Ria Story, Leadership Speaker, Trainer, & Author

Invest in Leadership that Works: Effective Leadership Tools for Yourself and/or Your Team

Ria’s personal growth and leadership training modules cover a variety of topics – such as Personal Growth, Professional Development, Communication Skills, Time Management, Execution, Leading Change, Developing Leadership Skills, Increasing Influence, and Achieving Goals.

She can help you with a keynote presentation, a one time training session, or implementation of a comprehensive leadership development program – and everything in between. When you partner with Ria, she will work with you to for a tailored program that fits your needs and objectives.

Each program offers a supporting book, so you can equip members of your organization with a resource to continue learning long after the training event is over.

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Each program can be condensed into a keynote or expanded into a full workshop and has a supporting book available to equip your audience long after the event.

*Custom programs, keynotes, and workshops are available on request.

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The Ladder of Influence

We all have some influence, yet we all want more influence. But why, how, where, who, and when we influence others as well as how we in turn are influenced by others is incredibly complex because people are incredibly complex.

The Ladder of Influence ℠ provides a powerful, yet simple 5 step framework to help you realize the practical steps you can take to increase your influence and develop your leadership with the people around you: friends, family, followers, co-workers, your boss, team members, community members, children, and spouses.

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Fearfully and Wonderfully Me: Become the Woman You Are Destined to Be

You have untapped potential to do, have, and be more in life. But, developing your potential and becoming the best version of yourself will require personal transformation. You will have to transform from who you are today into who you want to become tomorrow.

Ria Story brings unique insight in the form of the Seven Elements of Personal Growth & Transformation, giving you a powerful mental strategy for reaching your personal potential.

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Leadership Gems for Women

Leadership is one of the most profoundly complex, and at the same time incredibly simple, concepts. We all want, and at some level need, to be successful in life. And, we need influence to be successful.

Regardless of whether you are a stay-at-home-mom or the CEO of a multi-billion dollar organization, the principles in Leadership Gems will help you become more successful, more influential, and a higher level leader.

*Also available as a neutral gender program (Leadership Gems: 30 Characteristics of Very Successful Leaders)

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PRIME Time: The Power of Effective Planning

We can’t manage time – we can only manage what we do with it. The biggest gap in reaching personal or professional goals is the execution gap.

We can categorize time and activities in to five basic blocks. Each block has different characteristics and time spent in different blocks will bring a different return. In order to effectively plan and execute for goal achievement, we must first identify which blocks are most important based on our core values, what activities we should set for each block, and then determine how to execute the plan.

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Straight Talk: The Power of Effective Communication

Effective communication skills are critical to success in life. But, communication is not just about information. It’s about connection.

The ability to connect makes all the difference in how, or if, your message will be received. Those who learn to connect and to do it well will be more successful in life, at work, at home, and in relationships.

Communication and connection are skills anyone can learn, and everyone can learn to do them better.

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Living On Purpose

Every day we make hundreds or thousands of choices, some seemingly insignificant.

Those choices, cumulatively, create our future. We make our choices, and then, our choices make us. We can choose our thoughts, mindset, attitude, values, and actions, but we cannot outrun the consequences of those choices, positive or negative.

Good choices lead to increased influence with other people, improved circumstances, more options, more opportunities, and better results.

Poor choices take us in the opposite direction. Learn how to start each day with a purposeful mindset, and you will achieve your priorities based on your values.

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Change Happens: Leading Yourself and Others through Change

The biggest frustration in leading change is overcoming resistance to change.

In today’s fast pace world, leaders are constantly challenged with leading change within the organization. Conditions and business initiatives change constantly and quickly. Fear of change will create roadblocks when it comes to implementing new initiatives. The result: wasted time, increased cost, and decreased productivity.

Change brings both challenges and opportunities. Change can bring an organization together by uniting the team around a unifying purpose and vision, or it can create chaos.

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ACHIEVE: Maximize Your Potential with 7 Keys to Unlock Success and Significance

To be successful requires us to have knowledge of the principles of success, awareness of how to utilize them, and discipline to intentionally apply them. There are no shortcuts to success, but we can travel much faster when we have an achievement model we can apply.

This model will help you develop more influence personally and professionally, execute an action plan for personal success, and maximize your potential in life. Both women and men alike will find practical and relevant information to immediately apply to their situation and improve the outcome.

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Bridges Out of the Past: A Survivor’s Lessons on Resilience

It’s not what happens to you in life. It’s who you become because of it.

We all experience pain, grief, and loss in life. Resilience is the difference between “I didn’t die,” and “I learned to live again.” In this captivating book on resilience, Ria shares her story of overcoming sexual abuse and trafficking by her father. She then shares how she learned not only to survive, but also to thrive in spite of her past. Learn how to overcome challenges, obstacles, and adversity in your own life by building a bridge out of the past and into the future

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