In a climate where customers want more for their money, Catherine Glennie, captivating speaker, columnist, published author and motivational trainer offers a cohesive and comprehensive array of products and services that provide real value for money.

Catherine Glennie’s inspiring motivational talks are woven together with powerful teaching techniques, giving them life long after the event. Catherine has designed several highly effective courses and seminars which take motivation beyond just an hour’s highlight, into a structured learning process where people get to grips, in a real way, with tools and techniques to become powerful and self driven individuals. Organisations can mix and match from talks, seminars and courses to create the ideal set of interventions that will change their employee’s behaviour permanently. It is not about a speak and sneak, but rather about a sensible and sustainable motivational process, as you wish it to roll out.

Catherine Glennie is her own product – that’s one of the powerful benefits of commissioning her. She has managed to change her own behaviour, attitude and circumstances for the better and this very fact provides a model of possibility for every other non-starter, half starter or tired out starter. Even self-starters get a kick-start from what she has done, how she has done it and how she now teaches it. With a business qualification from the business school she is able to add value to a wide audience and with over two decades of sales experience, sales people also benefit in a big way from her message.

Training and facilitation: design through to implementation
Personal development: author, coach, trainer, motivational speaker
Business process design, implementation and management
Strategic development, implementation and management
Market development, implementation and management
Marketing and sales: strategy through to implementation
People management: small and corporate business environment
General Management
Product Management

Catherine Glennie started off her working life as a ledger clerk and worked her way up to head up a multi-million Rand operation in the IT industry – whilst raising two children on her own. The development path took her through admin, secretarial, sales, starting her own business, into several senior management positions in the business world. In 1997 using this wealth of experience, she set out to follow her dream – to teach and inspire.

Since then she has designed and run five highly effective personal development programmes, through which thousands of South African’s have benefited. She has become the motivational personality behind the Cape Argus’ popular “Getting Motivated” column through which thousands of Capetonians get their weekly lift. She has written three self-help books, cut three tapes, and inspired thousands of South Africans through her talks. Some of her clients include Sanlam, Old Mutual, Coca Cola and Standard Bank, to name only a few.

Catherine Glennie is now based in the UK but is regularly in South Africa giving motivational talks.

Talks

Ride the River

Tried riding a dodgem car with its overhead connection bust? Well that’s how most people are living their lives – cut off from their mainstream power source, and pushing hard!

Catherine Glennie, speaker, author and columnist says it’s time to say ‘NO MORE PUSH-PUSH!’. It’s time to connect to your power source, and let It do the work.  When you do this correctly, success will flow your way like a river. Those who have heard the message, rave about it - including popular Cape Talk radio personality Lisa Chait.

‘NO MORE PUSH-PUSH! is the central concept of Catherine Glennie’s latest book – Ride the River. Using her five years motivational experience as a springboard, Catherine brings a refreshing difference to the speaking circuit by delivering a message that people are hungry for – spirit power - how to access it, how to get it to work for you. It’s not about religion; it’s about mobilising spiritual laws to help you achieve optimal living. In her talk Catherine shows you how to:

This holistic talk focuses on three key concepts that, when understood, become a platform for liberating forward action, attitudinal healing and release from confusion & struggle.

From this point the talk takes the audience into three easy to apply tools that Catherine has discovered, tools that people can use as they set out to conquer stress, worry, financial lack, depression and more. Armed with these concepts and tools, listeners become enabled to take their lives to new levels and get success flowing like a river. Ride the River is about achieving optimal living with minimum effort.

GETTING MOTIVATED KEEPING MOTIVATED

Motivation is a skill and a choice-Learn skills to banish negative thinking

Motivation is like oxygen.  We need it all the time.  Yet most people don’t understand motivation, nor how to get activated in their lives, leaving them depleted and spent.

Even worse most people think that being motivated is a special gift, available to the select few.  This talk debunks this myth, and shows that motivation is a choice and a skill – skills that everyone can, and should learn.

Catherine Glennie brings with her 18 years of motivational and business experience as she explains the priciples of motivation, and the techniques and strategies to sustain it.  This is an interactive talk where Catherine gets the audience to help her with various exercises.  This brings alive her message in a way that makes it 100% clear and truly unforgettable.

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SPIRIT POWER

Build Sustainable Organisations

Practical insights and tools to achieve optimal lifestyles

Stressed employees are not efficient
Hard working employees are not necessarily productive
Sick employees power their colleagues down too
It is just not viable for staff to run on empty, pushed to the limit

Tried riding a dodgem car with its overhead connection bust?
Well that’s how most people are living their lives – cut off from their mainstream power source, and pushing hard!

Spirit Power is a talk based on Catherine Glennie’s latest book, Ride the River.  This talk will take the listener’s through some key spiritual principles that will improve wellbeing:

How to unleash your talents and gifts – at work and home
Understand what your true personal resources are and what potential they hold
The creative mechanism of life, and how it works for you
How to activate your hidden power base
What illness actually means and how to work with it
Get into a life of flow, harmony and ease

Survive and Thrive

The statistics say that an audience makes up their minds about the speaker in the first 30 seconds. It’s therefore no wonder that ‘Survive & Thrive’ is such well-received talk. Catherine’s icebreaker galvanises the room as her genuine openness and participative approach lift the energies immediately.

What follows is a riveting, engaging and entertaining account of her walk to success – from bank clerk to GM - to motivational speaker. Survive & Thrive is a story of an ordinary South African making extraordinary progress. It’s about an everyday person choosing to make a life of significance. And it is this very element that many delegates comment on - reporting that when they leave, they do so with a sense of “I can too.”  This means the talk works!

Therein lies the power of the talk - it speaks of everyday challenges, and tells of achievable ways to move beyond difficult circumstances and limitation thinking. Using a fun approach, Catherine brings in memory techniques to help delegates remember the 7 principles of Survive & Thrive – ensuring that people leave with more than a good feeling.

Survive & Thrive covers 20 years of business endeavour – from secretarial to sales, from management to motivator.  The hour is rich with recounts of how the 7 principles can help you  Survive your life challenges to embrace change, embody innovative thinking, increase sales, boost confidence, invite better relationships, juggle busy schedules, develop a shared team visions and encourage smart thinking – all this while still having a life, thriving.

What’s really important about Survive & Thrive is that it helps people reset their expectations. The truth be told, too many people have downgraded their hopes, wishing merely to survive. Catherine challenges people to start actively working towards thriving once again. The message of this talk is that whatever has, is and will happen to you, can be turned to your advantage if you work with it correctly - that includes the Rand, inflation, apartheid, downsizing and crime!
 
The 7 principles are:

 
Can a motivational talk really make a difference? In particular does Survive & Thrive deliver? A delegate phoned Catherine the day after she and her husband attended the talk. She explained her husband had been depressed due to particularly low sales. However he was so taken with Principle 1 of the talk, that on leaving, he said to himself “If Catherine could do it, so can I”.  In the next 6 hours he sold 4 plots of land!  Yes, the talk does deliver!!!