Are you ever in the middle of a conversation, when you hear the words coming out of your mouth and you wish could shove them back in? Enter 2023 Day of Excellence speaker, communications expert Stacey Hanke! Stacey has provided practical and immediate skills and techniques that have given thousands the ability to enhance their influence Monday to Monday®.

Author of two books and Certified Speaking Professional, Stacey Hanke's work ethic was forged in her childhood years, growing up on a farm. She gave up the pitchfork to take her message across the country. Stacey has trained and presented to Coca-Cola, FedEx, Kohl's, United States Army, Navy and Air Force, McDonald's, GE, and General Mills. From the financial industry to government to the healthcare industry and everyone in between, she strives to rid leaders of bad body language habits and to choose words wisely.

We all want to enhance our influence… but what if we are sabotaging our influence without even knowing it? You may not be as influential as you think you are! How you communicate verbally and non-verbally determines whether or not others see you as credible, knowledgeable and trustworthy. Without doing this effectively, you inhibit your maximum potential to: influence, increase profits and cultivate long-term relationships. In Influence Redefined, Stacey will give you the opportunity to take a closer look at reality rather than what you believe to be true. Whatever your solution, the goal is always the same: Not to change you, but to help you confidently and consistently express your true self, Monday to Monday.®

Day of Excellence is the legacy project created by the Leadership Rapid City Class of 2009 (now called Elevate Leadership Institute) with a desire to provide a legacy project that makes our community better tomorrow than it is today.

To find out more about Day of Excellence, purchasing tickets, and the full 2023 speaker line-up, click here. Tickets for this year's event are selling quickly.