Mary LoVerde believes life is a balancing act and her passion is finding creative ways to help her audiences blend a successful career and a happy and healthy family life.

Mary has shared her innovative, step-by-step strategies for a balanced life with audiences from Bangkok to Biloxi, to clients as diverse as Apple, the Mayo Clinic and the American Trucking Association. She is the author of three best selling books: I Used to Have a Handle on Life but It Broke; Stop Screaming at the Microwave; and Touching Tomorrow. The ideas in her newest book, The Invitation…When You Are Ready to Take Your Next Step have reached readers in more than 35 countries.

She has appeared on 20/20, ABC World News Tonight, and five times on the Oprah Winfrey show. She is a former faculty member of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and for 15 years served as the Director of the Hypertension Research Center. Her original work has appeared in the three "most important" journals: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal and the Ladies Home Journal.

In 2009, Speaker Magazine named Mary as one of the 25 Most Influential Speakers Shaping the Industry. In 2010, the National Speakers Association inducted her into the Speaker's Hall of Fame, one of only 191 speakers to ever achieve this honor.

Also in 2010 Mary accepted an unexpected invitation to sell her one-of-a-kind dream home give away nearly all her belongings and embark upon a make-it-up-as-you-go global adventure. Her motto is "At home wherever I am." The people she met and the lessons she learned have become the genesis of the "I-Accept-the-Invitation" movement.