Motivational Speaker and Disability Consultant
As a child, Carol sustained speech and vision disabilities, as a result of
an auto accident. Instead of focusing on her injuries, Carol choose to focus on her abilities and strengths. By age 22 she had already proven that she was extremely capable, as noted from her former ophthalmologist; “You have proven the pessimists wrong, and the optimists right. I congratulate you!”
Carol Leish offers a special presentation to businesses, schools, hospitals, organizations and clubs. She invites her audience to join her on her personal journey of coping with visual and speech challenges.
Carol enlightens people by focusing on the strengths that people with disabilities have, and demonstrates there is always a way to get around a situation by improvising or accommodating to it. She is an eloquent speaker who deals with a sensitive subject in a way that inspires and educates the listener.
Carol Leish is a unique motivational speaker, writer and trainer, with over 10 years experience in teaching and working with Social Service agencies. Her programs offer the audience a unique insight to the world of the physically, mentally and learning challenged person, because Carol is speaking from her own personal experiences.
Presentations
CA Government & Disability Summit in Ventura, CA, in September, 2024
Camarillo, CA Public Library: Talk during Disability Pride Month: July, 2024
Cypress Place Senior Living, Ventura, CA, to staff, in November, 2022
Webinar for Ventura County, CA Behavioral Health, in October, 2022
Ventura College Diversity in Culture Festival – Presented for students and staff – April 2018
Keynote at 11th Annual Illinois Statewide Transition Conference –Chicago, October 29 – 30, 2015
Keynote for National Disability Employment Awareness Month Training: At Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme, CA in, October, 2007 – – This talk included three sites across the U.S.: Virginia Beach, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; and White Sands, New Mexico.
Boys and Girls Club
Boy Scouts
CA Lutheran University
California State Department of Rehabilitation
City of Oxnard
County of Ventura
CSU Channel Islands
Cypress Place Senior Living
Girl Scouts
Kiwanis
Laguna Niguel Elementary Schools
Optimist Club of Camarillo
Pleasant Valley Schools
Rotary Clubs
Ventura County Behavioral Health
Ventura County Office of Education
Ventura Unified School District