Through accepting our experiences—both triumphs and challenges, we all have the power to transform not just our own lives, but the world around us.
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Legacy-Building Across Life's Journey:
Legacy isn't built in a single moment—it's shaped through how we navigate change at every stage of life.
Young people today face unprecedented uncertainty—climate anxiety, shifting identities, global tensions. They don't just need reassurance; they need to discover their power to shape their own story. By connecting with their strengths and values, they learn that their response to challenges becomes their legacy of resilience.
Leaders and organizations navigate constant disruption, but those who lead with clear values don't just survive change—they create cultures where others can thrive. Their legacy lives in every person they empower, every inclusive space they build, and every barrier they remove.
Parents who acquire disabilities face profound identity shifts, yet in adapting and persevering, they model for their children that strength comes from authenticity, not perfection. Their daily courage becomes a living legacy of what's possible.
Those in life transitions—whether retiring, changing careers, or facing health challenges—hold wisdom that can light the path for others. Their legacy isn't just in what they've accomplished, but in how they continue to contribute and connect.
Each audience, each challenge, each choice to embrace change.
That's Legacy in motion.
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What Matters When Time Matters Most
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Corporate leaders, HR professionals, parents, retirement communities, philanthropic leaders
When Embracing Change is Your Superpower
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Middle & high school students, college students
Accepting Your Story, Redefining Your Impact
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Parents with disabilities, healthcare professionals, rehabilitation teams
Why Universal Accessibility Matters in the World of Business
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Corporate leaders, HR professionals, business owners, DEI teams, business owners
Signature program
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Corporate leaders, HR professionals, parents, retirement communities, philanthropic leaders
Description:
"Today is a pretty good day to die"—the thought that came to me as my car spun toward impact. Not because I wanted to go, but because I had accepted my story and was living my values. This talk invites audiences to own their experiences—both triumphs and challenges—and use that authentic foundation to write a better world through values-driven leadership and meaningful contribution.
Key Outcomes:
Accept your unique story and the experiences that shaped your values
Discover how daily choices become the foundation for lasting impact
Create actionable "legacy projects" that transform personal wisdom into world-changing action
Lead authentically by using your story to inspire and guide others
Legacy in Motion: What Matters When Time Matters Most
Redefining Possible: When Embracing Change is Your Superpower
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Middle and high school students, college students
Description:
Life is full of unexpected change — from friendships to school to the world around you. Change can feel scary, even overwhelming, but it can also be your greatest superpower.
Drawing on her own lived experience of acquiring a disability and her work with young people, Marjorie Aunos shares how values, strengths, and mindset shape the way we move through uncertainty. With insights from positive psychology, this keynote inspires youth to see that setbacks are not dead ends but turning points that reveal resilience and possibility.
Through powerful stories, interactive reflection, and practical strategies, young people will learn how to embrace change as a necessity, redefine what’s possible for themselves, and take ownership of their personal growth. Instead of feeling helpless in the face of challenges, they will leave with the confidence to feel hopeful, empowered, and ready to write their own story according to how they define success.
Key Outcomes:
Recognize that change is inevitable — and can be a powerful catalyst for growth.
Discover their signature character strengths and learn how to activate them when facing uncertainty and everyday challenges.
Shift to a solution-focused mindset and understand how moving from “why me?” to “now what?” or from “what’s wrong?” to “what’s strong?” unlocks confidence and clarity.
Implement key action steps to unlock their potential, embrace change as a superpower, and take control of their future.
Still You: Accepting Your Story, Redefining Your Impact
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Parents with disabilities, healthcare professionals, rehabilitation teams
Description:
When your body changes but your heart remains the same, how do you accept this new chapter and use it to write a better world for your children? This talk explores how parents facing disability or illness can own their complete story—including the hard parts—and discover how their journey of adaptation becomes a powerful model of resilience, showing their children that strength comes from authenticity, not perfection.
Key Learning Outcomes:
For Parents:
Understand how to reclaim identity and purpose after a life-changing diagnosis
Explore how living in alignment with your core values becomes a form of daily legacy for your children
Discover how to use character strengths (like perseverance, love, humor, and creativity) as tools to build resilience and self-confidence
Learn how disability reappraisal can lead to posttraumatic growth and a more empowered narrative of parenting
For Professionals:
Shift from a “fixing” model to a strengths-based, relational model of care
Gain insights into how to support parents in articulating and living their value-driven legacies
Learn how to foster self-efficacy and competence in patients through micro-moments of success, agency, and meaning
Understand how to use positive psychology and ACT-based strategies (e.g. character strengths, values clarification, mindfulness, defusion) in rehab and therapeutic settings
Format: Keynote or workshop
Ideal Audience: Corporate leaders, HR professionals, business owners, DEI teams, busine
Description:
Every organization has a story shaped by the people it serves and employs. This talk challenges leaders to accept the reality of today's diverse world—where 25% of people live with disabilities and workforces are rapidly changing—and write a better future through inclusive practices. When organizations own their current story and commit to authoring change, they create environments where everyone thrives.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Accept the current reality of your organization's accessibility and inclusion gaps
Understand how inclusive practices become part of your organizational story and culture
Transform compliance thinking into values-driven inclusion that attracts and retains talent
Write actionable plans for creating environments that work for everyone while driving business success
Opening Doors: Why Universal Accessibility Matters in the World of Business
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Meet Marjorie
Marjorie Aunos, Ph.D. is a researcher, speaker, and consultant on accessibility and inclusion. She teaches organizations and educators to solution-find and build environments that are accessible, inclusive, and welcoming to young families with disabilities.
Marjorie is an internationally award-winning speaker, author of Mom on Wheels: The Power of Purpose as a Paraplegic Parent and contributing author to We Got This: Essays By Disabled Parents.
Her TEDx talk “What we can learn from disabled parents” has been viewed over 100,000 times.
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Embracing change is no longer an option. It’s a necessity.
Reach out to Marjorie today to discuss exploring strategies for resilience and inclusion that will help prepare your workforce for the future.