TAKE BACK YOUR TIME
The people who perform the best aren't the ones with more hours.
They're the ones who are fully in the hours they have.
Productivity
Performance
Profitability
Ideal Audiences
Early Career Talent
New ManAgers
General Sessions
Pathway to Presence
A framework to help audiences trade avoidance for attention
and pick the present moment.
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THINK
Think about your thinking.
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TALK
Trust your talk.
WALK
Walk this way.
presence that drives performance
You can’t make more time. But you CAN make more OF your time.
Most professionals spend their days trying to squeeze more into their schedules, move faster through their to-do lists, and somehow find extra hours that simply don’t exist. And despite all the productivity hacks, calendar tricks, and time-saving technology available today, they still end the day wondering where all their time went.
What if the secret to getting more out of your time has less to do with how you manage your schedule and more to do with how you show up in it?
In this refreshing take on time management, keynote speaker and talent development consultant Tori Stevens introduces Pick the Present, her practical framework for transforming the way people experience and use their time. Participants will discover how everyday habits quietly diminish their productivity, why being fully present can dramatically change what they accomplish, and how to get more value out of the hours they already have.
Through interactive exercises, real-world applications, and group discussion, Tori challenges conventional thinking about time management and equips participants with a new approach to making every hour count.
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Takeaways: ​
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RECOGNIZE the hidden habits and distractions that diminish productivity and prevent them from making the most of their time.
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RETHINK what it means to have a productive day, shifting their focus from how much they do to how much value they create.
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RECLAIM their time using Tori’s Pick the Present framework to become more intentional, productive, and fully engaged in the moments that matter most.
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME
LIVE YOUR MASHED LIFE
The Childhood Game now in the Adult Version
Remember playing MASH? A folded piece of paper or if you were really committed, a cootie catcher a few circled options, and the wild, uncensored belief that your future could be anything: mansion or shack, soulmate or celebrity crush, three kids or a dog named Biscuit.
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Somewhere between then and now, we stopped circling our own future and started inheriting one instead. We followed the traditional path because it was the path, often without stopping to ask whether the way we work, lead, and live still fits who we're becoming.
Here's what hasn't changed since middle school: you still have the same tool you had back then. What's changed is where your attention goes with them.
The version of you that played this game as a kid wasn't naive, we just hadn't learned yet to talk ourselves out of what we wanted. This session hands that back to you — not as a kid game this time, but as an adult framework for purposeful leadership, personal growth, and performance.
Impactful Experiences
45 -60
Minutes
Duration
In person
or virtual
Delivery
Practical strategies for immediate application
Focus
Learn through connection.
Peer To Peer
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Key Learnings
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Multiply innovation across teams
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Elevate contribution through delegation
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Replace bottlenecks with bench strength
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Turn innovation into impact
Return on
Innovation & Impact
Multiplying Innovation for Performance and Capacity
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Innovation does not scale through effort alone. It scales through multiplication.
Many leaders become the engine of performance — solving problems, driving results, carrying momentum. But when innovation depends on one person, growth plateaus and bottlenecks form.
Return on Innovation & Impact™ challenges leaders to shift from being the driver to becoming the multiplier. This keynote shows leaders how to distribute ownership, increase decision capacity across teams, and embed innovation into everyday behavior — not isolated initiatives. When leaders multiply clarity instead of control, execution accelerates without added pressure. Alignment strengthens, bottlenecks shrink, and capacity expands.
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Innovation begins individually, but return is realized collectively.
When innovation is embedded across a team — not concentrated in one person — impact compounds.
Return on
Innovation
Impact
&
Multiplying Innovation for Performance and Capacity
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Innovation does not scale through effort alone. It scales through multiplication.
Many leaders become the engine of performance — solving problems, driving results, carrying momentum. But when innovation depends on one person, growth plateaus and bottlenecks form.
Return on Innovation & Impact™ challenges leaders to shift from being the driver to becoming the multiplier. This keynote shows leaders how to distribute ownership, increase decision capacity across teams, and embed innovation into everyday behavior — not isolated initiatives. When leaders multiply clarity instead of control, execution accelerates without added pressure. Alignment strengthens, bottlenecks shrink, and capacity expands.
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Innovation begins individually, but return is realized collectively.
When innovation is embedded across a team — not concentrated in one person — impact compounds.
Past Clients
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Tori brings a dynamic energy and natural humor to her work, but what truly sets her apart is her authenticity. She shares personal stories that make her message feel real, relatable, and immediately applicable.
Tasha Woodley. Cushman & Wakefield
Sr. Director of Impact and Strategy
Everyone says they want more time — or that they don't have enough of it. But that's rarely the real problem. The real problem is that we're physically present and mentally absent, and that gap is exactly where peak performance and talent development quietly break down.