Robert Stevenson | Best-Selling Author, world renowned speaker, ranked as one of the Top 5 Experts in the world on Change Management by LinkedIn Thinkers 360. He is a powerful keynote speaker with a humorous and engaging approach.

Robert Stevenson

Best-Selling Author, world renowned speaker, ranked as one of the Top 5 Experts in the world on Change Management by LinkedIn Thinkers 360. He is a powerful keynote speaker with a humorous and engaging approach.

Robert Stevenson
Biography

Robert travels around the world, sharing powerful ideas for achieving excellence, both personally and professionally. His client list reads like the Who's Who in business. Companies like Prudential, FedEx, Berkshire Hathaway, Chevron, Harley-Davidson, Honeywell, KFC, Toyota, State Farm, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, American Express, Boeing, and Kellogg have all invited Robert Stevenson to help motivate, inspire and educate their employees. Robert is one of the most widely sought after speakers in the world today as well as a best-selling author. Over 2 Million People have benefitted from his powerful, practical, compelling and thought provoking programs. He has owned five companies and sold internationally in over 20 countries. Robert is a man who has lived his experiences, not just studied them and he incorporates his vast knowledge into each of his custom designed programs. Robert has spoken to over 2,500 companies throughout the world and his research in the area of corporate and entrepreneurial success is extensive. He has interviewed over 10,000 employees, managers and senior executives in over 250 industries. With over 30 years of extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience, Robert Stevenson understands what it takes to succeed. He teaches companies how to deal with risk, competition, and the ever-changing business environment. Robert helps prepare companies for the 21st century. Energy, power, content, and tangible solutions are all considerations in picking a speaker, and Robert has them all. He delivers programs with a powerful blend of experience, research, case studies and competitor perspectives, and his original insights help organizations, business leaders and associates understand how to unleash their future potential. He has shared the podium with such renowned speakers as former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Tony Robbins, Tom Peters and former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani. His ability to connect with an audience is amazing; be it a strategic planning session for a Fortune 500 company to 20,000 salespeople, he excels at blending humor, facts, inspiration, conviction and audience participation. Robert delivers high-energy programs that can help any company or person achieve higher levels of excellence. A great business speaker doesn't just tell their story, they take the time and make the effort to understand YOUR story and unique needs. What makes Robert Stevenson different from other business speakers? He isn't locked in to one topic. His experience and pre-program interviews, affords him the knowledge to build a personalized keynote presentation by selecting the most relevant issues to your current business and industry challenges. Here is just a sampling of what some of his clients have had to say about Robert: FEDEX "Robert Stevenson's presentation was absolutely amazing and nothing short of inspiring. He completely captured our audience with his high level of energy, his conviction, and the undeniable truth of his message. Robert did his homework and we appreciate all the preparation. It made the presentation feel like it was custom designed for our specific industry. We have had many speakers, but never any like Robert! Attached are the survey results from the two FedEx Leadership Live! sessions- they loved him and want more. We look forward to having him come back again in the future." PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE "Thank you for your presentation at last night's Pru MDRT Event. You captured the audience's attention immediately and consistently maintained their interest throughout your presentation. You connected with the entire audience - new agents to veteran agents; Home Office and Field associates, Management and Non-management, International and US. Your presentation was definitely the highlight of the evening. Your dynamic message and overall aura were phenomenal. The standing ovation and audience engagement were a testament to your lasting impression. It was a pleasure meeting with you. I hope our paths cross again in the future. On behalf of myself, the team, and our attendees - thanks again." KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN "Your program was a tremendous success. I can't even tell you how many people wanted to know where I found you. It was like a request for our secret recipe. The one thing they were talking about at the entire conference was, YOU! You did your homework, you knew our business and everyone loved you!" Simply stated by one of his clients..."Robert not only did his homework but used what he learned to gain the interest and respect of the audience in the first ten minutes of his program. He really knew our industry and his research showed. He brought the house down and the audience to their feet!"

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Controlling Your Most Valuable Commodity

Understanding that time is an organization's most valuable commodity is the first step, the easy part. Learning how to use this valuable commodity judiciously, with the reverence it deserves, is the hard part.

Effective time management is actively making things happen that will advance you toward your goal, rather than just letting things happen. No matter how efficient an individual or an organization is, productivity will increase exponentially with efficient use of time.

Riding A New Wave To Success

Mr. Stevenson has developed this program to facilitate the Strategic Planning process. This program enables the organization to get a handle on what it is doing right, where it can improve, and what must be done to reach the goals being set. Some of the greatest experts on any business are a firm's own people. Utilizing various aspects of dynamic interaction, Mr. Stevenson will take full advantage of the brainpower sitting in the room. With Robert as the catalyst driving the audience, everyone will get involved and in no time be combining their collective brilliance to accomplish far more than previously thought possible.

At the end of the program there will be a detailed account of what is going right, and what needs improvement. Additionally, the group will produce a prioritized strategic action plan intended to improve the organization and better prepare it for today's highly competitive and ever-changing environment. This seminar will prove to be one of the best allocations of corporate resources ever authorized.

Foundations:

• Human resources are a company's most valuable asset 

• Collective problem identification can be very productive 

• Empowering employees results in more energized ideas

• An established Focused Action Plan aligns the organization towards common goals

• Involving  your people in the problem-solving process is the most efficient way to produce multiple workable solutions 

 

Participants will be able to:

• Establish open, candid communication between team members 

• Have all team members addressing critical issues 

• Understand that each issue will result in written responses from each team 

• Share written responses with the entire audience 

• Get everyone involved, making it fun while creating a contagious level of high energy 

• Empower individuals to take action 

• Understand that with each new issue there will be... more interaction, new responses and a new team member addressing the audience 

I've Got Your Back
Creating a Powerful Teamwork Culture

For your company or organization to succeed in this highly competitive, ever-changing environment you need to be certain you are running at peak performance. All resources must be utilized to full potential. When considering the resources of an organization, its most valuable asset is always its human resources. To be able to maximize results, you need to be able to maximize Operations, Preparations, Motivations, and Expectations. Mr. Stevenson has developed a program that addresses the many aspects of teamwork and how to make it function at its optimum potential.

Foundation:

• “I’ve Got Your Back” mentality creates a winning culture  

• Cooperative teams are more productive 

• Teamwork improves the organization 

• How to foster at team mentality 

 

Participants will be able to:

• Incorporate the attitude of watching out for each  

• Change Reactive or Inactive to Proactive 

• See that conflict can be productive 

• Handle change as a unit 

• Strengthen the weakest link 

• Inspire individuals to accelerate the group 

• Develop REAL communication... 

• Listen with an unprejudiced mind 

• Understand dialogue - what it is AND what it is not

The Answers to Successful Selling Are All Four Letter Words

The art, discipline, techniques of selling have traveled many different paths over the centuries. Whether one is doing research or actually working in businesses it is obvious the path to selling effectively has gone from simple to highly sophisticated and back again. This program doesn't mean to oversimplify the process of selling something, but it will make it understandable and easy to implement by sticking to the basics. The program breaks down the Art and Science of Selling into a no-nonsense set of guidelines that will make even the most novice of salespeople a success.

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