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Ellen Speaks.

Speaking topics include: Women, Leadership, Culture

She helps businesses, teams, and leaders identify who they are, where they want to go, and how they are going to get there.

Ellen encourages women to step into their own leadership, let go of past messages and behaviors that block, and realize their possibilities.

She helps organizations to identify and create inclusive people-focused cultures that will enable their employees and businesses to thrive today and tomorrow.

Ellen Teaches.

She helps leaders create more agency, opportunity and ease in their careers, companies, and cultures.

She is a trusted advisor, strategist, mentor, coach, and visionary who inspires and opens new potential and pathways for her clients.

She enables others to build the courage needed to move forward, take more chances, and embrace lessons learned to create the future they want.

Ellen Inspires.

She has been there. She knows organizational and individual challenges first-hand.

She knows what it is like to aspire for more, fulfill certain goals, only to get stuck or be in doubt of what comes next.

She taps into her decades-long career where she climbed the corporate ladder then led a small business before becoming a Board Director, Professor of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Executive Coach, and Keynote speaker. She shares her lessons learned while aspiring for a big career, juggling two daughters with her husband, and leading through uncertainty and change.

What People Are Saying

Ellen Taaffe is a dynamic, engaging, and powerful speaker who challenges women to elevate their thinking, pursue ambitious goals, and ignore traditional boundaries. What is most remarkable about Ellen is her ability to relate to and reach women in all stages of their careers. Consistently positive feedback from our members includes both gratitude for her helpful and practical advice and recognition of her honesty and authenticity.

I had the privilege to hear Ellen speak on women leadership and she literally changed the course of my career. Ellen engaged the audience in a relatable manner as she factually explained challenges and opportunities women face in the workforce and in the board room. She provided concrete examples that inspired me to challenge myself and seek a corporate board position, which I now hold. I am honored that she will be speaking to my firm (twice) as we are embarked in our DE&I journey.

It was a wonderful talk, full of some great insights. Very inspirational too! I walked away feeling very motivated to find that job where I can feel as much of a sense of purpose as Ellen! Thank you for bringing that conversation out into the world for women! I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed it!

I appreciated Ellen Taaffe’s wisdom and her counsel for us as women leaders on how to be successful. She touched on a number of issues I face, as a working woman, and made a few clear recommendations that I needed to hear. She was inspirational and relatable too.

I really thought Ellen had some great things to share and it was so interesting to hear her perspectives and lessons. She feels so real and relatable. Some of my favorites (that I wrote down) were: stand for something and have a point of view; listen to your intuition; to build authentic leadership: know yourself, be yourself, surround yourself.

I wanted to thank you for sharing your advice, experience, and guidance related to balancing the perceptions of women in the workplace. Your insights were thought-provoking, and your advice was both strategic and tactical. I look forward to applying them in my career going forward!

Ellen inspires… with her warmth, wit, and wisdom.