward – and uncover insights and wisdom about what you hope to gain by making life or career change, and learn what may be holding you back from taking action today.

You’ll also learn about the six forms of energy in life, and how you can revitalize and recharge them, including:

  • Money
  • Time
  • Physical Vitality
  • Enjoyment
  • Creativity
  • Support

Attendees will gain a renewed sense of self, spirit and energy — motivated to begin the process of embracing change with a new community of inspiring women to support you.


PATHWAY TO A PURPOSEFUL LIFE

Embracing Change to Create a Passionate, Powerful, and Purposeful Life – A Woman’s Conversation

In this empowering and enlightening conversation with women, Kathy shares her deeply personal story of breakdown, breakthrough and reinvention – of forging a new pathway from dissatisfaction and limitation to creating life as we truly want it – with passion, power, and purpose.

Drawing on her experiences in her high-level career, her 10-year reinvention to therapist, coach, and women’s advocate, her groundbreaking book Breakdown, Breakthrough and her new social media project My 52 Mistakes, Kathy shares insights and learning she’s achieved from the major detours taken, and explores how she and other women are embracing change to reclaim the direction of their lives to a new focus of service, empowerment,  and engagement.

Women attending this program will have the opportunity to:

  • Explore your compelling visions of ultimate passion, power, and purpose in the next chapter of life and work
  • Discover new ways to embrace change and overcome potential stumbling blocks to creating your greatest life yet
  • Establish a new empowered mindset about your ability to shape your life as you truly want it
  • Tap into effective ways to strengthen your existing relationships and forge new, enriching ones that will nurture your growth
  • Learn new strategies that will empower, expand, and enliven your life
  • Leave with a renewed energy and optimism about your ability to find your pathway to reinvention – claiming the passion, joy, and fulfillment you long for in the next chapter of life and work.


ACHIEVING TRUE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

4 Core Steps to Generating More Work-Life Balance, Fulfillment and Control Over Your Life

Do you think work-life balance is impossible to attain today?  Think again!  Work-life balance IS possible, but only after you decide what matters most to you in life.

bullet Are you feeling that juggling all your professional responsibilities with your role as mother and spouse seems virtually impossible?
bullet Do you find time for everyone else, but not for yourself?
bullet Are you exhausted and worn out from all that’s on your plate?
bullet Is saying “No” challenging?
bullet Are you longing for greater fulfillment, joy, and balance in your work-life, and want empowering support to achieve it?

In this enlivening and transformative seminar, Kathy shares her take on what true work-life balance is for today’s women, based on her work and research with hundreds of working women across the country.  She offers vital information on the key factors that contribute to — and help women overcome – the top challenge they face today – balancing work with family and outside life in a healthy, positive, and productive manner. This seminar helps women create a pathway to achieve more peace, joy and fulfillment in their family and homelives as balanced with what they want to achieve in their professional lives, based on their unique values, needs, and priorities.

Balance is possible, Kathy believes, only when women power up and step up to claim it for themselves.

Drawing on findings from her national research, and her groundbreaking book Breakdown, Breakthrough, Kathy presents new information on the most powerful ways to overcome this deep challenge of being who we want to be for our families, children and our communities while at the same time crafting a meaningful career and fulfilling professional life as well.

If you feel like balance is impossible right now, and you’re letting down everyone and everything that matters most to you, you’ll love this program!

Challenges you’ll learn how to overcome include:

bullet Finding your power and voice
bullet Discovering your passion and purpose in work and family life 
bullet Prioritizing what really matters to you and saying “no” to what doesn’t 
bullet Strengthening your courage, boundaries, and capabilities
bullet Gaining support from your spouse, family, friends and co-workers
bullet Learning how to let go of overfunctioning and perfectionism
bullet Determining what your ideal life looks life, and begin the process of creating it

With live, on-the-spot coaching from Kathy, and her experiential, proven-effective exercises and material, you will move from “I can’t balance life and work!” to “I know what I want and know the steps to get there!”

Attendees of this seminar will:

bullet Understand what’s contributing to your current situation
bullet Establish a new empowered mindset about your ability to shape your life with more balance, fulfillment and control
bullet Learn at least five strategies that will empower, expand, and enliven you
bullet Leave with concrete “to-dos” and an exciting roadmap for creating greater balance and fulfillment in life and work.

Kathy also shares her personal story of reinvention — from chronically-ill and miserable corporate VP to supremely fulfilled (and balanced) women’s coach, author, and speaker.  Take this special opportunity to jump off the hamster wheel, and begin to shape your life and work as you truly want it.



DELIVERING POWERFUL WORKSHOPS

Secrets to Public Speaking and Workshop Delivery with Confidence, Command, and Charisma

As public speakers, one of our core goals is to deliver our messages in a memorable way that offer lasting positive benefit.

To do so requires both an internal confidence and an external self-mastery — of your communication style, body language, core messages, your emotions and reactions, and your interactions with others. If you’re a beginning speaker wanting to learn the in’s and out’s of delivering compelling programs, this training is for you!

Join Kathy Caprino, M.A. – nationally recognized women’s career coach, trained psychotherapist, and seasoned speaker and performer – in this enlivening 6-session training program that teaches you insider tips for:

  • Delivering workshops and seminars that both educate and excite
  • Interacting with the audience in ways that generate respect and engagement
  • Being authentic and “real” at all times – and engaging the listener completely
  • Introducing your messages and points with clarity, confidence, and excitement
  • Managing negative or challenging interjections with calm and poise
  • Helping your audience be more of who they wish to be

In this training course, you’ll learn the six basics to successful workshop development, delivery and marketing:

  1. Get Clear – What specifically do you want your audience to learn and know?
  2. Tell Your Story with Power – How to distill your personal story down to its essence to reinforce your message
  3. Teach with Confidence – Strategies for teaching, shaping, and inspiring a group
  4. Craft a Program that FlowsHow to craft a winning one to two-hour program that flows well
  5. Manage the Audience Effectively – Ways to engage, enliven and manage an audience
  6. Navigate Through Challenge – How to address challenging emotions, comments, and behavior

Kathy brings her expertise in successfully delivering over 100 seminars and workshops nationally and via the web, to groups ranging from 10 to 500 attendees.  Kathy shows you how to connect yourself deeply to the material you’re presenting, manage a group effectively, and present fresh material in a way that’s meaningful and exciting to YOU. From that vantage point, you are able share with your audience vital information in memorable, authentic ways. Find the personal “juice” and meaning in your topic, and you are on your way to a successful presentation.

Attendees of this program will learn how to:

  • Tell a captivating, compelling story behind your information
  • Move participants to remember and take positive action after the presentation
  • Utilize information tools that connect with the audience
  • Draw on a variety of learning modalities
  • Manage a challenging crowd
  • Ensure participants understand and remember key points
  • Build audience rapport with you, and among audience members
  • Create a positive connection that lasts well beyond the conclusion of the event

The ultimate benefit – You will learn how to exceed your audiences’ expectations as a speaker and teacher, and provide them with lasting content and support in areas that mean the most to them. You’ll meet your participants just where they are, allowing them to learn, grow and be inspired.

Let your presentations be the ones people ask for most, and remember longest and best.

About Kathy Caprino:

“Kathy Caprino is a rare find. Her empathic approach to women and her ability to get to the root of a problem with viable, practical solutions, make her someone you can trust to provide solid, insightful advice. She engages everyone in the room instantly with her warm personality and keeps them there the entire time she is speaking. She was always the speaker people remembered and wanted more of at each of the conferences I produced. I can’t recommend her highly enough.” – Suzie Galler, Founder, Esteemed Woman Foundation

For more information on this speaker’s training program or to discuss a tailored program to meet your needs, write to kathy@elliacommunications.com.