Paul Artale / Inspirational Speaker in Detroit
Detroit Inspirational Speaker, Paul Artale, PhD

HIT HARD: 3 Must Have Mindsets
to Build Resilience

What does your ultimate life look like to you? What is standing in the way of achieving those goals?  Obstacles and adversities are part of every journey. Although you cannot change the adversities that occur you can learn to build resilience and thrive through your challenges. Born with what some would call a physical “disability,” Paul uses his journey of playing college football to teach you the 3-must have mindsets that will help you smash through adversity, exceed your expectations, and live your best life. Hit Hard is the powerful, high-energy keynote that will help you leverage your abilities and become unstoppable.

Your audience will learn how to:

  • Tackle imposter syndrome and other toxic thought patterns
  • Apply the simple but vital three-step process to create a winning mindset.
  • Identify and leverage your strengths to attain your goals
  • Draft your success team.
  • Understand the one characteristic of high-performance teams

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The Spork Principle: How to
Find, Take, and Create Opportunities

The Spork Principle teaches you how to leverage what you have in order to get what you want. This program was born out of Paul’s experience as a manager at several universities where he found himself understaffed, under resourced, and feeling like he was constantly under water. Blending his experiences as a department head and his research Paul show you how to grow and prosper regardless of your circumstance. The Spork Principle will show you how to find creative and imaginative solutions that will increase your team performance

Your audience will learn how to:

    • Identify and leverage current competitive advantages
    • Maximize opportunities using the Opportunity Finder system
    • Incorporate ally building strategies into your daily practice
    • Apply the best practices in creative problem solving

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Paul Artale - Motivational Speaker in Detroit, MI
Motivational Speaker, Paul Artale, Speaks on Disabilities

Maximum Ability: How to Recruit
and Retain Employees with (Dis)abilities

One out of every five Americans has a (dis)ability, more than 55% of Americans will have a disability before they retire, and the buying power of individuals with (dis)abilities is $1 trillion per year. Despite these facts showing that (dis)ability is part of every workplace and transcends all identities and affinities, most organizations struggle to create work environments that attract, accommodate, and retain persons with (dis)abilities. During this thought-provoking program, Paul Artale goes beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and helps you understand the personal, social, and medical needs of persons with (dis)abilities in order to attract and retain this extremely underutilized talent pool. Maximum Ability incorporates Paul’s personal experience as an individual with a physical (dis)ability, his training as a special education teacher, current social conditions, and the latest (dis)ability research to create a presentation that is information-packed, practical, and challenges common assumptions.

Your audience will learn to:

  • Understand Disability as a social construct
  • Define microaggressions and how to combat them
  • Devise Strategies and considerations for different types of disabilities and conditions
  • Learn how to create recruitment pipelines to access highly qualified employees with disabilities
  • Incorporate three strategies that will allow employees with (dis)abilities to become your top performers
  • Discover best practices in on-boarding employees
  • Understand universal design principles
  • Apply practical tips on how to engage in conversations about ability (I know it can be uncomfortable)
  • Understand the key tenets of Disability Identity Theory

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Beat Burnout with The 2-Year Old’s Guide
to Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance for you and the members of your advocacy is not a myth. It can (and should) be achieved. Creating positive work-life culture in your life or in your organization is a matter of understanding different work-life strategies and adapting them to your situation. Work-life balance is created through a blend of education, advocacy, and trial. Failure to create work-life friendly cultures leads to burnout, turnover, poor performance, and health issues. As a researcher of work-life balance on organizational performance, Paul Artale will show you how to beat burnout in a fun and lighthearted way based on his book, The 2-Year Old’s Guide to Work-Life Balance. Paul will show you how to identify and advocate for a work-life balance.

Your audience will learn to:

  • Understand work-life personality preference and how it interacts with the organization environment
  • How to evaluate work-life culture
  • Engage with energy giving life choices.
  • Recognize the business case for work-life initiatives
  • Identify current trends in work-life balance
  • Create a work-life action plan

Interested in bringing this topic to your organization?

Prevent Burnout Speaker, Paul Artale