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Will You Say Yes?

SYI supports people to be Powerful, Positive, and Professional. These skills are foundational to effective leadership and support the development of emotional intelligence skills (or people skills). 

Powerful: KNOW
You are comfortable owning your skills and strengths. 
Positive: LIKE
You like your world and you look for what is right, what is working, and what is going well. 
Professional: MODEL
You move through the world modeling respect, fairness, and consistency.

Join us at the SYI to get concrete skills, tips, tools, and strategies to be Powerful, Positive, and Professional!

Carrie Stack, M.Ed.

Carrie Stack, M.Ed. is a Certified Life Coach, author and motivational speaker with over 20 years of experience providing people with skills and tools to make positive changes in their lives. Founder of the Say Yes Institute (SYI), a company focused on building emotional intelligence skills through training and coaching, Carrie has provided services to leaders, managers, and staff at more than 50 nonprofit agencies. In her trainings she has shared her “people skills” strategies with thousands of people looking to build more positive and powerful relationships, both at home and at work.

Carrie brings a range of experiences in to her training and coaching, from the classroom to the conference room, as she has been a teacher, counselor, trainer and program director. In her roles she has worked with children, teens and families dealing with many challenges in life and has had privilege of witnessing people (of all ages!) grow and evolve in ways that both inspire and awe.

Carrie is the author of, The Dream Boss (due for release in 2012), Conversations with the Future, and a featured columnist for Achiever magazine. She was named in “101 Women to Watch” by WE Magazine and featured on 7-NEWS, FOX 25, Boston Globe, Boston Literary Magazine, The Lynn Item and North Shore Sunday. She is also founder of the nonprofit Courage2Know, co-founder of EO Your Life, and a contributor to EmpowermentRX

Qualifications:

  • ~M.Ed. in Social Justice
  • ~Certified Life Coach
  • ~Experience as a teacher, trainer, social worker, management consultant, and program     director
  • ~Motivational speaker/keynote speaker
  • ~Author
  • ~Founder of non-profit, Courage2Know
  • ~Co-founder of EO Your Life


“In over 30 years in education, I have never seen a trainer, teacher or workshop facilitator change the dynamic in a room like Carrie Stack. Her positive energy engages and motivates attendees to participate in the process of self improvement like nothing I have ever seen.” 
~Steve Quann, Senior Advisor for Technology in Education, World Education, Inc., Boston, MA