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Andrea Driessen

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How do YOU matter to your organization?

Knowing the answer can make you and your culture a MAGNET for better service, productivity, and retention. And it can change the way you work and live.

After all, when we know how we matter, when we're valued and honored for our distinct talents, we:

  • Take bigger risks
  • Accept greater challenges
  • Build more cohesive teams
  • Feel more alive and focused
  • Contribute more time and energy to mission-critical initiatives
  • Live a life that is more meaning-FULL

Andrea Driessen is the founder of global Gracenotes® ("messages of mattering") movement, a 2x viral TEDx speaker (whose talks have garnered over 2 million views), an award-winning entrepreneur, and a 3x author of an award-winning business book.

Her live, interactive Gracenotes experiences show us that it can take just. one. person to change the course of someone's day, career, or LIFE. To show us that we are making a difference. That we have a real purpose.

Andrea's speaking style is what she calls a wenote®-a co-created, interactive, actionable keynote. Because...who wants to sit through a boring, monologue keynote??

Andrea was featured in a short film about Gracenotes, and as a longtime hospice volunteer in Seattle, understands the profound power of open and caring communication between those who are dying and their loved ones, along with the importance of recognition, reward, appreciation, and productivity in the business world.

Through her interactions with people who are dying...and those who are very much alive...Andrea's developed the inspiring and practical Gracenotes program that is changing people's lives around the globe.

Speaking topics

Seen, Heard, Significant:
How Gracenotes® help lessen burnout, lower stress, & improve trust

A McKinsey study asked managers why employees were quitting their firms. It wasn't to earn more money. The key reason? Employees didn't feel recognized-they didn't feel seen.

And it's not just employees who feel unseen. Executives feel it too-the expression "It's lonely at the top" is alive and well. All this alongside a sorry lack of human-to-human connection and industries turned upside down as Artificial Intelligence eclipses our Actual Intelligence.

Yet when we go from feeling unseen to feeling significant, we contribute more time and energy to our work, industry, and those around us. We feel less burned out. We live more fulfilling, purpose-driven lives. We build more engaged, humane, trust-filled workplaces and communities. And we live into our greatest legacies.

So how do we simply, powerfully, and consistently show others how they matter? Gracenotes. This Swiss army knife for modern life says: "I SEE you. Here's HOW you MATTER...." 

Gracenotes are the science-backed method, mindset, and global movement that:

  • Help us feel more seen and heard
  • Lessen loneliness-across generations
  • Improve focus, engagement, and trust
  • Boost belonging-at work, at home, at anywhere
  • Transform the "mean" we're feeling into the meaning we're craving
  • Counter our sadder and meaner culture

Program length: 45 to 75 minutes; available virtually and in person.

Takeaways include a Gracenotes writing prime. 

How will YOU Matter?
Gracenotes® for Financial & Estate-Planning Firms

Gracenotes---"eulogies for the living---are the conversational blueprint to ensure your clients' emotional affairs are in order -alongside financial & legal affairs. They amplify the HUMAN side of financial and legal affairs. They're a simple, powerful, actionable tool says to those we care about most: "I SEE you. Here's HOW you MATTER...."

And when we know how we matter, we can harness more of the opportunities, gifts, and possibilities that others see within us. We can foster a greater legacy.

Learning about Gracenotes is also an ideal way for clients of financial and legal firms to:

  • Improve inter-generational communication and connection
  • Lessen loneliness...across generations
  • Feel more peaceful, because emotional affairs are in order along with financial and legal affairs
  • Deepen trust and loyalty between a firm and its clients
  • Enjoy more easeful conversations around loss
  • Reduce regret throughout life

In your engaging, science-backed, co-created keynote experience...AKA a WENOTE®...Andrea Driessen presents a one-of-a-kind mix of interactivity, along with poignant stories that show participants how and why to write Gracenotes at work and home.

Gracenotes® for Healthcare, Hospice, & Senior Living Communities
The method & mindset to foster a more meaningful legacy—& lessen regret

Gracenotes are eulogies for the living. They're a simple yet profound way for families, residents, healthcare professionals, friends, and colleagues to say, "I SEE you. Here's HOW you MATTER...." They're notes for people across generations that express our sincerest thoughts about them-while they're still here.

In your highly engaging, co-created keynote experience...AKA a WENOTE®...Andrea Driessen presents a one-of-a-kind mix of interactivity, along with poignant stories that show participants how and why to write Gracenotes at work and home.  

Senior living communities, healthcare and aging-services professionals can use-and teach their communities to use-Gracenotes to: 

  • Enjoy more EASEFUL conversations around change and loss 
  • Reduce REGRET at any time in life-and especially at the end of life 
  • Cultivate deeper MEANING, especially when life feels precarious and uncertain 
  • Lessen LONELINESS-across generations 
  • Reinforce the "SCIENCE of being seen"-data that supports the value of mattering 
  • Help counter our SADDER and MEANER culture 
  • Build clear paths toward living into our GIFTS and LEGACIES 
  • Help us feel more GROUNDED and COHESIVE in anxious times  

Testimonials

"Andrea engaged the head and the heart for tangible results."
Kristin Graham, Former Principal, Culture & Comms, Amazon.com 

Andrea's talk "profoundly moved our team, inspiring us to make visible and shareable the kinds of affirmations we too often reserve for eulogies. Andrea has a rare ability to connect across professional disciplines, blending personal storytelling in a way that acknowledges the impact we can have on one another. Her presence is warm, authentic, and intellectually rich- and who doesn't need more of that?"
Jennifer LeMaster, CEO, Seattle Convention Center

"...authentic and genuine...During Andrea's Gracenotes session, our audience participation and engagement were at the highest I've seen [in a virtual format] because of Andrea's ability to relate to people, making them feel safe and comfortable. "
K. H., Sales Operations, The Boeing Company

"Andrea Driessen's presentation was the BEST staff training session for all staff that we've ever had in my time here.... Personal, interpersonal, practical, well-paced, useful, usable."
Danielle Garbe Reser, CEO, BMAC

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