Karen Keller, Ph.D.
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- Influence, Persuasion, Self Development, Business Breakthroughs
Dr. Karen Keller, Founder and CEO of Karen Keller International, Inc. is a recognized authority on influence – in all aspects of life. She became known as “The Influence Expert” after her uncanny insights into human behavior helped influence legislative and executive branches determining state policies. Dr. Keller has coached legal and judicial branches on decision-making in the courtroom and she has helped seal million dollar deals in the boardroom.
With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Keller’s well-rounded and diverse background also consists of developing and leading integrated change and strategies for large corporations such as, American Express, Pizza Hut, PepsiCo, BeautiControl, Guilford Mills and Indiana Purdue University.
Known for thoughtful consultation and asking tough questions, Dr. Keller is a modern-day teacher of influence as a way of inner thinking, being (then ultimately doing) for executives, small business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who desires to have more of what they really want.
Dr. Keller believes that every person has the innate capacity and potential to create a more influential presence in any environment they enters. She is passionate about empowering people to experience new heights in their careers, business and personal life.
Dr. Keller, who has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has attained the coaching industry’s highest level of coaching certification, “Master Certified Coach” from The International Coach Federation. She is publisher of the online newsletter Influence It! Real Power For Women, the Web’s #1 Resource for the Influential Woman’s Journey, where she shares insights and leading-edge information for the influential person on the go.
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Improving People Skills: Get Ahead In Life With Interpersonal and Communication Skills That Work!
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Loving Your Life: Top 5 Reasons to Count Your Blessings
Everyone has blessings in their life, however, there is a good number of people who couldn’t tell you what they are if their life depended on it. These are the people who complain to a great extent, expect way too much from others, and rely heavily on success to come from nowhere. Being grateful can have an enormous effect on your life, if you start counting your blessings. 1. Being grateful improves your disposition. It makes you happier and therefore, more approachable and likeable.
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Transition: A Woman’s Middle Name
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The Power of Self-Discipline: Do You Have It?
Self-discipline is the skill to get yourself to take action in spite of your emotional condition. It’s about willpower, persistence and hard work. The pivotal point of self-discipline is when you make a conscious decision, it is virtually guaranteed that you will follow through with it. The self-disciplined person loses 20 pounds. The self-disciplined person runs the marathon. The self-disciplined person creates wealth. The self-disciplined person finds real love.
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10 Quick Ways Women Can Empower Themselves
When you feel empowered you can accomplish anything you desire. Empowerment for women doesn’t mean you have to burn your bra or spit at the end of the bar. It doesn’t mean you need to be aggressive or stare down the nearest competitor with vigor. But there are a few things you can do to set yourself on the road to empowerment. 1. Value relationships where you are an equal. This applies to both personal and professional relationships where you are respected and valued as a person for what you believe and the ideas you bring to the table.
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Top Sales Techniques And Psychology – How This Can Work for You!
Marketers have been using logic and emotion for years in selling their products and services. So how does this work? It’s all about the decision making process and the triggers that make a difference between yes or no. Sometimes these triggers can be impulses, or they are coupled with logic or they relate to your emotions.
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Live to Win: How To Feel More Alive!
What makes you feel alive? Do you know what the feeling is? Dr. Wayne Dyer, said it this way, ‘I try to teach my children that being successful isn’t necessarily about performing a specific task, being in a certain occupation or living in a particular location. It’s about sharing yourself in a creative, loving way using the skills and interest that are inherently part of you.”
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Business Lessons from Prince William and Kate Middleton
There probably aren't many people on the planet who don't know about the upcoming nuptials of one of the most famous bachelors in the world. Getting married is a pretty big step in life for anyone, and doing it before the eyes of millions is thankfully not what the rest of us have to take on! Still, William and Kate are going to be in "business" a long time, and we can already see they are determined to color a little outside the lines and run their own show despite all the trappings of tradition around them.
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Your Business Reputation: Something to Talk About
The phrase ‘His name is mud” came from the story about a man named Samuel Mudd who was thought to be a co-conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assignation. His conviction was later overtu ed, but nonetheless, the phrase stuck with him and for more than a hundred years later.
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Top Ten Things Your Customer Wants
Customer retention, relationship management, and how a business owner provides customer service is extremely important to the bottom line. Everyone knows it cost more money to find a new customer than to retain an existing one. So why not give it your all to satisfy your customer’s needs. Every customer wants something. It doesn’t matter what it is, they want it yesterday. If you could know ahead of time what they wanted, that’d make life so much easier. So, instead of the typical Top 5, let’s do a Top Ten piece. Here it is – just for you!
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Performing on the job depends on many variables: our skill set, mindset, personality type, and attitude. At any moment, we may carry out any number of tasks that call on us to be able to think, move, and execute practically simultaneously. It's like we're in constant air traffic controller-mode having to complete one task (plane landing) while getting ready for the next (plane taking off), plus keeping our eye on the one that's a few hours away (plane approaching our air space).
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