Nina Atwood, M.Ed., LPC is an executive coach, corporate trainer, professional speaker, and published author. Her mission is to empower others in moving to the next level of success. Her one-on-one coaching, presentations, and workshops deliver innovative methods of vision & intention setting, communication & delegation, strategic planning, and self-management.
Nina began her career in sales and marketing, then switched to her real passion: the study of psychology and human relations. She obtained a BA in Psychology, Masters in Counseling Education, and a Texas counseling license. For fifteen years, she maintained a private practice coaching and counseling individuals and groups, wrote and published two self-help books (and has a third on the way), guest starred on a weekly radio talk show, led countless workshops, and established herself as an international expert on communication and relationships. This led to feature spots on Good Morning Texas, numerous regional television and radio interviews, and hundreds of professional speaking engagements. Her expertise is regularly sought by national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Health, and Men’s Health magazines.
Over three years ago, Nina applied her expertise in helping people transform their lives to the corporate world, quickly establishing herself as a motivational and inspirational coach, trainer, and professional speaker.
Nina Atwood Topics may be tailored for keynote, workshop, or breakout sessions
"What's Your Vision?"
To move to the next level of success, we first must create a new Vision, one that goes beyond the place that we stand today. Imagining and embracing new possibilities, crystallizing a specific vision, and knowing that it is really possible and doable - all are essential to this process. Nina leads participants through a lively journey of uncovering and clarifying a new, larger vision for success. First, she expands the current understanding of how powerful envisioning is for achieving greater success. Then, she leads her audience through the specific steps that are necessary for this potent process. Participants will walk away with a new vision that magnetizes them toward greater success today!
"Setting Powerful Intentions"
The first step in any new initiative is often goal-setting, a necessary and valuable process. Even more effective is establishing a clear vision and setting powerful intentions. When actions are aligned with vision and intentions, the results are phenomenal! Nina helps participants understand the difference between goal and intention setting, and then leads them through the steps to bring them into focus. With the power of setting intentions, you will:
· Understand and remove the blocks to "making it happen"
· Be more creative and resourceful in all of your endeavors
· Accelerate your business in a positive direction
· Eliminate sabotage in your life and in your business
"Networking For Success"
Ever been to a networking meeting and passed out your business card to as many people as possible, only to be disappointed later when no one followed up? The reality of most of our "meet and greet" efforts to build business is that they often fall short of our intentions. The solution? Learning how to maximize the power of initial contact.
The reality is that we often have only thirty seconds to make a significant impression! This program teaches the skills for doing exactly that. With actual practice, participants will:
· Learn how to make a positive, lasting first impression
· Create and practice their unique "verbal business card"
· Discover the keys to first meetings that lead to productive business connections
"Manage Your SELF to Greater Success"
With any vision or goal, the most important resource that we have is our SELF! Knowing how to navigate through the countless decisions and actions that make up our day is critical. This presentation helps participants understand how to determine the most important actions to take. It focuses on the four primary steps to better self-management. Participants will:
§ Identify the core practices of effective self-management
§ Determine an area of self-management that requires change
§ Create a new set of intentions and actions
§ Feel empowered to move in a more positive direction with life and business initiatives and know how to do it
"Life Balance: Career AND Personal Success"
As a business owner for over fifteen years, Nina knows first hand the demands of keeping life in balance. In this enlightening presentation, she shares the secrets of how to be successful in both personal life and career. She identifies first the habits that create stress and throw us off balance, then leads the audience through the solutions. Participants will:
§ Discover the keys to returning to balance when life pulls us off track
§ Learn the essentials of working smarter rather than harder
§ Outline a plan for getting life back in balance
§ Walk away with knowledge of the core skills of gaining and maintaining life balance on a permanent basis
"Partnering For Success"
No matter what the business endeavor, the primary ingredient for success is people! The individuals who drive an enterprise must partner with energy and enthusiasm, and they must possess the tools for communication and collaboration in order to make it happen. In synergistic systems, one plus one does not equal two. In successful business enterprise, it equals much more in terms of energy and output.
Nina takes her audience through the steps for creating powerful business alliances and partnerships. Participants will:
§ Learn the meaning of business alignment
§ Discover the key elements of partnerships that work
§ Practice the communication tools to make it happen
Recent speaking engagements:
Last fall, Nina was one of three keynote speakers for the CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) "Super Networking Challenge," along with Pat Sommerall and a senior partner at Ernst & Young. Participants and CREW Education Committee members agreed: Nina's presentation made the event! (See comments below.) As a result, Nina has been invited to do leadership training for the 2003 CREW Dallas Board of Directors as well as the January kick-off keynote presentation for CREW's 2003 meetings.
Once per month, Nina leads a workshop providing business skills training for the Maverick Business Network in Dallas, a group of entrepreneurs that focuses on powerful business relationship building.
Nina is scheduled as a keynote presenter for the International Prepress Association annual management association conference scheduled for October 2002 in Savannah, Georgia. The theme of the conference is "Visions & Solutions" and Nina will lead two segments of the conference focusing on identifying and developing an effective organizational vision. Attendees are owners, CEO's, and Presidents in the graphic solutions provider industry.
What others say about Nina's speaking, coaching, & training:
"[the] Super Networking Challenge was a huge success! We enjoyed your dynamic presentation. The networking session and the Two Minute [Verbal] Business Card were very insightful."
- Anna Marie Moon, CPA, CREW Dallas Education Committee Co-chair
"Thank you for your presentation at the CREW Super Networking Challenge! It was very informative and helped me to understand how to better use my strengths in relationship building and networking."
- Ruth Ann Firestone, VP SouthTrust Bank, CREW member
"Nina Atwood's presentations, writing, and coaching have been most informative and inspirational to my colleagues and to me for many years. The members of my Collaborative Law Practice Group continue to enthusiastically discuss and utilize the many valuable listening skills Nina taught to us during her dynamic and useful presentation to the group. Nina is an outstanding communicator who delivers her message with clarity, courage, and passion. I highly recommend her work to any individual or group seeking motivation and growth."
- John V. McShane, Partner, McShane & Davis, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas
"Yesterday was a wonderful experience. You provided a basis for which I could look inward in a controlled, structured setting, to allow me to see how I could use my strong values to enhance my life and my practice. I enjoyed the time tremendously, and feel I accomplished a lot in such a short time. As I was exercising this morning, working on my core muscle groups of spine and abdomen (the essentials of Pilates), it occurred to me that your work is like Pilates for the soul. I feel well exercised!"
- Robbyn Wysocki, Managing Director, Lawson, Fields, McCue, Lee & Campbell, P.C.
"No matter where you are in your career, having an outside perspective to help give clarity, objectivity and creativity to your plan(s) is invaluable. This is what I found working with Nina Atwood. I truly enjoyed this empowering experience!"
- Lorraine Teel, C.O.O., RM Crowe Company
"I am so thankful for the contribution Nina has made to my personal and professional life. The work we have done together has opened my mind to new possibilities. Her coaching approach to identifying my core values, visioning my future, and setting action plans in place to achieve my vision has shown me the synergies that exist in my life and the areas I need to focus on to bring better equilibrium and success. The time we spent was thoroughly rejuvenating. I look forward to using our work to focus my thoughts and efforts immediately and for many years to come."
- Stephanie Black, Vice President, Practitioners Publishing Company
"Thank you, Nina! You are an excellent coach - patient, thoughtful, intuitive, great listener, and strategic thinker. Before I engaged Nina as my professional coach, I had heard Nina speak for several groups. I knew Nina’s coaching would be valuable, but I did not realize the profound effect that a one-day intensive professional coaching session could have on my life. It has affected my daily routine, my perception of myself professionally, and my ability to sell my service in a fiercely competitive market. As my coach, Nina’s focus is intensely on helping me advance to the next level professionally – more intensely than any other person and more objectively than I could possibly do for myself. Nina is incredibly perceptive to pinpoint my roadblocks quickly and accurately. Together we immediately set out to work and within one 11-hour day, we came up with practical solutions in the areas of time management, project organization, professional image, and marketing strategies. Nina helped clarify my career path and set out a strategic plan to achieve advancement far beyond that which would have otherwise been possible."
- Rebecca Tudor, Vice President, Corporate Advisory Services, Trammell Crow Company
