Your variety of interwoven topics, your upbeat presentations, and your unique sense of humor brought your message home to us all. This was the first year that I can remember when everyone of our attendees returned to the auditorium after break instead of wandering away to work on other college related activities. That is a compliment about your ability to stimulate and entertain our employees that I hope you will especially appreciate.
Hennepin Technical College
Marty Patterson, Senior Dean of Instruction

Last year's convention evaluations requested you back to present on another topic at this year's convention and you WOWED an estimated 400 attendees again !!!! It was a privilege to be able to feature such an excellent presenter to our Long Term Care professionals. You are such a joy to work with, I certainly hope that we will have the opportunity to work together again.
Health Care Association of Michigan
Linda Munson, Director of Education

Thanks for doing such a great job at our convention. All Ican say is that I'm glad we used you to close the show each day. I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to follow you on any agenda. You are the proverbial "tough act to follow". It's not easy to help 3,000 women learn and laugh in the same session, but you did it.
Curves International, Inc.
Mike Raymond, President

I want to thank you for the outstanding presentation you provided at Carle's Business Health services' seminar. That may be an understatement since 100% of participants felt your presentation was very good or excellent as indicated on the evaluations. They represented a diverse group of leaders from area business and industries, which makes the survey results even more impressive. Some comments were:

Your presentation at the recent Serono Symposia Fourteenth International Conference for Nurses and Support Personnel in Reproductive Medicine was phenomenal. This was the first time that we had a speaker such as yourself open and close the conference. Your talk was truly inspirational. As I looked around the room on the days you spoke, I saw nurses crying and laughing almost simultaneously. As the chairperson at this conference you more than exceed my expectations. I consider it invaluable for people to be "in touch" with their feelings. Nurses especially. Fertility nurses have to guard themselves against many emotions on a day to day basis due to the roller coaster nature of their work. SOme nurses are stuck in this mode for a long time. You helped us back to our feelings and I believe this is part of a healing process that must take place on a regular basis in order for us to move forward. I heard many nurses say that they had not laughed or cried like that in a long time. Thank you so much for all that you gave to so many people throughout the conference as well as your excellent talks. Thank you for being there and being you!
Ottawa Hospital
Marianne Morrison, Clinical Services Manager,OB/GYN,ADMIN-ACU

Thank you so much for your outstanding presentation. My co-workers were motivated by your energetic and friendly personality. Comments from them were "Kathy was awesome! Very upbeat, positive, and super hilarious. I left feeling very uplifted. You can tell she is full of great wisdom." Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and laughter with us.
3M Office of Intellectual Property Counsel
Kathy Murray

Thank you for helping us make this year's Nurses Dinner an unqualified success. Your ability to both move us to tears and push us to laughter is a gift. We are grateful to have received it and for the pleasure of your company in celebrating the wonderful nurses and the great work they do at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Thank you so much for your patience, humor, encouragement and of course your energy!
Cambridge Health Alliance
Rick Lacy, MS, RN, Senior Director of Public Health Nursing Services

You were a great hit with our registrants at the CAHAV Convention. People came out of your session smiling, laughing and saying, "She was great". There were many other compliments, but the bottom line is that you reached our registrants in a very positive way. They loved you!!!!
Colorado Association of Healthcare Auxilians/Volunteers
Meryl M. Johnson, V.P. of Convention

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