I know, speakers are "supposed" to have only one main speech that they tweak to particular audiences. That is the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom does not work well when you're trying to share unconventional truths. The topics below come from decades of experience, discovery, discernment and analysis. I am not a one-trick pony. And your audience will be the better for it.

I am also available as an emcee...bring my style of honoring the stories of people and organizations to your next major event.

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• Beautiful Because She Breathes: The Root of Self-Acceptance and Mutual Respect - A powerful presentation of stories and images that reveals that beauty resides in each woman of any age and of any stature...simply because she breathes.
  
• Daddin': The Verb of Being a Father- "To mother" connotes wonderful actions and relations between mother and child; "to father" infers procreation. Dion celebrates the life and actions of being father through stories, images and poetry, revealing to many and opening the door for fathers to enjoy their roles and stories.
• Discover and Polish the Pearls Within: Owning and Using Your Treasures Within Borne in Life's Experiences- Available as a presentation, keynote or workshop to see our experiences as treasures in the making, and how to change our lives with that knowledge.

• Dollars Are Great; Donors Are Better: While every nonprofit requires private funding to complete their mission, it is also too easy to focus on the dollars. Using planning and management that helps the organization engage the donors, it is easy to learn and succeed while recognizing that dollars are great, but donors are better.
  
• God You're Beautiful: What We Say to Others, We Say to God - Visually and emotionally engaging, this presentation reveals our calling to find beauty in our lives and call it out to others, for when we say it, we say it to God.
  
• (im)Perfect Beauty: Seeing and Celebrating Beauty in the Imperfect - Forget perfection and photographic correction, this presentation of words and images reminds us that beauty resides in all people of all sizes and types, and in all of creation.
• Leadership--It's What We Communicate: What Leaders Say or Do Determines Team Success - A role of leaders is to help a team achieve more as a group than they thought possible through actions, discipline and commitment. This presentation, using a simply bonfire example, challenges leaders to improve what and how they communicate.
  
• Listen to Life: Wisdom in Life's Stories- The wisdom we need surrounds us...if we listen to life, its stories and conversations with family, friends and strangers. What you hear will improve your personal and professional lives.
  
• Memories to Memoirs: Turning Life's Experiences Into Anthologies of Treasures - An engaging, four-step process of finding our lives stories, committing them to words in ways we're comfortable with, and saving them as a treasure for family and friends, or publication. Perfect for family reunions, too!

Now Is The Time to Go Where the Action Is--The wisdom of a seven year-old while playing in the surf reminds us that to change the world, we must be where the action is, whether at home, work, church, in the community…or anywhere. Where is the action and how do we get there? What skills do we need once we arrive? The world needs us to be where the action is. Learn how and why in this inspiring, invigorating reminder of our challenge, our responsibility and our ability to change the world.

• The Seeing, Not the Taking- Particularly created for photographers, this workshop/class challenges and guides photographers to the most essential aspect of their work: seeing.
  
• Shoeshine Sales Lesson: Six Things That Everyone in Sales Should Remember- A simple exchange with a shoeshine man illustrated six key lessons for all salespeople...and everyone is ultimately in sales.
  
• Show You Who I See in You: Images and Poetry Conveying One Man's View of Woman - A powerful presentation of stories, poetry and images that reveals Dion McInnis' view of Woman, based on years of commitment to her stories and the images that she inspires.
  
• Women in Leadership: Find the Power, Find the Potential- What leaders need today, women have by birth and life. Learn the power and potential of women as leaders, and how not to surrender those skills and traits.