keynote speaking and training topics

Judy Carlough draws her years in radio and TV to share stories and experiences with some of America’s top athletes, coaches and broadcasters to teach lessons about productivity in leadership, management and sales. A central theme is building a Champion Mindset, the mental toughness that all great performers must master to reach the top.

Judy spent over a decade as a sports personality on Boston TV and Radio (WBCN, WBZ, WSBK and others). She also served as the only woman to have ever run an all-sports radio station in a major market (San Diego’s XTRA). Her unique broadcasting unique broadcasting and management careers have provided an unprecedented chance for her to observe the habits of champion athletes and coaches while working as a top business executive.

Now as a speaking professional, Judy takes her 20+ years of business and sports success and helps companies improve productivity in leadership, management and sales. She shares the secrets of top performers as a keynote speaker, in workshops and training programs, and in her weekly radio show “Winning at Business”.

Keynote, Workshop or Training Options

Each of Judy’s topics can be delivered as a keynote, a workshop (2 hours to a full day) or a customized series of training sessions. Contact Judy for more information about a session tailored to your audience needs.


We often think weak communication is the other guy’s fault. THEY don’t listen. THEY don’t understand. But the problem starts with us. Judy shows that first you have to look in the mirror and understand your own communication style and how it connects with(or butts up against) other styles. Better communication begins when you change your attitude about how you should reach out to others. Learn the leadership secrets from Hall of Fame coaches and athletes that you can use.

What are the self-limiting beliefs you carry in your head that are holding you back? Where did they come from? How can you make them go away, for good? Judy shares the secrets that professional athletes, coaches and business leaders use to make sure their head trash doesn’t get in the way when the game is on the line.
It’s one of the hardest things we must do: recognize that our groove is somtimes a rut we’re stuck in. If you’re making excuses, procrastinating or just getting by, you’re stuck in a comfort zone and need help. Judy shows you how to spot these dangerous quagmires, and gives you tools to get out of your own way and back on the track to more productivity and happiness.
We all play as if the clock is never going to run out, putting off important tasks while we obsess over stuff that’s not important. It’s call procrastination and it comes from weak attitudes and poor priorities. Why do we give ourselves “permission” to focus on low-ROI activities? Judy solves the mystery of what it takes to do first things first and stop sweating the small stuff that drains our lives and keeps us from achieving our full potential.
America’s Cup sailors, Kentucky Derby jockeys and Boston Marathoners have something in common: They all spend 80-90% of their time being off course and need to constantly make corrections to win the race. Winners know how to face adversity, take risks and overcome challenges. We need to embrace our failures, rejections, setbacks and traumas. Our mistakes tell us how to adjust. This gives us confidence to face any obstacle. Judy offers a plan for steering around the potholes that are part of life’s journey.

As a leader, how do you inspire greater success? What’s your leadership philosophy? You might be surprised at what Judy can tell you about the productivity of team building using the carrot more often than the stick.

Learn six leadership secrets of 12 legendary coaches and athletes that you can use immediately to get more out of your team.

Accountability. We all duck it from time to time yet resent it when others do it to us. What’s at the root of scape-goating and not taking responsibility? Has America lost its moral compass, drifting on a sea of litigation and passing-the-buck? No, Judy says, but there is an epidemic of lowered accountability that only an attitude of empowerment and ownership can correct. Learn from champion athletes like Arthur Ashe, Larry Bird, and Peggy Fleming why winning is a do-it-yourself business, and you have to take responsibility for your victories and defeats.
You know you should think positive but how can you be optimistic with daily rejection, discouragement and defeat? Judy teaches the secrets of top baseball players, quarterbacks, and Olympians to embrace the challenges of defeat and use setbacks to achieve more. Her techniques give you the power to instantly change your attitude (and your destiny).

 

Life’s oldest sport: figuring out how men/women think (and why they can’t be more like each other). Judy explains that some disruptive attitudes are gender-linked and offers simple changes that can lead to profound improvements in communication, cooperation and productivity.

This program is often laugh-out-loud funny and helps everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom.

By 2010, population experts predict there will be critical American labor shortages which will bring retirees back into the workplace. Imagine 20-something Millennials working alongside 60-somethings Baby Boomers, with Gen-Xers, Echo Boomers and Nexters in between. It can be chaotic unless everyone understands and respects the different attitudes and work styles of all generations. If you want champion teamwork with all the players in your organization or home, you need to explore this area.