Meg Soper

Unique Presentations to Inspire and Laugh
Meg’s emergence as a thought leader on humor as a tool for personal resilience and positive work culture has been shaped by her varied life experiences – as a stand-up comic, operating room nurse, mother, and now as a motivational humorist.

She combines her collective experiences to offer her audiences compelling ideas for self-improvement, while providing the opportunity for us to see the lighter side of life.

Customized Keynotes and Workshops
Whether your focus is team building, dealing with change, or celebrating diversity in the workplace, we will customize a presentation to fit your needs!

Conflict Management Workshop
Preserving Your Last Nerve

Workshop Takeaways

• Learn to identify the primary sources of conflict.
• Gain insights to identify and distinguish the five different conflict handling styles using the Hiam Dealing with Conflict instrument.
• Learn the tendencies and challenges presented by each of the five conflict handling styles.
• Better understand your conflict handling style and learn how to flex that style to become more effective in communicating with others.
• Identify the key elements of a successful conversation leading to an improved ability to navigate difficult conversations.
• Participants will leave this workshop equipped with practical techniques and strategies to help them manage and resolve conflict effectively, creating a healthier, happier, and more productive workplace environment.

Workshop Format

• Provide an in-depth look at each conflict style, with more time devoted to aspects of conflict resolution, conflict management, and dealing with different Personality Styles.
• Use interactive exercises to emphasize key teaching points.
• Share laughter and positive energy with participants.
• End the day with a high energy team building exercise.

Loosen Up with Laughter Keynote Presentation
Humor is One Size Fits All

Meg’s experience in stand-up comedy shines through in this hilarious exploration of life, connection and the power of laughter. In this presentation she takes aim at the serious issue of stress in our lives, encouraging us to reframe and refocus when life doesn’t go according to plan.

Whether you’re starting out in your career, facing the perils of middle age or juggling the many balls of life, Meg will demonstrate how to find levity in pretty much any situation. Run some of Meg’s pithy, stress-relieving ideas up the flagpole and learn to embrace her philosophy that “life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”

You will leave feeling enlightened, energized, and entertained.

The Heart of the Presentation – This presentation sheds a humorous light on the stresses of everyday life and helps the audience bolster resilience and bounce back from stress.

Key Takeaways

• Learn strategies to bolster personal resilience and deal with change
• Learn mindfulness techniques to give your brain a boost and maintain a positive mindset
• Become more adept at using both sides of your brain
• Gain awareness of the energy we bring with us to work and life
• Strengthen your team bond by using humor and sharing laughter together
• This presentation is an ideal fit for after dinner or as lighthearted entertainment to open or close a conference and will leave your audience feeling uplifted and energized.

Positive Workplace Culture Presentation
Wait What? A Positive Workplace Culture? Let’s Do This!

It’s simple: we need to be effective communicators, whether on the front line or in a leadership role. Workplace and personal challenges call for effective communication or bust.

Wait What? Let’s Do This! is a high energy, interactive presentation that explores the key elements of a positive work culture. Meg examines how emotions, perceptions, and preconceived ideas can impact our day-to-day interactions with others. In particular, she explores the impact of shifting demographics as millennials emerge as the dominant cohort in today’s workforce.

Meg has designed the presentation with the belief that a positive work environment is created when we mentor, support, and inspire the people on our team. It is the diversity that makes us better and stronger together.

The Heart of the Presentation – This presentation focuses on creating a positive workplace culture and collaborating across the generations.

Key Takeaways

• Gain insight into formative events that shaped each generation.
• Gain insight into the tendencies and behaviors of the different generations.
• Understand the sources of friction among the generations and learn strategies for resolution.
• Learn how to more effectively communicate, motivate, and gain cooperation with others.
• Learn the 4 key elements of creating a positive work culture.

Choosing Between Keynote or Workshop Format – The keynote version is typically 60 minutes in duration, while the workshop typically runs from 90-120 minutes. Depending on the client’s wishes and time allotment, the presentation could include:

• Opening networking exercise to get people mixing and energized.
• A deep dive into the tendencies and behaviours of each generation to solidify understanding.
• Team based exercises to emphasize key teaching points.
  Interactive communication exercise to end the session.
• Participants will leave entertained, energized, and inspired about creating and maintaining a positive work culture.

Teamwork & Collaboration Presentation
Better Together! Personality Styles in the Workplace

Is your team working at its full potential? Bring your people together as Meg adds laughter and energy to the topic of teamwork and dealing with different personalities in the workplace.

Better Together demonstrates that going it alone is not an option in today’s workplace as Meg serves up inspirational ideas on teamwork and collaboration that will boost the morale and effectiveness of your organization’s teams. Those attending will gain a better understanding of each other’s challenges and unique qualities, helping to enhance relationships both at work and at home.

The Heart of the Presentation – This presentation focuses on enhancing our communication skills through a better understanding of the four different personality types based on the DiSC model of human behavior.

Key Takeaways

• Learn the key attributes of high performing teams.
• Gain insight into the DiSC model of human behavior and learn to identify the different personality styles in the workplace.
• Learn the strengths and limitations of each of the personality styles.
• Understand your preferences for dealing with conflict to “flex your style” and better communicate, motivate, and gain cooperation with others.
• Identify key elements of a successful conversation to gain awareness about how shifting our perspective can help strengthen relationships.
• Learn how mindful and effective communication can create a positive work culture.

Participants will leave armed with practical strategies geared toward a healthier, happier, and more productive work environment.

Presentation Format

• Provide an in-depth look at the tendencies of the four personality styles using the DiSC model to better understand the behavior of others.
• Use interactive exercises to emphasize positive communication skills and their impact on work culture.
• Use humor and positive energy to bring home the message that the best teams are made up of diverse individuals.
• There is also the option to open the session with a networking exercise designed to get people mixing and energized or end the day with a high energy team building exercise.

Work-Life Balance and Resilience Presentation
Work-Life Balance? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!

This presentation brings interactive humor to the subject of resilience, recognizing that finding life balance is a journey – not a destination. Managing all the demands and priorities on our time can prove to be overwhelming.

Meg offers a humorous perspective on the serious matter of dealing with stress and encouraging us to be mindful of how we allocate our mental and physical energy so we can bounce back from challenge and adversity, and find the confidence needed to handle whatever comes our way.

Work Life Balance? You’ve Got to be Kidding! will inspire, entertain, and leave audience members with strategies to benefit our health and self-confidence, as well as strengthen relationships at work and at home.

The Heart of the Presentation – This presentation focuses on how we can use humor, mindfulness, and positive energy to find more balance, bolster our resilience, and improve our mental health.

Key Takeaways

• Learn about the HPR Sauce – Humor, Passion, and Resilience to thrive personally and professionally.
• Explore Meg’s “Key Elements of Life” model to map strategies for how we allocate our energy to relationships, career, mind, body, and soul.
• Understand how nutrition and exercise can bolster personal resilience.
• Learn methods to achieve greater control of our mental energy and engage both the creative and analytical sides of our brain.
• Learn the MMB Challenge – Mini-Mindful Breaks to give your brain a boost.
• Gain understanding about specific stress reducing and mindfulness strategies.

Choosing Between Keynote or Workshop Format

The keynote version is typically 45-60 minutes in duration, while the workshop typically runs from 90-180 minutes. The workshop offers a deeper exploration of the subject, and may also include:

• A networking exercise.
• An in-depth exploration of Meg’s “Key Elements of Life.”
• Interactive and engaging exercises to emphasize key teaching points.
  Goal setting strategies to identify and achieve your objectives.
• Interactive and engaging exercises to emphasize key teaching points.
• Participants leave entertained and armed with a number of strategies to enhance their life experience and maintain a sense of balance.

Virtual Presentations

In recent years we have seen change and disruption unlike any time in memory. Now more than ever we need to tap our inner reserves of resilience to ensure that we have the mindset, positive energy and inspiration to answer to the challenges we must face.

If your meetings or conferences have been cancelled as a result of the pandemic and if your organization yearns for laughter, connection, and learning, Meg offers Virtual Keynote and Workshop presentations that offer instant, live stream video communication via the online portal of your preference. Why, it’s the next best thing to having Meg right in your own living room – only she happens to be in her own living room!

“The Secret Sauce: Thriving in Times of Change”
Now more than ever, we need a reason to laugh!

Meg has designed this Keynote to deliver a much needed lift to organizations who are being called on to adapt to accelerating change in a time of great uncertainty. In her dynamic and engaging style, Meg shares ideas on how we can use humor, passion, and resilience to navigate change and perform at our highest level no matter what challenges we encounter.

Using experiences from her career as an O.R. nurse, Meg will demonstrate how we can use mindfulness techniques to help us build our resilience, shift our perspective and lead us to be more effective in our roles while building healthier and stronger relationships with the people we work with and those who we serve.

This presentation will entertain, inspire, and provide your team with tools they can use to bolster their resilience, self-awareness and inter-personal relationships.

Keynote Objectives
1. Learn about the HPR Sauce – Humor, Passion and Resilience to manage change and thrive.

2. Gain greater control over how we respond to stress and challenge; demonstrate how we can ‘Shift our Perspective’ to be emotionally resilient.

3. Learn about mindfulness techniques to give our ‘Brain a Boost’ and to help us stay present in our interactions with others.

4. Offer strategies to help improve personal resilience so that we are better able to manage change and maintain a positive mindset.

5. Share laughter and positive energy together!

“Better Together…Personality Styles in the Workplace”

Is your team working at its full potential? Let’s face it – high functioning teams are more important than ever as we deal with all the challenges of Covid 19. So, if you are not be able to gather in person, try out the next best thing: Meg’s hilarious and high energy interactive workshop on personality styles and teamwork.

The “Better Together” workshop demonstrates that going it alone is not an option in today’s workplace environment, even when you can’t get to the office and have to work alone! In this session, Meg serves up inspirational ideas on teamwork and collaboration that will increase the awareness, effectiveness and the morale of your organization’s teams.

Warning! This workshop is not for the faint of heart! Participants will be expected to participate, identify their own personality style and then spend time exploring the virtues and vices of their style!

Participants will gain a better understanding of each other’s challenges and unique qualities, helping to enhance relationships both at work and at home.