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Maja Kazazic
Bosnian Genocide Survivor, Below-knee Amputee, Technology Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker on Resilience, PTSD & Empathy
Maja (My-a) Kazazic is an internationally recognized motivational speaker, entrepreneur, strategist, and a survivor. She has taken the lessons of a life forever altered by what could have been catastrophic wounds of war and parlayed them into a vision and passion for providing the solutions and insights people and organizations need to create positive, inspired change in their personal and professional lives.
Kazazic's childhood dream was to become a professional athlete. Like all of us, she made plans and had a vision what her life would look like. Unfortunately, her idyllic childhood was cut short by a genocide that killed and injured more than 250,000 people, including Kazazic, who suffered a horrific leg amputation as a result of her injuries. Few days from her imminent death, Sally Becker, an artist from London, showed up at her bedside telling her that she got a permission to rescue 3 injured kids and Kazazic was one of the candidates. She ended up in a US Army Hospital in Germany and eventually in the USA where she received medical treatment.
After having over 100 surgeries Kazazic had to relearn how to walk again. But she never gave up hope on her dream to run and play sports again. It took 15 years and meeting a special dolphin, Winter, which would eventually lead to the development of new prosthetic leg materials that allowed Kazazic to run her first 5K marathon and being able to walk pain free. These new materials didn't just help Kazazic walk and run pain free but also thousands of other injured US Veterans who suffer from similar injuries.
Just when her life was going perfect Kazazic developed a severe case of PTSD. Finally the years of pain and suffering caught up and her days were filled with extreme panic attacks, fear, and night terrors which left her barely able to function. Never losing hope, Kazazic knew she would get through this, and once again, help came from an unexpected source - an amputee Great Dane named Rosie.
Despite all the obstacles she faced, Kazazic put herself through college and landed a job in a large insurance company where her career skyrocketed. She founded powerful, web development, eCommerce, and training organization whose clients include Fortune 100 companies, as well as small and medium-sized business that are challenged to maintain productivity in the face of challenging times.
Kazazic uses her insights to make sense of the chaos, live a purpose-driven life, and lead purpose-driven organizations and teams in the midst of an ever changing workspace. Kazazic harnesses the power of empathy to teach corporations how to cultivate and build a positive and healthy work environment that strives on teamwork, diversity, resilience, change, and hope.
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MAJA & ROSIE EXPERIENCE
If you've had your fill of the same old speakers, going on stage, delivering their Powerpoint keynotes in the same mundane way, than Maja and Rosie experience is for you! When you book Maja and Rosie you and your attendees are in for a unique experience like you've never seen before. Each keynote is customized to your event theme and the message. While sharing her and Rosie's story Maja combines play with resilience. She will take you and your attendees through a journey that is sprinkled with lessons of:
- Overcoming obstacles (in life and business)
- Managing change
- Becoming a more empowered and effective leaders
- Reinforcing your leadership message
- Achieving personal and business goals
- How to be more positive and resilient despite hard times
- Teamwork
These keynotes are highly customized to your event, however a typical experience will consist of Maja's unique keynote address which incorporates your messages and hand picked stories and anecdotes to help attendees learn while experiencing an emotional journey, which ensures that your message stays with them for the rest of their life. Second part will involve Rosie coming on stage, being introduced, while showcasing her prosthetic leg and doing some fun, yet challenging tricks. If requested Rosie can paint on the stage, however most of the time corporations will requested a painting before hand (usually done in their corporate colors) and the painting is then auctioned or given during the event. This has been used for charities, or raising funds, or just rewarding the most performing leaders and employees.
In addition to the keynote, typically Maja and Rosie will have a separate meet and greet after. This allows attendees to meet Rosie, take photos or just play.
If you decide to book Maja and Rosie experience you would have a unique event that you and your attendees would remember for the rest of their life. This is truly a one of a kind opportunity to have two amputees on stage sharing first hand experience of resilience.
A MILE IN MY SHOES: THE POWER OF EMPATHY
In this keynote address Maja helps attendees harness the power of empathy to teach corporations how to cultivate and build a positive and healthy work environment that strives on teamwork. This includes how to become better leaders, as well as create and foster healthy, meaningful relationships with coworkers, employees, and customers. The tools learned during this keynote are easily applicable to personal relationships.
Great for: Organizational/Corporate Culture, Sales Teams, Team Building, Building Relationships, Improving Customer Service, Leadership
Solution for: Quiet Quitting, Diversity Issues, Bad Corporate Culture, Struggling Management and Leadership, Teamwork Problems, Poor Customer Service, Employee Turnover
FUTURE FORWARD
Perhaps your organization has had or is facing a hard quarter, or a tough year. Or maybe you are going through or facing major changes and obstacles right now. If that’s the case, then this keynote is for you. As she paints a hopeful and bright future, during her speech, Maja also teaches the attendees how to face loss and turn it into powerful lessons to grow. Learn how to face hard times directly, and go through them like a champion. Learn how to use difficult situations and obstacles to empower you and your team to catapult to the next level. Your attendees will leave inspired, full of hope, and ready to tackle even the hardest challenges head on.
Great for: Leadership, Business Management, Inspiration/Motivation, Change, Hope, Reliance, Adversity
Solution for: Fear, Fear of Loss and Change, Low Motivation, Quiet Quitting, Inability to Deal with Obstacles and Challenges, Hard Times, Employee Turnover
DIVERSITY IN ACTION
It’s not enough to just speak about diversity in corporate culture - we must put it into action! And to do so we must build and nurture a diverse workplace culture to improve employee productivity, among other things. This keynote focuses on cultural competence and diversity initiatives that will explore learning how to better understand and appreciate a multitude of perspectives. It will help leaders become more aware of how to best interact with different cultural groups (raise awareness and communication, as well as cultivate an increased sense of community). Maja herself is a disabled, woman, Muslim, gay, immigrant who faced her fair share of diversity exclusion.
Great for: Organizational/Corporate Culture, Inspiration/Motivation, Diversity, Women in business, HR, Team-building, Customer Service and Support
Solution for: Quiet Quitting, Mental Health, Employee retention, Discrimination, Employee Relations
NEW HOPE
Focusing solely on inspiring and motivating, Maja's keynote will take your attendees on a powerful and an emotional ride, sharing her personal journey of overcoming unthinkable obstacles and odds, with the power of empathy, while never losing hope. Sometimes this may include her amputee Great Dane service dog, Rosie - which makes the experience completely unique and unforgettable. This keynote can be adjusted to a lighter version more suitable for lighter events.
Great for: Inspiration/Motivation, Women in Business, Hope, Adversity
Solution for: Low morale, Mental Health, Fear, Overcoming Obstacles
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