Since Linda started Optimal Level in 2000, she has been
sharing her insights and winning ideas about lessons, challenges, joys, risks, frustrations
and other business issues shared by business and professional women.
Balance and work/life issues: Women are playing a bigger and bigger part in the business world and still struggling to keep themselves healthy and maintain their sanity. That’s not easy with all the responsibilities they take on and all the stimuli they deal with daily. Linda can share her insights on how to manage multiple demands of the working woman and experience life as joyful instead of drudgery.
The Journey from Concept to Reality: It’s one thing to conceive of a business idea or dream about a wonderful career. However, there are roadblocks and plenty of obstacles that have to be dealt with and overcome. Professional women face stereotyping and preconceptions of women’s roles and abilities, exclusion from informal networks, and mentoring in revenue producing Corporate positions. Business women face shifts in the economic climate, lack of traditional revenue resources, and their own doubts and fears.
Linda can help pave the way with guidelines and proven techniques that lead to success.
How using humor helps us stay balanced, gain strength during adversity, and better able to keep things in perspective: Sometimes our problems seem monumental, bigger or more troublesome than anyone else’s problems or challenges, and keep us centered on ourselves. Linda demonstrates how the use of humor can make people feel better, accomplish more, and lead more successful and less burdened lives. In Linda’s presentation, You Can’t Be an Empress without Going Nuts, she cites examples of how to change one’s view of where one fits in the Universe by changing perspective and lightening up.
Meeting, forums, groups workshops – all great ideas, yet often huge flops!: Linda can explain how the proper research, clear goals, and strategic planning can create dramatic results using the talent of people gathered together to engaged in finding solutions.
Comments about Linda’s Speaking:
"Linda McCabe was the keynote at an Event I chaired for the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce. This event was attended by 75 Business Women and was on Leveraging their Strengths in the Business World. Linda did an excellent talk on how men and women are different and how that impacts their work styles. All the feedback I received was positive. She was charming, funny and had some good data. We would have her back in a heartbeat!"
Laurie Swanson, CPC
President of the Laso Corporation, An Information Technology Search Firm
"Linda’s presentation on Work/Life Balance was engaging, insightful and very valuable for the members of the Women In Business Advisory Forum. Linda is supportive and encouraging of women who juggle many responsibilities. Her presentation provides useful tools to help us find the time for those things that matter most to us."
Speaking Resume:
Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business, Wheaton, IL March 2008 "Work and the Female/Male Deal"
Women in Business Advisory Forum, Palatine Chamber of Commerce, Palatine, IL March 2008 "The Work/Life Challenge: Reaching Your Optimal Level"
Algonquin/Lake in the Hills Chamber of Commerce Alliance of Professional Women, Algonquin, IL January 2008, "Blame it on the Babylonians - Another year, another resolution!"
e-Women Network, Naperville, IL, November 2007, "Chasing a Dream, Catching a Miracle"
Greater O’Hare Association, Arlington Heights, IL May 2007, "Your Journey: From Concept to Reality"
Women in Business,Lisle Style, Woodridge, IL, January 2007, "Blame it on the Babylonians, Making and Sticking to Resolutions"
Deerfield, Bannockburn, Riverwoods Chamber of Commerce, Deerfield, IL, September 2006, "How to Improve Your Business through Brainstorming and the Professional Women’s Luncheon"
Polish-American Women in Business, Arlington Heights, IL, August 2006, "You Can’t Be the Empress of the Universe Without Going Nuts"
Deerfield, Bannockburn, Riverwoods Chamber of Commerce, Deerfield, IL, February 2006, "Blame it on the Babylonians, Making and Sticking to Resolutions"
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, Chicago, IL, November 2005, "You Can’t Be the Empress of the Universe Without Going Nuts"
North Shore Professional Women’s Association, Northbrook, IL, October 2005, "Improving Your Business Through Forums and Brainstorming"
Women In Management, Fox Valley, IL, June 2005, From Eve’s Dilemma to Working Women Today"
Women Educating Business Owners, Chicago, IL, Mar 2005, "You Can’t Be the Empress of the Universe Without Going Nuts"
Buffalo Grove Chamber of Commerce, Wheeling, IL , March 2005, "Work and the Female/Male Deal"
Southland Chamber of Commerce, Matteson, IL, August 2004, "Work and The Female/Male Deal, Gender Differences in the Workplace"
Palatine Business and Professional Women, Palatine, IL, July 2004, "The Work Life Challenge, Reaching Your Optimal Level"
Women’s Leadership Exchange, Chicago -April, & Dallas-May 2004, "The Art and Science of Successful Sales"
Schaumburg Business Association, Women’s Leadership Initiative, Schaumburg, IL 2004, "From Eve’s Dilemma to Working Women Today"
Whirlpool Women's Network, Benton Harbor, MI,
Optimal Level, A Woman's Guide To Meeting Work/Life Challenges, 2004
Women’s Resource Fair, Glen Ellyn, IL
From Eve’s Dilemma to Working Women Today, 2004
Women's Resource Fair, Skokie, IL
Optimal Level, A Woman's Guide To Meeting Work/Life Challenges, 2004
The National Association of Women Business Owners Joint Meeting, (Chicago Chapter), Chicago, IL, Customer Service, Speaker, 2003
Dynamic Link Women's Leads Group, Chicago, IL
Optimal Level: A Women'Guide to Meeting Work/Life Challenges, Speaker, 2003
Chicago Women's Business Network Board (part of the IU Alumni Association) Chicago, IL Mentoring, Panelist/Speaker, 2003
Network of Women Entrepreneurs, Chicago, IL, "You Can't Be Empress of the World...Without Going Nuts," Keynote Speaker, 2003
The National Association of Women Business Owners, (Chicago Chapter), Chicago, IL, Hiring and Firing, Round Table Panelist Moderator, 2002
The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Chapter Economic Summit, Chicago, IL
Gender Relations in the Workplace, Speaker, 2002
The National Association of Women Business Owners, (Chicago Chapter), Chicago, IL
How to Successfully Chair a Corporate Development Committee, Speaker, 2002
Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, IL
Pitfalls for Women in Business, Speaker and Panelist, 2001
Tool & Manufacturing Association, Women's Annual Luncheon, Chicago, IL
Keys to Success, Keynote Speaker, 2000
