About the Author

Maia Beatty is The Powerful Presence Trainer and Coach and the principal of Discover Your Powerful Presence, a division of Maia Beatty & Associates, Inc., in Akron, Ohio. Her mission is to help people identify, access, and claim their Powerful Presence. Maia is the creator of over forty motivational keynote presentations and learner-focused, performance-based training programs, including the twelve-week program: Dance into Your Power on the Journey to Powerful Presence, the six-week Advanced Classes, and PowerSpeak!: The Art & Science of Confident Speaking. She is a Master Trainer. Maia has been training adults since 1982, and training trainers since 1999, across the US as well as in Canada, the UK and Australia. Her specialty is providing the environment that allows her learners to identify, access, and use their incomparable power so they can increase their skills and apply what they learn immediately. Maia is an international keynote speaker who has been using her warm and inspiring style since 1987 to connect her audiences with their own Powerful Presence and authentic self. She has spoken across the US and Canada, as well as in the UK and the Dominican Republic. She is a speaking coach. With her original program, PowerSpeak!, Maia has had a 100 percent success rate in increasing the speaking confidence and skill of her clients since 1999. She is also a co-active coach, helping her clients transform their circumstances and develop their unique Powerful Presence since 2004. Maia has a BA in psychology from Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. She is an NLP practitioner and a gradu¬ate of the Coaches Training Institute, with certificates in coaching, business development, and leadership. She is a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Maia is the winner of the 2011 Connector's Choice Award for "Best Speaker/Facilitator in Northeast Ohio. She lives in Bath, Ohio, with her beloved husband Chuck Beatty and their two eccentric cats, Fionn MacCool and Isis Marie.