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| Shawna Lee Coronado has a passion for speaking and spreading her inspiring message. She educates organizations, businesses and individuals nationally on the value of making a difference, particularly while utilizing healthier and greener ideals. If you are looking for an inspirational, thought-provoking, and skill-building Keynote Address, Conference Workshop, or Full-Day Training, your audience will be motivated and inspired by Shawna's passion. ~~~ Intently enthusiastic and inspiring, Shawna's talks will leave you feeling energized and motivated to help both the local and global community. Her discussions are touching, personal, passionate, and help initiate positive change. Shawna's history extends beyond greening, horticulture, and environmental activity. With over 15 years of experience in business development, communications, sales management, and online marketing, her knowledge of social media and business has helped to spread her uniquely positive health and greening message globally. This attention to detail can be seen during every presentation - whether she discusses community, greening, and environmental concerns or social media and marketing - Shawna's goal is always to bring the discussion to an interesting and easy-to-understand level. Frequently, Shawna touches on her own powerful and dramatic health struggles and how she feels nature and green living has been a personal miracle cure. Customizing every presentation for the specific group she is speaking with, Shawna works to initiate participation and understanding by building an intimate connection with each and every audience. Shawna's feisty personality and passion about improved health, greening the environment, and building community makes her an inspiring choice as a public speaker. She has presented to businesses, universities, sales teams, technical organizations, women's community events, hospitals, entrepreneurs, marketers, chamber of commerce groups, clubs, botanical gardens, master gardeners, environmental advisory commissions, conservation groups, parks and forestry associations, and educational institutions - and many more. Shawna is also comfortable in front of a camera and representing individuals and corporations interested in building health and a green presence within their community. To contact Shawna regarding appearances and speaking fees, please click here. |
| Speaking and Presentation Topics |
| While Shawna can speak on anything you would like, below are a few topic ideas and suggestions which might stimulate ideas for your group or institution. Green Lifestyle Topics: Shawna's Story: How One Woman Miraculously Changed Her Health, Grew a Stronger Community, and Built a Greener World Shawna tells the amazing and dramatic story of how she overcame extreme odds to become emotionally and physically healthy by discovering a greener lifestyle. In this process she learned how community, both corporate and private, is intimately connected to mental health, physical health, and life satisfaction levels. Based on Gardening Nude - Shawna teaches attendees simple steps on how they can make a difference for their own health and community. How 14 Days In the Yucatan Made Me Realize the Value of Planet Earth In 2009, Shawna participated in an "eco-blogging" adventure in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This experience was a powerful adventure. Shawna learned how we are all connected to nature in a unique way and how what we do in our homes directly touches the environment on the rest of planet earth. This speech discusses the adventure and brings awareness to the viewer as to why everyone should be helping to save the planet. Environmental Parenting - Redefining How You Can Give Your Children A Healthier Life Every day in every way we must watch out, as parents, for the health of our children. Shawna explains why it is so important to live "greener" and discusses easy and simple tips to begin living a lifestyle which will encourage positive mental and physical health for your family. Gardening Topics: Vegetable Gardening Nude: How Getting Metaphorically Naked Changed My Life and Helped Me Feed My Family, Neighborhood, and City In A Down Economy Shawna transformed her life and community by ripping out the front lawn sod to build a vegetable garden. Behind her property she build a community native garden as well. In this discussion, Shawna teaches the techniques she used and how it made a difference by transforming her health and her community. From feeding the hungry with hundreds of pounds of vegetables, to hosting nature experiences for children, to having classes on the therapeutic health benefits of a natural garden, Shawna learned how to make a sustainable impact. How A Garden Can Rescue Your Community: Teach Your Neighbors How To Save Money, Reduce Crime, and Help Feed The Hungry During Difficult Economic Times Shawna teaches attendees how to make a difference in their communities by helping others through gardening. Utilizing creative examples from her own gardening experience, Shawna explains how a traditional garden and lawn space can be used to feed the hungry. This can occur all while maintaining an aesthetic beauty and utilizing sustainable gardening techniques. This same garden space can enhance community crime reduction and even earn money for the homeowner. Shawna shows proven studies on gardening and crime prevention and discuss techniques she has successfully utilized to build community in a positive way. Social Media Topics: How Social Media Enabled One Woman To Make A Global Impact - Utilizing social media, Shawna Coronado became internationally recognized and built a successful online business. Shawna began a marketing campaign which became her soul promotional tool to build and sustain her business. In this discussion, Shawna teaches attendees her secrets for how she made a good income and a global impact by investing less than $25 per month. Social Media and Greening - How Doing Good In The World Can Change Your Business - Shawna Coronado tells the dramatic story of how she overcame extreme odds to become emotionally and physically healthy by discovering a greener lifestyle. In this process she learned how community, both corporate and private, is intimately connected to mental health, physical health, and life satisfaction levels. Shawna teaches attendees that weaving a stronger community base into your business can lift spirits, improve production, and increase profits. Three key things you will learn at this discussion; • Why living a green lifestyle might just save your life and the life of your company • How you can grow customers and increase profits by marketing green and building community • Learn three keys to living to energize your career, business, and world Green Business and Industry Topics: How Being ‘Green’ Can Build Community, Build Customers, Change Your Life, and Change the World! In this talk, Shawna tells the inspiring story of her health journey and details why living a green lifestyle can change attendees lives - both at work and at home - by inspiring change and increasing energy levels and productivity. She teaches participants how to grow a stronger customer base and increase profits by marketing "green". She also teaches three simple keys to living a green lifestyle which will change each and every person's life for the better. Why Making a Difference In The World Might Just Save Your Business During a Recession Hard economic times have forced many corporations out of business. This discussion will help participants take a second look at traditional corporate-wide marketing and communications ideals. Shawna's teaches attendees how to build positive mindsets and relationships by giving meaning to the internal and community workings of an organization. Her meaningful message; make a difference for the world every day! ~~~ Shawna speaks on many other subjects, including sustainability in the garden and how community greening and landscaping can prevent crime among other issues. Please ask for further details if you have a specific topic in mind. Each and every speech is customized for the particular attending audience. Therefore, a phone call will be necessary in advance of the speaking engagement so she might get to know your interest. Please contact Shawna by email for scheduling and rates here. |
| 2010 Keynote and PresentationTopic Ideas |
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| Appearance Schedule 2010 ~~~ Jan 13 - Macy's Culinary Studio Jan 19-22 - MidAm Hort Trade Show Jan 23 - WGN Radio 720 - Chicago Feb 19 - Blog Talk Radio - Andy Schneider Mar 6-15 - Chicago Flower & Garden Show Mar 13 - Chicago Flower & Garden, Keynote 11 AM Mar 20-Apr 3 - Mexico - Eco-Blogging Adventure Apr 12 - Apr 17 - Mexico - Yucatan Peninsula Eco-Adventure Film Crew Shoot Apr 9 - Filming Cowsmo Compost Installation Apr 24-25 - Morton Arboretum Green Boutique Event Apr 28-May 1 - Free State Social Media Event, Keynote, Tweet-up, Panel Event May 3-5 - Filming "Simple and Sustainable" Challenge May 27-Jun 6 - Ireland - Blooms 2010 Aug 1-7 - Filming PBS Television show "Growing A Greener World" at home garden. Aug 9-13 - Filming $10 Chef Series Challenge Nov 10 - DG Organic Gardeners Keynote |
