Valarie Willis
Elevating organizations to new heights. Inspiring people to reach their full potential.
Developing leaders for the future.
As an accomplished speaker, facilitator, consultant and executive coach, Valarie Willis inspires people to flourish to their fullest potential while fostering a no-limit, winning attitude. Valarie is dedicated to aligning businesses and organizations with their values, images and principles with a focus on leadership, teambuilding, innovation and change.
Chaotic times are forcing organizations to do more with less and to meet ever-escalating demands. At the same time, organizations are searching for new ways to propel themselves beyond yesterday's standards and performance.
Valarie addresses today's challenges with effective, uplifting solutions. For businesses seeking improvement, striving for growth or stretching beyond yesterday's boundaries, she offers a wide spectrum of educational, consulting, facilitation and speakers' bureau services. Valarie is known for her energy, passion and down-to-earth style. With an innate ability to understand all levels of an organization, she creates meaningful, impactful conversations and results.
"Valarie's presentations bring laughter and life to audiences, teaching them how a positive attitude and a little humor can change their lives."
Valarie has worked with companies in many industries including health care, pharmaceutical, government, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, technology and finance. Her mission is to guide and provoke organizations to optimize business results through leadership development. She motivates audiences to become better leaders and inspires thousands through her thought-provoking speeches designed to help organizations:
- Ignite passion and keep morale high
- Achieve desired results faster
- Remove roadblocks and pitfalls to success
- Experience breakthroughs
- Navigate in turbulent times
- Develop a leadership plan
An individual can achieve her highest potential given the tools and opportunity.
Because of her strong belief in the individual, Valarie has been one of Speaking of Women's Health national keynote speakers motivating women across the states, helping women's groups and young ladies discover their dreams and passions.
Valarie is a known change catalyst and innovation specialist with years of experience as a thought leader and consultant in organizational leadership and talent development. For over 20 years, Valarie has assumed critical management, leadership and consulting roles through a variety of work experience. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses as well as non-profit organizations and has strategic partnerships with the Tom Peters Company and Bluepoint Leadership Development.
Valarie is author of Words for Women, co-author of Leading the Way to Success and most recently, co-author of How the Fierce Handle Fear: How to Succeed in Challenging Times. Valarie is a contributing writer for business publications and online resources such as Leadership Excellence and Sales and Marketing Excellence.
Publications
- Words for Women
- Leading the Way to Success
- How the Fierce Handle Fear: How to Succeed in Challenging Times
Honors & Awards
- Earned Master Facilitator status for The Leadership ChallengeTM
- Honored as The Woman's Advantage Entrepreneur's Advice "Top-Idea Maven"
- Featured in 2010 Woman's Advantage Calendar
- Received 2007 President's Award of Care from the Cincinnati/Indiana/Kentucky chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Memberships & Associations
- National Speakers Association
- International Speakers Network
- Cincinnati Regional Chamber of Commerce
Testimonials
Beth Ann Kilberg-Walsh, Xerox
"Valarie is a remarkable and inspirational speaker that I would highly recommend to any group. She exceeded my expectations and I can't thank her enough for making a difference [at] our conference. She is someone whom I immediately felt a connection with and that takes a lot when you are in a group of 200 women."
Russ Holbrook, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
"Valarie Willis delivered a powerfully charged lecture on The Leadership Challenge. The presentation was impressively dynamic and full of information that every attendee could find useful in both personal and professional situations."
Susan McConnell, President and CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana
"The reason I keep asking Valarie to work with me and my staff is that she is unique - a unique listener, teacher, story teller and inspirational speaker. Valarie gets to the 'heart of every matter.' ... and goes on to develop a unique experience for my staff that paves the way for a year full of discovery. ... She finds a way into everyone's thinking process and turns just the right key so they connect, listen, stay engaged and make changes. Valarie does not make anyone feel ashamed of their behaviors, she just finds a way to have everyone look at themselves in a new way and want to perform better -- including me."
A.Heiser (Previously with Kimberly Clark)
"Valarie was a keynote speaker and facilitated a session on 'Brand You' at a conference for our marketing organization. The session turned out to be a highlight for all, and I personally found it to be inspiring and thought provoking. She weaves the concepts of brand - marketing - and career development into a terrific presentation and workshop full of ideas and inspiration. And she is a wonderful person - you will be much better for meeting her.
Elevating organizations to new heights. Inspiring people to reach their full potential.
Developing leaders for the future.
As an accomplished speaker, facilitator, consultant and executive coach, Valarie Willis inspires people to flourish to their fullest potential while fostering a no-limit, winning attitude. Valarie is dedicated to aligning businesses and organizations with their values, images and principles with a focus on leadership, teambuilding, innovation and change.
Chaotic times are forcing organizations to do more with less and to meet ever-escalating demands. At the same time, organizations are searching for new ways to propel themselves beyond yesterday's standards and performance.
Valarie addresses today's challenges with effective, uplifting solutions. For businesses seeking improvement, striving for growth or stretching beyond yesterday's boundaries, she offers a wide spectrum of educational, consulting, facilitation and speakers' bureau services. Valarie is known for her energy, passion and down-to-earth style. With an innate ability to understand all levels of an organization, she creates meaningful, impactful conversations and results.
"Valarie's presentations bring laughter and life to audiences, teaching them how a positive attitude and a little humor can change their lives."
Valarie has worked with companies in many industries including health care, pharmaceutical, government, manufacturing, wholesale, retail, technology and finance. Her mission is to guide and provoke organizations to optimize business results through leadership development. She motivates audiences to become better leaders and inspires thousands through her thought-provoking speeches designed to help organizations:
- Ignite passion and keep morale high
- Achieve desired results faster
- Remove roadblocks and pitfalls to success
- Experience breakthroughs
- Navigate in turbulent times
- Develop a leadership plan
An individual can achieve her highest potential given the tools and opportunity.
Because of her strong belief in the individual, Valarie has been one of Speaking of Women's Health national keynote speakers motivating women across the states, helping women's groups and young ladies discover their dreams and passions.
Valarie is a known change catalyst and innovation specialist with years of experience as a thought leader and consultant in organizational leadership and talent development. For over 20 years, Valarie has assumed critical management, leadership and consulting roles through a variety of work experience. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and small businesses as well as non-profit organizations and has strategic partnerships with the Tom Peters Company and Bluepoint Leadership Development.
Valarie is author of Words for Women, co-author of Leading the Way to Success and most recently, co-author of How the Fierce Handle Fear: How to Succeed in Challenging Times. Valarie is a contributing writer for business publications and online resources such as Leadership Excellence and Sales and Marketing Excellence.
Publications
- Words for Women
- Leading the Way to Success
- How the Fierce Handle Fear: How to Succeed in Challenging Times
Honors & Awards
- Earned Master Facilitator status for The Leadership ChallengeTM
- Honored as The Woman's Advantage Entrepreneur's Advice "Top-Idea Maven"
- Featured in 2010 Woman's Advantage Calendar
- Received 2007 President's Award of Care from the Cincinnati/Indiana/Kentucky chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Memberships & Associations
- National Speakers Association
- International Speakers Network
- Cincinnati Regional Chamber of Commerce
Testimonials
Beth Ann Kilberg-Walsh, Xerox
"Valarie is a remarkable and inspirational speaker that I would highly recommend to any group. She exceeded my expectations and I can't thank her enough for making a difference [at] our conference. She is someone whom I immediately felt a connection with and that takes a lot when you are in a group of 200 women."
Russ Holbrook, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
"Valarie Willis delivered a powerfully charged lecture on The Leadership Challenge. The presentation was impressively dynamic and full of information that every attendee could find useful in both personal and professional situations."
Susan McConnell, President and CEO, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana
"The reason I keep asking Valarie to work with me and my staff is that she is unique - a unique listener, teacher, story teller and inspirational speaker. Valarie gets to the 'heart of every matter.' ... and goes on to develop a unique experience for my staff that paves the way for a year full of discovery. ... She finds a way into everyone's thinking process and turns just the right key so they connect, listen, stay engaged and make changes. Valarie does not make anyone feel ashamed of their behaviors, she just finds a way to have everyone look at themselves in a new way and want to perform better -- including me."
A.Heiser (Previously with Kimberly Clark)
"Valarie was a keynote speaker and facilitated a session on 'Brand You' at a conference for our marketing organization. The session turned out to be a highlight for all, and I personally found it to be inspiring and thought provoking. She weaves the concepts of brand - marketing - and career development into a terrific presentation and workshop full of ideas and inspiration. And she is a wonderful person - you will be much better for meeting her.
