Karen E. Purves, M.A., International Speaker

Welcome! Imagine a speaker who provides entertaining sessions filled with fresh, relevant, immediate take-aways. Visualize your audience energized, laughing and participating. Picture a session filled to capacity.  Award winning, Las Vegas based speaker Karen Purves has built a solid client base providing these results for 10 years!  What matters in ‘10? In tough times, effective communication is essential for gaining a competitive edge. As a communications expert, Karen shares immediately usable communication tips from prospecting to closing, from email to phone and in person, internally with staff or externally for customer service, sales or marketing.

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It’s a Dog Eat Dog World – Don’t Get Caught Wearing Milkbone Shorts - Got the right words? Laugh and learn in this high energy, fun-filled, humorous session offering the latest solutions in effective communication. What are you saying that’s causing your prospects and customers to scamper to your competition? Karen will tell you - and give you replacement words and phrases! Leave with an immediate, specific, action plan to talk smart, and achieve tail-wagging results!

Cat’s got your Tongue? Staying out of the Communication Doghouse – Are your words a pain in the ear? In this tough economy, it’s time to make the dough! What specific words and phrases bug your customers? Communication expert Karen knows, and she’ll share the language of results in this fast paced, fun and practical program. Take home new, fresh and innovative tips to immediately apply for business growth!

Perfect Pitch – How to Throw Strikes When Dealing With Men – BAM! Karen pairs her relatable, funny and energetic style with her original scientific research to offer attendees a unique, current, content-rich program on maximizing buy-in from men. This session offers the latest in cutting edge brain science and answers your questions on the best way to influence men in, or outside, your organization. Audience members will leave with 12 techniques to apply immediately to thrive in a challenging economy!

Develop Response Ability – Secrets to Getting Email Replies – Ever caught yourself saying “Whoops - Didn’t mean to send that!” Communication expert Karen has too! Laugh as you learn in this cutting edge, fast paced, jam packed session filled with practical tips. Karen shares easy, time-saving, proven solutions to make your emails stand out in the crowd and how she gets over a 90% response rate to her emails. Discover the details on writing a “cold email” to win new business and turn an email inquiry into a paying client. Less Yada, more moolah!

Wag More, Bark Less - Reducing Negativity in the Workplace - Deal with difficult people? Spend most of your day handling personality conflicts among staff or clients? Explore 14 different ways people express negativity and learn a tip for dealing with each one. You’ll learn effective skills on handling a broad spectrum of negative personality styles - and see how you can adjust your own attitude to help stay positive and improve organizational excellence! Receive tips on exactly what to say to whom, so you can go back to work and do something different immediately. After participating in this program attendees, on average, said their ability to handle negative situations in the workplace improved 28%. (60-90 minutes)

How is Karen Different?

Bold. Spunky. Credible.  Karen uses improv skills honed at The Second City (think: “Whose line is it anyway?”) to offer interactive, customized programs using audience examples during each session – a winning combo of content and fun, for results-oriented programs that always offer immediately usable tips. Here’s a little equation to help you get to know me: Karen = actual 3-time game show winner (lots of energy) + a little bit of Tina Fey (funny, improv) +  a dash of Wikipedia (cutting edge content!)

Four Reasons You Can be Confident Hiring Karen

Four reasons you can be confident hiring Karen:

1. Karen offers this guarantee: in any program you choose, she’ll offer useful material in an engaging way with immediately usable information.
2. Karen understands what matters to planners (“having a speaker that is flexible and easy to work with and makes you look good!”) and attendees (“give us something enjoyable that we haven’t heard before and is worth our time and attention!”)
3. Karen has a proven track record with clients from Fortune 100 companies to associations to government, from Las Vegas to Bangkok
4. Audiences sense that Karen truly cares about their success which, combined with her contagious energy, generates an active dialogue with the audience. She specializes in mixing some solid science and research with humorous personal stories to deliver practical, proven, solution oriented “how to techniques” to apply for business success

Fees

Karen offers a range of fees to meet most budgets. After a telephone call to assess your program goals, you'll  receive a written quote. It's very important to me that I provide you with at least one option that meets your budget needs so kindly call 702-260-6842 or email karen@innovativeimpact.com with your inquiry. I look forward to the opportunity to bring value to your event!

Karen E. Purves, M.A.
innovative impact
452 E. Silverado Ranch Blvd., #238
Las Vegas NV 89183
ph: 702-260-6842
fax: 702-260-6967
karen@innovativeimpact.com
www.innovativeimpact.com

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"Thank you again for your helpful, and down-to-earth approach to such a difficult subject."

Larry Fagerhaug, Pfizer

"Your enthusiasm and humor greatly improved the overall experience and the interactivity of this program and participation among the audience retained their interest."

Annette Barnitz, Motorola, Inc.

“The presentation was beneficial because the discussion revolved around realistic examples and challenges.”

Gina Locascio, Deloitte

"Karen's program provides terrific insight to improve the impact and effectiveness of communication with your co-workers, customers and friends. She delivers it in a warm and energetic style that connects with the audience and makes her program as much fun as it is educational."

Bob McKay, BCU, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer

"I found your presentations to be inspiring. Your energy was boundless, your enthusiasm and humor compelling."

Kevin McGrath, Chief, Complaints Management Branch, Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Agriculture, Food Safety Inspection Service

"We appreciate the time you took to tailor your presentation to our audience as well as your enthusiasm and solid content."

Fran Rickenbach, Executive Vice President, Association of Destination Management Executives

"I think she is fabulous. Her presentation is very high energy, but focused. She is very easy to work with."

Gregory Moore, Editor of the Denver Post, for American Society of Newspaper Editors

“Your light-hearted and dynamic style intrigued the group and motivated them to follow the suggestions you provided.“

Shelly Green, Manager, Employee Relations, USG Corporation