Engaging. Practical. Results Driven.
Programs That Inspire Action
For small business audiences who want clarity, confidence, and strategies they can use right away to increase revenue and gain great clients.
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A DIFFERENT KIND OF SMALL BUSINESS SPEAKER
Relevant. Relatable. REAL.
My job isn’t just to deliver a great presentation. It’s to help you deliver a great event.
When you bring me into your program, I want to understand your audience, your goals, the challenges your members are facing, and what you most want them thinking, feeling, and doing when they leave the room. I see myself as your partner in making that happen.
I don’t teach small business marketing from the sidelines. I live it.
I’m a small business owner who has to constantly juggle finding time to work ON the business while being consumed working IN it.
I often tell the business owners I work with:
“I’m only about three steps ahead of you.”
Yes, I have three marketing-related degrees. And yes, I’ve spent decades working with hundreds of business owners. But some of the most valuable lessons I teach come from my own trial and error – working with the same real-world constraints they face.
This is personal for me.
I grew up in a working-class, self-employed family. I watched firsthand what happens when extraordinarily talented people work incredibly hard — but never learn the marketing fundamentals that could have changed everything. That experience became my mission: to make best-in-class marketing knowledge practical, usable and accessible for small business owners — regardless of their business size or budget.
My Commitment to Meeting Professionals
Understand the audience.
Understand the goal.
Customize the program.
Give actionable content.
Be the easiest speaker to work with.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Practical Topics. Real Impact.
Engaging, high energy programs designed to help small business audiences think differently, take action, and grow.
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WHEN CLIENTS CHOOSE YOU
How small businesses create the clarity, credibility, visibility, and confidence that turn prospects into buyers
Why does attracting new business still feel unpredictable — even when you’re good at what you do?
This flagship program helps small business owners understand what actually has to happen before the right buyer feels confident enough to say yes. Rather than treating marketing as a collection of disconnected tools and tactics, Myra shows audiences how to see the buying decision through the customer’s eyes — and identify where confusion, doubt, friction, or perceived risk may be getting in the way.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
✓ Identify where confusion, doubt, friction, or perceived risk may be stopping the sale.
✓ See marketing through the buyer’s eyes rather than as a collection of disconnected tactics.
✓ Know what part of the marketing system needs attention first.
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What This Session Delivers
Myra introduces the Seven Client-Choice Conditions that influence whether a prospective buyer feels confident enough to choose you:
- Relevance — “This is for someone like me.”
- Understanding — “I understand what they offer and why it matters.”
- Credibility — “I believe they can deliver.”
- Visibility — “They appear where and when I look.”
- Validation — “Other people or sources reinforce the choice.”
- Safety — “This feels like a low-risk decision.”
- Easy Action — “I know what to do next.”
The session helps business owners connect those buyer-side conditions to the strategic foundation they control: the right buyer, the right offer, clear buyer-language messaging, visible proof, intentional visibility, and an easy next step.
Your Audience Will Leave With
- A clearer understanding of why strong products and services still don’t automatically create sales
- A practical way to identify where buyers may be getting confused, uncertain, or stuck
- A framework for deciding what part of their marketing needs attention first
- A more buyer-centered way to evaluate future marketing decisions
Best Fit For
Small business owners, entrepreneurs, and growth-minded audiences who are tired of trying disconnected marketing tactics and want a clearer understanding of what actually helps buyers say yes.
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BE KNOWN FOR WHAT YOU KNOW
How to turn your expertise into visible authority, stand out from competitors, and attract better clients
Being excellent at what you do is not enough if buyers can’t see the evidence.
This program helps small business owners turn their expertise into visible authority — so prospective clients can understand what makes them different, recognize why they’re credible, and remember them when it’s time to buy, refer, or recommend.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
✓ Identify the expertise, perspective, or specialty that truly distinguishes you.
✓ Demonstrate authority instead of merely claiming experience or quality.
✓ Become easier for buyers, referral partners, search engines, and AI to recognize and recommend.
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What This Session Delivers
Myra shows audiences how to move beyond generic claims such as “experienced,” “trusted,” or “high quality” and instead create visible evidence of what they know and why it matters.
Participants explore the many ways expertise can become observable — through specialized positioning, useful content, strong opinions and perspectives, case studies, testimonials, speaking, media visibility, collaborations, teaching, and other forms of third-party validation.
At the heart of the session is a simple question every buyer is ultimately asking:
“Why should I choose YOU?”
The goal isn’t to claim that you’re better. It’s to make it easier for buyers to see and understand why you’re different.
Your Audience Will Leave With
- A clearer understanding of what expertise or perspective they should become known for
- Practical ways to turn invisible knowledge into visible authority
- Ideas for building credible proof around their expertise without constantly “selling”
- A stronger understanding of how authority supports referrals, search visibility, AI recommendations, and better-fit clients
Best Fit For
Small business owners, consultants, coaches, professional service providers, and other subject-matter experts who are highly capable at what they do — but need to become more visible, differentiated, and clearly recognized for that expertise.
“Fresh perspective that triggers your ‘aha’ moment — with ideas that are actionable TODAY.”
— Carmen Sunda, Louisiana Small Business Development Center
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MAKE AI WORK HARDER FOR YOUR BUSINESS
How small business owners can move beyond basic AI use to improve thinking, productivity, decisions, and client service
AI can do far more than write social posts and clean up emails.
This practical program shows small business owners how to use AI as a thinking, research, planning, communication, and implementation partner — helping them work smarter, make better decisions, and expand what they can realistically accomplish without losing human judgment or control.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
✓ See where AI can save time, improve quality, and expand small-business capability.
✓ Get better results by giving AI real business context instead of relying on generic prompts.
✓ Use AI beyond content creation for research, analysis, systems, planning, and decision support.
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What This Session Delivers
Myra moves audiences beyond the “What prompt should I use?” stage and shows them how to think about AI as a practical business tool.
Participants explore how AI can support real work across the business — including customer research, target-market understanding, offer development, messaging, planning, process improvement, vendor evaluation, client preparation, follow-up, analysis, and decision support.
The emphasis is not on replacing expertise or judgment. It is on using AI to extend capacity, sharpen thinking, and reduce the time between insight and action.
Myra also demonstrates why AI produces dramatically better results when it understands the business context behind the request — the audience, goals, constraints, priorities, and desired outcomes.
Your Audience Will Leave With
- A broader understanding of where AI can create practical business value
- A better way to give AI the context it needs to produce useful results
- Ideas for applying AI to research, planning, systems, communication, and client work
- Greater confidence using AI without surrendering strategy, judgment, or accountability
Best Fit For
Small business owners and entrepreneurs who have experimented with AI — or know they should be using it more effectively — but want practical, business-focused applications beyond basic content creation.
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OWN THE STRATEGY. DELEGATE THE EXECUTION.
How to get better marketing help without wasting money and losing control
Small business owners do not need to become marketing technicians.
But they do need enough strategic clarity to know what they are trying to accomplish, who they need to reach, what they need to communicate, and how outside marketing support should contribute.
This program helps business owners separate marketing leadership from marketing execution — so they can hire better help, ask better questions, evaluate recommendations more intelligently, and keep ownership of the decisions that matter most.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
✓ Separate the strategic decisions only the owner can make from the execution that can be delegated.
✓ Know what kind of marketing help you actually need before hiring a freelancer, agency, or specialist.
✓ Evaluate marketing activity by whether it supports real business priorities — not just clicks, followers, or other vanity metrics.
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What This Session Delivers
Myra helps business owners understand one of the most expensive marketing mistakes small companies make: outsourcing execution before they have enough strategic clarity to lead it.
The owner does not need to know how to build the website, manage the ad platform, run the email system, create the graphics, or optimize every technical tool.
But the owner does need to understand the business goal, the best-fit buyer, the offer, the message, the proof, the desired customer action, and what meaningful results should look like.
Participants learn how to distinguish between the strategic responsibilities they must continue to own and the specialized execution they can confidently delegate.
The session also helps owners become better buyers of marketing services — able to evaluate recommendations, ask smarter questions, recognize misalignment sooner, and avoid paying for activity that is disconnected from the business strategy.
Your Audience Will Leave With
- A clearer understanding of what marketing decisions should remain under the owner’s control
- A practical way to identify what type of outside expertise or execution support they actually need
- Better questions to ask agencies, freelancers, consultants, and specialists before hiring them
- A stronger ability to connect outsourced marketing activity to meaningful business outcomes
Best Fit For
Small business owners and entrepreneurs who are ready to get help with marketing — or are already paying outside providers — but want to make better decisions, maintain strategic control, and get more value from the people and tools they hire.
SEE MYRA IN ACTION
Real Audiences. Real Results.
Spark Ideas. Ignite Action.
High-Energy. Practical. Actionable.
Watch Myra in front of real audiences and get a feel for the practical energy she brings to the room. Her programs help small business audiences cut through the noise, focus on what matters, and leave with ideas they can use right away.
✓ Audience Engagement
Interactive, relatable, and designed for real-world impact.
✓ Practical Takeaways
Actionable strategies and tools audiences can use immediately.
✓ Ideas That Lead to Action
Clear next steps people can put into practice right away.
MYRA’S VIRTUAL SPEAKING
Professional On Stage. Proven On Screen.
Certified capability. Recognized virtual presence.
2024 Virtual Speakers Hall of Fame Nominee
Watch Myra’s 7-minute virtual showcase presentation and see why she was selected as a nominee for the Virtual Speakers Hall of Fame.
eSpeakers Certified Virtual Presenter
Myra has passed a rigorous third-party assessment of her equipment, environment, and virtual presentation skills. You can be confident her virtual events run smoothly and deliver real value to your audience.
✓ Third-party certified for virtual presentation excellence
✓ Professional virtual setup and meeting-readiness
✓ Engaging, audience-focused delivery
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
The Best Proof Is What Happens in the Room.
Meeting professionals value the preparation. Audiences remember the experience.
Meeting Professionals
From conference planners to association leaders, meeting professionals trust Myra to deliver relevant, engaging, and results-driven programs — and to make the planning process easy.
FEATURED MEETING PROFESSIONAL REVIEW
Myra was one of our keynote and breakout speakers at an Employers Association of America conference we held in New Orleans this summer and I would absolutely work with her again on any future engagement.
Myra was extremely easy to work with and was timely and responsive regarding communications. Myra was creative and very thorough with her content ideas and how she planned to meet stated objectives for the session. Myra was also very open to our suggestions and recommendations so that we were providing meaningful content to our participants.
The sessions Myra ended up delivering for us not only had great content, her delivery and sense of humor engaged and inspired the audience. In addition, as can sometimes happen, scheduling changes did occur with our conference and Myra was also willing to “go with the flow” as we needed without hesitation.
“Myra made me look so good!”
“A perfect balance of strategy and actionable steps.”
“Myra can engage and connect with audiences at the highest level.”
“Myra is a seasoned pro and can adapt to any situation.”
“Working with Myra was a complete delight.”
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We just finished a FABULOUS meeting where Myra was our Guest Speaker today.
She was not only exceptionally eloquent and professional in her presentation, but the information she gave us was profoundly useful.
She made her case citing her work with over 150 small businesses — just this year! She gave us usable, practical information that we can (and many in our group have already) implement to get serious business results.
If you want to get your business moving forward, check into what you can gain by working with Myra.
She is also a whiz on AI and knows how to use these tools for serious business benefits.
We highly recommend her to any business that wants to break out of the doldrums and get serious bottom-line benefits.
Myra is an amazing presenter! She has a gift for presenting information with a fresh perspective that triggers your “aha” moment.
While serving as a center director for LSBDC, I tapped Myra as a speaker and trainer on countless occasions. She has been my go-to since our first engagement. And continues to be in my current roles.
The ABWA Crescent City Connections Express Network hosts 2 large signature annual events. This year, we were delighted to have Myra Corrello take the main stage for our 5th Annual “Women Can Drive Business Symposium.” Myra’s presentation, “Marketing ME: 7 Strategies to Get What You Want” was a perfect choice for this diverse audience of women.
Myra was engaging, entertaining, informative, and inspiring.
Myra’s highly interactive style was perfect for the large, expansive venue. She physically covered all parts of the audience and engaged them with humor and soul. She added great energy to the event.
Myra is a highly-respected professional who has built a loyal following of audience members as well as community leaders. She delivers what she promises and is a joy to work with. She will always go the extra mile for you.
I contacted Myra to speak at The Jewelers of Louisiana Convention and she delivered. Myra was prepared to educate and challenge these business owners. She had a short time to speak and was able to briefly communicate her message of finding the correct resources to help you grow your business and building structure.
Myra’s experience with businesses of many sizes allows her to relate to various audience and speak to owners/managers with ideas that are actionable TODAY.
Myra is truly an engaging and informative presenter. She has presented to my MBA classes for years, and students are always enthralled with the information she shares on how they can increase their influence and enhance their personal brands. Her highly interactive style and skill-building breakouts are ideal for the students. With brilliant energy and great insight, Myra always delivers.
Much thanks to Myra Corrello, PhD, for being a guest speaker in my MBA Strategic Marketing Management class. Myra has long been a supporter of the University, and she consistently does an outstanding job of connecting classroom theory to real-world practice. During her visit, she offered students thoughtful guidance on how they can use AI to craft their personal brand, differentiate themselves, and add value in an increasingly competitive environment. Her remarks were timely and highly relevant for our students. I truly wish every student in the university could have heard her presentation.
I can say without hesitation that Myra Corrello delivers what she promises.
Myra is so approachable and is a good listener in getting to know the client and what the client wants. I have had the honor of hearing her speak in several different settings. As a guest and a participant I have walked away from her presentations feeling strong and powerful. Myra’s presentation is exactly as she is, motivational and positive.
In a recent presentation participants were overly appreciative of her message and would love for her to return for a second session. It was wonderful to hear such wonderful feedback about her from our members.
On a personal note, I have worked with Myra in other women’s organizations. Myra is the first to speak up and take the lead. She shows initiative with enthusiasm. She is professional yet cares about your mission.
We engaged Myra to facilitate the second year of our pilot virtual CEO roundtable group. Myra has helped us continue to move our concept further into development. She works extremely well with the CEOs and they are very supportive of her.
She has vast knowledge to contribute to the discussions, knows how to bring out reticent members while managing the over-contributors, and has brought in outstanding outside content and guest speakers from her own network.
She also added a valuable online forum to house discussions and resources. Myra is a pleasure to work with and her commitment to small business owners and the entrepreneurial community is unquestionable. We look forward to working with her again should the opportunity arise.
I highly recommend Myra Corrello as a business trainer/faculty/speaker. Myra is an exceptional instructor in any area of business. She communicates very well, and engages participants with real life examples. She is a good listener, and focused on what learners need from her. Myra moderates very well the classroom, and promotes a vibrant learning environment.
I first met Myra as a professor in graduate school, having her for several classes. I was a repeat offender, finding her knowledgeable, approachable, and generous with her time and expertise. Myra has an exuberant approach that stimulates others to learn.
I have since engaged her as a skilled and dynamic professional speaker, hiring her as a keynote speaker for a professional organization conference I chair. Myra never disappoints. Her poise, authenticity, and passion for learning always translates to a valuable experience for others.
Program Attendees
Attendees walk away with new insights, practical tools, and a renewed sense of possibility.
“I didn’t just feel inspired — I rethought and changed my marketing strategy as a communication coach.”
“Dr. Corrello possesses a profound depth of knowledge and a unique knack for igniting innovative thought processes. Engaging with Myra translates to tangible ROI.”
“She has special skills in helping business owners articulate their message in an impactful way.”
“Listening to you speak had me thinking of all the things I needed to do to grow my business. I couldn’t write it all down fast enough.”
“She pushed me to think bigger than I thought possible.”
“It astonishes me how brilliant she is and yet so down to earth. It is always money well spent.”
“She absolutely blew me away with her cutting-edge knowledge and practical wisdom. She doesn’t just teach business growth and marketing — she lives it.”
“Myra is just a light! She really is.”
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I recently participated in the Shell LiveWire Louisiana Accelerator Program and Myra was an instrumental part of my learning experience during the program.
Her insight in the mechanics of running a successful business combined with her attentive personality were the perfect combination to propel business owners to reach their full potential. Each of her presentations were flawlessly executed, reflecting her decades of experience. Following each session, I felt empowered with the motivation to put her words and expertise into motion.
I definitely see the positive impact of her perspective, honest desire for businesses like mine to thrive, and her ability to connect us to resources to reach the next level of success.
I had the distinct pleasure of hearing Myra speak at Loyola University’s Women’s Leadership Academy. Myra is knowledgeable and insightful with an easy manner that instantly pulls you in. Her breadth and depth of experience is apparent in everything she says. Her ability to connect with the audience made her presentation engaging and personal. I wholeheartedly recommend Myra.
Myra is the ultimate professional. Whether speaking in person or virtually, she is dynamic, engaging and real. Not only does she present herself as warm and open, she follows through by reaching out to those who want to learn more from her. I anxiously await the next time that I can hear a presentation from Myra!
Most recently I attended Myra’s presentation to Jefferson Parish business professionals on public speaking. Not only is she a supportive and motivating female colleague but she is one of the most engaging and composed female speakers I know. I highly recommend her without hesitation!
Myra’s strength lies in her ability to analyze, communicate and inspire others to see the possibilities and challenge them to lay a solid foundation to achieve excellence.
Her enthusiasm and sincerity are contagious; and she naturally energizes the room by engaging participants as she presents!
Myra keeps it real, relevant and on track.
WOW, what a wealth of information about the rapidly-changing landscape of using social media for business, and especially how to leverage LinkedIn most effectively. We heard Myra speak multiple times and every time she delivers incredible value!
Myra is incredibly knowledgeable! She takes the complex and makes it simple. She is an outstanding, easy to understand speaker. Highly Recommend!!
Myra is a dynamic speaker and seasoned marketing pro. Her years of experience combined with decades of supporting entrepreneurs across industries make her a rare asset to any room she enters. She brings a strategic mind, a creative edge, and a deep understanding of what it takes to grow and sustain a business.
I had the honor of being a student in the Catapult program through the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and one of the absolute highlights was learning from Myra. She’s an incredible instructor—engaging, knowledgeable, and so generous with her insight.
Myra has a gift for breaking things down in a way that’s both practical and inspiring. You walk away from her sessions not just with tools, but with a renewed sense of confidence and purpose. She truly cares about the success of small business owners and creatives, and it shows in everything she does.
Myra spoke at a 10K Small Businesses cohort, and was so dynamic and capable, it left the group feeling both energized and with clear direction on how we can reframe our business mindset. Highly recommend!