Speaking topics
15 presentations across three areas. Every presentation can be customized for the audience, the setting, and the time available.
Group A
Organizing the personal, financial, medical, and practical information a family needs — before anyone has to go looking for it.
How to organize personal, financial, insurance, property, healthcare, digital, caregiving, and final-wishes information before a crisis occurs.
How families can begin the difficult but necessary conversations about healthcare wishes, aging and caregiving, finances and responsibilities, emergency planning, long-term care, and final wishes.
Practical, manageable steps for organizing important information and creating a clear roadmap for loved ones.
Why legacy is about more than money. It includes the clarity, care, stories, values, instructions, and peace of mind we leave behind.
Helping adult children and families navigate changing family roles, new responsibilities, independent and assisted living, long-term-care transitions, family meetings, and practical transition timelines.
Preparing for serious illness, disability, unexpected loss, widowhood, divorce, retirement, or another major transition.
The administrative realities families face after a death, including benefits, insurance, accounts, property, paperwork, notifications, and other follow-up responsibilities.
An educational session on what families encounter. It does not provide individualized legal, tax, or financial advice.
How to create an emergency-access plan so trusted loved ones can quickly locate critical information and understand what needs to be done.
Group B
The lived experience of caring for someone you love, carrying loss, and finding a way forward.
Stephanie’s own experience of working full time while caring for Richard through cancer and dementia — managing appointments, treatments, medications, finances, the household, and her own emotional well-being.
Faith-centered
A personal and faith-centered message about caregiving, grief, identity, resilience, starting over, and finding purpose after profound loss.
Group C
Leadership, influence, and career direction for professionals and the teams they work alongside.
How paralegals and other professionals can demonstrate leadership, influence decisions, mentor others, and improve a team before receiving a formal management title.
Lessons from Stephanie’s progression through litigation, teaching, professional leadership, internal investigations, risk management, and entrepreneurship.
Drawing on Stephanie’s experience in hiring, training, teaching, mentoring, board leadership, and managing professional relationships.
How women can use experience, hardship, and hard-earned knowledge to create a meaningful new chapter personally and professionally.
A flexible session for legal teams and associations. Focus areas can include résumé development, interviewing, networking, professional visibility, mentorship, and building leadership skills.
Focus areas are selected together during event planning.
Describe the group you are bringing together and what you would like them to leave with. Stephanie will suggest a direction — and every presentation can be shaped around your event.