Behind every achieved goal, there is a story about our personal growth or our creative or professional development. Each accomplishment is a manifestation of our experiences, challenges, and skills all coming together in a way that allowed progress to happen.
Mehrnaz is an expert on this process—a progress specialist. Her expertise comes from two sources: her dramatic lived experience and her deep dive into evidence-based research. Because of significant challenges in her own life, as a preteen Mehrnaz started deliberately and determinedly examining how progress occurs. And she has been applying the lessons she learned ever since, with great success. Once Mehrnaz was trained as a scientist (M.Sc.), she was able to delve into the research on what makes progress happen. And she started to share with others what she found out. Now Mehrnaz has dedicated herself to communicating the best information about how to achieve goals and overcome challenges, teaching others how to use that information to achieve their own personal and professional success, and inspiring people with her story. She is a completely unique voice as an educator and a public speaker.
—Mehrnaz Bassiri
As a public speaker, Mehrnaz’s key theme is “progress through small wins” and her range of topics is wide-ranging, including:
the keys to progress, goal-setting and goal achievement, entrepreneurship, growth mindset, women in business and leadership, fostering creativity, happiness factors, selective mutism, designing a balanced life, fulfilment at work and in life, achieving career success, career change, mitigating bias, providing effective feedback, cultures of continuous improvement, challenges encountered by LGBTQ+ people, the immigrant experience, encountering cultural and social obstacles, achieving academic success, lifelong learning, mastering learning skills, building resilience, overcoming challenges, drivers of motivation and productivity, habits and neuroplasticity, recharging through solitude, the power of self-awareness, poetry and writing as tools for self-awareness.
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Veronica LoatDirector Soroptimist International of North Shore
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Nathan O’HaraTEDxChilliwack Speaker Coach
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Amanda PullishyActing Supervisor, Youth Education Programs at YWCA
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Michael BergerTEDXCHILLIWACK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE