SPEAKING TOPICS 

SUZANNE SAXE-ROUX, Ed.D., CEC
Leadership Coach and Consultant to
Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders 

Following are some of Suzanne’s most requested speaking and workshop topics. We pride ourselves on tailoring any of our talks to your organization’s needs. If you don’t see a topic here that would suit you, let us know and we will happily work with you to find the right mix.

Suzanne’s experience as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, business woman, professional speaker, University faculty member, trainer and facilitator, wife and mom enable her to customize any presentation to the appropriate audience. All presentations can be customized to fit your program whether it is 30 minutes or a full day.

Dr. Suzanne Saxe-Roux, Ed.D., Certified Executive Coach, Business Entrepreneur, Speaker and Author coaches, speaks, writes and facilitates busy professionals on creating the lifestyle they desire for their next phase of life. Dr. Suzanne is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and those who voluntarily or involuntarily are choosing to live a more balanced life. Dr. Suzanne is also a University professor and the co-author of The Consultative Approach: Partnering for Results! and the forthcoming book, Courage and Croissants, Finding a New Way 

Note: All presentations will be customized to fit the audience and their needs.

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Creating Work-Life Balance:
Is it possible, and if so, How?

If you ask any great employee why they stay with a company, they will tell you, “because of the culture, because of my manager, because they recognize work-life balance is important.”  In the best of times and in the worse of times, the development of a culture that embraces work-life balance hires the best and keeps them. This translates into the bottom line in savings and increased revenue for the company.   So what exactly, does it mean to create a culture of work-life balance. Who is responsible and how can you trust it won’t be taken advantage of. These are all questions addressed in Suzanne’s speech on balancing the three legged stool of work-life balance.  

 The three legs presented  are:

Part I: Organizational:  Family friendly policies, benefits, career ladders

Part II: Manager/ Team culture and implicit behaviors

Part III:  Individual Choices and Responsibilities

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The Secret to Being Successful in Business and Life:
The Two Page Business and Life Plan

For most people the integration of their work and personal life is challenging and constantly bumping up against each other. In this presentation Dr. Suzanne shows how the act of writing a simple and easy to use two page business and lifestyle plan provides freedom, continuity, and integration for the year to come.  By focusing on what you want and how you are going to achieve it in all areas of your life and then having an easy accessible paper to refer to simplifies and focuses you on achieving the goals you have and living the life you dream of.

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 Do you know where you are going in your life.
Most people don't. Do you want to live not knowing?

One day we wake up and ask ourselves, "What happened to my life?" One day we get laid off and ask ourselves, "What happened to my life?" One day we or someone close to us falls ill and we ask ourselves, "What happened to my life?" One day we realize we are turning a milestone age and ask ourselves, "What happened to my life?" One day we turn around and say, "Why didn't I do what I wanted to do with my life?"

Most people go through life seizing opportunities in the moment, following the trends, and being greatly influenced by the society, lifestyle, and current events surrounding them. For many of us this has worked for quite a few years. There comes a time, however, when we begin to realize that seizing opportunities is no longer enough.

There comes a time when we recognize that we want to live a certain lifestyle. We want to live fully, with good health, with joy, and with purpose and seizing the next opportunity is no longer going to be enough.

As busy urban professionals we have allowed our lives to get away from us. We have put our work first, our kids first, a relationship or even possibly health first.

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 Turn Your Busy Weekend into a Relaxed Vacation
in 5 Easy Steps

When was the last time you had a free weekend? When was the last time you weren’t stressed on the weekend? When was the last time that you didn’t do some work or check your email on the weekend? When was the last time that you took one or two full days to just focus on you and your family?

As busy urban professionals we have allowed the work week to creep into our weekends. We have allowed technology to take over our time with our loved ones, friends, and family. We have allowed the world to usurp us of our time to enjoy life for what it is and as a result go to bed Sunday night wondering what happened to the weekend.

Get motivated and turn your busy, busy weekends into a relaxed vacation with 5 Easy Steps.

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 5 Things You Must Avoid If You Want
to Live a Healthier Joyous Life

Every day we make choices that lead us towards good health and joy or take us away from it. Every day we make these choices unconsciously and, therefore, wonder why we are feeling lethargic, unmotivated, and sometimes exhausted. In this dynamic presentation, Suzanne will show you that by avoiding 5 things in your daily life you will automatically be healthier and feel more balance and joy.

The best part is that once you are aware of the choices you are making and the consequences of them, it is easier to make good decisions on a daily basis. The more you see the benefit, the more you are committed to living a healthier and more balanced life versus living on automatic pilot.

If you only avoid one of these things let alone all five you will still see great results!

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7 Steps to Making a Dream come True

A sought after presentation, Suzanne shares her family story of moving to the south of France for one year which led to three, to re-learn what is important in life. Reeling from the stress of life as a dual-career, baby-boomer couple with a young daughter, her and her husband decided to give up a successful life lacking in sanity. They left the house cleaner and gardener behind, along with the SUVs, moving instead to a small village in the south of France. Suzanne tells the story full of emotion of what it took to create the dream, plan the dream, make it a reality, live the dream fully, rejoice in what you have been able to create and continue on the journey as life evolves.

Through their story, Suzanne lays out the 7 key elements to making a dream come true, embracing the dream, and moving on to the next dream. These seven key steps will get you started in changing your lifestyle, moving to another country, starting a business, or taking a once in a lifetime vacation. Anything is possible if you are committed and are willing to do what it takes.

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5 Magical Things You Can Do Immediately
to Recapture Family Time

With the joy of children come new responsibilities, more activities, demands on your time, obligations to juggle, and fewer hours for just enjoying the family. One day we wake up and wonder what all went wrong? How did we get so busy? Why do we struggle and have to schedule days or even weeks ahead a simple family conversation and some leisure time? How do we take back what is rightfully ours -- our families and loved ones!

In our over achievement oriented culture we have to make some important choices if we want to preserve and recapture family time. If not, it will easily continue to slip away and before you know it, your children will be grown and living on their own.

Based on the forthcoming book, Courage and Croissants, Finding a New Way, co-written with her husband, Dr. Suzanne will share the five magical choices that the French make in order to preserve quality family time that they are so well known for.

Five magical choices can make an enormous difference in recapturing the love and joy of a family and provide everlasting joie de vivre for you and your family.