Bold and Muscular Meeting Strategies - "Wait! What? Didn't I just say that?!?"

MJ Klimas is a proven business leader with success in motivating and challenging organizations to achieve outstanding levels of innovation, sales, and profitability. Positive, articulate, and decisive, she collaborated across businesses, leading through volatility and crisis. She was known for prioritizing mentoring and empowering others to succeed with energy, passion, and creativity.

After decades in client facing roles with Fortune 50 financial services firms, MJ's career culminated as Managing Director, President, and Board Chairwoman of Banc of America Public Capital Corp. Today as Principal of PresencePlus Consulting, MJ's executive leadership experience combined with her enthusiasm for presenting and mentoring, uniquely qualify her to counsel individuals through career advancement.

She brings talent, experience, and life lessons to offer clients valuable insights on the power of Executive Presence, the important choice to Seize Power and the impact of Bold and Muscular Presentation and Meeting Skills. MJ's clients leverage techniques and tools to confidently navigate career advancement - both internally or while interviewing for external opportunities.

MJ is a highly regarded Keynote Speaker on the Power of Confidence and Executive Presence augmenting an accomplished career speaking on financing in the sectors of Healthcare and Higher Education. She supports initiatives of corporate and not-for-profit organizations with public speaking engagements and small group sessions while simultaneously counseling individuals privately, one-on-one.

Organizations presented to include: United Way of SWPA PA Institute of CPA's Brave Women's Project Center for Women's Entrepreneurship Schneider Downs Association for Corporate Growth Leadership Washington County

When not seeing clients, MJ is a music lover who can be found playing electric guitar with her family and the band "Ruby and The Riptides." For almost a decade, she served as Director and Secretary of The Pittsburgh Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pine-Richland Orchestra Association. MJ passionately embraces her Italian heritage attending classes and traveling to study the language and culture of Italy. MJ is a member of the Center for Women's Entrepreneurship. She is also actively engaged with the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania's Women's Leadership Council as a committee leader and volunteer: she brings time, talent, and resources to those in need. MJ earned a BA in Marketing from Michigan State University.