Speaking engagements
Looking for a keynote address or speaker for your next event or conference?
Speaking and workshop for Parents and Caregivers, Professional who support children and Corporate Mental wellness and Self-care Workshops.
- Get out of your own way: Clarify your goals and make changes to succeed
- Balance for Better
- Building Independent, Confident and Empowered Children

You Can’t Pour from an Empty Cup: Igniting Joy and Motivation Through Self-Care
This workshop will be lead by the staff’s needs. What are they struggling with the most? What are the tools they need to feel empowered and in control again?
Topics that will be discussed:
- Prioritizing yourself and making a plan towards you self-care goals
- Finding the tools that will help you reach your goals
- Understanding what is blocking you from taking care of yourself
- Being able to deal with stress in the momentSetting boundaries
- Understanding what supports are available to you
Corporate Speaking Topics
Balance for Better
This interactive workshop will help bring awareness to what brings us joy, empowering teams with the ability to better work through obstacles and set backs.
Joins us as Michelle explores the power of advocating for yourself and being a leader of change. Use an individualized approach to better understand your needs in order thrive at work and to drive results.
Connect with colleagues and learn how to overcome obstacles and roadblocks to perform and find your joy at work and in life.
Leadership: The Art of Connection, Motivation and Igniting Productivity
Do you feel as though there is a disconnect between you and your staff? Is a strong work ethic a thing of the past?
Join Michelle in this interactive workshop to learn how how connect with your staff and truely understand thier needs.
When you feel heard and understood you work harder and feel valued.
Topics that will be discuss:
- The art of connection, validation and active listening
- Working together as a team through a collaborative approach
- Understanding why people act the way that they do and how to motivate them
Get Out of Your Own Way!
IMAGINE IF YOU COULD…
✔ Get out of your head and stop believing the unhelpful thoughts
✔ Understand what blocks you from moving forward and taking action
✔ Reduce your self-limiting beliefs and you could release the brakes to experience growth
✔ Identify what you really want to achieve, and
✔Courageously pursue inspiring goals even when it’s scary to leave what’s “safe”.
In this interactive session you will learn:
How to set goals in alignment with intrinsic motivators and your internal why,
Build a plan to take confident action to achieve those goals,
How to take care of your mind and body, so you feel less stress and more joy in the process.

Bio
Michelle McVittie helps parents and workplaces put the joy back in family life – home or corporate family
Michelle McVittie’s commitment to supporting people to be happier is complete, resolute and covers many areas. Mom the Manager is her dynamic initiative that is provocative and energizing approach that is applicable to families of origin or work families, as business environments often mimic those at home and the elements for calmer management, more productivity and positive results are equally applicable. Michelle brings her depth of experience as a child life specialist, parenting expert, educator and author to enhance home and corporate environments in working better and experiencing more joy.
It was her own journey that paved the way for Mom the Manager. For more than 10 years, Michelle McVittie has worked on becoming the manager of her own life. She found her joy again, and now her mission is to help parents and organizations do the same. She has the tools to help clients feel in control, calm in situations and foster stronger relationships whether within families or in organizations.






