About Therese

I'M THERESE.
I'M THE PERSON YOU CALL WHEN
“JUST PUSH THROUGH”
STOPPED WORKING A WHILE AGO.

Therese Marzouk  ·  Speaker  ·  Workforce Strategist

STILL
Therese Marzouk on location in a hotel wearing a black t-shirt that says "girls will be girls" with three flying witches.

I'm a keynote speaker, workforce development trainer, and writer. For more than 15 years, I've worked with leaders, teams, and women navigating the seasons that don't fit on a project plan — restructuring, burnout, grief, the slow kind of change and the kind that arrives by phone call.

What I've learned is that most people don't need another framework. They need someone to stand next to them while they figure out what's next. That's what I do from the stage. That's what I do in the room afterward. That's what the work is.

“I can't do this for you. But I will be here with you while you walk through it.”

Fifteen years in workforce development taught me what people say in training rooms when the leadership team leaves. The rest of it came from being a person in the world. I don't separate the two on stage, and I don't separate them here.

Science nerd. Word nerd. Former owner of Word Knives. Still has a birthday card about avocados on her desk.

Work With Therese
What I talk about
ON
STAGE

Moving forward before you feel ready — because waiting to feel ready is how years go by.

Staying present in the discomfort without making the discomfort the whole personality.

The difference between sitting with it and being stuck in it — and why the second one is so much easier to mistake for the first.

Pivoting — not as a buzzword, but as a real decision people have to make while the rest of their life is still happening.

A few things I won’t do on your stage.

I won't tell your people to be grateful for their hardest season.
I won't pretend I have a five-step framework for grief, change, or burnout. I have something better: company.
I won't make your audience feel like they're behind. They already feel that way. That's why you booked someone.
I won't trade honesty for applause lines. The applause comes anyway, and it lands differently.