“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton, Mayor of Ottawa (1951-1956, 1960-1964)
But with all due respect to the now deceased Mayor Whitton, when it comes to listening to our voices, sculpting our messages, stepping into our power, and affecting change…sometimes it is.
As women, we are neither taught nor socialized to adopt the belief system, mindset, or skills to shift other people’s thinking. To mobilize people to action. To open our mouths and be undismissable. To be an influencer.
Most of us are straddled uncomfortably somewhere between shouting to be heard and staying mum to be nice.
We erroneously believe that we must prove our worth with a laundry list of educational credentials, professional experiences, and credible endorsements.
We privilege logic and rules over our own intuitive knowing.
And when we do not harness our authentic, feminine power – when we instead seek to influence the way we think we should and deny our innate gifts – we are usually pretty darn ineffective.
Whether it’s at work, in our communities, or with our friends and loved ones; in our conversations, pitches, or speeches; the people in our lives don’t truly hear what we’re truly trying to say. They don’t fully consider our arguments (that is, if we’re even making one). As a result, minds and situations don’t change, our frustrations grow, and we increasingly doubt our abilities and move further and further away from our desire to make significant impact.
But lady, at your core – underneath the nasty habits, lackluster results, and at times crippling self-talk – you ARE an influencer. Here’s how I know.
If what I’m saying is making you nod your head up and down and say, “Yes, I’m ready to make more impact!” I want you to join me in the inaugural Step Into Your Moxie Influencer Academy.
With 10+ years experience empowering women to develop heart-centered, high impact communication and ethical leadership skills, I know how to get women out of their own way and into their moxie. I’ve coached and taught thousands of women from junior high through senior leadership how to be the master of their own life and career narrative.
To speak with confidence and competence.
To be masterful presenters and public speakers.
To close more sales.
To negotiate for what they want and are worth.
To build a movement around their ideas.
To be kind to themselves, have fun, and feel red hot while doing it!
But please…don’t just take it from me. Listen to what my clients have to say.
I am a sales person and after having one of the worst months, I knew I needed to make a big change. I met Alexia Vernon at a Women Entrepreneurs event earlier this year and immediately connected with her during her presentation. I thought, “She’s so much like me.”
Going into our coaching, I knew that I was ready and receptive. I wanted a change. I wanted to be successful. But honestly, I thought I really knew myself. I had a pretty good idea of my hang-ups. So I thought she would guide me to make some minor adjustments and slowly I would do my job better.
You know what? I didn’t have all the answers. Well as Alexia would probably say, I had the answers, I just didn’t know what they were at the time. I had some surprising issues about making money and being successful in my career. In my previous career, I made good money, but I grew to hate it. So I learned that I was equating making money with hating my job. I liked this job, so I was unintentionally trying not to make money. Wow! Big mind shift on that one.
But the biggest aha moment came when Alexia guided me to the realization that I have all the skills, tools, knowledge, and power to be the best. “Oh, I have the answers. I already know everything I need to know to be successful!” I had it in my mind that it was everyone else that was messing things up for me. When I said these words out loud, I swear I could hear angels singing.
So did things change for me? You bet they did. My sales increased by 4 times that very month and I’ve passed my sales goal for this month.
Invest in yourself. If you are willing and open to finding the truth about yourself, Alexia can guide you to being everything you want to be, just like she did for ME!
Kim Rocke
California Closets | Castaic, CA
Alexia really knows her stuff. She held an incredibly safe and supportive space during my Moxie session. I felt confident in her ability to help me grow while being extremely kind with my fears and struggles. I left our session with specific tools I can use. We laid a strong foundation for me to rock my message. I have been looking for a way to do this and working with Alexia cut years off of my learning curve.
Sarah Yost
Life Coach | Wichita, KS
I wanted to do something that was just for me! I desperately needed to feel like I was “feeding” myself. I experienced several “aha” moments in my group with Alexia. But one that stands out is connecting a story I tell frequently about my background to the story of what I do and why. I’m embracing my power, my vision, and my gifts more and more each day! Working with Alexia is awesome! And by awesome I mean she is a truly gifted listener and is able to turn whatever you may be fumbling with into actionable steps that provide unexpected insight and a good burst of energy.
Jacquette Timmons
Financial Author, Speaker, and Coach | New York, NY
Working with Alexia over the past 4 years has been a true gift. Speaking with her at significant impasses, often accompanied by immense fear and frustration, she has always provided critical focus, clarity, and a new lens through which to view the world. Alexia’s strength lies in asking the exact question needed to break down any barriers in our path, catapulting us forward to living as we know we should be.
Teri Leavens
Weber Shandwick | Washington, DC
Alexia has an incredible talent for helping others close the gap between where they are and where they wish to be. We worked closely together at the launch of my 5-week class for women jobseekers, from conception to implementation. She helped me get out of my own way and focus on my gifts and strengths, while showing up to each new situation with courage and determination. Alexia’s coaching tools provide an invaluable platform from which to build a successful career or thriving business. I’m so glad I met her when I did!
Suzanne Grossman
Career Education and Training Coordinator | Brooklyn, NY
Thank you SO much! You are brilliant and I am released to be me. What an extraordinary gift.
Nikki Emerich
St. Thomas, USVI
Alexia is clearly someone who really considers each person separately and tries to think about what they’re dealing with and how to work with their particular situation. She is extremely positive and really does want people to realize their own awesomeness and then use that to get to where they want to be.
Jessica Betts
New York, NY
I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am for what you were able to do to help me with my public speaking abilities! Alexia, you have my eternal gratitude for finally getting me over my near-paralyzing fear of speaking.
Tanya Murray
Las Vegas, NV
In my inaugural Influencer Academy, you have the opportunity to learn and practice the strategies and techniques to exert the influence and drive the results you seek in your professional and personal life.
You are the perfect student for Influencer Academy if you are:
- Ready to create positive impact each time you walk into a room or open your mouth.
- Hungry to communicate in a way people can genuinely hear and that inspires right action.
- Passionate about making decisions that are for the greater good.
- Open to being uncomfortable in pursuit of developing new behaviors and skills.
- Eager to develop mutually beneficial professional and personal relationships.
- Determined to create and sustain an integrated life that honors your values, forwards your purpose, and is juicy and fun.
- Willing to let go of excuses for past shortcomings and put in the elbow grease to achieve results moving forward.
- Someone who actively participates in and thrives from engagement in communities with other motivated and likeminded women.
- Ready to hold yourself accountable to making a habit of becoming the influencer you were put on this earth to be.
During our 6-weeks together – through delicious exercises, hands-on skill building activities, recommended readings, practical videos, an exclusive virtual community, and through the soul of the Academy, our weekly group calls (where you will receive oodles of one-on-one coaching) – you will develop the Six Core Competencies to be a woman of influence.
WEEK 1: The Art & Practice of Storytelling (March 19)
- Recall, relive, release, reframe, and re-apply the story of you to unleash your blocks to influencing and step fully into your power.
- Explore the 3 classical story structures for affecting people’s behavior, and learn the proper times to employ each.
- Discover how to use storytelling to connect with an audience, establish your credibility, and move them to action.
- Hone your ability to distinguish fact from fiction in your own and other people’s stories to enhance your relationships and exponentially increase your results.
WEEK 2: The Art & Practice of Coaching (March 26)
- Learn how coaching is distinct from counseling, advising, or training.
- Discover the 5 key building blocks of an effective coaching conversation – whether you are speaking to co-workers, clients, friends, or loved ones.
- Explore how to use coaching to empower people to take responsibility for their actions and develop productive behaviors.
- Sink your teeth into the art and practice of coaching by experiencing firsthand how to coach and be coached.
WEEK 3: The Art & Practice of Diffusing Conflict (April 2)
- Learn why conflict is often the most important ingredient for cooking up a strategic and lasting solution to an existing problem.
- Compile strategies for diffusing inappropriate outbursts of emotion while acknowledging people’s fears and frustrations.
- Get comfortable taking full responsibility for your role in an uncomfortable situation.
- Master the ability to initiate and facilitate “difficult” conversations with the people closest to you at work and at home.
WEEK 4: The Art & Practice of Giving and Receiving Feedback (April 9)
- Practice giving feedback that is timely, specific, behavioral, and the right kind of personal.
- Learn how to enable people to think about their own thinking to recognize and curb their shortcomings.
- Develop the mindset to receive feedback with grace rather than with a f*ck you attitude.
- Be able to end feedback conversations with a clear plan of action and a complementary means for future assessment.
WEEK 5: The Art & Practice of Negotiating (April 16)
- Discover the foolproof way to make negotiations something you look forward to and initiate.
- Learn the key strategies to negotiate for more (i.e., money or meaning) and less (i.e., micromanagement or household chores).
- Get comfortable facilitating negotiation conversations and preparing for the unknown.
- Apply the 5 negotiation Must Do’s and 5 Must Don’ts to relevant situations in your life.
WEEK 6: The Art & Practice of Persuasive Speaking (April 23)
- Differentiate informative speaking from persuasive speaking, and learn the 5 key components of an impactful persuasive case.
- Get comfortable sculpting and delivering a call to action that obtains your desired results.
- Explore how to use persuasive speaking to build your client base, mobilize social change, and improve people’s lives.
- Discover how to build all of the preceding influencing skills into your persuasive case.
Each 1-hour call will be conducted via phone from 5:30-6:30PM PST on the Monday designated above. Each call will be taped should you want to refer back to it or have an unavoidable conflict. But…since influencing is a muscle that needs to be flexed in order to get buff, you will want to practice getting comfortable in your power and use it to get yourself to each session. On time!
To support your participation, I’m offering everyone who graduates from the inaugural Influencer Academy a yummy thank-you gift. In order to graduate, you will need to attend 4 of the 6 calls in their entirety OR submit via email fully completed SUCCESSwork™ from any additional calls you miss.
SPACE IS LIMITED in each cohort of Influencer Academy to ensure that you receive ample individualized attention during and between the weekly calls.
So go ahead, pick the option below that will best enable you to thrive, and I’ll see you shortly in your inbox with some pre-course SUCCESSwork™ and details regarding the first call.
Influencer Academy – $199
Influencer Academy + 1 Hour Follow-Up *Moxie Solo Bootcamp Session – $299
Influencer Academy + 5, 1 Hour Follow-Up *Moxie Solo Bootcamp Sessions- $699
*Note: Moxie Solo Bootcamp Sessions are normally 2-hours and an investment of $499. The Influencer Academy + Moxie Solo Bootcamp Session(s) packages are a *Special Offer* to ensure that you get ample you time to practice and refine your influencing skills in one or more of the six competency areas. Moxie Solo Bootcamp Sessions can be face-to-face, if you are in Las Vegas, or via Skype or the phone if you are out of the area. You have 6-months from graduation to take advantage of them. (Learn more about Moxie Solo Bootcamp HERE.)
Want to start flexing your influencing muscles early? Make sure to sign up on my Obstacles Into Opportunities list. Not only will you receive my 7 Biggest Obstacles to Success and the Sinfully Simple Formula to Shift Them Into Opportunities. You’ll also receive details for my upcoming FREE call, Don’t Choke When You Speak: How to Increase Impact and Diffuse Nervousness Each Time You Open Your Mouth.
