Keynote Addresses With Dr. Linda Karges-Bone

The right keynote speaker adds credibility and energy to your conference, dinner-meeting, retreat, or meeting.

Dr. Linda Karges-Bone is available to create and deliver a memorable, motivating message. Her background in education, extensive media experience including television, radio, and DVD, and a warm, personable speaking persona will add polish and pep to a special event.

You may want to sample one of the following media clips to capture the essence of Dr. Bone’s keynote style and tone.

Men/Women: Catch of glimpse of Dr. Bone sharing real world applications of gender differences and how they impact relationships.



Gifted: Listen as Dr. Bone explains the unique nature of gifted children. Perhaps she is the right speaker for a conference dealing with children's differences, the challenges that teachers encounter with all kinds of children?



Traditions: Dr. Bone's warm and funny speaking style can enhance your next conference, dinner, or event.



Topics Available for Keynotes

  • Parenting Challenges
  • Work-Family Balance
  • Reducing Stress
  • Gender Differences in the Workplace
  • Improving Teacher Motivation
  • Brain Research and School Culture
  • Engaging the Brains of Different Learners
  • Improving School-Community Relations
  • Creating a Literature-Rich School Culture
  • More Than Pink and Blue: Boys’ and Girls’ Brains and Why Differences Matter in Teaching and Learning
  • Strengthening the Family


Engaging the Brain: Strategies for Personal and Professional Growth and Empowerment

Target Audience: Corporate and Non-Profit as well as Educational groups. Excellent for managers and leaders.

Did you know that a simple “brain-berry” shake at 4:00 pm can send your neural connections zooming 55% faster? Did you know that depression is contagious? Or that positive thinking is too? How can you enhance creativity in a high stress environment? Which colors help to engage the brain? The author of a highly successful set of books on brain engagement, Beyond Hands On : Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, and More Than Pink and Blue, Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, professor, author, and radio host can help to infuse energy into your own brain and those of your team members with this exciting, enlightening session.


More Than Pink and Blue: It is the Grey That Matters

Target Audience: Corporate, Non-Profit, Community, Social, and Professional Organizations. All age groups. Can be tailored for senior adult groups or youth.

If you were to count the possible neural connections in the pre-frontal cortex, it would take you 32 million years, so why do so many of us struggle to reach our creative and cognitive potentials? Perhaps we need insight to the powerful differences between male and female brains. From language to planning, from organizing the workplace to negotiating decisions, men and women differ in the ways that they use their gifts and talents. The author of a highly successful set of books on brain engagement, Beyond Hands On : Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, and More Than Pink and Blue, Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, professor, author, and radio host will help you and your organization to become focused not on pink or blue, but on the grey, the brain matter that matters for all of us.


Is Your Brain in Style? The Right Learning Style for Success?

Target Audience: Leadership teams, Corporate Managers, Research and Development, Motivational, Educational, Community.

Are you an Autonomous Apple? Brainy Banana? Good Grape? Significant Strawberry? And why does it matter to your creative, financial, or personal success? Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, creator of a fun, insightful personality and learning styles inventory will lead your group in a time of assessment, analysis, and application of how each person’s learning and personality styles contribute to their own success and to the direction and position of the organizations in which they interact. The author of a highly successful set of books on brain engagement, Beyond Hands On : Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, and More Than Pink and Blue, Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, professor, author, and radio host can help to infuse energy into your own brain and those of your team members with this exciting, enlightening session.


Surprising Secrets of the Successful Family

Target Audience: Work-Family Relations; Human Resources Directors, Community, Educational, Social, Leadership.

In a recent study of what matters most to college students, researchers and parents were shocked to learn that “spending time with family” is the number one priority for those 16 to 24. Family matters. As T.S. Eliot says: “Home is where one starts from”. Yet many successful men and women struggle with the task of balancing work and family. Professor, author, media host, and most importantly, parent, Dr. Linda Karges-Bone will share the secrets of successful family life in a humorous, yet practical manner. Her publications include American Baby, Baby Talk, Growing Parent, Journal of Early Education and Family Review and Christian Parenting Today, as well as scholarly work in educational journals that impact families.


Help! I’m Having a Bad Career Day

Target Audience: Mid-Career Changers. Women Returning to the Workplace. College Students, Career Counselors, Human Resource Directors.

Teaching by Story is a powerful method and Dr. Linda Karges-Bone will share the stories of five women who made critical career shifts as the result of life-changing circumstances. Whatever your circumstance, you can learn how to harness pain and confusion and turn it into direction and discernment. Find out how your gender, learning styles, creativity, and passions can fuel a successful career change or help you to make the right career choice. The author of a highly successful set of books on brain engagement, Beyond Hands On : Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, Touch, and Music to Enhance Learning, and More Than Pink and Blue, Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, professor, author, and radio host uses humor, research, assessments, and compassion to motivate and inspire her audiences.


Granting Your Non-Profit Wishes: Strategies for Successful Grant Writing

Target Audience: Non-Profit, Municipal and County Government, Educational.

Dr. Linda Karges-Bone, the author of three best-selling books on grant writing, including the Educator’s Guide to Grants wrote her first successful grant at age 18 and wasn’t even of legal age. The chair of the non-profit board had to sign the proposal to submit it. Twenty-million dollars later, she has personally written grants that helped organizations to make their dreams come true and assisted or trained new grant writers to bring in many more dollars. Find out how you can become a gifted grant writer. Learn the 10 strategies for great grants and well as the 10 most common mistakes in grant writing. Get inside the minds of funders. Investigate sources for grants. Become adept at making your funding wishes come true!


Left-Brain, Right Brain, or Brain Drain? Secrets for Unleashing Creativity and Playfulness in Your Corporate Culture

Target Audience: Leadership Teams, Research & Development, Conferences, Professional Organizations, Non-Profits, Corporate.

Did you know that the information age is already passed? We are now in the grip of the conceptual age and many of our brains are feeling the pain of cognitive dissonance! If you want to restore a sense of purpose and passion to your organization or corporate culture, join Dr. Linda Karges-Bone for a fun, yet focused session on the role of right-brain thinking in the workplace. Find out how to nurture the brains of your staff or team so that they can use both sides of the brain productively. Be warned, this session includes play-dough, bubbles, and chocolate, so prepare your inner child for a memorable event.


Dr. Karges-Bone speaks to the SC Federation of Republican Women at their state meeting:


"Dr. Linda Karges-Bone was such a wonderful culmination for our convention. Her presentation was both informative and entertaining. Three months after the convention and some of our members are still talking about strawberries." ( A reference to Dr. Bone's "Fruits of Learning Styles Inventory")

LaDonna Ryggs, Immediate Past President South Carolina Federation of Republican Women

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