It was such a pleasure to connect with Sarah and have her speak on mv "Your Employment Detective" Podcast. I had the privilege of attending an HRPA Virtual Session given by Sarah and her passion, poise, and dedication were immense! While it took me a while to start my podcast, I am thrilled to have Sarah bring her energy and vital information to the military community that I serve. I feel honoured to be connected to someone so empowering. FROG on Sarah!!!

"Immediately useful, tactical, and aligned to what we're doing in the organization. We are already using the strategies and tools with energy and positivity!"

Sarah, You’re not only a scrumptious speaker, but a truly wonderful person. Thank you for sharing your clear passion for all things recognition; it's refreshing and contagious. You’re a gem and I’m so glad to know you.

We work hard at CDHA to give our members a wonderful conference experience, so we were thrilled to have received resoundingly positive feedback on Sarah's opening plenary keynote. It was the highest attended of the entire conference for both dates!

On behalf of the ECRTNO, thank you for presenting at our conference this year. Feedback from the event has been overwhelmingly positive, our members are still talking about how successful and valuable it was for them both personally and professionally. We can’t thank you enough for your positive energy and a great start to our first virtual conference!

Sarah brought infectious energy in her virtual presentation! Her industry expertise coupled with her passion for people brought true value to our association.

Sarah’s positivity, high energy and inventive approach to large-group learning kicked our summer into high gear through her dynamic presentation. Sarah provided practical lessons in how to increase employee engagement in the workplace and not only did Sarah involve members in the room, she made a powerful impact and engaged members who attended via webcast. Sarah brings insight and solutions regarding today’s HR issues and she is truly someone you will want to have to speak at your next event.

Smart, challenging, innovative, committed, dependable, and reliable, I highly recommend her for all your recognition needs. I have brought Sarah into my last two organizations to help build a culture of recognition and celebration. The focus on appreciation is more important now than ever.

Sarah, thanks for a great session with our team yesterday. I was so impressed with how you got the group chatting/participating and so enthused for the upcoming school year. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I look forward to reviewing the resources and our team seemed very excited to read your book Flip Side of Failing and use the accompanying coaching cards!

Moving – I’ve never left an ‘HR Seminar’ crying from happiness.

Sarah is the consummate professional. A real team leader with an impressive breadth of experience in coaching/HR-related fields, she brings passion and enthusiasm to her work. A thoughtful listener and person of integrity, she is able to delve into challenges/issues organizations and individuals may experience and draw on her own background to help develop practical solutions. In the end, the individual and organization are stronger and better able to succeed and grow.

THANK YOU so very much for leading the engagement activities today! You’re a constant professional, with an amazing attitude and always seeing the great in everyone. I am grateful for how you have helped us this year to transform our in-person staff recognition events into virtual and on-location events. Our staff feel more inspired, appreciated and motivated after they hear you speak, and I know our amazing in-house team here looks forward to designing engaging appreciation events with your support.

Sarah’s high-energy, engaging Keynote speech was the perfect way to kick off this year’s DeGroote Interprofessional Health Leadership Conference (DIHLC)! She has a unique ability to connect with the audience even virtually and her talk “The FROG Effect” about recognizing greatness in others, created a significant impact with our audience full of graduate students and healthcare professionals. She has a rare combination of entertainment value that will keep you on the edge of your seat; high energy to keep attendees engaged and by the end of her talk you will feel like you have been friends with her for years. I could not recommend Sarah more for any event or speaking engagement you may need!

Sarah McVanel - I would work with you ANYTIME. I want to commend you and your staff for putting on such a professional conference with an internationally renowned level of expertise. From the pre-conference work up to the registration and marketing, this event performed! You and fellow speaker Stephanie Staples were the perfect duo, balancing and bouncing off each other like you were intuitively connected. It was smooth, highly professional and resonant content, balanced with spirit and passion. Just what fatigued nurses needed after a gruelling year. The sessions were incredibly organized, easy to access, and glitch-free.

This year and for the first time in my 29 year nursing career Nurse’s week took on a much deeper meaning for me. I finally realized the importance of using this week specifically to tap into personal and professional reflection, to appreciate that I DO need to take my work temp much more often than I was and to cut myself some slack. Nurses are engaged in incredibly challenging work irrespective of the area we are currently working in. Perhaps this is why the Nurses Resiliency ReBoot Week resonated with me so deeply.

Our first recognition event post-COVID was a great couple of days. I really enjoyed it, and I know that many of our teams are excited again to use FROG - Forever Recognize Others' Greatness. Events like this are well worth the effort. Thank you for your flexibility and incredible ability to engage an audience.

Sarah brought so much energy and enthusiasm to our International Women’s Day event at Libro! Her message was uplifting, thought-provoking and truly appreciated by our team. Dealing with Sarah was wonderful – she was open, professional and willing to work with us to customize her message to incorporate our culture and connect to our topic and participants. During the session, she was a pro with a powerful message and a fantastic delivery. We had wonderful feedback from all that attended and can’t wait to have Sarah back for another session in the future!

I had the pleasure of actually attending a conference in Puerto Rico last year where Sarah was the keynote speaker on employee engagement and recognition, something that’s near to the heart of most of us here at i24 Call Management Solutions. Sarah was just absolutely magnetic in how she engaged with us in the audience. I was wondering how Sarah’s magnetic personality was going to translate into a virtual format at another industry conference, but I have to say that it was just awesome how she engaged with our executive director as well as us in the audience asking tons of questions and using our feedback from the chat. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Sarah if you’re considering her for a virtual conference in your own business or your own industry. I can’t say enough good things.

Sarah was great! Her energy was exhilarating and her presentation was customized to fit us and incorporated some of our initiatives and programs. We were worried about how engaged employees would be remotely, but Sarah kept everyone on their toes with her impressive multitasking abilities between presenting and reading chats. I would highly recommend her.

We were looking for innovative solutions to show our customers how much we appreciated them. Through this program, we were able to create fun, affordable, and sustainable ways for us to show all of our customers - new through to extremely loyal - how much we appreciate them.

I have hired Sarah in every organization I have worked for. She has a unique ability to resonate with all participants, create momentum, and move people into action with passion and purpose. Sarah’s ability to get results, shift mindsets and fuel healthy cultures is second to none.

Sarah has a unique ability to tell a story that is relatable and thought-provoking. I enjoyed the exercises throughout the book that allowed an opportunity for self-reflection. Using the FLIP framework in her keynote, I have been able to adopt the strategies Sarah has outlined and am now embracing a failure resilient mindset!

Interesting, relevant and engaging. Sarah’s personality made her insights all the more relatable.

I was able to catch Sarah’s Unleash Your Inner Superhero so far which was amazing! Really enjoyed it, and look forward to watching the rest either live or on replay.

"The delegation was engaged from the moment she took the stage through to her last word. Her engagement of the audience and advanced preparation to ensure that her message was tailored to the audience is to be commended. It is without hesitation that I recommend Sarah McVanel as a keynote speaker!"

"Greatness Magnified will never leave my vocabulary again! Thanks for your amazing posts and work in edifying people!"

Sarah has a special gift that aligns her personality with her passion for recognizing and building upon others' greatness. I've witnessed her do so successfully through her facilitation of leadership development workshops and leadership coaching she offered me through my transition across industries. Her facilitation approach and coaching are solution focused and leverage participants' strengths. I strongly recommend Sarah as a skilled facilitator and a considerate and helpful professional coach!

Sarah's keynote was dynamic, insightful and captivating. Sarah has a genuine soul and her smile is contagious. I would recommend her to colleagues and others that would benefit from her energy and powerful message.

Sarah McVanel is a a rare, one-of-a-kind "Greatness Trigger". Using an array of techniques and instruments, she helps organizations to achieve results far beyond what they imagined to be possible. Sarah is gifted at rapidly identifying and enabling the greatness dormant in her clients. Her process is rigorous, and she works hard to assess and identify their potential, working through the layers of values, culture (corporate and individual) and organizational structure. Sarah is a mentor to many new business owners, sharing her experience and her wisdom freely and widely, and her advice has helped many entrepreneurs to re-focus their efforts around their true strengths, the foundations of their greatness. They, like her clients, are often shocked by the transformative results they achieve after acting on the changes she recommends. She is a much sought after collaborator and partner in the industry. She is a highly successful speaker on the power of recognition, helping individuals, teams and organizations to achieve phenomenal results.

I am so happy to have connected with Sarah! She has had an incredibly positive impact on me and my team. We had the pleasure of doing a series of powerful workshops that were eye opening and thought provoking. Each session we all learned something new or remembered something old about our own greatness. The opportunity to put into practice both offering and receiving this recognition has shifted my way of communication. Sarah is a professional and it shows. Her presentations are organized and clear. She asks the right questions and offers her complete presence when receiving answers and feedback. I look forward to working with her again in the future.

Sarah McVanel captivates audiences with her message to Forever Recognize Others Greatness ("FROG"). She reminds us that it is important to take the time to honour ourselves and to recognize the greatness in others because it creates a positive movement. As a speaker, Sarah is a dynamo! She engages the crowd using humour, thought-provoking questions, and storytelling. It's never a dull moment with her in the room. Sarah, I will forever recognize your greatness!

Funny, full of energy and incredibly motivating - all words to use when describing Sarah and her passionate stage presence. We were fortunate to have Sarah join us as a speaker for the 2016 Spark Women's Leadership Conference and her presentation about leveraging greatness hit to the core of our objective "A rising tide lifts all boats". I would not hesitate to recommend Sarah to other organizations who are searching for a well prepared, well organized, thoughtful and passionate story teller. Thank you Sarah!

Listening to Sarah's presentation at the 2016 Spark Women's Leadership Conference was a breath of fresh air. Her infectious enthusiasm, positive attitude, and engaging stories captured my attention from the moment she stepped on stage. Her message of identifying and embracing each individual's strengths really hit home for me; we all have something we are great at, so let's recognize and combine these talents to create an unstoppable force. Not only was I given the tools and materials to help implement this attitude at work but also the motivation which is key! Thank you Sarah!

Sarah is amazingly energetic, funny, full of value and ideas to move us forward!

Sarah is energizing and empowering! She offers quick solutions to implement now!

Sarah is very energetic and knowledgeable. She has great ideas on Group Unity!

Sarah's session is very inspiring and well worth attending - a fantastic lady!

"Sarah made a wonderful contribution in another successful Aventure Realty Network annual meeting. I know our members benefited professionally from the customized content she delivered in her keynote and workshop and enjoyed meeting with her to deepen the learning at our social functions."

Sarah, people were totally absorbed in your message - I am sure you have now grown your 'fan-base' by a significant margin! They were all enthralled and your talk reminded me of the importance of recognition every day! I could just hear the positive vibe humming in the room when you finished the plenary presentation. Our students and new professional group clearly just fell in love with you.

What a dynamic, honest, positive and helpful speaker. Content could not be more applicable. Exactly what our group needed to hear.

Our managers received huge value from Sarah's presentation. Some comments were: "Loved her energy and the subject matter was very interesting." "Her presentation caused me to rethink some past actions." "If I had received her 5 question tools at the start of my management career, I think things would have turned out better."

We jumped at the chance to be the sponsor of Sarah's keynote on recognition. Not only is it aligned to our product, we believe we had more folks visit our booth because they left her session motivated and ready to bring recognition deeper into their organizations. It really showed that she did her homework to get to know the industry. We definitely would sponsor Sarah again.

Thank you for your talk to our chapter! What an amazing session with so much information to take away. Our members from all levels of the association were raving afterwards and I can't wait to see your advice being put into play here! You really do walk the talk of your brand, whether it's in person, one-on-one over Zoom, or presenting to a full room - you are always recognising people's greatness. We look forward to hosting you again, hopefully next time it will be in person!

Sarah is amazing! She draws you in and keeps your attention! She will change my life! Thank you!

Sarah was just above and beyond. Our association has existed well over 30 years. We have had many keynote speakers over that time at our annual conferences. Sarah has certainly been the most anthropological speaker we have had. She invested so much time and energy into our group to understand us and our industry. Speaking to our group can sometimes be a challenge for speakers. However, Sarah was able to deliver a talk that was not only engaging but relevant! I highly recommend!

On behalf of the University of Windsor Alumni Association, it is my pleasure to recommend Sarah McVanel for your next public speaker appearance. Sarah spoke at our inaugural Volunteer Appreciation Event and "knocked it out of the park". From the moment Sarah stepped on campus she was personable, engaged and very easy to work with. Her keynote speech was spectacular, and was able to connect with a wide range of audience members. Everyone in the audience, whether they were a student, faculty member, staff or volunteer was able to leave with something from Sarah's keynote. What was even better was Sarah's ability to connect with the audience during the networking portion. She was engaged and attentive ith everyone present and left a lasting impact on everyone in attendance. Multiple people asked for her contact information for a possible future appearance. This spoke to her ability to connect. I would recommend Sarah for anyone looking to bring in a speaker who is energetic, real and engaging. Great job, Sarah! We look forward to working with you in the future.

You are truly our Spark Ambassador and we appreciate you so much! Your support of this conference means so much to us. You hit it out of the park again this year with your keynote and panel...WOW!!

Sarah was an incredible emcee at our event! She was fabulous at grabbing the audience's attention, tying in themes from thorough the day, relating to our focus and message and making people laugh every time she took to the mic. Sarah made it so easy to prepare by holding Skype chats leading up to our event to ensure she knew what we were looking for. She is also so responsive and we couldn't have been happier with our emcee. Thank you Sarah for exceeding our expectations!!!

Sarah has the amazing ability to help organizations see the forest through the trees. On her loom built from wisdom and experience, she is able to weave a story on what is occurring within the workplace and empower the organization to create actionable plans for improvement.

Sooooo needed - you, your energy and your value.

Sarah was such a ravishing, engaging and powerful virtual speaker! From the preparation to the execution of her session, she was more than prepared and informational! She is one of the best speakers that I have had the pleasure working with. The content she presented was like none other! I love hearing the passion in her voice that is expressed through her teachings. I was so honored to have worked with her and I can't wait until our next engagement!

Thanks for the great virtual session at CAMX today. Inspired by the many comments in your session, we just met with our Executive Team and have committed to finding a way to send a gift to all employees at home next week

I first met Sarah in 2018 while coordinating our sector's annual summit. Sarah completely understood our goals of people-first culture. She not only delivered on what our senior leaders were looking to achieve on our recognition initiatives; but effectively engaged and inspired our team, providing helpful tips and tools all the way. Our team has benefited immensely from our collaboration with Sarah's Greatness Magnified. In 2020, when Compass decided to team up with Sarah for Wolfpack; we had the good fortune of listening to Sarah once more. This time it was virtual, but just as awesome. She transposes her energy and charisma via Webex just fine. There is no better time than NOW (in the middle of a global pandemic) when an employee wants to hear that their company cares; they are recognized and that they matter!

Sarah brought infectious energy around recognition to our network's program. Her industry expertise coupled with her passion for people brought true value to our network of organization development professionals. We're so thankful to have hosted her!

If you ever ask me who I would want to work with - it's Sarah! She's dynamic, generous AND has nailed the important way to do this VIRTUALLY.

We cannot thank you enough for helping to make our Virtual Conference a great success. Your perspective, insight and intelligence shone through, making this an exceptional and interactive session for our audience! PS - LOVED working with you and looking forward to working with you in person in the future!!!

"Sarah's style of speaking online is engaging because she brings positive energy to the virtual room. When Sarah is teaching, engaging the group, or listening, she cares about her audience and is truly engaged in the experience. Sarah provided opportunities in the breakout sessions for small groups to engage in meaningful conversations which enhanced their learning experience. Our team benefited from the group learning experience at a time when we needed an opportunity to connect and learn as a team."

Sarah’s high-energy, engaging Keynote speech was the perfect way to kick off this year's DeGroote Interprofessional Health Leadership Conference(DIHLC)! She has a unique ability to connect with the audience even virtually and her talk “The FROG Effect” about recognizing greatness in others, created a significant impact with our audience full of graduate students and healthcare professionals. She has a rare combination of entertainment value that will keep you on the edge of your seat; high energy to keep attendees engaged and by the end of her talk you will feel like you have been friends with her for years. I could not recommend Sarah more for any event or speaking engagement you may need!

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you giving of your time tonight. I know our folks really appreciated your expertise! You have such a positive and uplifting message. Thank you!!