2026 MCEA Fall Conference

Paula Skoviera, professionally known as Princess Paula, is a national keynote speaker, trainer, emcee, andbusiness development strategist who helps people and organizations grow with confidence, clarity, and a whole lot more personality. With more than 20 years of experience in teaching, marketing, leadership, and business development, Paula has worked with Fortune 500 companies, national franchises, chambers of commerce, school districts, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and community organizations. Through her company, Princess Paula Consulting, she helps audiences better understand how to leverage networking, marketing, their Google Business Profile, Generative AI, and relationship-based business strategy to connect with customers, strengthen visibility, and create meaningful growth. Known for her high-energy presence, practical teaching style, and quick-witted humor, Paula has a rare ability to make big topics feel understandable, usable, and genuinely fun. Whether she is teaching a room full of professionals how to use Generative AI, helping leaders rethink workplace culture, or showing business owners how to build stronger relationships through networking, Paula gives audiences clear takeaways they can use immediately. Paula is also a national speaker for the FISH! Philosophy, sharing the four practices: Choose Your Attitude, Be There, Make Their Day, and Play — with organizations that want to create more engaged, energized, and people-centered workplaces. Her signature keynote, “Be the Ferrari,” challenges audiences to stop blending in, own their unique value, and build success from a place of identity, confidence, and abundance. A proud Italian Canadian and graduate of Lakehead University with degrees in Humanities and Education, Paula brings both substance and spark to every stage. Off stage, she is a professional musician, co-host of the podcast Royally Unhinged, mom of three adult children, dog mom to two rescue pups, and during the holiday season, she proudly becomes “Mrs.” to her husband’s Santa.