Warm, witty and honest, Nancy Coey has the unique ability to see the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. With her conversational style and common-sense content, audiences come away feeling that she has spoken directly to them.

Nancy developed her keen eyesight from more than twenty years of teaching the Dreaded Freshman English. Nancy taught both writing and public speaking at Ohio State University, the University of Hawaii, and North Carolina State University, and her work has been highlighted on the PBS series, "Excellence in Teaching." In helping students "train their eyes," Nancy trained her own. As a result, her programs are filled with original material - material you will hear nowhere else.

In over ten years as a motivational keynote speaker, Nancy has built a reputation for original and memorable stories. Her presentation for the National Speakers Association, "Creating Memorable Material," was the Atlanta Workshop's #1 best-selling tape.

Nancy writes the way she speaks. Her book, Finding Gifts in Everyday Life, a collection of true stories from her own life, is in its 5th printing and is a B. Dalton "Book of the Week."

Nancy and her husband, Don, have been married for thirty years and have two grown sons. They have traded in the folding chairs they used to carry from soccer to football to baseball fields and now spend time watching deer eat the green things they had so lovingly planted in their backyard.

• What Would Happen If I Did Remove the Mattress Tag? - Effective women are willing to discard the unnecessary, let go of things that hold them back, and start living with purpose in the present. This program will help you remove self-limiting behaviors and show you the way to step into the jet stream which is waiting for you, only an inch away.
  
  
• Finding Gifts in Everyday Life - Get a new look at the best in yourself in this fast-paced presentation packed with humor and real-life examples. Start seeing opportunity all around...in small things, and in places where you might not ordinarily look. This is a funny, feel-good, highly energizing experience.
  
  
• I Want Juice in My Life...But Why Do I Always Have to Do the Squeezing Myself?! - All of us want our lives to be filled with Vitamin C and all the other good things we need, but we often wish someone else would do the "squeezing" for us. In this session, Coey will explore the reasons we limit our futures by limiting our choices, and will help us make a firm commitment to effectiveness and joy for the rest of our lives.
  
  
• Why Can't Everyone Be Like Me? (45-60 Minute Breakout Session) - Based on the classic, Please Understand Me, this fun, funny and informative session will help us recognize and celebrate our differences. Find out just what makes you - and those you love - act the way they do.
  
  
• Four Secrets of Powerful Communication (45-60 Minute Breakout Session) - This hands-on, participatory, interactive session is designed for practical and immediate use. Each secret - such as how to worry better, or responding to the phone call you didn't get - is guaranteed to enhance the quality of your everyday life and relationships. A great stand-alone breakout session, or a perfect compliment to a keynote.
  
  
• Nurses Program: Celebrating the Difference You Make! - Spirited and highly customized, this inspirational keynote pays tribute to the phenomenal importance of what nurses do, and provides a concrete roadmap for continued success. Packed with humor and fast-paced, real-life, relevant examples, it provides specific strategies for keeping one's spirit nourished. This program, which is approved for CEU credits, is fun, funny, substantive and real.