Testimonials

"Eileen is “knock your socks off amazing.” Eileen is located in Orange County and spoke at our dinner meeting. NAWBO-OC is tough audience…. A really tough audience.She wowed the entire group. The buzz after included “she is the best speaker we have ever had” . Her delivery is superb. Her content is rich, funny and powerful. She is genuine, authentic and compelling. During her presentation the group was riveted and after was full of energy."

– NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS

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"Awesome. Dynamic. Memorable. Impactful. Strategic. Energetic. Passionate..

​I could go on and on to describe the motivational speeches and workshops by Eileen McDargh.

Eileen has the extraordinary skill of delivering key messages that are tailored to meet the unique needs of her audience…She does this through truly getting to know the organization and the audience well in advance and intense preparation to understand the objectives of her clients. I was impressed by how she weaves in references specific to the client audience in her speeches that make the audience really feel she knows and understands their needs.

Eileen’s key note speech themes are current, provocative and agile to help small and major businesses manage organization changes, understand dynamics of industry business challenges and develop better people management skills. She is a dynamic key note speaker and I have seen her first hand in front of small groups of 50 -100 as well as larger 500+ audience where she holds the attention of everyone in the room. That is no easy task in this current multi-device need-it-now culture!

At our organization we were so impressed with Eileen’s key note speech, we invited her back to develop and tailor smaller workshops for our individual business units and employee relations groups to help us effectively integrate and manage people through organizational matrix and break down vertically-managed businesses.

Eileen McDargh is a partner that an organization or group should utilize beyond her dynamic and effective key note speeches- she can be a partner to help in people development and foster organizational effectiveness and growth."

– ADRIENNE JAKSON

Director, Field Force Integration, NPC

"It was a pleasure working with you and having you at the ACCCA conference. We received great verbal feedback on your presentation and look forward to seeing the results of the online survey to attendees. Your passion and energy level are both contagious and enviable!"

– TRACY LEGGIO NEWELL

CMP, CMM

"On behalf of the NAHQ I want to thank you for your utterly fabulous keynote presentation at our 25th Anniversary Educational Conference in Dallas on September 19th. The feedback we received on the evaluations, as well as by word-of-mouth, about your session “Engaging the Spirit in the Workplace” was remarkable. We knew the audience (of about 1,000) loved you when immediately after your presentation, about 200 people lined up to purchase your book and have you autograph it. The session was lively, thought provoking, funny and inspiring. The way you personalized it for our group was clearly evident, and very much appreciated by the members. You really did your homework!"

– NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTHCARE QUALITY

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"We were especially impressed that you took the time to join us for most of our event, acquainting yourself with members of our team, and with your ability to incorporate our key leadership points into the message you delivered. Your address reinforced the important part each of our leaders plays in engaging and retaining our most valuable resource; our employees."

– BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA

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"I did not want another day to go by without sending you my sincerest thanks for a job well done at our association's annual convention. As you know, the keynote speaker plays such an important role in a convention-setting the state for a positive experience for all in attendance. You were not only excellent to work with in advance but onsite you were prompt and easy to work with. The best part of all - YOU DELIVERED! Your message was on target, and our members are still raving about your presentation!"

– MINNESOTA HEALTH & HOUSING ALLIANCE

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"We were thrilled to have Eileen speak at our annual women's symposium! We have a new theme for the event each year and Eileen was able to customize her presentation to it and even make some 'on the fly' changes the day of the event to incorporate some of the concepts we shared before the attendees arrived! She is heart-felt and gentle as well as fun and humorous. She made us giggle. She made us think. She made us cry. She gave us encouragement, wisdom, motivation and inspiration. It was a joy to work with her from the moment we hired her through the standing ovation she received from the attendees the day of the event!"

– SHONNA JORDAN

Marketing and Production Manager, Sheila McDonnell's WIBS 2012

"From our first telephone conversation, I knew you would do an outstanding job and you lived up to our expectations! I was most impressed by the amount of homework you did in order to customize your program to our needs. You showed great flexibility when the topic shifted and changed as we approached the meeting. It was not easy to come up with a program that would please both employees and their spouses, but you managed to do so beautifully. Most importantly, the spouses left feeling that they had been included in the World Savings “family”.

– WORLD SAVINGS

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"As a result of your work, the senior leadership team walked away as a cohesive unit, re-energized and more hopeful. We are committed to a new future which we now own. You helped us learn how to be resilient change masters."

– STANISLAUS COUNTY, CA

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"Eileen is a consummate professional, full of energy, and a pleasure to work with. She spent almost a full day with the group before she ever spoke and interacted with a number of different attendees during that time. Her willingness to get to know the organization and her interest in doing so is the exception not the rule. Her customization of the presentation to the group truly made the difference and made her message that more impactful! If resiliency is your topic, Eileen is the one to deliver it!"

– TRACY NEWELL, CMP, CMM

President Meetingwise, LLC & Association of California Community Colleges Meeting Planner

"It was truly a pleasure to meet you! You are a high energy person and you bring that energy to your presentations to keep the audience with you all the way. Thank you for closing our Honor Council/MART meeting in Cabo San Lucas on a high note and with some great quotes!"

– THE PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP

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"You are a natural with people and surely practice what you preach! Eileen, your caring and genuine interest in listening to the experiences everyone shared during your time with us in Atlanta, brought you closer to the Subway culture. Your dynamic general session followed by an eager group in your breakout earned you rave reviews in the surveys that followed. It was apparent that you spent the time to learn so much about our franchisees and how our system operates."

– SUBWAY

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"It was a great year for TPA. Your presence at our annual meeting was certainly part of that. Great job! Hope our paths cross again in the future."

– TEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION

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"Well what can I say? You are terrific!! I want to truly thank you for your time, effort and huge talent displayed at the HR conference last week. Our staff, advisory group, and most importantly, our attendees, were raving at the message and the messenger. It is so refreshing to work with someone who takes the time to truly know the group she is speaking to. Personally, I also want to thank you for being so easy to work with and the extraordinary efforts you took to ease my mind when travel became interesting!! You are the best!!""

– NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION

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"Eileen McDargh is one of the stalwarts in the world of leadership speakers. Knowledgeable, experienced, and ethical, she has a reputation for building meaningful relationships with her clients and, thereby, precisely meeting their needs. She is a model that all speakers -- not just those in the leadership field -- should look at and emulate."

– SONDRA THIEDERMAN, PH.D.

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"This is to thank you for a wonderful session to close the 74th annual Blue Ridge Institute for Southern Community Service Executives. I knew it was going to be great, by all the advance enthusiasm others had shared after hearing you in other contexts. But you more than realized that anticipation! First of all, you have a gift for connecting with others, which comes from a place of genuine caring. It is reflected in your ability to get to know people quickly and remember who they are: not a common gift! In addition, your energy and enthusiasm make listening to you a delight! You truly believe in what you are sharing, and you make it real for your audience as well. It was a pleasure to be a recipient of your energy! But these would not be sufficient without the true heart of the message itself: you have an important message for us to hear. In this overcrowded, hectic and complex world, people are experiencing overload and imbalance in our lives. This makes us less than effective as leaders, at a time when energetic and committed leaders have never been in more demand. That is the true gift you gave us to take from the mountain: to get into balance, to take care of ourselves, and to be recharged and recommitted to tilt at our daily windmills in a world in need of our work."

– ANNUAL BLUE RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITY SERVICE EXECUTIVES

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"What a difference it made to have you moderate the Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) Mentoring Panel discussion at the recent National Restaurant Show! The feedback we’ve received has been outstanding and your facilitation of the session was a major key to its success. Here are the reasons why: you took time to really understand the WFF and what we wanted to achieve in this panel discussion. You did your homework! You came up with a super idea of actually marketing the panel to our members AND not only wrote the marketing copy, but created an e-mail letter that sought areas of concern from all our members. You condensed the response and developed themes. You organized the responses and developed the themes. You organized our panelists in advance, giving them clear directions and questions. That’s not an easy task when we had such “heavy hitters” in the industry sitting on the panel. You made it fun for everyone and engaged the participants. You brought your own wisdom to the table and wove threads around what the different panelists said. You helped us look like heroes to our members. Besides all of the great work and assistance you provided, you were a complete pleasure to work with. Your energy and enthusiasm are contagious. I couldn’t have done it without your help."

– WOMEN’S FOODSERVICE FORUM (WFF)

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"You did an outstanding job and we are very pleased with how the entire event went. You were very fun and engaging with both audiences. You did a great job adapting to information on-site. You were a great highlight for General Session. We heard a lot of feedback from people reciting some of your tips and ideas along the way. We continue to reflect on those things in leader calls and our field communication."

– KATHIE WINSCHER

National Training Director, Creative Memories

"You appearance at our 7th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference was a wonderful way to kick off the day. Your energy and enthusiasm was catching. Your personal message about life and living is a subject women respond to so positively. Your sincerity is communicated to the audience and we know from the evaluations that they were moved."

– INSTITUTE FOR CAREER ADVANCEMENT NEEDS (ICAN)

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"Eileen it was wonderful to see how you connected with the audience and the panelists and brought them out to dance…so to speak. Merry, Sara and Diana, the audience was able to connect to you through your stories, relate that information to their own situations and think about how they could advance their own Lead-her-ship styles."

– JANE C. ANDREWS, PH.D

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