Confidence isn’t found.
It’s constructed.
Mikki delivers powerful keynotes for women navigating leadership, visibility, and confidence, especially in spaces where they’ve been told they don’t belong.
As the founder of a multimillion-dollar construction company, Mikki Paradis has spent her career navigating high-pressure rooms that weren’t designed with her in mind. Rooms where confidence isn’t optional.
Now, as a keynote speaker, Mikki draws from that experience to help women build confidence that actually lasts. Not the loud, performative, fake-it-till-you-make-it kind, but the kind of confidence that’s designed intentionally, reinforced over time, and strong enough to hold firm when it’s challenged.
Mikki delivers keynotes that are bold, practical, deeply human, and impossible to forget. Her talks blend storytelling, actionable frameworks, and real-world strategies that women can immediately apply, not just inspiration that fades after the applause.
Audiences leave her sessions ready to take action without permission, stop editing their authentic selves out of the room, and start leading with clarity, conviction, and their own personal version of confidence.
Leadership Starts with Confidence
Powerful keynotes, workshops, and programming for women navigating confidence, leadership, and knowing themselves.
Especially in spaces where they’ve been told they don’t belong.
"I had the opportunity to hear Mikki speak at a Women's Day event where she was part of a panel of women, and she immediately stood out. She has a presence that draws you in and a way of speaking that feels both powerful and grounded. You can tell she leads from real experience, not theory.
Mikki was captivating, motivating, and incredibly authentic. She speaks with confidence that doesn’t feel performative, and it makes you believe in your own ability to show up fully for yourself and your business. The room was engaged, leaning in, and genuinely inspired.
She is the kind of speaker who leaves a lasting impression long after the event is over."
Jessica Abreu
Brick by Brick Media
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Confidence isn’t “found.” It’s constructed.
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Confidence Under Construction: The Blueprint for Fearless Leadership
Like any structure worth standing, confidence begins with a blueprint — and it stays strong because it’s designed, revised, and reinforced over time.
In this powerful, story-driven keynote, Mikki translates her years of construction leadership into reimagining confidence as something women build, not something they’re supposed to already have (or pretend to have).
Through real talk, honesty, and unexpected moments of humor Mikki walks women through the tools they need to design confidence that is authentic, durable, and flexible enough to grow with them, rather than waiting to feel “ready” or trying to fit someone else’s definition of what it means to be “confident” in their field.
This 45-minute keynote is ideal for:
Women’s Conferences
Leadership Events
Corporate & Industry Gatherings
Construction
Corporate Culture & DEI
Organizations Supporting Women in Business
STEM
This is not another confidence pep talk.
Mikki speaks to women leaders, builders, and changemakers about claiming space, self-trust, and authority, without sugar-coating or posturing.
This is a highly engaging, story-driven keynote that combines humor, audience interaction, and clear frameworks women can immediately apply in their work and leadership.
Confidence Under Construction covers four tools that audiences can use immediately to construct their own brand of confidence.
The Blueprint
Confidence grows when we stop reacting and start designing.
In this keynote, Mikki helps audiences clarify where they are now, where they’re headed, and how to stop trying to build their lives using someone else’s blueprint.
The Permit
Women are taught to wait for validation before they move. This section is the turning point.
Mikki challenges audiences to become their own permitting department and leads a powerful interactive moment where women stamp their own plans “Approved.”
The PPE
Confidence without protection is one bad comment away from collapse.
Through this talk, Mikki teaches women how to protect their mindset, guard their vision, and stop letting other people’s opinions dictate their own self-worth.
The Voltage Meter
Not every connection is meant to power you.
In Confidence Under Construction, Mikki shows audiences how to recognize what energizes them, what drains them, and how to stop giving power to people and environments that keep tripping their breaker.
What You'll Take Away
Real talk, practical tools, and powerful stories for women leading in environments that weren’t designed with them in mind.
Event planners book Confidence Under Construction because they know their audiences leave with:
- A practical framework for building confidence that actually lasts
- Language to speak up, take up space, and lead with clarity
- Tools to stop internalizing criticism and self-editing
- Greater self-trust in rooms where they’ve felt underestimated or “othered”
- A real understanding that they belong, exactly as they are
This isn’t hype or in-the-moment motivation that fades by Monday. It’s an actionable blueprint that continues to impact audiences long after the event ends.
"From the moment Mikki Paradis takes the stage, she radiates warmth and makes everyone feel genuinely welcome. Her stories are deeply relatable, blending real-life moments with powerful lessons drawn from her years of business experience in the construction industry. She delivers insight with authenticity, confidence, and heart, making her both inspiring and easy to connect with. Personally and professionally, she is truly exceptional, and her keynote is not just impressive—it leaves a lasting impression."
Lori Shipp Wall
Vive Pilates
Why It Works
Mikki didn’t learn confidence from a textbook.
She learned it by navigating rooms that weren’t “meant” for her, owning a business in construction, and being told, directly and indirectly, that she didn’t belong.
Instead of trying to be louder, tougher, or more like everyone else, she learned to stop editing herself out and start building confidence that was authentic, honest, imperfect, and powerful.
She doesn’t speak about confidence from theory; she speaks from lived experience. The kind of experience where confidence wasn’t optional. It was survival. Now, she leverages that experience as the foundation of her own growth in life and business.
That lived experience is what makes her message resonate so deeply with women across all industries.
Audiences first lean in because they can feel themselves in her story. Her message sticks with them long after the event because it’s:
- Honest, not polished for performance
- Grounded in real leadership challenges
- Inclusive of women across industries and backgrounds
- Delivered with warmth, humor, and authority
Mikki's Keynotes
Beyond Confidence Under Construction, Mikki is known for leading talks and workshops around the following topics:
Leading Authentically
Change Your Business by Changing Your Perspective
Integrity in All Things Business
Chicks in Construction
“Mikki Paradis’ presentation on Confidence Under
Construction really hit home with me! She really put all
the cards on the table and the conversation got real!”
Ashley Taylor
Project Manager, WeaverCooke