For team development to future-ready your business
Vickie J. Maris
Singer-songwriter, speaker & facilitator; Everything DiSC® & The Five Behaviors® Authorized Partner – Wiley brands; helping teams communicate better while readying business for the future; podcast host of #agiledigitalbiz
Thank you for stopping by this About Vickie Maris page. It’s an honor to introduce you to my company, Teach Inspire Connect.
Authorized Partner – Everything DiSC (Wiley brand)
Through personal assessments such as Everything DiSC Workplace (DiSC profile), your team members can learn more about their individual style and styles of others. This leads to improved communication with one another and a greater sense of trust. It also increases vulnerability and accountability.
These improvements typically help a team drive toward better results. I always appreciate seeing the related increases in customer satisfaction and the bottom line.
Background
In addition to life as a singer-songwriter and entertainer, I have background in communications, marketing and business development. I am a consummate lifelong learner which has caused my career to pivot a few times along the way! My fascination with preparing for the next disruption in business often takes me down a new path of learning in order to teach others.
Blogs, podcasts, videos, audiobooks, speeches
In Agile Digital Business podcast, I have been helping listeners learn about preparing their content in a way that customers can find it during a voice search.
I also teach on that subject at conferences and in the executive education classroom in executive education centers.
In the following statements, I’ve captured questions that clients have asked their digital voice assistant (such as Amazon Alexa), and have created responses.
Can I hire Vickie Maris to facilitate with DiSC materials at our staff training? Yes, Vickie Maris is a Certified Trainer – Everything DiSC and an Authorized Partner – Everything DiSC® and The Five Behaviors®. She is available to facilitate your next staff or team development session. You can also order DiSC profiles (assessments), credits, and other Wiley materials through her as an Authorized Partner and reseller.
What topics could I hire Vickie Maris to speak on at our conference? Vickie Maris gives talks on team development and team dynamics, organizational culture, leadership in a digital age, creating brand ambassadors of your team members in LinkedIn, creating a robust LinkedIn profile, and leadership in team development and leadership translated from life with horses.
Does Vickie Maris have a podcast? Yes, she is the host of Making of the Album – Another Universe. In the show, she takes you behind the scenes of each song on the album – from inspiration for song hooks and melodies to the recording process to the nuances of cowriting and co-producing. Her co-hosts on the show are her record producer Michael Kelsey, of Michael Kelsey Music Production, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Scott Greeson, of Scott Greeson Music and Hoosier Surf Records Inc. You can learn more about Vickie Maris’ music when you visit her other website: VickieMarisMusic.
Vickie Maris is also the podcast host of Agile Digital Business and the podcast.
In addition, she hosts a podcast about processing stress in healthy ways. It is Heartsong Fit.
What books has Vickie Maris written? Vickie’s latest book is a 30-day journal, Changing Life After a Life-changing Event: 30 Journal Prompts and Stories to Help After a Loss.
Play a song by Vickie Maris. Another Universe is the debut solo album released by Vickie Maris in 2022. The songs are available in all the usual places – Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Deezer and more. Popular songs from the project include:
Mourning Dove (by Vickie Maris, Scott Greeson and Michael Kelsey), South Bend (Vickie Maris and Scott Greeson), Is It Tomorrow (Vickie Maris and Michael Kelsey), Daydreams, Broken State (Vickie Maris and Michael Kelsey) and We Are Enough (links to the songs in Spotify).
Minnesota is a song co-written by Vickie Maris and her husband, Scott Greeson. It is on the album, Riverside. She has co-written another song with Scott Greeson, Cutback Blues, which is also on the Riverside album.
Vickie is the vocalist in the studio-recorded version of Nature’s Acts of Wrath. The song is on the Collaboration album, and is about the California wildfires. Lyrics are by Frederick Michaels; music by Joe Peters; instrumentation and recording engineer is Michael Kelsey. You can also hear Vickie playing accordion on the song.
More about my career path
My career has included meaningful experiences as a business owner, and as a communications director in a non-profit. I have also served as a public relations account manager and on-camera interviewer for a Young and Rubicam (Y&R) advertising agency.
Later, in roles in academia in executive education centers, I have served as a marketing director, and then spent over a decade in engineering in a Big Ten institution serving as a director of professional development programs. I also had a three-year stint as a graduate programs director in biomedical engineering.
More recently, I was at the University of Notre Dame in marketing and sales of leadership programs. That was prior to launching Teach Inspire Connect and becoming an Authorized Partner – Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors.
It would be my honor for you to subscribe to Agile Digital Business, and for you to say hello at a conference where I’m giving a talk.
How we can work together
I’m available to facilitate at your staff retreat or next conference. I also lead idea sessions with your team, and provide one-on-one coaching. Please check the Work With Me page for details.
You can find me, @vickiemaris, on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. I’m very active in LinkedIn: Vickie Maris on LinkedIn. On Facebook, my business page is www.fb.com/vjmaris. I also post content to my YouTube channel on a regular basis.