Keynote: Life Lessons from Tickling the Ivories

My sister an I performing at our first recital. I’ll help your audience find their hidden talents, too!

Keynote             45 to 90 minutes

Looking at things differently is key to making a change in your habits—a change that results in more success with less stress.

In this uplifting, motivating, and fast-paced keynote, Carla uses music to demonstrate this secrets of peak performance in an entirely different way. From age four, when she first crawled up onto the piano bench and found the black keys, Carla started tickling the ivories. No, this isn’t a recital. It’s a motivational presentation.

Carla uses the piano as the medium to help audiences grasp performance principles and apply them to their businesses. They uncover their hidden or forgotten talents, and address how to exploit them in their profession today.

And, they have FUN!

During the presentation: Carla teaches someone to play the piano (in about 30 seconds) to demonstrate the power of coaching and direction. The audience even gives a standing ovation to the new pianist!

She involves the audience to demonstrate the synergistic power of the team.

Throughout a musical career which has spanned four decades, Carla was coached by the best—and became a highly regarded performer and performance coach. (She earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and an M.A. in music theory). Playing everything from classical to jazz to pop, Carla tackled some tough creative challenges. One was creating a course to teach classical piano teachers how to teach pop piano styles. She’s learned how to help audiences break down barriers to creativity and open their worlds to more success.