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Mari Ann currently offers five unique college student presentations:

“From Ritual To Reality”

Dr. Mari Ann Callais offers a truly unique program about values, ritual and the responsibilities of being a lifetime fraternity or sorority member. For nearly a decade, she has built a legion of admirers with her fun, upbeat program on fraternity and sorority values. Listening to her speak for just a few minutes, fraternity and sorority members will be educated and challenged to turn their own ritual into day-to-day reality. Mari Ann combines music and storytelling into a dynamic experience where value-based decision-making and living the values of Greek rituals reign supreme. Whether she is speaking to new members in the process of recruitment or to seasoned alumni volunteers, she will inspire her audience to renew their commitment to the values of their own fraternity or sorority.

Speaking to either men’s and women’s groups, Mari Ann will make students laugh and help them better understand the immense potential benefit that Greek Life offers their campuses and their lives. Students rate her programs highly because she talks with students, not to students, and uses compelling examples that have real-life relevance. By sharing her experiences and observations, as well as leading them in singing popular songs, Mari Ann helps fraternity and sorority members effectively explore the values and reasons for being part of the Greek community.

“Making the Most of Your College Experience”

Using tips from her chapter “Making the Most of Your College Experience” in the book Roadmaps to Success in College, Mari Ann shares her experiences from both a professional and personal perspective. A great program for new student orientations, parents events and first year experiences programs, Mari Ann delivers a message that is upbeat, entertaining, motivational and educational.

Panhellenic Says: Promoting Panhellenic Unity and Spirit Through Understanding

Targeted as an all sorority event, this program incorporates the concept of being a Panhellenic community. It is ideal for a potential new member orientation program during recruitment.

Hazing: How Does It Happen In My Chapter?

Mari Ann addresses the core issues of why chapters are still participating in activities and behavior that contradicts their values as people and Greek members. This program is interactive and incorporates concepts of human behavior and the process of consistently upholding the values of Greek organizations.

Recruitment Counselors: Keys to a Successful Recruitment

This program includes team building ideas and suggestions for increasing recruitment numbers by utilizing Recruitment Counselors. Mari Ann’s program is designed for potential Recruitment Counselors or for an existing group, helping to get your team moving in a positive direction from day one. Mari Ann can also adapt this program to fit your specific campus goals, traditions, and priorities.

Speaking Engagements

For more information about Mari Ann, including pricing and availability, please contact us at (303) 745-5545, e-mail info@campuspeak.com or visit us on the web at www.campuspeak.com.

Campus Staff and Administrators Programming

In addition to student keynotes, Mari Ann also provides workshops for Student Affairs professionals. Please visit the CAMPUSPEAK website for more information.

Corporate Training and Consulting

Mari Ann has done extensive research  on the role of mission and values and how it impacts loyalty  and understanding of an organization or company by its members or employees.  Mari Ann can conduct one hour or full day retreats developed to create a team environment or to enhance an already productive team.  Designing retreats and workshops which include team building, personal evaluation, group dynamics, company codes of ethics, etc. is her specialty.  Contact Mari Ann at mac@marianncallais.com for more information.

Reviews and Testimonials

These are several of my favorite testimonials – I thought you might enjoy them.  Stay posted for new testimonials and information.

I just wanted to start with a Thank you! Your talk tonight at UAB was amazing and probably one of the best educational sessions I have been to in the three years I have been at UAB. Your speeches were amazing because they were inspiring. I walked out of that room wanting to be an adviser when I graduate and feeling like I could take on the world. I was so happy to have someone talk to us about what is really like to be in a Greek organization. I wish you could have been at our chapter meeting because your talk was just what my chapter needed to here. So much we forget that we aren’t there to win everything on campus but really to live our rituals. I am amazed at your dedication to your sorority and the fact that you went on to be national president! I doubt I will ever get that far but I hope that maybe someday someone will think of me when they think of how pledging a sorority should be. Once again thank you so much for your time that you spend. It made me realize that I didn’t know all that much about my founders except what I needed to know for the membership exams and I hope that’s something I can fix. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Christine Culleton
Student Director Miss UAB
Alpha Omicron Pi Vice President of Academic Development

I loved your presentation Ritual to Reality!  It was truly the highlight for me and brought all the pieces of convention together.  Some of us in the back laughed and cried together!  What more could you ask for?!?! I loved how you engaged the audience!  Wonderful job!  I appreciate your sharing your gift with Tri Delta!  We are very lucky!

Mary Ann Wright, Ph.D.
Training and Development Facilitator
Delta Delta Delta

You have truly inspired me to better not only my beloved sorority but myself as well.  I just hope I will be able to pass on your information as passionately as you passed it on to all of us.  Once again thank you so much and please keep doing what you are doing because it is people like you that make all the difference.
Taleen Kupelian
Alpha Epsilon Phi

It was so refreshing to listen to someone who has faith in the goodness of the Greek system and the qualities that we should all be dedicated to uphold. Thank you for adding fuel to my inspiration to fight for all the ideals that our founders fought for in their time. I truly hope that by learning from and continuing their, and your, example, I can wear my letters with a well-earned pride.
Nikki Held, Student
Kappa Alpha Theta, Tulane University

I recently attended our district seven leadership concert in L.A. where I was fortunate enough to be profoundly touched by your heartfelt words regarding not only our ritual, but our fraternity as well. I wanted to take this opportunity to share how you have changed my life. I can’st even express to you how much your presentation meant to me. Because of you, I have made it my goal to live my ritual, and in doing so hope to share my knowledge with others. Thank you so much for your inspiration, and I hope that you continue what you are doing for our organizations because you are truly an amazing woman. I know that your founders, whoever they might be, would definitely look down on you today and thank you for keeping their dreams alive.
Sara Denton
Kappa Alpha Theta
University of Nevada

I am only in 8th grade. I have know Mari Ann for a couple of years now because she plays the guitar at Camp Abbey. The speech she gave us was incredible. It touched me so much. I thought every single thing she said to us was just right. I know from what she said will definitely change the way I live today. She is a wonderful lady and I look up to her in many ways.
Samantha Nicole Carrone
Mount Carmel Academy

I just wanted to let you know that your talk on Ritual and how to Just Live It’s really inspired me! Your talk made me so excited about being a part of something so good and so much bigger than myself. You also taught me a lot about the Pahellenic blanket’s and how each member is responsible for holding up their corner. It all really made an impact on me.

Last Sunday I was elected as Keeper of the Ritual for my chapter. Because of your influence, I hope to develop programming and a workshop that will help the chapter to understand the Ritual and then encourage the chapter to live it out on a daily basis. But I also want this to be fun and keep the girls’s minds busy!
Michelle Fuentes
Alpha Omicron Pi
University of Alabama

Thank you so much for the awesome presentation on ritual. I wish all of our members were there to witness it. I left that meeting trembling with excitement for when we finally get installed and learn our ritual.
Matt Frauenhoffer
Theta Chi Colony
Southwest Missouri
State University

With innate enthusiasm, wit, and an upbeat personality (and even a little guitar thrown in), Mari Ann Callais keeps her audience interested, involved, and always on their toes. She has them laughing one minute, and then the next, she grabs at their hearts. My students and I never fail to come away motivated and inspired!
Sally Cobb
Coord. of Campus Involvement
and Greek Life
University of South Alabama

I wanted to use this opportunity to tell you what a phenomenal asset Mari Ann was to our conference. She received nothing but high marks, and was the main topic of conversation from the moment her presentation was over!
Erika Biddix
Kappa Alpha Theta
District Leadership
Conference Participant

I had students come into my office for a week and a half after her lecture telling me how good it was a what an impact she had made on them. Some students actually went back to their chapters and discussed what their ritual meant to them and how it impacts their lives on a daily basis.
Deb Crane
Coord. of Greek Life
University of the Pacific