Karen Gridley

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Karen Gridley is the excuse removal expert™, converting excuses into productivity, performance and profits! Expert

Karen Gridley Quick Facts

Main Areas: Leading people to take control of their business and their life.
Best Sellers: Embrace Your Rights!
Career Focus: Speaker, Author, Coach
Affiliation: NSA, NAWBO

Karen Gridley is the excuse removal expert™. She leads people to take control of their business and their life as she exposes the excuses that prevent problem solving and block success. As a Recovering Excuse Maker™ herself, Karen gives practical tools for people to own their choices and their outcomes, professionally and personally.

Significant results you’ll learn include a shift from excuses, blaming, and justification to productivity, effectiveness, and accountability. Dealing with issues in business or in life, her principles shed light on how to be more productive, effective and accountable.

Karen works with companies, associations and individuals that want to remove excuses, improve performance, achieve goals, and increase the bottom line.

Other Programs & Highlights

Some of Karen's Topics Include...

Excuse Free Success: Winning by Losing!

Want to win at life? Everybody does . . . until they realize you first have to lose. Lose your excuses! Winning is a process achieved only by losing what isn’t working. Successful habits cannot take root as long as ineffective habits reign.

In this empowering and practical session Karen Gridley reveals why habits are a blessing and a curse and how to maximize them. She establishes the criteria to Embrace Your Rights to achieve the life desired – and Deserved! In addition, Karen unveils the road maps of an excuse maker and a recovering excuse maker.

Whether initially aware or unaware of their excuses, attendees are inspired and experience a paradigm shift with the strategic applications Karen provides to overcome barriers to a balanced, fulfilling life.

Excuse Free Stress Management: Shatter Stress Before it Shatters You!

Feeling STRESSED? Stress is too often the scapegoat for an unhappy life and the inability to sustain motivation and effectiveness. The reality is that stress is a very individualized response and can be conquered.

In this engaging and thought provoking workshop, Karen Gridley examines major stressors and how they affect everyone. She reveals 5 simple Stress Transformers to incorporate into daily life. In addition, Karen awakens people to take a hard, honest look at themselves and their lives.

Whether your people are experiencing sudden or long term stressful feelings, participants leave enlightened and empowered with information and insights Karen delivers.

Excuse Free Communication: Dealing with People You Think You Could Do Without!

Challenged communicating with certain individuals? Effective communication is essential in all aspects of life and in everything we do.

In this insightful and entertaining workshop, Karen Gridley exposes how the people you think you could do without are your gifts. She breaks the barriers of understanding and improving communication skills. In addition, Karen eliminates the excuses that typically derail effective rapport.

Whether a savvy or a bewildered professional, or simply looking to solve the mystery of people’s interactions, attendees gain perspectives and leave refocused with necessary tools for successful communication.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Karen Gridley

Removing Excuses is What Helps You Solve Your Problems and Achieve Success!

Removing Excuses is about broadening your perspective, tapping into the power within and taking control of your outcomes. Taking control of your outcomes doesn’t eliminate problems. Taking control of your outcomes allows you to face adversity as a bump in the road and succeed anyway.

If it’s working for you, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, change it!

- Karen Gridley

Getting Started With Karen Gridley

Karen is an inspiring, dynamic and thought-provoking speaker, life coach and author. Her personable and humorous approach combined with the natural ability to get people to honestly face the person in the mirror makes Karen one-of-a-kind in her field. She touches people’s hearts as she provides guiding principles to explore endless possibilities. She works with companies, associations and individuals that want to remove excuses, improve performance, achieve goals, and increase the bottom line.

To learn more about Karen, please view her video on her website at www.karengridley.com or her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/karengridley. You may also follow her on Twitter for tips and updates @KarenGridley. For more thought-provoking articles, please feel free to sign up for her newsletter at www.karengridley.com.