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Kristen speaks with vivacious enthusiasm and is unparalleled to none, no matter the topic. Her energy is contagious and leaves a lasting impression on everyone in her audience. Most are left speechless not believing what just happened on the stage.

Jordan Johnson , University of Florida


Kristen blew her TED Talk out of the water and emerged as one of the highest rated speakers at the event. I recommend Kristen Hadeed without reservation to anyone who is--like I was--seeking a speaker who can rise to the occasion and wow an audience.

Ben Erez, TEDxUF


Kristen has the ability to connect with students in ways that other speakers can’t. Kristen is an absolute honor to have on any college campus and in my opinion it is a MUST for every college campus to host her.

Christina Bonarrigo, University of Florida




From Hitting the Bar to Setting the Bar

In 2009, Kristen Hadeed was enjoying life at the University of Florida. On the surface, she seemed like the typical 20-year-old college student. Unlike many of her peers, however, she was a bit too busy to be thinking about turning 21 and hitting the bars. During her junior year, between football games and finals, Kristen founded one of Florida’s largest independently owned cleaning services, Student Maid™.

She worked full-time, both as a business owner and a student, eventually expanding Student Maid™ from four employees to more than 350. She traded happy hour for calculating payroll, late nights for early morning meetings, and time with her friends for hiring and firing employees (many of whom were older than she), all while motivating hundreds of top-notch college students to get excited about scrubbing toilets. Who says you have to wait until graduation to start making amazing things happen?

Kristen knows that there are many college students who are eager to start making their mark.  High achievers need to be told, “Yes, you can do it, and do it right now.” In this inspiring leadership keynote, Kristen highlights the importance of fearless leadership through memorable, funny and sometimes embarrassing stories of her own trials and tribulations as a young entrepreneur. Sharing the most intimate details of her journey from college student to the owner of a cleaning empire, she recounts valuable lessons learned from near-disasters and complete failures. Kristen empowers audiences to become leaders worth following, on campus, in their organizations, in their communities, or in the business world.

Learning Outcomes
• Create an organizational culture that motivates members to become superstars who consistently go the extra mile
• Hold yourself, your peers and your organization to the highest standards
• Design self-sustaining leadership so the organization never has to depend solely on one individual to succeed
• Lead fearlessly and stand up for what’s right, even if that means standing alone

Putting Yourself in the Driver’s Seat

In this compelling keynote, Kristen emphasizes the importance of attitude, perspective and DRIVE!  Have you ever felt discouraged because you’ve failed at something? Ever felt like something just wasn’t working out the way you thought it would?  Kristen shows you how to chalk it up as a lesson and move on to bigger and better things. Living life on your terms and putting yourself in the driver’s seat means doing something that causes your heart race, gets your blood pumping and makes you feel alive—even if people think you’re crazy for doing it.

At only 25 years old, Kristen possesses the business savvy and experience of leaders twice her age. Her business—which began as a part-time cleaning gig with a couple of her friends—has blossomed into one of the largest independently owned cleaning services in Florida, with more than 350 college student employees.

In this empowering presentation, Kristen shares how her attitude and passion have been the keys to her success.  When she turned down a dream job at graduation to continue growing her cleaning company instead, she dared to dream BIG, and the gamble paid off.  However, Kristen’s journey as a young entrepreneur hasn’t been a walk in the park. Along the way, she’s endured defeats and setbacks so devastating that most college students would have thrown in the towel. 

With a “bring it on” attitude, she won each and every one of these battles. With every setback, in business and in life, Kristen has learned to embrace failure as a priceless lesson and an opportunity to accomplish bigger and better things.  She has never been afraid to think bigger than herself, and through her eye-opening story, she inspires her audience to do the same.

Learning Outcomes
• Encourages students to follow their passions with a sense of purpose
• Empowers students to set goals and establish milestones toward success
• Change your perspective on failure, making failures learning opportunities
• Think BIG and face adversity head-on

Fearless Females and the Power of “No”

“No” can be an incredibly inspiring word — just ask Kristen Hadeed, founder of Student Maid™. Her rejection of “no” as the final answer is what made her the success and inspiration she is today.

In fact, Kristen’s business started with a “no.”  Her parents told her “no,” they would not buy her an expensive pair of jeans she absolutely had to have. So to pay for them, she created a job for herself. From being denied a bank loan to hearing others in the business world say her dream was impossible, Kristen learned how the word “no” can actually be empowering.  That attitude is what has allowed Kristen to grow Student Maid™ from a small business that started as just a few friends scrubbing toilets to an award-winning cleaning service that employs more than 350 college students and is starting to make its way across the country.

Assertive and self-confident, Kristen doesn’t consider her gender an obstacle in business. Kristen believes that challenges offer tremendous opportunities for personal growth. She explains how her inner strength has energized her throughout her life, and how believing in herself has enabled her to turn failures into opportunities for bigger and better things. In fact, Kristen believes that a lack of self-confidence is often a leader’s largest obstacle – much bigger than gender, experience or age.

During this compelling keynote, Kristen recounts several instances in which she took situations that seemed doomed for disaster and turned them into unbelievable successes. Kristen emphasizes that building her business has been a daunting and often exhausting undertaking. With humor and humility, she shares countless trials she’s faced and continues to face each day, such as being rejected because she’s the youngest in the room; naysayers telling her she was crazy when she gave up a dream job at graduation; and finding herself penniless when she had to pay her employees before paying herself. Kristen survived all of these tribulations and more, while simultaneously learning how to become an adult—when all she really wanted to do was hit the bar with her friends.

We all experience failures, and we all encounter towering obstacles that block our path to success. Competitors and adversaries – in school, business and in life – will try to drag us down and convince us that we can’t or shouldn’t take risks to reach our goals. “No” holds a lot of power. However, your reaction to that word is what will ultimately determine your fate. In this inspiring presentation, Kristen inspires students to believe in themselves, dream what they want and overcome rejection so that they, too, can succeed at anything they set their minds to.

Learning Outcomes
• Surround yourself with people who see your self-confidence as a strength
• Transform challenges, failures and rejections into opportunities
• Refuse to allow gender, age or other obstacles to stand in the way of your success

Kristen's Bio

Kristen graduated from the University of Florida in 2010 with a degree in Finance.

In 2009, when she was just 20 years old, Kristen founded Student Maid™, a unique house-cleaning and concierge enterprise that solely employs college students who maintain a GPA of 3.5 or higher. On top of regularly speaking on college campuses, Kristen employs over 350 students and devotes much of her time to mentoring Student Maid™ team members. She’s also working to expand the Student Maid™ brand nationwide, serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Florida and she has launched a tech company that is developing apps to revolutionize the service industry.

Kristen currently lives in Florida.


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Kristen'S TOPICS

First Year Experience, Leadership, Women’s Issues & Empowerment

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