Worldwide speaker, award-winning author and healthcare
expert, Connie Merritt, RN, BSN, PHN, adds value to and enriches your meetings
with informative, inspiring, interactive and often humorous programs. Her
presentation style promotes using new skills immediately and retaining them
longer. As a professional speaker since 1984, she synthesizes the latest
research on medicine, psychology, sociology, and business as related to your
specific needs. To date, she has helped more than 750,000 people work and live
better.
Merritt’s presentations bring the latest research on the
state of our ailing healthcare systems to corporations and associations. Fields
such as genomics, bioinformatics, and pharmacogenics get the full treatment;
Merritt explores the options and opportunities for teaching wellness and
coordinating patients with their environment, technology, and treatments.
Lifestyle life support. Merritt volunteers weekly teaching
Equine Assisted Therapy to physically and cognitively disabled persons. She
chairs community fund-raising events that net more than $1,000,000. She founded
the Free Clinic in Laguna Beach,
which is now fully funded by Orange County.
Other monumental moments include starring in the National
Geographic underwater film, The Beauty of Long Point and successfully avoiding
collision with a California condor during her first cross-country solo flight.
Merritt augmented her American Medical Association scholarship by yearly
appearing on Hollywood Squares and she performs a stand-up comedy routine on men,
women and relationships.
Taming the jungles of daily life. Nicknamed “The Lion Tamer�
for improving relationships in the workplace and in the home, Merritt’s
programs draw from her experience as a nurse, author, coach, speaker,
volunteer, sales star, fundraiser, standup comic, actor, wife and recovering
superwoman. Connie is part college professor, part philosopher, and part
comedienne as she spins humorous, instructive tales while being open and
down-to-earth on stage. She’ll link her experiences (such as flying the
Goodyear blimp and being a trauma nurse) to lessons and skills you can use.
She’s the author of Finding Love (Again!) The Dating
Survival Manual and The Taming Guidebook Series (on difficult people, men and
women, stress reduction and desk yoga), contributor to Chocolate for a Woman's
Soul and God’s Vitamin C for the Spirit of Women. She volunteers as the nurse
on equine facilitated therapy team teaching horseback riding to the physically
and mentally disabled. Her next books: Raiders of the Lost Spark, invigorates
and inspires the over committed and overwhelmed; Before You Get Naked - Things
to Know Before Baring All, combines the latest research and studies on
medicine, psychology and sociology to help the dating-impaired find the right one.
TOPICS from Connie Merritt:
"Tame the Lions in Your Life" Dealing with Complainers, Bullies, Grumps,
Curmudgeons and Other Difficult People  
Are difficult people cutting into your productivity and
general well being? Would your boss win awards for "Curmudgeon of the
Year"or is your co-worker always having a "Whine ‘n Jeez" Party?
Difficult people are the "lions" that can tear you apart, decrease
your productivity and increase your stress. Identify the one powerful skill for
resolving conflict, options for handling hostility and how to reduce
frustration, intimidation and manipulation by those who demand, bully, complain
or are passive-aggressive. This current, interactive, applicable, energetic
program gives step-by-step tools and approaches to use when faced with the
frustration, intimidation and manipulation from difficult people. You'll get
confidence, professionalism and can-do competence.
"Where is Marcus Welby?" - The Future of
Healthcare & Our Ailing Systems
Do you wonder what healthcare will be like in a decade? What
will be the impact of technology and healthcare changes be on your future as a
healthcare provider? You must be ready for an extensive shift in focus in the
management of disease toward concentration on maximizing the length and quality
of life. You'll literally be a space-age Marcus Welby – dealing with new fields
such as genomics, bioinformatics and pharmacogenics. By examining the ten
trends for the future of healthcare, you have tools to flourish while
delivering quality attention and care. With the information in this program you
explore your options and opportunities for teaching wellness and coordinating
patients with their environment, technology and
treatments.
"Tame the Stress in Your Life" - Stress Busting
from the Trenches
Are you stressing over large assignments, increased
responsibilities and deadlines? If you're worrying over red tape, a stalled
career, job security or personal upheavals, strengthen yourself with the latest
remedies for stress. Scientific literature says that one third of the people
polled report an increase in stress since last year. Therefore, as many of one
in three people in your organization are exhausted or traumatized and will
likely experience stress-related symptoms. You can identify your hot buttons,
recognize when you cross the line to damaging stress and learn how to reduce
your own (and others) anxiety and stress. This program will actively identify
your stress and equip you with ways to reduce your stressors and increase your
immunity to the demands of stress.
"Raiders of the Lost Spark" - Invigorating &
Inspiring the Overcommited & Overwhelmed
Do you feel like you're close to burnout and need to strike
more balance in your life? Learn how to bounce back from personal disappointments,
simplify and reevaluate your priorities. Based on research for the speaker's
groundbreaking book, "Finding Love (Again!)," You'll get a
supportive, practical plan for bringing new vitality into your life. Plus,
you'll have fun and a renewed belief that you can get that "ol’ special
feeling" back and your life can be extraordinary. This program provides
men and women the secrets of discovering their spark, simplifying and bringing
balance to their lives.
"Tame the New Workforce" - Who Are These People & What Do They Want?
Are you baffled by the new generation of workers in your
industry? Can you ever hope to understand what they’re saying—let alone what
they want—in order to make your organization work? Today’s workplace demands
that staff combine knowledge of hard and soft technology along with a caring
presence. You can attract and keep outstanding people who provide supervision,
guidance, and encouragement, plus critical thinking and a genuine desire to
deliver quality. Discover the needs and driving passions of the new workforce
and learn to identify the critical issues for the next ten years. You get
skills and approaches to understand, motivate and manage the modern
organization with four distinct generations.
In this program, you learn how to fulfill the needs of a youth-dominated
workforce while influencing a cohesive group so that team members are effective
and enjoying their jobs.
"Tame Men and Outrageous Women" - Productive Men
and Women in the Workplace 
Do you know the tangible and intangible toll that
male-female miscommunication and conflict takes on your business? You will
learn to eliminate the major gender communication differences, find out when
the gender gap begins and widens, discover the toll that male versus female
conflict takes on business and take the brain test, showing if you "male
wired" or "female wired." This program increases the
understanding and appreciation of the gender communication gap resulting in
more harmony and productivity.
�Tame Your Health Risks - Be Heart Smart� - A Urgent Wakeup Call for Women 
Did you know that heart disease is the #1 killer of American
women? Unfortunately, most women don't know the truth. In fact, only 20 percent
of women identify heart disease as the greatest health problem facing women
today. It’s also true that heart disease is “ageless.� Whatever a woman’s age, she needs to take
action now to protect her heart. This program will give cold facts and hot
solutions about your heart health—plus give you plenty of laughs and choices
about your wellbeing.
