Keynote Speaking and Emcee Services

Inspire your audiences with uplifting and insightful keynote addresses by award-winning author Kari Chiappetta.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKING

Kari Chiappetta is an award-winning author, speaker, and facilitator who has delivered keynote addresses to audiences across a variety of industries. Her speeches are designed to inspire and motivate audiences to achieve their goals, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.

Kari’s authentic and engaging personality enables her to connect with audiences on a personal level. She is known for her high-energy presentations and her ability to keep audiences engaged and entertained throughout her speeches. Her use of humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive exercises helps to create a positive and dynamic atmosphere, making her presentations memorable and impactful.

Chiappetta draws on her own experiences as an author and entrepreneur to deliver messages that are both uplifting and insightful. Her speeches are tailored to the needs of each audience, and she uses humor, personal anecdotes, and interactive exercises to keep audiences engaged and entertained.

Kari’s keynote addresses are built around the Personality Dimensions® temperament tool and are thoughtfully tailored to each audience. Her presentations can focus on areas such as celebrating personal strengths, strengthening team dynamics, enhancing communication, and better meeting client needs.

Keynote Sessions Available

Power in Personality: Unlocking Strengths for Stronger Teams and Relationships

Every person brings a unique perspective, set of strengths, and communication style to the table. In this engaging and interactive keynote, we explore the Personality Dimensions® model—an accessible, research-based framework that helps individuals and teams understand themselves and others better. Through self-awareness and appreciation of diverse personalities, we unlock the keys to improved collaboration, communication, and connection.

Whether you’re striving to lead a high-performing team, increase client satisfaction, or simply build more meaningful relationships, this keynote provides powerful insights into how different personality types perceive and engage with the world.

Participants will:

  • Celebrate their unique strengths and discover how they contribute to personal and professional success.
  • Strengthen team dynamics by understanding the core values and motivators of each personality dimension.
  • Enhance communication by learning how to “speak the language” of colleagues, clients, and partners.
  • Foster team cohesion and trust, recognizing the value that every personality brings to the table.
  • Improve client and customer relationships through personalized approaches rooted in personality awareness.
  • Build lasting connections by reducing conflict, increasing empathy, and appreciating diversity in thought and behavior.

Expect stories, real-life examples, humor, and practical tools you can start using right away—no matter your role or industry. Leave energized, informed, and equipped to create stronger teams and more satisfying interactions, one personality at a time.

Finding Balance in a World of Busy

Drawing on her personal journey as a self-employed professional, Kari Chiappetta offers a candid and relatable perspective on the ongoing challenge of balancing career and personal life. Once a self-described workaholic, Kari has navigated the highs and lows of managing multiple roles—as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend—while running her own business.

Through her keynote address, Kari shares the hard-earned lessons and practical strategies that have helped her create a more sustainable and fulfilling work-life balance. Her approach blends personal storytelling with actionable tools that resonate with audiences, whether they’re entrepreneurs, employees, or leaders in their field.

With warmth and authenticity, Kari empowers others to reframe their relationship with “busy” and take meaningful steps toward a healthier, more balanced life.

Consciously Creating the Life you Want

In this powerful and engaging keynote, Kari Chiappetta inspires individuals to take the wheel and intentionally shape the life they truly desire. She guides audiences through the process of clarifying their vision, setting meaningful goals that reflect their values, and taking purposeful steps toward lasting change.]

With a focus on mindset, self-awareness, and self-care, Kari shares practical tools and reflective insights to help people move from feeling stuck or uncertain to feeling empowered and in control. Whether you’re navigating a life transition or seeking to elevate your personal or professional growth, this keynote offers the motivation and strategies needed to create a more intentional, fulfilling path forward.

Contact Kari Chiappetta Consulting today to learn more.

MC SERVICES

In addition to her keynote speaking abilities, Kari is also skilled at managing event agendas and ensuring that events run smoothly. She has experience working with event planners and can help to coordinate the timing of her speech with the overall schedule of the event. This allows for a seamless transition between different parts of the program and ensures that the event stays on schedule.

Whether your event is large or small, Kari Chiappetta is able to adapt her speaking style to fit the needs of your audience and create a positive and engaging atmosphere. Her authentic and energetic approach will leave your audience feeling inspired and motivated to take action.

Kari at TEDx

In this engaging and uplifting talk, Kari explores how understanding our personalities can unlock growth, connection, and confidence. Drawing on the True Colours personality framework — Blue, Gold, Orange, and Green — she guides the audience through a journey of self-discovery that reveals the strengths and gifts we all carry.

Kari's talk encourages us to not only recognize our own traits but to celebrate the differences in others. With warmth, humor, and practical insights, she shows how embracing diverse personality types can improve teamwork, communication, and personal development.

Ignite book cover

Ignite Your Female Leadership is an inspiring and insightful book by women, for women. Learning to show up as a leader takes courage. The powerful ignite moments of the 35 women featured in this book are an anthem for all women stepping into themselves and finding their powerful vision and voice.

Kari Chiappetta is honored to have been included in this compilation of inspiring female voices that reached #1 on Amazon in three categories.

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ABOUT KARI CHIAPPETTA CONSULTING

Kari Chiappetta is a highly respected facilitator, keynote speaker, and event MC with over 30 years of experience in the Social Service sector. Through Kari Chiappetta Consulting, she offers professional, efficient, and fully customized services designed to engage, inspire, and drive meaningful outcomes for organizations and teams.

Kari’s offerings include:

  • Master of Ceremonies for conferences and events
  • Keynote Addresses that inform, energize, and inspire
  • Team Development Sessions focused on collaboration, communication, and leadership

Kari brings deep expertise in a range of facilitation methods, including Personality Dimensions®, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, Friday Night at the ER, and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. She holds a Social Service Worker Diploma, a Life Skills Coaching Certificate, and certifications in Group Facilitation Methodsand the Emotional Culture Deck Master Class.
Her facilitation style is outcome-focused yet people-centered—balancing results with engagement. Known for her authenticity, warmth, and energy, Kari creates inclusive environments where all voices are heard, respected, and valued. Since launching her consulting business in 2006, she has helped countless organizations strengthen communication, build cohesive teams, and achieve strategic goals through high-quality facilitation and training.

Whether hosting a major event, delivering a powerful keynote, or leading a collaborative session, Kari brings the skill, experience, and personality to make every interaction impactful and memorable.