Megan Taylor Morrison

Own Your Weird: Personal Branding That Stands Out. Want to stand out from the crowd? In this upbeat session, executive coach, award-winning dancer, and best-selling author Megan Taylor Morrison shares a six-part blueprint for building a personal brand that truly pops. You’ll explore the mix of skills, values, quirks, identity, story, and style that make you memorable, and learn practical ways to showcase that uniqueness on LinkedIn, at networking events, and in interviews. Expect lively exercises, peer feedback, and fresh confidence to show up as the real you.

Key takeaways:

• Pinpoint the six pillars of a standout brand (skillset, personality, identity, style, values, and story) so you know exactly what to amplify.
• Apply the “purple cow” test to highlight what sets you apart and attracts aligned opportunities.
• Translate your brand into a compelling LinkedIn profile, interview pitch, and networking intro that sticks in people’s minds.
• Use the “You, Magnified” exercise to expand your unique traits into a bold alter-ego that lets you practise bigger, bolder visibility.

Create Win Wins: Inspire Buy In That Drives Positive Change. Do you ever struggle to get others on board with your ideas, whether it’s a new project, a bold proposal, or a big change?  In this session, you’ll learn a simple, repeatable framework for turning hesitation into genuine buy in.

The result? Conversations that move things forward. Whether you’re rallying a team, courting a client, or forging a new partnership, you’ll leave with the language and confidence to turn every interaction into a clear win win.

You’ll walk away with tools to:

• Communicate your vision clearly and make high-impact requests
• Build trust and buy-in by aligning with what others truly care about
• Tap into your network to unlock new opportunities
• Turn conversations into powerful, mutually beneficial partnerships

Navigate Tough Conversations: Avoid Landmines. Get Results. In the workplace, tough conversations are inevitable. Whether you’re addressing a difficult colleague, providing feedback to an employee, or otherwise navigating a challenging professional topic, these conversations are crucial for growth and connection. In this session, you’ll learn a step-by-step framework for navigating tough conversations in a way that fosters understanding and leads to positive outcomes. You’ll practice clearly expressing what matters most, making specific requests, and understanding the perspective of others. You’ll leave feeling confident and equipped to turn potentially uncomfortable conversations into opportunities for stronger relationships and enhanced team dynamics.

Key Takeaways:

• A step-by-step framework for initiating and navigating tough conversations
• How to balance your own needs with empathy for the other person
• Tools for creating clarity, avoiding blame, and fostering mutual understanding

The Intuitive Edge: Unlock Next-Level Success. Fortune 500 companies, top universities, and even the US military have invested millions to study intuition. Why? Because intuition is a measurable, science-backed component of decision-making that can be trained and applied for exceptional results.

While everyone has intuition, women face unique challenges in using it. Many hesitate to act on their intuition, worrying they might be wrong, fearing judgment for relying on it, or hesitating to challenge group consensus when their gut feeling goes against the norm.

This talk will help you better leverage your intuition and be more confidence in sharing it. You’ll gain tools and insights to navigate complex decisions, achieve better work-life balance, set boundaries, and build stronger, more effective teams—all by harnessing the power of your intuition.

At a time when constant distractions pull our focus outward, this talk offers an invitation to turn inward—enhancing both self-care and leadership in the digital age.

Whether you’re navigating high-stakes decisions, leading a team, or striving for greater work-life harmony, your intuition can be a powerful ally. This session will help you unlock its full potential, equipping you to lead with clarity, confidence, and balance.

(note: can be for women only or for a co-ed audience. This description is for women)

Maximize Employee Retention: Leverage the Science of Happiness for a Dedicated Workforce.To retain top talent, companies must do more than offer competitive pay. They must create a workplace where employees feel valued, engaged, and inspired to stay. This talk blends the latest research in positive psychology with real-world leadership strategies to help you boost morale, reduce turnover, and build team loyalty. Attendees will leave with practical tools to improve workplace culture, support employee well-being, and foster long-term commitment across all levels of their organization.

Key takeaways for audience members:

• Methods to increase employee satisfaction and productivity
• Key questions you need to ask every employee to create a successful culture
• One wildcard that creates the most successful teams
• Best practices for meetings and retreats
• Practical ways for leaders to help employees feel valued and inspired

Build your Managerial EQ. Are you seeking to create deeper connections with your team? Do you want to foster more trust, empathy, and communication within your organization? In this interactive workshop, executive coach Megan Taylor Morrison will guide you through exercises designed to develop your emotional intelligence (EQ) as a manager, helping you cultivate a team environment built on active listening and empathy.

Through engaging partner exercises, you’ll practice key EQ techniques you can immediately apply with your team. Whether you bring a colleague or work with someone new, you’ll leave with practical tools to strengthen communication and trust.

Key Takeaways:

• Insights into honing active listening and empathy as a leader
• Two easy-to-apply EQ exercises to bring to your team
• Strategies to build a culture of trust and openness

Become an Amazon Best-Selling Author: A Step-by-Step Guide  Ready to see your book hit Amazon’s #1 spot and stay there? Drawing on her own publishing wins, award-winning author and coach Megan Taylor Morrison reveals a proven seven-step launch playbook, from inspiring yourself and promoting your process to choosing strategic categories and mobilizing partners. This approach has helped both first-time and seasoned authors turn launch day into a bestseller parade. Along the way, you’ll learn why bestseller status matters for sales, foreign rights, and reputation, and how to leverage that momentum long after release day.

Key takeaways:

• Craft a launch-ready mindset and magnetic author brand.
• Turn behind-the-scenes writing updates into pre-launch buzz that converts.
• Identify and incentivize strategic partners who expand your reach.
• Hack Amazon categories and timing to maximize chart position.
• Execute day-one discount and direct-ask strategies to sustain post-launch traction.

Inheriting a Team: Best Practices for a Smooth Transition. Inheriting a team can be a tricky proposition, whether you are taking over your family business or getting promoted into management for the first time. Since your team members can become your biggest allies, it’s important to consider best practices for leadership transitions. This talk, based on case studies from the gardening industry and beyond, will share practical strategies and tips.

Key takeaways for audience members:

• Ways to avoid common mistakes with leadership transitions
• The top behaviors that will build trust in new leadership
• How to re-establish goals and priorities as you take over a team Gamification: Unlock Motivation, Engagement, and Peak Performance

This session dives into the science behind why gamification works, including insights from behavioral psychology, motivation theory, and neuroscience. You’ll learn the key principles and how to apply them to boost engagement, strengthen team culture, and inspire consistent performance. Ideal for leaders ready to turn work into a challenge their team wants to win.