Eileen McDargh CSP, CPAE

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Eileen McDargh Quick Facts

Main Areas: Work And Life Leadership Development
Best Sellers: Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, The Resilient Spirit
Career Focus: Professional Speaker And Author
Affiliation: National Speakers Association and on the board of Take Back Your Time

Since founding McDargh Communications in 1980, Eileen McDargh has helped organizations and individuals transform the life of their business and the business of their life through conversations that matter and connections that count.

Her programs are content rich, interactive, provocative and playful—even downright hilarious.
She draws upon practical business know-how, life's experiences and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have ranged from global pharmaceuticals to the US Armed Forces, from health care associations to religious institutions. Executive Excellence magazine continually ranks her as one of the top 50 thought leaders in self-leadership development. Global Gurus International, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication and sales training, also named her as one of the World’s Top 30 Leadership Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

She authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance—a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and continues to be published in revised editions. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless - Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations and her book, Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award in 2008. A training film based on this book was released in early summer 2010 and is the winner of the Silver Telly, the highest award for commercial productions. Eileen's newest book My Get-Up-and-Go Got Up and Went! made it's debut early in 2011.

As a business author and commentator, she’s appeared on network news, on radio programs and in business journals and in major metropolitan newspapers.

Clients have ranged from American Airlines to Xerox, from 3M to IBM, from drill foremen in the Arctic to juvenile offenders in prison. She served as one of ten faculty members in a business television series, Reclaiming Business Excellence and has headlined with speakers like NBA Coach Pat Riley, Notre Dame's former coach Lou Holtz, Dr. Ken Blanchard, executive strategist Marshall Goldsmith and boardroom poet, David Whyte.

Eileen is a certified speaking professional (CSP) and her election into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame places her among the top 3% of speakers in the United States. She recently completed two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association and also currently sits on an advisory board for Take Back Your Time, a North American initiative for work/life integration practices. She’s also listed as a recommended expert through the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Eileen McDargh

PHILOSOPHY For Business

Dear Colleague,

To fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run." Kipling wrote it. I believe it. When I use an audience's time, I take the single most precious resource they have-and one that is non-renewable. They must walk away feeling the time was more-than-well spent.

I try and live in the world of my client, speak their language, understand their anxieties and their hopes. Everything is contextual. With that as a key-underpinning, my programs all serve to leave people thinking about the possibilities and power they hold inside: power to lead, power to design a life of their choosing, power to recognize the possibilities for a higher level of human interaction, and power to ultimately believe that their presence on this earth makes a difference.

I believe in the wisdom of my audience and that my job is to help them reconnect with that wisdom. By using humor, fun, meaningful interaction, up-to-the-minute ideas derived from current business, and by being a solid storyteller and actor of the human experiences we all share, people discover their own wisdom.

No program is ever quite the same because no audience is the same. The value is that everyone in the audience will walk away with not only having heard the words but knowing what to do with the words through my actions, my caring and follow-through. It's my commitment.

Besides, it's the only way I know how to do business.