TOPIC
AREAS INCLUDE:
- Telework
- Telecommuting
- Work at home jobs
- Work at home careers
- Work at home mothers
- Internet fraud
- Work at home fraud
- The workplace of the
future
- Entrepreneurship
- Microentrepreneurship
- Emerging workforce trends
- Virtual Assistants
- Outsourcing
- Leveraging the media to
grow your business
- The Slow Movement
- Career-development
training
- Distributed workforce
- Remote workers
- Retirement jobs
- Work-life balance
- Finding or creating
home-based work arrangements
- Regaining "farm family"
values in a suburbanized world
- Making a big media splash
on a shoestring budget
- Personal empowerment
- Marketing your freelance
services
- Motivation
- “Guilty
parenting”
- Becoming a "Rat Race
Rebel"
- “Anatomy of a
scam” – Spotting scams in the work at home arena
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SPEAKERS FOR YOUR EVENT
Book Michael Haaren or Christine
Durst for Your Next Event
Bestselling authors and leaders in the work-at-home and
entrepreneurship arena, Mike and Chris can inspire and inform your
audience on a variety of topics.
Together, Mike and Chris developed groundbreaking virtual-work and
entrepreneurship training programs for such clients as the US
Department of State, Air Force, Army, and many more. A small sampling
of their frequent media appearances includes The Dr. Oz Show,
ABC News 20/20,
CNN, The Tyra Banks Show,
The Wall
Street Journal, BusinessWeek,
Forbes,
and radio shows across the US.
Mike, who grew up in a log cabin in rural Virginia, went on to become a
Wall Street attorney and corporate growth advisor, and has lived and
traveled extensively abroad. Chris, who founded the Virtual Assistant
industry circa 1995 and appears regularly on CNN, grew up on a small
farm in rural Connecticut, where she learned invaluable lessons in
real-world entrepreneurship.
Mike and Chris share their knowledge of virtual work and work / life
balance at Staffcentrix-owned website www.RatRaceRebellion.com,
a popular free source of screened home-based jobs and related
resources.
Mike and Chris have also delivered their message to a wide range of
audiences across the US and in Europe, including:
- United Nations Division for Social
Policy and Development
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- The President's Committee on
Employment of People With Disabilities
- Small Business Administration
- Association of Job Search Trainers
- Department of Defense Spouse
Employment Conference
- National Association of REALTORS
- Presidential Task Force on
Employment of Adults with Disabilities
- Department of Labor's Workforce
Innovations Conference
- US Air Force Europe
- US Department of State
- Families In Global Transition
Conference
- Community Colleges
- The Aging Workforce Summit
(sponsored by Microsoft)
- Numerous US military installations
POPULAR PRESENTATIONS & PROGRAMS
"Home-Based
Career & Telework Jobs Development Program™"
With so many scams in the work-at-home arena, it's hard for job seekers
to know how to find and land legitimate jobs, and how to avoid the con
artists.
Based on our bestselling book Work
at Home Now, this 5-6 hour program will teach
participants to:
- Determine if they are a good
candidate for home-based work;
- Conduct effective home-based job
searches online;
- Use search terms that really work;
- Find
“telework-friendly” companies that routinely hire
home-based workers;
- Recognize common scams and ripoffs;
- Customize their resume to make
them a more appealing “remote” hire;
- Work effectively with children in
the house;
- Understand the differences between
working as an employee and a contractor.
"Stubbing
Your Toe on the Moon"
A program for entrepreneurs who are reaching for the stars! This
inspirational program delivers pearls of wisdom (and words of wit)
gathered by Chris and Mike as they launched and grew Staffcentrix and
mentored/trained over 7,500 entrepreneurs from 65+ countries around the
world. A perfect topic for prospective and practicing entrepreneurs who
need to be reminded that "stubbing
your toe on the moon" is a far greater accomplishment than
never having reached for the stars at all.
“Let
the Magic Begin”
Developed for middle and high school students, this speech is based on
the concept that entrepreneurs are the artists and magicians of the
business world. It inspires younger audiences to embrace their
entrepreneurial side and remember that there’s more to life
than
the rat race! It gently points out that conventional jobs and career
paths are but one option in the working world. “When we keep
our
creative flame alive we can transform our lives and those of others,
and bring positive changes to the world we all
share.”
"Making a
Living & Having a Life"
This interactive program challenges the audience to disregard the
"success yardstick" imposed on us by society and to define success on
their own terms. Inspirational anecdotes and practical exercises help
participants determine what their core values are, so they can build a
"whole life" approach to making a life – and a living. After
all,
it's not about "having it all"; it's about "having it good"!
Living
Leaving the *DISTINCTIVE Lifestyle
First, there were “Yuppies” (young, urban
professionals),
next came the “Dinks” (dual income, no kids), who
were
followed by the “Sitcoms” (single income, two
children,
oppressive mortgage).
Just when you thought demographic acronyms had become a thing of the
past, you now find yourself sitting in a sea of commuter traffic,
surrounded by expensive cars with vanity plates and cell phone-wielding
drivers behind every steering wheel. These are the *DISTINCTIVEs - Dual Income Striving To Impress Neighbors & Co-workers yet Tormented by Increasing Vexation & Emptiness.
Our "Leaving the DISTINCTIVE Lifestyle™" presentation takes a
tongue-in-cheek look at the growing “mall, sprawl and
crawl” of contemporary America. It’s loaded with
provocative facts, opinions, and questions about what happens when valuables take
precedence over values.
Ultimately, the program is delivered with a reassuring tone that
invites audience members – "Distinctives" and otherwise
–
to laugh at themselves, and will leave them feeling confident of their
ability to choose the life path that is best for them.
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