GOOGLE • AI VISIBILITY •
PRACTICAL BUSINESS STRATEGY
HELP YOUR AUDIENCE SHOW UP SMART, STAND OUT, AND STAY SOUGHT AFTER.
Maria Elena Duron helps business owners and leadership teams understand how people now find, evaluate, and choose businesses across Google, search, and AI. Her sessions turn fast-changing technology into practical decisions audiences can use long after the event ends.
Grow with google
U.S. Southwest coach
18,000+ business owners trained and advised
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certified chief ai officer + ai consultant
Maria Elena combines clear explanations, real business experience, audience interaction, and practical frameworks. Attendees leave understanding what changed, what deserves their attention, and what to do next.
PRACTICAL ENOUGH TO USE.
MEMORABLE ENOUGH TO SHARE.
MARIA ELENA IN ACTION
Maria Elena’s programs help experienced leaders, teams, and organizations navigate rapid change without losing the judgment, credibility, and human insight that built the business.
Each program can stand alone as a keynote, workshop, leadership session, or customized training. For organizations ready to move from inspiration into application, Maria Elena also offers the Educate. Equip. Embed.™ learning model.
Signature SPEAKING AND TRAINING programs
EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP & AI
AI IS ACCELERATING. EXPERIENCE MUST LEAD.
A Smart at 55+ Program
AI is moving faster and reaching deeper into business than previous waves of technology. Experienced owners and leaders may feel pressure to step back simply because someone else speaks the newest technical language.
This program helps leaders combine artificial intelligence with the judgment, pattern recognition, relationships, and accountability they have built over decades.
Participants learn how to remain confident, visible, and influential while keeping experienced intelligence in charge.
Audience MEMBERS WILL leave knowing:
Why experienced judgment becomes more valuable as AI becomes easier for everyone to access
How to use AI without quietly surrendering decision-making authority
Where artificial intelligence can support leadership and where experienced intelligence must remain in charge
How to remain confident, visible, and influential during rapid technological change
How to move from fatigue and contraction into renewed contribution, relevance, and growth
Best for: Owner groups, executive teams, leadership organizations, Vistage groups, founder communities, experienced professionals, and multigenerational teams.
Available as: Keynote, interactive workshop, executive session, or customized learning series.
GOOGLE & AI SEARCH VISIBILITY
GET FOUND, UNDERSTOOD & CHOSEN IN GOOGLE AND AI SEARCH
People are no longer finding businesses through a single list of links. Google, AI-generated answers, maps, reviews, videos, and trusted third-party sources now influence which businesses are seen, summarized, recommended, and chosen.
Maria Elena shows audiences how websites, Google Business Profiles, reviews, content, authority signals, and outside sources work together.
Participants leave knowing which visibility signals deserve attention and what to strengthen first so their organization is not only seen, but understood, trusted, and chosen.
Audience MEMBERS WILL leave knowing:
How customers now discover, evaluate, and compare businesses across Google and AI search
Which visibility signals help search engines and AI platforms understand, trust, and recommend a business
Why strong businesses can still be overlooked, misunderstood, or left out of answers
How websites, Google Business Profiles, reviews, content, and third-party authority work together
What to strengthen first so visibility leads to trust, preference, and being chosen
Best for: Corporate marketing teams, business conferences, associations, sales organizations, service businesses, chambers, universities, and economic-development groups.
Available as: Keynote, breakout session, interactive workshop, leadership briefing, or customized team training.
PRACTICAL AI WORKFLOWS
FROM AI EXPERIMENTS TO WORKFLOWS THAT WORK
Teams are experimenting with prompts and tools, but isolated experiments rarely create dependable business value.
This program helps organizations identify where AI can support real work, turn recurring tasks into repeatable workflows, and establish the human review, ownership, and boundaries needed to use those workflows responsibly.
The goal is not to add more tools. It is to help teams create practical ways of working that save time, improve consistency, and keep people accountable for the final decision.
Audience MEMBERS WILL leave knowing:
How to identify recurring work that is appropriate for AI support
How to turn scattered prompts and isolated experiments into repeatable workflows
Where human review, ownership, and approval need to remain part of the process
How to reduce duplicated effort, tool overload, and inconsistent results
How to build practical workflows that save time while protecting quality, judgment, and accountability
Best for: Corporate teams, leadership groups, marketing departments, professional-service organizations, universities, associations, and teams already experimenting with AI.
Available as: Keynote, interactive workshop, executive session, customized virtual series, or team-training program.
EDUCATE. EQUIP. EMBED.™
A KEYNOTE AND CUSTOMIZED LEARNING SERIES FOR TEAMS READY TO PUT THE IDEAS TO WORK
A single presentation can create energy and awareness. Lasting change requires a clear path from understanding to application.
Educate. Equip. Embed.™ gives organizations a flexible learning model that begins with a keynote or leadership session and continues through customized virtual training.
The series can be built around any of Maria Elena’s signature programs.
EDUCATE
Begin with a 60- to 90-minute keynote, leadership session, or company-wide presentation.
This opening session creates urgency, shared understanding, and a common language around the change the organization is facing.
Participants see what is changing, why it affects the business, and where their experience and judgment still need to lead.
EQUIP
Continue with customized virtual sessions that help participants apply the ideas to their own roles, responsibilities, decisions, visibility priorities, and workflows.
These sessions can include practical exercises, real business examples, team discussion, guided implementation, and follow-up support.
EMBED
Turn the learning into repeatable practices, clearer standards, stronger workflows, and better decision-making across the organization.
The goal is to help the team move beyond temporary enthusiasm and begin using the ideas consistently in real work.
The Educate. Equip. Embed.™ model can include:
A 60- to 90-minute keynote or leadership session
Customized virtual follow-up sessions
Executive and leadership briefings
Team workshops
Guided workflow development
Practical implementation exercises
Discussion guides and supporting resources
Follow-up sessions for questions, refinement, and accountability
Best for: Corporate teams, universities, leadership groups, professional associations, nonprofit organizations, and organizations that want more than a one-time presentation.
Available as: A customized engagement built around the organization’s audience, priorities, timing, and desired outcomes.
WHAT EVENT HOSTS AND ORGANIZATIONS SAY
“Thank you! The knowledge and experience you shared brought so much value to the community, and the feedback we’ve heard has been nothing but positive. Your ability to break things down and create engaging discussions really elevated the learning experience for everyone involved. Thanks again for the time, effort, and expertise you put into making this series such a success!”
KATIE TURNER
Small Business and Fractional Community Manager, IACAIO
Small Business Growth Marketing
“So SMART and remarkably eloquent. We are excited and appreciative of what Maria Elena has done for our major event in keynoting in the morning, in the afternoon, at lunch, and with breakout sessions. She’s been a key part of our MarkeTech event for the last five years and we highly recommend her. Thank you for rocking the house!”
CEO, Grow and Buy Nebraska
MarkeTech Conference
JANELL EHRKE
“Maria Elena is such a power house and super passionate and engaging! Everyone at the conference had high marks and praise. They learned so much and walked away with practical actions that were very memorable and successful in their business growth. Thank you Maria for bringing the excitement, experience, and expertise!”
Chairperson
Texas Conference for Women
MICHELLE SNEED
why book maria elena
SHE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO BUILD A BUSINESS, NOT JUST TALK ABOUT ONE.
Maria Elena brings more than 20 years of experience building brands, leading teams, managing operations, and helping grow a business from approximately $300,000 to $4.1 million. Her programs connect current technology with real business judgment, clear priorities, and the human trust that still drives decisions.
Grow with Google U.S. Southwest Coach
Certified Chief AI Officer
Certified AI Executive
Certified AI Consultant
Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow
National Trainer and Speaker
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EVERYTHING YOUR TEAM NEEDS TO EVALUATE AND PROMOTE THE PROGRAM
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR AUDIENCE AND EVENT
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