Speaking & Appearances

To Inquire Re Speaking engagements…

Contact:  info@rightsizingyourlife.com or Fischer-Ross Lecture Management: fgrstaff@earthlink.net

Attention marketers, senior move managers, professional organizers, convention & event coordinators, librarians, and purveyors of inspiration for active adults in need of “Downsizing 9-1-1″ advice.

GIVE CIJI WARE SIXTY MINUTES AND SHE’LL HAVE YOUR AUDIENCES READY TO

  • Conquer Their Fear of Changing Lifestyles
  • Understand (and Work Through) a Normal Sense of “Loss of Control”
  • Create a Step-by-Step Plan to Prepare to “Rightsize” Their Lives
  • Make a Personal Blueprint for Moving into New Living Quarters
  • Learn What Personal Possessions to Keep and What to Toss
  • Commit to Putting Their Names on a Waiting List for a Future Residence
  • Commit to Moving into Your Community
  • Implement the First Ten Steps to “Downsize with a Difference”
  • Stage (or Find an Expert to Prepare) Their Home Prior to Sale
  • Deal with Family Heirlooms, Photographs, Personal Papers and “Collections”
  • Cope with Cranky Spouses and Foot-dragging Adult Children

GIVE CIJI SIXTY MINUTES AND SHE’LL HELP YOUR SALES STAFF:

  • Understand the Unspoken Concerns of the Mid-to-Late Life Buyer
  • Learn the Secrets that Your Client Won’t Tell Them
  • Create a Vision of the Future Your Client Can Relate To
  • Become a “Change Agent” for a Reluctant Prospect
  • Acquire the Subtle Motivators that Can Inspire Clients Getting to “Yes”
  • Harness Local Professionals Who Will Smooth Your Client’s Move

Let a Bestselling Author Motivate Your Prospects and Entertain and Inspire Your Audiences

The Wall Street Journal named Ciji Ware’s Rightsizing Your Life one of the “Top 5 Books on Retirement” for 2007. Now you can share Ciji’s insights with your organization’s members, your sales prospects, or your sales force by booking her to address your group.

An Emmy-award winning TV and radio broadcaster, print journalist, and sought-after event speaker, Ciji will offer practical strategies, inspirational advice, along with an eloquence that has moved audiences to tears.

Appearances & Clients (partial list)

  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MOVE MANAGERS (National Convention), Speaker
  • GROWING BOLDER RADIO 5 interviews – 2007 through 2010
  • WOMEN & WINE, Voiceamerica.com
  • THE ROLANDA SHOW, ‘live’ interview
  • 92ND STREET Y, featured speaker
  • HARVARD CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC, featured speaker
  • HARVARD CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA, featured speaker
  • HARVARD COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES – 1999 as President of Harvard Alumni Association
  • CARMEL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ARTS & LITERARY SERIES
  • KRON-TV, San Francisco,Morning Show ‘live’ interview
  • HABITAT BOOKS, featured speaker
  • HILL & CO. REAL ESTATE, San Francisco, featured speaker
  • BARNES & NOBLE COLLEGE BOOKSELLERS/Harvard Coop, book signing & talk
  • PACIFIC UNION REALTORS, Marin County, California, featured speaker
  • CARMEL PEO FUNDRAISER, Carmel California, featured speaker
  • SAUSALITO LIBRARY AUTHORS’ SERIES, featured speaker
  • UC BERKELEY EXTENSION SCHOOL, Instructor on “Living Big in Small Spaces”
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS (National Convention), Speaker 2007 & 2009
  • PRINCETON WINDROWS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY -Princeton, New Jersey,” Rightsizing Your Life”
  • EDGEWOOD RETIREMENT COMMUNITY – North Andover, Massachusetts, “Rightsizing Your Life”
  • STANFORD CLASSIC RESIDENCE BY HYATT – Palo Alto, California, “Rightsizing Your Life”
  • SARATOGA RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, Saratoga, California, Making the Right Moves”
  • THE TAMALPAIS RETIREMENT COMMUNITY – Greenbrae, California, “Making the Right Moves”
  • MASONIC RETIREMENT COMMUNITY – Union city, California 2009 & 2010, “Making the Right Moves”
  • SHEA HOMES:  Various venues in California and Arizona