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Inspirational Keynote speaker Magie Cook, LL.D., captivates audiences around the world with her life story of resilience and achievement. From growing up in a Mexican orphanage to creating the wildly successful Maggie’s All Natural Fresh Salsas & Dips starting with an $800 investment, her story shows how anyone can find their way through adversity to achieve their greatest potential.

Dr. Magie Cook specializes in sharing the power of mindfulness in the workplace. She uses simple, research-backed strategies to optimize performance, improve employee happiness and well-being, and transform workplace cultures into more equitable, creative environments for leaders to grow.

She delivers high-energy keynotes that integrate research-based data and inspirational storytelling. Her charismatic humor, vulnerability, and pragmatic approach for tackling the challenges of work and life will energize your audience and motivate them to see what’s possible when they decide to shift their mindset towards success.

She is also the author of Decoding Success, where she shares the life lessons and mindset strategies that helped her overcome hardship and achieve remarkable success.

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Why Adversity is the Key to Future Identity

In this powerful and deeply personal keynote, Magie takes the audience on a journey through the defining moments of her life—moments marked by hardship, struggle, and seemingly insurmountable adversity. But rather than breaking her, these experiences became the blueprint for her transformation. This talk explores the universal truth that adversity doesn’t diminish us—it refines us. Through raw storytelling and lived experience, Magie reveals how life’s toughest challenges shape us into stronger, wiser, and more purpose-driven individuals. She introduces her signature 3R Framework —Resourceful, Resilient, and Relentless—a mindset model born from lived experience that empowers audiences to rise, rebuild, and reimagine who they’re meant to become.

Program Takeaways:
✔ Learn how to reframe adversity as a catalyst for strategic advantage
✔ Learn how to use mental conditioning tools like power declarations and future mapping to attract the future you desire
✔ Learn how to practice future-casting to align daily actions with long-term purpose
✔ How to learn from rejection (“No”) and use it as redirection toward greater impact
✔Learn how to identify and remove internal and external roadblocks that are silently sabotaging your success.

Mindset With Magie

In this powerful keynote, Magie shares what it takes for team members to create a permanent mental shift for success, how to uncover and leverage their ‘why’, and how they can visualize their journey into the future. Using research-based studies rooted in psychology and language, Magie skillfully weaves practical mental strategies with how she’s integrated these in her life experiences. Leadership and teams who understand the potential for greatness leads to organizations that have happier employees, greater productivity, more creativity, and stronger leadership.



Program Takeaways:
✔ Learn Magie’s techniques for creating a mindset shift when times get tough.
✔ Researched-backed examples of how mindset can make or break success.
✔ Inspired to take action through Magie’s against-the-odds story.
✔ Take greater accountability for performance at work and in life.

Together We Rise

In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are better equipped to adapt and succeed. This keynote, led by Magie Cook, a Latina who overcame adversity to achieve the “American Dream” and build a multimillion-dollar company, delves into the benefits of embracing DEI in the workplace. Drawing on her personal experiences of navigating different cultures and leveraging her skills, Magie shares key insights and strategies for creating a culture of mindfulness and inclusion in your team.

Program Takeaways:
✔ Learn how to break down self-imposed barriers and achieve greater success together.
✔ Gain the tools to reframe differences as assets and build greater trust.
✔ Understand the benefits of promoting a culture of mindfulness and inclusion.
✔ Develop a more positive response to organizational changes.

Testimonials

Magie had us laughing, crying, and rejoicing! She was a breath of fresh air and exactly what we needed!
– Amy M. | Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
Magie Cook absolutely MESMERIZED our 2000+ leaders when she took the stage in Nov 2023. If you haven’t had the privilege of hearing her speak, FIX THAT in 2024! The pleasure of meeting her was shared by all!
– Jennifer M. | CEO WIL/Linkage
Magie is in high demand. She was the hit of the conference. Everyone was talking about her.
– Marianne Keehan | Vice President,TD Bank
Wow! Even though I heard you speak before, you still blew me (and us) away! Yours was one of the best keynotes in the 20 years of our conference. Thanks for sharing your story.
– Ross Gibson - Director of the State Council | SHRM
I have never before shed a tear or laughed so hard at a commencement speech, nor have I ever seen a commencement speaker get two standing ovations!!
– Rick F. | Business Professor, The University Of Charleston

Booksby Magie Cook

Decoding Success

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