Ep 23 – Maria Sirios – Learn How to Speak to Audiences with Impact

Maria Siros is a master teacher, facilitator and author. As a positive psychologist (Psy.D.) and consultant, she focuses on the resilience of the human spirit.

We talk about how to be an effective speaker by understanding the power of your own story, the arc of story and how to teach. We also talk about her career, including a period when she worked with children dying from Cancer, and another time when she only had two weeks to prepare for a Ted talk.

I really love how Maria helps those on the purpose journey learn how to increase their impact by speaking authentically and powerfully. There are lessons for all of us about inner power and how to build a life of happiness.

Maria is a master teacher, facilitator and author. As a positive psychologist (Psy.D.) and consultant, she focuses on the resilience of the human spirit particularly when under chronic stress, during significant transitions or changes, and/or feeling the shock of wholesale change. With world thought-leader, Tal Ben-Shahar, she co-leads a year-long certificate program for executives, educators, entrepreneurs, counselors and the general public.

She has a consulting relationship with the Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College, develops curriculum for Wholebeing Institute, and is the author of two books: A Short Course in Happiness After Loss (And Other Dark, Difficult Times) and Every Day Counts. For those in the education and presenting fields, she offers a webinar series, Teaching for Transformation, in which she enables teachers, keynoters, seminar leaders and executives to teach with impact from positive psychology perspectives.

Her home is in the Berkshire Mountains where she attempts on a daily basis to love her children well enough so that they too find a way to embrace the world with a grounded optimism and a sense of their own strengths. And on most days, she remembers to feed the cat.