“…involves her audience with her interactive fast-paced presentations."
“Dr. Jo makes planning a seminar a breeze.”
As a PhD nutritionist, Dr. Jo has presented more than 1000 programs to companies and conventions. Her programs help participants discover quick and easy solutions to their everyday struggles while having fun. Here's an overview of some of her programs:
Reboot - how to stay focused, energized and more productive
You’ve got so much to do. Have you ever wished you could keep going and going and going like the Energizer® battery? (Or at least not fight fatigue after lunch?) Learn proven health tips that will help you keep your energy up including:
• How to control your thoughts and worries that tire you out
• Getting a refreshing night’s sleep and powernapping to recharge the brain cells
• Simple changes in your diet to prevent the blood sugar swings that zap your energy
Swimming in a Sea of Priorities
Do you have too much to do and not enough time? Feeling guilty that you don’t spend enough time with your loved ones or on the things you enjoy? In just a short time, you’ll feel more on track with your priorities and less stressed. We will:
• Establish your personal priorities & identify the true stressors in your life
• Learn how to stay focused at work and let it go when you’re home
• Create steps to smooth the transition from work to home (one of the most stressful periods)
Eat, Play, Laugh - simple strategies for staying healthy and fit on the go
With everything we have to do at work and at home, we often neglect to take care of ourselves the way we should. Think you don't have enough time? Dr. Jo offers inspiration with small change suggestions that make a big difference in our overall health and well-being. Discover:
• Healthy ideas for “desktop” and “dashboard” dining
• Quick dinner and snack ideas to help keep your energy up
• How to fit exercise into a busy day - and have fun doing it!
• Mood changers that will significantly decrease your stress level!
What Every Woman Wants - great legs, more energy, & peace of mind
Feeling fat, frazzled, and fatigued? It’s no wonder! The average American woman is working full time both at work and at home. If you’re looking for more energy and enthusiasm, Dr. Jo can help. This fun, funny, and motivational program will make you feel more relaxed, more in control, and ready to make some simple “no big deal” changes that will make a big difference in your life. Find out how to:
• Feel more energized throughout the day with just a few simple changes
• Get in control of your weight without having to succumb to another “diet”
• Cope with those aggravating “little things” that cause so much of our mental and physical distress
• Find needed time for yourself
Time for a Tune-up? - preventing the weight-up, worn-out feeling that comes with business travel Whether it’s business or pleasure that takes you on the road, travel can zap your energy and pack on the pounds. Dr. Jo, author of How to Stay Healthy & Fit on the Road and former contributor for USATODAY.com’s business travel section, shares quick and easy tips for alleviating weight gain and the worn-out feeling of travel! Learn how to:
• Eat healthy in any restaurant - even fast food
• Creatively fit in fitness and have fun!
• Get a good night’s sleep anywhere
• Manage jet lag and stress
How to Enjoy the Ride of Your Life
Whether we like it or not, change has become part of everyone’s job description. Our natural tendency is to resist change since it makes us feel fearful, out of control, and emotionally and physically unhealthy. How to Enjoy the Ride of Your Life is not about how to change your organization, it’s about how to restructure your thinking so you can look at change as a positive force, not a threat. Learn how to:
• Fly through turbulence without crashing
• Replace self-destructive coping methods with constructive ones
• Brainstorm instead of Blamestorm
• Constructively express your anger and practice the power of persuasion
• Go with the flow and be flexible (while maintaining peace of mind)
How to Make More Dough in Dietetics
According to Dr. Jo’s online salary satisfaction survey of 552 RDs employed in dietetics, 52% were either “unsatisfied or very unsatisfied” with their current financial compensation and 40% agreed with the statement, “I’ve seriously thought about switching careers so I can make the money I need.” But, there’s no need to change fields in order to make more dough! From her survey of nearly 100 “financially successful dietitians” (those earning in the top 10% according to ADA’s compensation survey), Dr. Jo will share:
• What traits high earners have in common - and how you can develop these strengths
• What classes dietetic students should take to prepare themselves for the higher paid positions
• How to negotiate your next raise or salary - step-by-step!
• Other valuable advice from big-time earners to help you reach your earning potential
How to Sell Yourself & Your Ideas
Everyday someone else is encroaching on our territory. If you don’t learn how to “sell” yourself and your ideas to your clients, employees, administration, prospects, and to the media, these unqualified “salespeople” will succeed at your expense. Find out how to:
• Get comfortable with the idea of “selling”
• Motivate others to remember you and what you do
• Persuade others to listen and respond to your ideas
How to Get FREE Publicity
Want more business? Don’t waste your money on advertising! Instead, get it for FREE! Find out how to get quoted in newspapers & magazines and interviewed on radio & TV. After this program you’ll be able to:
• Explain why some people get publicity and others don’t
• Write a press release that gets results
• Describe what to do (and not to do) when the press and media calls
Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Publishing and Media
Everyday there’s a self-proclaimed nutrition expert on the radio or TV giving advice. Yet, you are the real nutrition expert. How can you get the media to take notice? Find out how to:
• Publish a book for notoriety and residual income
• Determine whether traditional or self-publishing is the way to go
• Write a killer press release
• Contact the media with your ideas – and get them excited!
• Write great sound bytes so they’ll want you back
• How to effectively use the interview to get paid jobs • Handle difficult questions which get you off track
Build Your Business
Do you want to start up a business or give your existing business a boost? Wish you had business partners to brainstorm your projects and share ideas? Join us for this unique four-hour hands-on program designed to give you the tools to design your business (or fine tool your current business) so you can make more money. After each section, you’ll have an opportunity to complete practical exercises and get feedback from others. In the end, you'll walk away with a ready-to-go marketing plan for your business and be able to:
• Explain the difference between gross and net income – and figure out how much money you need to earn to be successful
• Distinguish your unique qualities, experience, and education that you can provide to a successful business
• Propose and share company names, tag lines and marketing sound bytes that display your uniqueness – to test your own and to evaluate others’
• Write a marketing plan that includes your goal/vision, ideal customers, products and services, competition, other barriers to success, and you and your company’s strengths and weaknesses
Product Production & Promotion
Products, such as books, tapes, wallet cards and teaching kits, offer credibility (as well as supplemental income) to a dietitian. In this fast-paced three-hour, program, participants will learn the nuts and bolts of developing and promoting a successful product program for their business. After this program, participants will be able to:
• Identify the benefits of producing product that ties into your business
• Discuss and propose product ideas
• Identify at least five steps to writing and publishing a book
• List three ways to market your proposed product(s)
Lean, Mean Restaurant Cuisine - for health professionals
With one quarter of all meals eaten out, we can no longer tell our patients to avoid restaurants - or to just eat the grilled chicken. Dr. Jo, author of Dining Lean, navigates the nutritional backroads from bistro to burger joint during this fun and informative program. She’ll share:
• How to manage weight, diabetes or heart disease at restaurants
• The healthier choices at chain restaurants
• Simple requests (chef-approved to taste great) to make almost any food healthier
