Leadership Speaker Pegine Draws Standing Ovation at MPI-Meeting Planners South East International Conference

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leadership speaker Pegine's message of "Communicate Your Value" received a standing ovation from senior executives in the hospitality, pharmaceutical and association industries who attended Meeting Planners International (MPI) South Eastern Conference in Orlando.

Pegine skillfully delivered content-rich stories, humor and audience interaction to create a rock star-like performance that had meeting planners line up to book her to speak at future events at associations, conferences, corporations and at government offices. Like many rock stars, Pegine (pronounced PEG-een) doesn't use her last name, but she is know worldwide by meeting planners at corporations, government agencies and military branches.

Her company, Team Pegine, produces extraordinary experiences worldwide inspiring a billion people to lead. Pegine charges $35,000 for a keynote speech, and her staff of certified trainers can deliver presentations, workshops and breakout sessions in both English or Spanish for presentations in the U.S. and throughout South America and Central America. For price lists and availability for Pegine and her certified trainers, go to www.TeamPegine.com

Team Pegine has a combined experience of over 100 years working with a variety of industries and organizations as well as local, state and federal governments and agencies.

Pegine, who is known as the Steve Jobs of Leadership for her leading-edge thoughts and ideas, offered five key points from her speech on how to become a better leader:

• Make your activity visible. Quantify your activities, such as how many phone calls you made or how many reports you wrote.
• Attitude. How do you communicate your commitment to success? Do you communicate your attitude to be a team player, to doing more with less, to looking for solutions? How do you accomplish the task and communicate it to everyone?
• Leverage. Who do you know who can help you?
• User Resources. Companies are looking to cut back on resources provided to employees. Unless you communicate how you use your resources, people won't know that what you do is valuable to your resources. For example, if you want to attend a conference, you need to show how it will help the company and how it will help you grow as a leader.
• Evolve. You won't be the same person a year from now. How do you plan to evolve? How are you planning to get there?

"No one can read your mind. Everyone is too busy running around focused on achieving whatever they need to achieve. To be heard you need courage, commitment and a strategy," said Pegine. 

About Pegine

Pegine Echevarria, CSP, MSW, President and CEO of Team Pegine, has over 30 years of management and leadership experience. She was honored by the Army Corps of Engineers, NASA, U.S. Army and U.S. Army National Guard for outstanding service.  She has received numerous awards from organizations honoring her success as a businesswoman, Hispanic leader and female role model.

As a speaker, Pegine motivates leaders in a diverse world. She is interviewed and quoted by The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Washington Post, The NY Times, and BusinessWeek.com as well as NPR Fresh Air, CNN and Univision affiliates. She testified before the Military Leadership Diversity Commission on the diversity among white men. Pegine is the one of 58 inductees into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame. 

She presents at the Pentagon, keynoted along with two U.S. Presidents, two Secretaries of State and authors John Maxwell and Suze Orman. She is author of "Sometimes You Need to Kick Your Own Butt."

She is the creator of the leadership inclusion program "White Guys Are Diverse Too™!", which is used by the military. She is the mother of two who serve our country.

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