Keynote speaker, storyteller, survivor

It’s the SMALL SHIFTS that make YOU the Hero

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SIGNATURE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

From Hostage to Hero: Transform Your Life with a Moto-Inspired Mindset

Are you ready to break free from the limiting beliefs and circumstances that have held you back? Michelle's keynote offering, "From Hostage to Hero," will show you how to tap into your inner strength and resilience and use a purpose-driven compass to navigate the road to inner security and power. Drawing on the metaphor of motorcycle riding, this keynote will inspire and challenge you to shift gears and take control of your life.

By embracing a powerful, growth-oriented mindset, you can overcome any obstacle and become the hero of your own story. This keynote is not just about moto - it's about mental health, self-leadership, and finding your voice. Are you ready to take on the challenge and transform your life?

Key Takeaways: 

  • Learn how to shift your mindset and take control of your life

  • Find inspiration and motivation to overcome challenges and achieve your goals

  • Improve your mental health and well-being by embracing a growth-oriented mindset

  • Develop self-leadership skills and find your voice as you navigate your journey toward personal transformation

"The Tapestry of Grief: Weaving Stories of Loss and Legacy"

A keynote that harnesses the power of storytelling to navigate the complex emotions of grief. By sharing stories from diverse perspectives—teachers to financial planners and hospice workers to HR professionals—Michelle illuminates the universal nature of loss and the transformative potential of legacy planning. This session emphasizes storytelling as a tool for empathy, understanding, and connection. It offers practical strategies for professionals to support those in bereavement and incorporate these narratives into their work to foster healing and resilience.

Key Takeaways: 

  • Frameworks for storytelling that can be applied in conversations about grief and legacy planning.

  • Insights into how stories of loss and resilience can enrich professional practice and client relationships.

  • Strategies for creating supportive environments that recognize and honor the journey of grief.

Leadership Unleashed: Shift into High Gear as a Moto-Inspired Leader

Are you ready to shift into high gear as a leader and take your team or organization to new heights of success? “Leadership Unleashed” is designed to help you tap into the power and resilience of motorcycle riding to become a more confident, effective, and influential leader. This dynamic and interactive keynote will provide you with practical strategies and mindset shifts inspired by the metaphor of motorcycle riding, to help you navigate the road to leadership success.

Whether you're leading a team, a department, or an entire organization, this keynote will give you the tools and inspiration you need to succeed. You'll learn how to overcome obstacles, navigate twists and turns, and build a culture of innovation and collaboration. Are you ready to shift into high gear as a moto-inspired leader?

Key Takeaways: 

  • Discover practical strategies and mindset shifts inspired by the metaphor of motorcycle riding, to become a more confident, effective, and influential leader

  • Learn how to navigate obstacles and setbacks to achieve your goals

  • Build a culture of innovation and collaboration within your team or organization

  • Tap into the power and resilience of motorcycle riding to inspire and motivate your team to achieve greatness

Thriving Through Change: Navigating Crisis and Building Resilient Teams

In this engaging keynote, Michelle shares her journey of surviving, riding, and thriving through crisis, translating her experiences into valuable insights for corporate teams building crisis management skills. Drawing from her expertise, she provides practical strategies for building resilience and adaptability in the face of change.

Through captivating storytelling and actionable takeaways, Michelle inspires teams to navigate uncertainty confidently, foster a resilient mindset, and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. This keynote will leave your team feeling empowered, connected, and ready to overcome any obstacle together.

Key Takeaways: 

  • Cultivating Resilient Mindsets: Learn how to develop a resilient mindset within your team, enabling individuals to navigate change, setbacks, and uncertainty with confidence and agility.

  • Navigating Change and Uncertainty: Discover strategies for effectively managing change and uncertainty, equipping your team with the tools to adapt, innovate, and thrive in challenging times.

  • Building Stronger Team Connections: Explore techniques for fostering strong team connections and collaboration, strengthening relationships, and enhancing communication to navigate crisis as a united front.

  • Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Gain insights on embracing challenges as catalysts for growth and innovation, encouraging your team to see setbacks as opportunities to learn, adapt, and drive positive change.

Full Throttle Living: Embracing Accountability & Empowerment

Are you ready to rev up your life and embrace your inner badass? Join us for an exhilarating keynote with Michelle Trieste, where she'll share her unique approach to living life at full throttle, using the powerful analogies of motorcycle riding.

With humor and passion, Michelle will show you how to take accountability for your life and empower yourself to live the life you deserve. Drawing on her own experiences as a rider, she'll share practical tips and strategies for shifting into high gear and overcoming obstacles along the way.

Key Takeaways: 

  • Embrace your inner badass: Learn how to tap into your strength and resilience to take charge of your life and achieve your goals

  • Shift into high gear: Discover practical tips and strategies for overcoming obstacles and navigating life's challenges with confidence and courage

  • Build more confidence in setting and honoring your boundaries, so you can live a life of freedom and authenticity

  • "If you’re looking for a unique, unforgettable keynote speaker who is able to keep your audience engaged, a speaker who your audience can relate to, who challenges your audience & allows them to walk away with real actionable tools to implement change in their lives…Michelle Trieste is your speaker! Highly, highly recommend!!!! "

    Michelle Rockwell

  • "Michelle's inspirational presentations are relevant to everyone. We have all faced challenging crossroads. Thank you, Michelle, for sharing your experience and how it has given you the desire to help, educate and motivate others."

    Rita (Licata) Bailey

  • “To be independent, strong and self-fulfilling is one of the best things I’ve learned. Knowing when to take charge and also knowing when to let go without giving someone too much of a hold on me.”

    Cory

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MICHELLE’S OFFICIAL BIO

Michelle Trieste is a survivor, speaker, and warrior advocate for others, ready to reclaim their power and live a life of freedom and adventure. After escaping a physically and financially abusive marriage in a foreign country with only the clothes on her back and her children in tow, Michelle found the courage to create a whole new life for herself.


Through her dynamic, suspense-filled, and inspirational stories, Michelle shows others who feel stuck, afraid, and captive to their own choices that they can break free from the limiting, unfulfilling roles they play and take back control of their own lives using storytelling and motorcycle metaphors.