Florida-Based. Nationally Recognized. Globally Experienced.
Be Powerful. Be You.
Lead with Influence. Create Results.
INQUIRE ABOUT PEGINE
Pegine Echevarria, MSW, CSP
is a nationally recognized leadership authority, keynote speaker, author and executive advisor based in Jacksonville, Florida.
For more than four decades, Pegine has been inside the rooms where leaders are made—from intimate conversations with senior executives, military and federal leaders to major conference stages and global audiences reaching thousands.
Today, she brings that depth, energy and experience to organizations seeking more than another motivational keynote.
They want leaders who can influence.
Leaders who can navigate change.
Leaders who know who they are, communicate their value, own their impact and create results.
That is Be Powerful. Be You.
Available for corporate conferences, association meetings, leadership experiences and executive retreats throughout Florida and nationwide.
Your Florida Event Doesn't Need a "Local Speaker."
It Needs the Right Leadership Authority.
Choosing a speaker because she happens to live nearby isn't enough.
Your audience deserves someone with the experience, credibility and stage presence to deliver at the level of your event.
Pegine brings national-level experience to Florida organizations—with the added advantage of already being based in the state.
Florida-based. Nationally recognized. Globally experienced.
Pegine has worked across corporate, government, military, education, nonprofit and association environments. Her experience ranges from small, highly senior executive groups to audiences of thousands, including hybrid and virtual programs reaching participants around the world.
Her work is grounded in a simple belief:
People create culture.
Culture drives performance.
Performance creates prosperity.
And powerful leadership starts with the leader.
Be Powerful. Be You.
A Leadership Experience Built for Leaders Who Need to Influence, Adapt and Deliver.
Be Powerful. Be You. is the doorway into Pegine's leadership work.
It can be delivered as a high-impact keynote, customized leadership experience, executive program or deeper advisory engagement depending on the needs of the organization.
This isn't about telling leaders to become someone else.
It's about developing the self-awareness, influence, courage, communication and personal agency required to lead powerfully as themselves.
Participants explore how to:
- Own their leadership agency and choices.
- Strengthen influence without relying solely on title or authority.
- Communicate their value and ideas with greater clarity.
- Lead with confidence and command presence.
- Navigate change, resistance and uncertainty.
- Build trust and accountability.
- Understand the impact their behavior has on culture.
- Move from intention to action and measurable results.
Be Powerful. Be You. Lead with Influence. Create Results.
EXPLORE THE KEYNOTEOne Leadership Platform. Multiple Ways to Engage Pegine.
The best engagement depends on what your organization needs to accomplish.
KEYNOTES
High-energy, substantive leadership keynotes designed for conferences, annual meetings, corporate events and association audiences.
Pegine combines storytelling, interaction, practical leadership tools and decades of real-world experience to create an experience audiences remember—and use.
CUSTOMIZED LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES
For organizations that want more than a traditional keynote.
Pegine can customize Be Powerful. Be You. around your organization's leadership priorities, business environment, culture, audience and desired outcomes.
These experiences may incorporate keynote content, facilitated interaction, leadership exercises, Q&A, panels or executive conversations.
EXECUTIVE & LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
For smaller groups of senior leaders, leadership teams and high-potential leaders who need deeper conversation and application.
Pegine is equally comfortable commanding a major conference stage and working around a table with a small group of senior decision-makers.
SELECTED EXECUTIVE COACHING & ADVISORY
For selected executives and organizations seeking deeper strategic leadership work, Pegine provides coaching and advisory engagements focused on leadership influence, visibility, communication, decision-making and results.
Engagements are customized to the organization, audience and desired outcomes. Premium engagements generally begin at $25,000.
Planning a Leadership Conference in Orlando?
Bringing a National Leadership Authority to Orlando Doesn't Necessarily Require Flying One Into Florida.
Pegine is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and works with organizations and conferences throughout Orlando and Central Florida.
Orlando is one of the world's great meeting destinations. Organizations bring leaders from across the country—and around the world—to Central Florida for major conventions, corporate meetings and leadership experiences.
The speaker should match the caliber of the room.
Pegine is available for:
- National association conventions
- Corporate conferences
- Leadership conferences
- Women's leadership events
- Executive retreats and off-sites
- Sales and leadership meetings
- HR and talent conferences
- Annual meetings
- Senior leadership programs
- Leadership-development experiences
Whether your organization is planning a major convention-center program, a resort-based leadership meeting or an intimate executive retreat, Pegine's experience can be customized to the audience and desired business outcomes.
Her Florida base provides meeting professionals with something particularly valuable:
National-caliber leadership expertise with Florida accessibility.
EXPLORE PEGINE FOR ORLANDO EVENTSJacksonville: National Leadership Expertise Is Already Here.
Pegine doesn't merely serve Jacksonville.Â
Jacksonville is home.
As a North Florida business leader and graduate of Leadership Jacksonville and Leadership Florida, Pegine understands the region while bringing experience developed through decades of work with leaders nationally and globally.
Jacksonville organizations can engage Pegine for corporate conferences, executive meetings, leadership development, association events, retreats and customized leadership experiences without sacrificing national-level expertise.
For organizations seeking an ongoing relationship rather than a speaker who arrives, speaks and disappears, being based in Jacksonville can create opportunities for deeper engagement before and after the event.
National authority. Florida roots. Jacksonville home.
EXPLORE PEGINE FOR JACKSONVILLE EVENTS
Amelia Island Executive Retreats & Leadership Meetings
When the Room Gets Smaller, the Conversation Can Get Bigger.
Amelia Island attracts executive teams, boards, associations and organizations looking for something different from the traditional conference experience.
Pegine's work is particularly suited to these environments.
She has spent decades working not only with large audiences but with small groups of highly senior leaders where the expectation isn't entertainment.
It's insight. Conversation. Challenge. Clarity. And action.
For executive retreats, leadership off-sites and senior-team meetings, Be Powerful. Be You. can become an interactive leadership experience incorporating facilitated conversation, strategic reflection, leadership exercises and executive dialogue.
Your retreat doesn't need another presentation. It needs a conversation leaders will still be thinking about when they return to work.
DISCUSS AN AMELIA ISLAND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCEFrom 12 Senior Leaders to Thousands Around the World
The Size of the Room Changes. The Standard Doesn't.
Pegine's experience includes intimate groups of fewer than 20 senior executive leaders, senior military executives and federal executive-level leaders.
It also includes major stages.
5,000 people in one audience.
11,000 participants in a global hybrid event—with approximately 2,000 people in the room and thousands more joining virtually around the world.
A 20,000-attendee virtual program.
Different rooms require different leadership from the speaker.
Pegine knows how to create connection whether she is looking across an executive table or across an arena.
Why Organizations Choose Pegine
They aren't simply hiring someone to fill a keynote slot.
They are bringing in a leadership authority with a substantial body of work.
Pegine brings more than four decades of leadership observation, development and experience across corporate, government, military, education, nonprofit and association environments.
Her work combines:
- Leadership expertise.
- Executive-level credibility.
- Extraordinary stage energy.
- Practical tools leaders can use.
- Customization around the organization's business reality.
- A message people remember: Be Powerful. Be You.
Pegine's leadership philosophy isn't built around changing who people are.
It begins with leaders understanding who they are, owning their agency, communicating their value, increasing their influence and accepting responsibility for the results they create.
I've Spent Four Decades Inside the Rooms Where Leaders Are Made.
Leadership isn't something Pegine discovered when she became a speaker.
It is the body of work.
For decades, Pegine has observed what happens when leaders understand their power—and what happens when they don't.
She has seen leadership in boardrooms, government environments, military settings, corporations, classrooms, associations, executive conversations and massive conference rooms.
That experience became the foundation for Be Powerful. Be You.
Because organizations don't change by themselves.
People change them. Leaders influence them. Culture accelerates—or inhibits—them. And results follow.
Bring Be Powerful. Be You. to Your Florida Event
Planning a conference, corporate meeting, leadership experience or executive retreat in Florida?
Let's talk about what your leaders need to think, feel, understand and do differently when the experience is over.
Pegine is based in Jacksonville, Florida and available for engagements throughout Orlando, Jacksonville, Amelia Island, Tampa, Tallahassee, South Florida and nationwide.
Florida-Based. Nationally Recognized. Globally Experienced.
