Signature Keynote
Power Shifts Live
Stop waiting for permission you were never required to get.
Marsha Guerrier's signature keynote challenges women to examine the difference between success and ownership and recognize where they may still be waiting for permission to claim the authority, value, and choices they've already earned.
Book Power Shifts Live →Signature Keynote · 45–75 Minutes · Custom Formats Available
The Power Shifts Live Capacity The Power Shifts Live is grounded in the Ownership Framework from her book, Power Shifts: Stop Waiting for Permission, this experience moves audiences beyond inspiration toward one important question:
What will you do differently when you stop waiting for someone else to say yes?
The Idea
Success Isn't the Same Thing as Power
Women can have the credentials, the title, the experience, the paycheck, and the track record and still discover that too much of what happens next depends on decisions they don't control.
Power Shifts Live explores that gap.
Through storytelling, practical strategy, and the Ownership Framework, Marsha challenges audiences to recognize where they may be giving away authority, rethink the permission they've been waiting for, and make a more intentional decision about what comes next.
The goal isn't simply to leave women inspired. It's to help them recognize the power they already have and decide what they're going to do with it.
THE EXPERIENCE
Three Moves That Create a Power Shift.
01
Recognize the Gap
Where is there a difference between what you've accomplished and how much authority you actually have?
Marsha helps participants recognize the moments where success and ownership begin to separate—from career decisions and negotiations to visibility, money, leadership, and opportunity.
02
Reframe Permission
What are you waiting for someone else to validate?
Participants examine the difference between approval that is genuinely required and permission they've learned to seek out of habit.
03
Claim Your Authority
What decision becomes possible when you trust what you've already earned?
Every participant is challenged to identify one conversation, decision, negotiation, or next move where they can begin putting greater ownership into practice.
Recognize the gap. Reframe permission. Claim your authority.
WHAT THE ROOM TAKES WITH THEM
More Than a Moment of Inspiration.
Power Shifts Live gives audiences language they can remember, questions they can continue asking, and a framework they can return to when the next real decision is in front of them.
Participants leave better equipped to recognize where they may be waiting for unnecessary permission, advocate for the value they bring, approach important decisions with greater intention, and identify one concrete action they can take next.
The talk ends. The shift continues.
Choose Your Format
Designed for Your Room.
45–60 Minutes
Signature Keynote
The complete Power Shifts Live keynote experience. Ideal for conferences, leadership summits, women's leadership programs, ERGs, and organization-wide events.
Ideal for: Conferences · All-hands meetings · Leadership summits · Program kickoffs
60–75 Minutes
Keynote + Conversation
The signature keynote followed by a moderated conversation or audience Q&A that brings the ideas into the context of your organization and the real situations participants are navigating.
Ideal for: Leadership retreats · ERG programming · Executive audiences · Smaller, higher-touch rooms
90 Minutes
Keynote + Applied Experience
An extended experience that gives participants time to put the ideas into practice through guided reflection and application.
Participants can explore:
Naming the Gap: Where does the difference between success and ownership show up in my life or work?
The Permission Audit: What am I waiting for someone else to validate?
My Power Shift: What is one decision, conversation, or action I will take next?
Ideal for: Leadership cohorts · High-potential programs · Team offsites · Extended professional development days
Fully Custom
Custom Organizational Engagements
Power Shifts Live can also be incorporated into a larger leadership experience, paired with The Power Suite Sessions, or designed around a specific organizational audience or moment.
WHERE POWER SHIFTS LIVE FITS
Created for Rooms Where Women Are Ready for What's Next.
Leadership Development
A shared language for examining authority, ownership, and intentional leadership.
Women's ERGs & Leadership Programming
An experience designed around the decisions women are navigating at work and beyond.
Conferences & Summits
A signature keynote that combines personal storytelling with a framework audiences can carry beyond the event.
Talent & Leadership Programs
A conversation about the relationship between achievement, visibility, authority, and advancement.
Retreats & Offsites
A powerful starting point for deeper conversations about leadership, agency, and what comes next.
Entrepreneurship & Founder Communities
For women navigating growth, ownership, visibility, money, and the decisions that come with building something of their own.
EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE
Bring the Book Into the Room.
Organizations can pair Power Shifts Live with copies of Power Shifts: Stop Waiting for Permission, giving participants an opportunity to continue exploring the Ownership Framework after the event.
Engagements can also include signed books, a post-keynote book signing or meet-and-greet, and a custom reflection guide tied to the experience.
BRING POWER SHIFTS LIVE TO YOUR ORGANIZATION