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THRIVE: Turn Uncertainty To Your Competitive Advantage
These are unprecedented times! A marketplace where disruption is happening on steroids. One where there is more change building outside of your organization than in it. And a relentless pace of uncertainty that can radically impact your ability to grow your organization and keep your team motivated.

The only guarantee you have is this: more change is coming. And if you’re not prepared — if you don’t have a plan — then research proves this level of uncertainty will negatively impact your ability to drive innovation, attract top talent and achieve bottom-line results.

While uncertainty can seem daunting, the truth is uncertainty has an upside — it always has an upside. In fact, it can be your greatest asset to thrive, grow and turn disruption into opportunity. But you need a plan, a strategy, and the research that shows the precise path you must follow to turn disruption into opportunity.

Join business growth strategist and award-winning author, Meridith Elliott Powell in this high powered keynote where she reveals the research, the stories and the methodology.

This keynote has it all — energy, engagement, and a personal plan of action for every attendee.

Key Takeaways:

• Quantitative Research – Learn what more than 800 of your fellow CEOS think, feel and are confidently doing in the face of uncertainty. This keynote starts with the powerful benchmark study that gives you insights into how today’s leaders are dealing with and solving today’s toughest challenges.
• Qualitative Research – We follow-up with the commanding stories of 9 companies that have stood the test of time by thriving in business for more than 250 years. You’ll hear their overwhelming obstacles, their ingenious strategies for success, and the proven methodology they used to thrive through every crisis.
• The PROVEN Methodology – Then we share the code, secret, plan, so that you know the exact path you need to follow to put you in the driver’s seat — and in control in the face of uncertainty (so you can THRIVE!).
• You’ll Gain The Secrets to staying highly flexible and focused to strike the delicate balance of maintaining progress and seizing opportunity.
• Your Personal Plan of action for thriving in uncertainty.

THRIVE: Mentally Fit, Powerfully Resilient, Competitively Strong

It’s no secret that one in four employees are struggling with mental strength.

These last few years, combined with the ever-increasing pace of change and turbo-charged disruptions, have left people — your team — burned out, overwhelmed, and completely stressed out.

As a leader, you need the skills to help them cope and build the skills and capacity to become mentally fit, powerfully resilient, and competitively strong.

This powerful new keynote reveals the secrets and stories you need to become the leader who's up to this level of challenge — the type of leader who shows empathy and connection and provides the skills your team needs to take their lives and your organization to the next level.

Based on Meridith’s quantitative and qualitative research, this is a much-needed, powerful, results-driven keynote that is perfect for leaders, frontline personnel, and individual team members.

Key Takeaways:

• Understanding Mental Strength Challenges: Learn about the prevalence of mental strength struggles in today's workforce, especially since 1 in 4 employees are facing these challenges.
• Leadership's Role in Support: Acknowledge the impact of rapid changes and disruptions on employee well-being, emphasizing the need for leaders to equip themselves with skills to support their teams.
• Building Resilience in Teams: Discover strategies for fostering mental fitness and resilience within teams, essential for creating a healthy work environment.
• Effective Leadership Qualities: Highlight the importance of qualities such as empathy and connection play in effective leadership, along with providing necessary skills to empower teams and drive organizational success.

Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver
Uncertainty changes everything — customers, competition, and decision-makers. It’s time to update your approach to sales — from how you get through the door — to how you get the deal to close.

It’s challenging out there: A challenge to get above the white noise. A challenge to get to the decision-makers. A challenge to stand out from the competition. And a challenge to stay motivated.

Why?

Because sales has gone through a major disruption. If you’re still using traditional techniques, then you’re making sales so much harder than it has to be. To succeed, you need to evolve.

You need to transform how you attract clients – build your reputation – engage with the marketplace – and get results. Join us for this high-energy, highly interactive, and high-powered keynote where business growth strategist and keynote speaker Meridith Elliott Powell shares the innovative techniques you need to dominate, differentiate and deliver!

Key Takeaways:

• Deep understanding of how your marketplace has changed — and how those shifts are impacting decision making, pricing and sales strategy.
• Innovative techniques that get the doors to open and put you in front of the right decision-makers.
• Powerful ideas you need to master so you know how to ask the right questions that will shorten the sales cycle and increase your close ratio.
• Cutting-edge strategies that help you quickly build credibility and trust — and help you maximize client-facing time.
• Proven strategies to prominently position you in the marketplace making it easier for clients to choose you over the competition.
• Your personal strategy to Dominate, Differentiate, and Deliver

Ownership, Engagement, Results!
Employee engagement trumps customer engagement – every single time! Turning attrition to attraction begins with understanding this point. The relationship you build with your team members is vitally more important because it'll impact growth, more than the relationship you build with your customers.

In today’s marketplace, there's so little you can control. And the one thing you need to succeed — a strong team — is getting harder and harder to create. It’s time for a new approach, a new perspective and a new set of strategies to redefine how you lead.

In these highly shifting, constantly changing economic times the organization with the best talent is the team guaranteed to masterfully navigate change, exceed customer expectations, and leave the competition in the dust.

The fastest path to profitability and business growth is through the quality and engagement level of your team. In this powerful keynote, business growth strategist, Meridith Elliott Powell, shares the leadership development strategies you need to hire top talent in the most challenging times, build culture in a virtual world, create loyalty, and ignite passion in a time where turnover is the norm.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn why engaging today’s employees is different. Gain the essential leadership development strategies to understand what employees want, and how to easily — and effectively — deliver time and time again.
• Proven strategies to get the best and the brightest to beat a path to your door even in the toughest environments.
  Innovative strategies to create culture in a virtual world, as well as the secrets to getting employees to want to return to the office.
• Powerful tactics to build a team that is as passionate and committed as you are to the growth of your business.
• Your personal plan of action to turn attrition into attraction.