Free Speakers Indy is a pro bono speakers bureau. These Business presentations are given free by local guest speakers to Rotary clubs, libraries, schools, community groups and businesses across central Indiana. There are no fees, no honorarium and no mileage costs.
Walk away with actionable steps to create a thriving, referral based business. Develop strategies to strengthen client loyalty and maximize lifetime value. Discover how to shift from transactional sales to relationship driven growth. Master the mindset and processes that build confidence and credibility. Learn a proven referral framework that generates consistent, high-quality leads.
Talent alone does not build a career, create opportunities or prepare someone for leadership - which is not a job title; it’s a set of behaviors, disciplines, and decisions that anyone can practice long before they are formally recognized. Too often, people wait for someone else to see their potential before investing seriously in who they are becoming. In this
Synopsis: 65% of businesses fail because of three things - complexity, confusion, and chaos. To avoid failure, modern day success requires businesses to relinquish expired “best practices” and embrace modern marketing and sales frameworks while leveraging fundamentals to succeed. Breakdown: • The 3 Cs Causing Marketing Strategies to Fail & How to Avoid Them • Improve MarketingOps Using the D.A.R.T.
Why do some organizations consistently execute, adapt, and grow while others struggle despite having talented people, good ideas and significant resources? Every organization-whether a business, nonprofit, school, a club or community group-depends on five interconnected disciplines: People, Clarity, Strategy, Systems, and Scale. Drawing from real-world experience across leadership, operations, technology, and enterprise transformation. Abdul Kunateh explores how these five pillars
Are sales nonexistent? Marketing not working? Have you evaluated your customer journey through the eyes of your customer? Are you optimized to give the right value at every stage? Are your marketing and selling initiatives aligned with revenue-generating activities? Is your business stuck on awareness mode desperately needing to switch to sales, acquisition, and conversions mode? Let's break down how
In today’s competitive market, advisors who rely solely on transactional sales struggle to build lasting success. The key to sustained growth isn’t just working harder — it’s working smarter by shifting from transactional thinking to relational strategies. This session will provide a proven framework to help you build a seamless referral system, leveraging existing relationships to drive business growth and
For decades, we’ve been told to strive for work–life balance. But in today’s evolving economy, many professionals are discovering that the real key to career sustainability is something else entirely: work-work balance. This isn’t hustle culture, it’s a new era of symbiotic working. In this talk, creative marketing professional and agency founder Brooke LeBeau explores how cultivating multiple professional outlets
Looking at your business objectively and finding ways to capitalize on more profitable revenue is a key opportunity for most business owners. Business owners started with a passion, and work hard and invest significant amounts of time into their business, only to be strapped for cash due to poor profit margins, but often these business owners don't have or don't
Matt Dickerson has spent much of his career not just leading teams, but developing people. He has extensive experience coaching other coaches on how to build trust and extract the best performance from their teams. By designing tools and training that make performance coaching straightforward and effective, Matt helps leaders move past the need to have all the answers. For
Identity Beyond the Profession: Nurturing Personal Growth Alongside Career Growth is a powerful, thought-provoking keynote that challenges audiences to look beyond their job titles and roles to rediscover their authentic selves. Drawing from her 30+ years of experience and deep expertise in leadership and personal development, Beverly Barr guides professionals on a journey of reflection and alignment. She helps audiences
It is apparent over the last few years that the United States is deeply divided. There are not only many different perspectives but, those perspectives are often rigidly held. But, what can be done, and more importantly what can each of us do to bring the people of this country together? I believe it starts with each of us and
Find out if you are really ready to sell your business. Really. It's a journey, not a point in time. Find out the key factors that drive your readiness to sell.
I help businesses succeed online using the most effective and timely tactics to implement the best digital strategy for a business. I have clients in all areas of business: legal, contracting, interior design, retail, not-for-profit, event management and even a landscaping business. I have presentations for personal branding, social networking, digital advertising and marketing.
Natalie Menke, Inspire Results Business Coaching sales expert, will walk through how to identify your sales team’s development needs. She’ll talk about how to create accountability and ensure that your salespeople are engaged and organized, how to balance results goals with activities goals, and provide you with simple changes to implement, improving prospecting, sales, & growth & exponentially improving your
Looking out 5, 10, 20 years, what kind of life do you want to be living? What properties, businesses, cash, cars do you want to have? What hobbies, investments, donations, achievements, vacations? What will you want to be DOING? World travel, summers in your lakehouse, charity work, spending time with grandchildren, paying for their private school, spinning off 3 other
The People Side of Leadership focuses on the skills that are essential for leaders to effectively guide individuals and organizations through everyday challenges and times of change. The presentation takes a practical approach to four essential areas: communicating clearly and effectively, leading people through change and uncertainty, using critical thinking to make sound decisions, and developing emotional intelligence to better
Managing vendor expenses can be a daunting task for businesses. In this 30 minute speech I cover a variety of qualitative and quantitative things a business can do to manage their vendor expenses. Topics included, but are not limited to, how to negotiate better rates, the best way to accept credit card payments, how to manage fuel costs, mobile device
In this interactive session, Shad will cover the hidden weaknesses that negatively affect those in sales and business development. He will also help you to learn how prospects buy and how to avoid falling into the typical buyers’ traps so you can sell and close more and do it more easily. Are you or your sales people: • Frustrated by
In a world overwhelmed by so many distractions, division, Artificial Intelligence, and digital acceleration, emotional intelligence is no longer optional—it’s a critical skill for success. In this transformative keynote, Nakela Sutton shares her RESET method and real-life scenarios to help audiences make smarter decisions, build stronger relationships, earn well, and live happily—without burning out. Drawing from her experience as a
This topic discusses the following: 1. Use of people data to maximize production and minimize people costs. 2. Hiring for success. 3. Designing high performance teams. 4. Inspiring talent through behavioral alignment. 5. Diagnosing for success.
A lot’s been written about millennials—they’re tough to manage, entitled, self-interested, and even lazy. Age differences can create a lot of misunderstanding not only about Millennials but for all generations. Don’t rush to judgment. Motivations differ across generations. We’ll discuss the environmental factors that occurred during each generation’s upbringing, how it shaped their values and desires, and then we’ll share
Automation is now available to everyone – it's not just for big businesses anymore. Smaller companies can use automation-as-a-service to make it affordable. Different kinds of automation exist, everything from Zapier to desktop automations to robotic process automation to pure custom software development. Automation can improve job satisfaction (by keeping monotonous jobs out of the hands of humans), increase business
This presentation takes the framework used in my book titled "The Circle of Leadership" and provides an entrepreneurial playbook on how to create and leverage culture to sustain a competitive advantage. This presentation can cover the following topics: -Cultivating & Leveraging Culture -Mission Statements -Vision Statements -Core Values -Hiring -Firing -Accountability -Training -Delegation -Diversity & Inclusion -Rentention
Successful people think differently than the average person. There are specific things they do that make the difference and through story and his own experiences, Jeff shares what it takes to become the best version of yourself. By developing a growth mindset, internal locus of control, and the 6 laws of success, anything is possible, and repeatable, over and over.
When was the last time you couldn't wait to tell your friend all about your average experience? Customer service can cost you thousands of dollars or it can earn you more market share. Your clients, customers and guests don't remember average. They do remember awful and awesome. Most companies can't afford to employee a full time trainer, the problem, is
What is the difference between an employee and a leader? One comes to do a job, the leader comes to make the job better. Today everyone wants to be a leader but unfortunately, not everyone understands the key to becoming the kind of leader that others are would like to follow. Many people follow leaders because they HAVE to follow
Talking to business owners, leaders and everyone else why defining your unique value proposition matters, to themselves, their business, their leadership team, their family, their community and the rest of the world.
People: The Only Real Competitive Advantage challenges the conventional belief that products, technology, pricing, or processes are the keys to long-term competitive success. Those advantages can be copied, improved upon, or quickly made obsolete—but a workforce of motivated, engaged employees who take ownership of their work and genuinely care about the success of the organization is far harder to duplicate.
Small business comes with deeper, more complex relationships. This can make succession planning more difficult but it doesn't have to. Using a structured process will help navigate communications, set realistic expectations, manage sensitivities, understand the legalities, and help you create a succession plan that everyone embraces.
Compassionate leadership is often treated as separate from performance — something nice to have once the numbers are handled. Abdul Kunateh challenges that assumption directly: emotional intelligence isn't the opposite of performance, it's a system for getting more of it. Drawing from experience leading teams from 25 to more than 500 people, Abdul translates emotional intelligence into concrete, teachable leadership
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