SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Why hire a motivational speaker?

There are many reasons to engage a speaker for your conference or event, beyond just wanting to encourage and motivate your employees. Great speakers will work with you to pass along your message and achieve your goals. Your team members will sometimes be more willing to consider new ideas if they are presented form an outsider’s perspective. This can also help change the way people see things, approaching problems from a new direction they might not of previously considered. Another great benefit to speakers is to simply help break up your employees daily routine.  It’s natural for everyone to occasionally get bogged down by the same old duties of their daily job. By engaging a speaker, their normal schedule is broken up, allowing them to relax and stretch their minds. Whatever your motivation for wanting to bring on a speaker, Sheldon Yellen can help energizer your staff at your next conference or event.

Sample Topics

A Leader’s Story: Overcoming Adversity & Creating a Culture of Success

In his nearly 30 years running BELFOR, Sheldon Yellen has seen disasters, crooked insurance companies and almost anything else that could be thrown at him, yet BELFOR still grew to become a global leader. Learn how Yellen surrounded himself with talented and committed people, and how they weathered leadership numerous crises and captured opportunities. This is the perfect presentation for people who want a different perspective on how to grow your business.

Breaking Through Barriers by Putting People First

So much has been focused on the science of management (bottom line, numbers oriented) that organizations have fostered a passionless and disillusioned feeling by many. We have lost touch with the human side of leadership, mastering the art of leadership that touches people’s hearts and breaks through barriers.

Sheldon Yellen discusses how he took a $5 million company to a $1.5 billion global leader by putting people first. Learn how his employees have built an incredible culture of loyalty and compassion, providing permission to perform selfless acts of heroism for their clients. Explore how taking the long view, by focusing on the welfare of the families of workers and of customers, can reap word-of-mouth business opportunities that no amount of marketing dollars can buy. Feel the difficulty of always taking the high road, and the huge rewards for sticking to your ethical convictions. Understand what it is like to develop an environment where your workers enjoy giving their all every single day, with joyous pride and professionalism that is infectious. With tons of immediate take-home value for you, we promise that this will be one of the most insightful and touching leadership speeches you will ever experience.