
Peggy Stevens
Equal parts brand specialist and bourbon authority, Peggy Noe Stevens is an engaging presenter who utilizes her two unique areas of expertise to educate and entertain audiences from coast to coast. Whether giving a keynote address on "Building your Personal Brand", or immersing conference attendees into the fascinating world of bourbon, Peggy's wit and originality are always center stage.
Peggy takes audiences on entertaining journeys where they can discover everything from how to achieve greater career success to learning the tools of the trade for making the perfect mint julep.
An accomplished presenter on professional image and personal branding, Peggy is the author of "Professional Presence – A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand" and holds certifications as a Protocol and Etiquette Instructor and Image Consultant. Her portfolio of talks is curated from actual career experiences and insights, and includes "Work-Life Purpose", "Successful Networking" and "Dealing with the Workplace Bully".
The world's first female Master Bourbon Taster, founder of the Bourbon Women Association and contributing writer for American Whiskey and Bourbon+ magazines, Peggy is an internationally recognized expert in the field of bourbon and its evolution as an authentic lifestyle brand. Her diverse array of bourbon-centric seminars and workshops cover everything from tasting to pairing spirits with food and have become 'must-attend' sessions for conference attendees.
Peggy is a high-energy speaker who brings a fresh approach to conference and event presentations.
Equal parts brand specialist and bourbon authority, Peggy Noe Stevens is an engaging presenter who utilizes her two unique areas of expertise to educate and entertain audiences from coast to coast. Whether giving a keynote address on "Building your Personal Brand", or immersing conference attendees into the fascinating world of bourbon, Peggy's wit and originality are always center stage.
Peggy takes audiences on entertaining journeys where they can discover everything from how to achieve greater career success to learning the tools of the trade for making the perfect mint julep.
An accomplished presenter on professional image and personal branding, Peggy is the author of "Professional Presence – A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand" and holds certifications as a Protocol and Etiquette Instructor and Image Consultant. Her portfolio of talks is curated from actual career experiences and insights, and includes "Work-Life Purpose", "Successful Networking" and "Dealing with the Workplace Bully".
The world's first female Master Bourbon Taster, founder of the Bourbon Women Association and contributing writer for American Whiskey and Bourbon+ magazines, Peggy is an internationally recognized expert in the field of bourbon and its evolution as an authentic lifestyle brand. Her diverse array of bourbon-centric seminars and workshops cover everything from tasting to pairing spirits with food and have become 'must-attend' sessions for conference attendees.
Peggy is a high-energy speaker who brings a fresh approach to conference and event presentations.
Professional Presence: Building Brand Y-O-U
Designed after Stevens' book, "Professional Presence: A Four-Part Guide to Building Your Personal Brand", this session takes a comprehensive look at the importance of your personal brand, how to achieve the brand that you want and how that brand ties into your career. Professional Presence teaches "soft skills" - one of the biggest factors in professional success, yet seldom taught in corporate training. This session delivers a step-by-step program to develop these...
12 Traits of Powerful Women
We all know that women are pulled in many different directions each day, attempting to balance career, family, community and personal obligations. The demands can be utterly overwhelming and many feel the most pressure at work.
Peggy will demonstrate why "Balance is a Bust"! This results driven and interactive session will energize women at all levels of the organization to focus in on the traits that are proven to help them find greater purpose and focus in their...
Through Your Customer's Eyes
At PNSA we truly feel that your company's brand is its people and nearly all professionals deal with customers in some aspect. We love to work with teams to develop cohesive practices for managing their customer's perception of the overall brand.
From practical advice on how to obtain and thank your customers for their business to planning the experience for your customer through the environment you create, this presentation covers a lot! Specifically, Through Your...
Building Your Brand
Brand building is one of the foundations of PNSA . Peggy guides session participants through an exploration of the principals of creating an iconic brand, great moves and missteps by some of the big brands and what you can learn about building not only your company's brand but your personal one as well.
• What Makes a Great Brand? Define • Discover • Deliver
• Experiential Marketing: Directing the Consumer Experience
• Brand Visioning and Ideation
Dealing with the Workplace Bully
Schools have worked diligently to identify and eradicate bullying. Most children now understand what bullying means to their generation and the steps to take if they see it happening or are a victim.
But, what if the behavior is from an adult in the workplace? It's happening more often than most people realize and many are not aware of its impact on both the victims and companies as a whole or what to do to stop it. In this honest and empowering workshop we will...
Work-Life Purpose: Balance is a Bust
So many professionals struggle today with the idea that they have to "do it all", but then wonder....are they doing it well? The impact of your personal life on your career and your brand cannot be underestimated.
Peggy Noe Stevens teaches that while it may be difficult to find a true balance, it is not impossible to determine your work-life-purpose. To be successful in your career, you just need a plan for strategically managing your life.
Work-Life-Purpose focuses...
Successful Networking
- Setting personal goals for events
- Arrival, entrance and posture
- Greetings, handshakes and departures
- Mingling, eye...
Architecture of Image
This fast-paced dynamic session combines several of Peggy's key messages about the importance of image. She challenges participants to think about the process of crafting their own personal style and the various elements involved including:
• All eyes on you: creating a professional image• Your brand tool box: a strategic image for the corporate world
• Is image everything?...What companies are looking for areare ...
Business Etiquette and Protocol
A standard for the working professional, this workshop provides essential skills rarely taught in school, but necessary for advancement in your professional career. This presentation answers questions that often go unasked by both emerging leaders and top executives alike. It's a must for those who have just been awarded a promotion or will be traveling more often representing their company. This comprehensive presentation includes the following:
•Formal dining tutorialDrop the Mic: Presentation Skills
Whether you are talking one-on-one with a colleague or giving a speech in front of a room full of people, how you make a presentation can make or break your career. Presentations offer the opportunity to create influence that lasts. This valuable workshop can be applied to anyone just starting their career or those who suddenly find themselves in a position where they are looked upon to lead meetings or deliver presentations. The practical lessons shared include the...
Bourbon-Centric Presentations
As the world's first female Master Bourbon Taster,Founder of the Bourbon Women Association and recent inductee into the prestigious Kentucky Distiller's Association Bourbon Hall of Fame, Peggy presents 'edutaining' workshops for convention and meeting groups about Kentucky's native spirit, including:
• Bourbon 101: History and Tasting• Bourbon Benchmarking: Understanding the Different Styles
• Advanced Bourbon Pairings
• The Perfect Mint Julep
• Setting the...

