Psychologist, author, keynote speaker, business consultant, and facilitator, Maria Arapakis has over 20 years of experience with top companies, associations, and organizations around the world. She has presented more than 2,000 programs internationally on leadership, sales skills, personal power, life balance, stress reduction, effective communication, and attitude management with groups ranging in size from 100 to 10,000. To date, she has spoken to approximately 500,000 people world wide.
Maria's Dream-Driven Leadership programs bring your people a constellation of powerful, practical experiential learning events. Through firsthand demonstration of principles of empowerment and participation, these sessions instill positive, lasting changes in your leaders' attitudes, actions, teamwork, and relationships.
Her book, SoftPower! How to Speak Up, Set Limits, and Say No, received critical acclaim and was highly praised by noted authors Wayne Dyer and M. Scott Peck.
Maria has appeared on CNN, Today Show, Geraldo Rivera, and numerous talk shows.
Through an alliance with CareerTrack Seminars, Maria developed a one-day seminar, "Confidence, Composure, Competence," that was presented internationally to tens of thousands of people by a team of professionals she trained. Her live presentation of this program in Atlanta has sold over 100,000 copies as a six-tape audio album.
For the last ten years, much of Maria's work has been with people who own home-based, direct-selling businesses. Check Maria's special message for testimonials from direct-selling executives. Over 90% of SoftPower clients schedule follow-up bookings after Maria's initial work with their people.
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Maria Arapakis - Motivational Speaker
