Kim MacGregor
Kim MacGregor is an international award winning publisher, author and inspirational speaker. She draws on the lessons learned through her personal experiences with adversity to inspire and motivate audiences. Through her own life stories, she demonstrates the power of the human spirit to overcome seemingly insurmountable challenges and find meaning.
After a successful career in marketing and licensing, Kim's first child was born with a life- threatening condition. Compelled to shift her focus and direction to create more meaningful work, Kim began writing books as a cathartic expression of hope and optimism. In 2001, with an endorsement secured by super star Celine Dion, she wrote and published two books, one of which became a best seller. Her most recent work, Be…a Woman: Expressions of Life, won an international publishing award.
Kim speaks with humor, honesty and unwavering passion. She is committed to inspiring people to achieve their goals, fulfill their dreams, and shift perceptions of the adversity we all experience in life. She will ignite your audience.
Topic Categories
- Motivation, Inspiration
- Personal Empowerment/Mastery
- Philanthropy, Fundraising
Accomplishments
- Both of Kim's children's books have raised substantial funds to help to find a cure for the childhood condition cystic fibrosis (CF) that affects her eldest daughter.
- Inspired by the grace and courage of her dear friend Erika Heller, who lost her battle with cancer at 31, Kim launched a grassroots campaign to unite one million women around the world by recognizing amazing everyday heroes in our life.
Key Notes
Fee Range: 5,000 to 5,000 CDN Lives In: Toronto, OntarioVideos
Books
Presentation Titles
Kim's empowering message helps people be their best by shifting their perceptions of themselves and their challenges to discover their greatest potential to affect positive change in the world on a small or large scale - at work and at home. Her message transforms people's interpretation of their situations and experiences in life, causing them to reflect, re-evaluate and take action in the areas of self, relationships, career, team-building, and social change:
- How Failure can Fuel you --
In a world that focuses on power, success and money, it's easy to get set back by the first taste of failure. No matter how we identify ourselves - entrepreneur, struggling author, sales executive or a student - chances are pretty good that we will encounter failure somewhere along our journeys. Sharing her humorous, long list of failures, and weaving in stories of famous rejections, Kim illustrates the power failure holds and how it can be used to energize, strategize and refuel our determination to reach our goals. She’ll share how failure creates resilience, and strengthens our resolve to succeed. She demystifies the negative slant failure has by revealing the truth about its hidden power - something to embrace, learn from, and ultimately use as a launching pad for success.
- Living your Legacy: Inspiring Action --
"What legacy are you living?" This one question can inspire a complete shift in how you think, feel and live your life. How we spend our time and the choices we make each day create our legacy; yet far too often, we don’t think about how we’re making a measurable difference. Kim inspires her audience to consider living life differently – by taking a look at how we currently live, what choices are made, what difference we are creating and how we will be remembered long after we are gone. With thought provoking questions and personal stories, she demonstrates how we can create our own "living legacy." Kim takes her audience on a journey from where they are to where they want to be-demonstrating that it all begins with believing in the power of possibility.
- Our Great Big "Buts" --
In this keynote, Kim discusses the elusive quality of happiness and success and why even though they are our greatest desire, the biggest thing that holds us back is our great big "buts!" With a mix of humor and honesty, Kim shows how negative thinking patterns keep us stuck, repeating phrases like: "I want to be happy BUT I have no money"; "I want to be happy BUT I am overweight"; "I want to reach my sales goals BUT I just can't break through". She shares five strategies for refocusing and achieving our goals, taking the emphasis off of our great big, self-limiting "BUTS."
- Tapping into the Power Within: Achieving Success through Perception, Passion and Perseverance --
It's not what happens to you in life, but how you respond to what happens that determines your outcome. Kim shares her inspiring and often humorous stories of dealing with change by referencing the three P's that have gotten her through – perception, passion and perseverance. Her powerful story is proof that anything can be achieved with focus on the 3 P's: an adjustment to your perception of the situation, how to tap into and leverage an unwavering passion and belief in achieving your goals, and the perseverance to carry you through the ups and downs along the way to realizing your dreams. This uplifting and entertaining speech is one of Kim's most popular. Perfect for motivating a sales team, a charity group or a university crowd.
- WHY Me?: Finding Purpose in Change! --
Things will always happen in life – jobs will come and go, marriages will get bumpy, kids will misbehave, people we love will die. Kim shows how to survive a crisis and transform it into a catalyst for positive change. She shows people how to sort out what has happened and find meaning in our experiences. She takes her audience on a journey that offers ways to: go from tears to cheers; focus on the WHY rather than the ME – when we find ourselves asking "WHY ME?"; find meaning from seeming tragedy and change; summon the strength, resources and people to help us get through; use what has happened to make a difference in the world. Using her own stories of overcoming health issues, personal loss, hardship and financial challenges, Kim inspires her audience to view change in a completely different way, helping them to regain control, find passion and purpose in their lives, and achieve their goals.
Testimonials
- "Kim MacGregor's empowering presentation will connect with your audience on many levels. She is truly inspiring and one of today's most captivating and spiritually uplifting speakers."<br> -- Martin Dorie, North American Regional Director, International Child Welfare Foundation.
- "Kim delivers a powerful and inspiring message of triumph over adversity. She motivates her audience to believe we all have the ability to overcome any odds with passion and persistence."<br> -- Daniela Chiasson, Sr. Marketing Manager, HBC (Hudson Bay Company)
- "Kim is an excellent speaker. In every presentation, the audience connects with Kim and her personal story. Kim inspires everyone in the room with her positive, can-do attitude. She empowers her audience to do the best that they can do to support and change their community for the better."<br> -- Julie Cookson, Chief Operating Officer, Director Development, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation