Mary LoVerde

For fifteen years, as a busy mother with a demanding career on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the Hypertension Research Center, Mary LoVerde tried the 'superperson' route -- and failed. Struggling valiantly to keep up, she turned to time management, prioritizing, delegating, and simplifying. Yet, she continued to feel overwhelmed and torn apart. One day, while furiously working away at her computer and shouting at the kids to keep their distance, she realized a startling fact. In her zeal to get  everything done, she had become disconnected -- from her family, from her work, and from the person she was and wanted to be. LoVerde adopted a new life motto: When you can't keep up, CONNECT

A dynamic international speaker, consultant, and writer, LoVerde is President of Life Balance, Inc. a company devoted to spreading the message of finding balance through connection. She speaks to diverse audiences across the country and also shares her empowering strategies with dozens of major corporations including AT&T, Merck and Company, Proctor and Gamble, Discover Card, Hallmark, Lucent Technologies, and the Mayo Clinic.

Author of Stop Screaming at the Microwave! How to Connect Your Disconnected Life (Simon & Schuster, 1998) and contributor to the best-selling inspirational collections, Chocolate for a Woman's Soul and Chocolate for a Woman's Heart, LoVerde has touched many readers with her stories -- including her gift of a "Memory Jar," filled with handwritten reminiscences, to her mother. She presents a wealth of uplifting insights and innovative ideas for taking small steps in the right direction for a less stressful, more satisfying life.

• I Used to Have a Handle on Life but it Broke

• Stop Screaming at the Microwave

• Keeping Your Life In Balance When Cloning Yourself Won’t Work

• June Cleaver Never Fried Bacon in a Bill Blass Dress

Keynotes and Workshops

• I Used to Have a Handle on Life but it Broke!
  Working 24/7 and still can't get it all done? Most of us feel that the only way to manage the mounting chaos in our lives is to take control. If only we could get a handle on life! No wonder we have overwhelming to-do lists that leave us feeling exhausted and powerless. In this heartwarming and funny program you'll learn straightforward, innovative techniques for keeping your balance no matter what life throws your way. 

• Stop Screaming at the Microwave!: How to Connect Your Disconnected 
  You've organized, prioritized, delegated and simplified and you still don't have enough time for your family, your spouse, your friends, your boss -- much less yourself. You're a veteran of the time management wars, fighting for the life balance ideal -- and you are losing! In this funny and fast-paced presentation you'll learn a new approach for keeping your life in balance with the Connection Solution. You will leave armed with practical, heartwarming, "works in real life" ideas that you will want to implement immediately. 

• Keeping Your Life In Balance When Cloning Yourself Won’t Work 
  The old ways of balancing our lives focused on how to do more: work harder and faster. Well, we have learned the hard way that what we have tried hasn't worked: we are busier than ever. If you feel like you can't get it all done, that there is just not enough time in your day -- well -- this is not your imagination. You have not failed in some way. There really is too much to do. Our current strategies involve going faster and faster, but if you are going in the wrong direction, speeding up doesn't help. Our problem is not a "need for speed," but rather a "correction of direction." So short of quitting your job and running away from home, what do you do when you can't keep up? In this humorous and idea-filled program you will come to realize that even though you will not ever ever ever again get "it" all done, there are innovative strategies that can bring harmony into your home and work life -- strategies that work equally well with both men and women. If you are black and blue from juggling it is time for the New Approach to Life Balance.

• June Cleaver Never Fried Bacon in a Bill Blass Dress
  Is there a lot of June Cleaver in you, yet you are frustrated because you are not exactly living the life of the Cleavers? There is help! Because we live in a very different world than June did, we face problems June never heard of. Therefore, if we are going to be successful, we must recognize that many of the rules of the past no longer apply.