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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
Is your adviser a convicted fraudster that adopted a new identity following prison? Did a child molester circumvent your school’s background check? Greg will discuss U. S. states that have “closed” and “open” vital records, demonstrate how easy it is to “take” a dead person’s identity, illustrate how to produce “breeder” documents necessary to get a new U. S. Social
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
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
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.
The Southwestern (Anasazi) and Mississippian (Moundbuilders) cultures came to an abrupt end in 1300 A.D. Chaco Canion was abandoned. In today’s Illinois, what had been a North American city larger than any in Europe at that time was abandoned. Climate change was only part of the cause. Yes, this happened way before Columbus.
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
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
Based on the award-winning model, Nonflict, The Art of Everyday Peacemaking, is a framework that helps leaders and teams approach conflict not as a disruption — but as a doorway to understanding, healing, and shared purpose. You’ll learn to:Turn tension into trust, Shift from blame to curiosity, Co-create solutions that honor both people and mission.
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
Is there Toxic Masculinity? Of course. But masculinity isn't toxic. In this talk, Greg explores how the presence of a Father Wound impacts how men communicate, relate, heal and live and how lack of understanding of authentic masculinity can lead to toxic masculinity or lack of masculinity at all. More and more men grew up in a home without their
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
Youth today spend less than half as much time outdoors as children did 20 years ago yet several studies have shown that children need plenty of time outdoors to live happy and healthy. Just as concerning, the average American child today spends at least 45 hours a week staring at some kind of electronic screen which has led to the
Jack Harbaugh would tell his children every day when he dropped them off at school, "Attack this day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind." Jack arguably raised 2 of the top football coaches we've seen at the professional and collegiate levels. Competition is typically driven by the ego and desire to conquer one's opponent. Yet there is a much deeper
In this presentation, I will exemplify the need for disability inclusion in workplaces, the educational system, and society as a whole. I will use my personal narrative and credible statistics to assert the need for disability inclusion. In my presentation, I intend to be funny and lighthearted to convey a personal relationship with the audience. I will further use audience
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
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.
When you think about self defense, you need to approach it from a military or police mindset. That means, your defenses need to be in place before the need occurs. If you think about the modern military or even medieval military, the castle, the walls, moats, forts, bunkers, etc. were all put into place before any attack occurred. They put
Collective Impact model is utilized as the core framework of bringing stakeholders together to accomplish an identified community and/or organizational goals. Carla utilizes the stakeholder engagement process to bring businesses, city and state officials, and community organizations to the table to maximizes the probability of achieving an identified mission and vision. As action groups are formulated the visitation of the
This talk is all about mobility & preventative care as we are living longer as a population. Emphasis on how important it is to take care of our body so we can live a quality life and continue to do the things we enjoy in life.
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.
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
We have become a society apprehensive of helping others in need - whether due to litigation or fear, we simply hope someone else will jump in and act. My message is simple - Be like Bill...don't hesitate when presented with the difficult task of doing something courageous...you might just be the hero someone needs.
This educational-based program is designed to help students succeed This educational-based program is designed to show students what to do regardless of their circumstances and the different things thrown at them to become emotionally resilient in life’s adversities and be able to transform in school and outside of school.
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
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
A one-hour presentation will motivate and encourage leaders in both their personal and professional environments. The major take away, is that all of us are leaders to others in our lives, and all of us are influencing people in many ways. I take the time to really motivate and encourage the audience to understand they are leaders, and to lead
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.
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