Bonnie Marcus
Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., CEC, is a Certified Executive Coach, author, and expert in self-promotion. Bonnie’s unique focus is to assist professional men and women to understand their value proposition and how to best communicate their value to others in order to advance their careers and build their businesses.
With over 20 years of sales and management experience, Bonnie has an extensive business background including CEO of a ServiceMaster company and VP of Sales at Medical Staffing Network. She has held executive positions in startup companies and Fortune 500 companies, and is the founder and principal of Women’s Success Coaching.
Bonnie’s style is warm, engaging and inspirational. She has recently presented at the Harvard Business School’s Dynamic Women in Business Conference, The Massachusetts Conference for Women, MIT, NYU, and other prestigious organizations on issues related to assertive communication, strategic networking, and self-promotion.
Topic Categories
- Creativity, Innovation
- Entrepreneurs, Networking
- Executive Insights
- Personal Empowerment/Mastery
- Career Planning, Reinvention
Accomplishments
- Bonnie has 25 years of business experience including CEO of a ServiceMaster Company VP of Sales at Medical Staffing Network and two other software companies.
- She is the founder and former President of Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Network.
- Bonnie is a contributing writer for Forbes Woman and her website was selected by Forbes as one of the Top 100 Websites for Professional Women in 2010 and 2011.
- Bonnie has also been published in Women Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, and Midlands Business.
In Her Words
It is important to project a confident image. People associate confidence with competence.
Key Notes
Fee Range: 3,500 to 5,000 Lives In:Books
Presentation Titles
- Ditch the Pitch. A New Approach to Self Promotion --
How do you attract clients if your elevator pitch falls flat? This presentation introduces a fresh new approach to elevator speeches that will forever change the way to promote yourself and your business. It’s guaranteed to deliver more clients, more referrals, and more interest in your product or services.
- GPS Your Career: Navigate Your Way to Career Success --
This presentation helps attendees to create and maintain a strategic course and take control of their careers. How do you define your strengths and how do you communicate your value proposition to others? Who is in your web of influence and how can you use this network to advance your career? Learn specific and practical tips to promote yourself effectively.
- Let Go and Crow. The Power of Positive Self-Talk --
This topic, inspired by Peter Pan’s bravado, examines how positive self-talk can improve our self- esteem and self-confidence. The audience will enjoy this lively presentation. They will all be inspired to “toot their own horns” with confidence.
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Recreating the Fairy Tale --
Self-confidence is the key to a successful career, business and life. This is a new and delightful version of the fairy tale that inspires women to explore their own unique and wonderful qualities. Your audience will be thoroughly entertained, energized, and inspired to recognize their own greatness and rediscover the self-confidence of their childhood.
- Selling From Your Comfort Zone: How to Feel Comfortable with Self Promotion --
This presentation helps attendees to identify what negative beliefs they have about sales and self- promotion and assists them to create an authentic and comfortable approach to selling themselves and their services.
- Strategic Networking: How to Build and Leverage Critical Relationships to Advance Your Career --
This presentation stresses the importance of being strategic and intentional in today’s business environment and provides a structured approach to building and leveraging relationships for career advancement.
Testimonials
- “Bonnie, Thanks again for your presence and presentation this morning…it was great! It was wonderful to watch you create such great energy in the room.” -- David Curtis, President, The Community Bank
- “It is amazing to watch Bonnie in action. Her upbeat personality and energy level is contagious. The participants made a huge shift in energy and comfort level with self-promotion and sales and were ready to put it into action.” -- Debbie Bercume, President, Bercume Associates
- "Bonnie inspired a room full of young and aspiring women during Boston University's 85 Broads Spring Conference with her keynote to encourage women to "Step up and Own Your Success". Not only was she a dynamic speaker, she was also able to convey some strong messages that may push each generation of women to differentiate themselves better than the next! Through simple and quick exercises, Bonnie was able to get our audience to realize that finding a unique trait to pitch isn't as hard as we make it out to be." -- Ley Cheung, VP of Corporate Relations (Boston University School of Management Class of 2012)