Robert Kriegel
- Commentator, NPR’s Marketplace
- Former All American Swimmer
- Bestselling Author, If it ain’t broke...BREAK IT!, Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers and How to Succeed in Business Without Working so Damn Hard
- GTECH Corp
- Allianz
- Merck
- International Carwash Association
- Kandace Laass, Director, Quality Learning Services, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Williams Pipe Line Company
- Val-Pack
- California Building Industry Association
- Timex Sales Corporation
- Banc One Mortgage Corporation
"Thank you for your outstanding presentation at GTECH's World Leaders Forum. Your high energy presentation was exactly what we needed to kick off the opening day of the event. "
- Director of Marketing, GTECH Corp"Your speech at our kickoff was terrific. We all appreciated the time you spent with us in preparation. It made all the difference. "
- Senior Vice President, Allianz"I couldn’t be more pleased. Your very lively presentation really connected with the audience… you covered many themes that were very relevant to what our professional sales reps encounter every day."
- Vice President, Merck"Thank you for your excellent keynote presentation. You outdid them all, even Lou Holtz and Tom Peters!!!"
- Sterling Swartout, President, International Carwash Association"Wow! That was a terrific program…high energy, lots of humor and excellent content with real life anecdotes."
- Kandace Laass, Director, Quality Learning Services, U.S. Chamber of Commerce"Your presentation this year so inspired us that we not only read your book, but put together a NO BULL campaign for our company."
- Steve Cropper, President, Williams Pipe Line Company"I wish you could have overheard the comments following your speech. You relayed a message which inspired and challenged everyone."
- Bill Disbrow, President, Val-Pack"Your energetic, humorous and information-filled presentation was a terrific kickoff to one of our most successful conventions ever."
- Robert Rivinius, CEO, California Building Industry Association"Great presentation at our annual sales conference. I am particularly pleased the way your message tied into their concerns and the objectives of the conference."
- Stuart R. Lindsay, President, Timex Sales Corporation"Your message supported the objectives…we all came away feeling inspired and ready to meet the concerns and challenges facing us at Banc One Mortgage."
- Albert V. Will, COO, Banc One Mortgage Corporation"…outstanding presentation to our group. Your segment consistently was rated a five of five with our franchises."
- Don Pierce, President/CEO, Arby's"...makes you want to become a break-it thinker."
- Pat Riley, Owner of the Miami Heat basketball team"over the years we have had a number of speakers but none have been more on target with this group than you were…attendees were delighted and energized by your uplifting and down-to-earth presentation."
- Dr. Edward R. Staiano, President, Motorola General Systems Sector"Your speech was right on the button with what we are trying to achieve. Your energetic style and messages, short, striking stories and anecdotes were fantastic and a memorable way of motivating a team going through difficult times."
- Christian Koffmann, Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson"Thank you for a powerful and energetic speech that supported the objectives of our meeting and helped to set the tone we wanted."
- T. Stephen Gross, President and CEO, Prudential Resources Management"…excellent performance at our management meeting. Your content was right on target for the changing business environment in which we operate."
- James A. Unruh, Chairman and CEO, UNISYS"Never have I heard a speaker who so mesmerized his audience. You entertained us. You enlightened us. You instructed us. Your message was right on point with the objectives of the meeting."
- Dr. Sheldon Lewis, Executive Vice President, The Clorox Company"I have never seen 200 people more charged up and ready to conquer the world than after your talk."
- Luke S. Helms, Vice Chairman, Bank of America"Great job! Your strategies for developing Change-Ready organizations were right on target for what GTE needs in the shifting tele- communications marketplace,"
- Charles R. Lee, Chairman & CEO, GTE Corporation"...stimulating presentation. You really connected with our people"
- Robert D. Haas, Chairman & CEO, Levi Strauss & Co."No one has ever inspired our sales force like you... You made our people believe in doing the impossible!"
-John Barbera, President, Turner Broadcasting Sales, Inc.
Innovate Or Else!
Re-thinking the Rules, Reinventing your game
- Winners don’t respond quickly to change and new opportunities, they create them
- If you use yesterday’s thinking in today’s game, you’re going to be in trouble tomorrow
- How to create the future rather than “wait and watch” it happen (for someone else)
- 5 strategies for developing innovative new ideas and opportunities
- The 4 most common obstacles to innovation and how to overcome them
- Don’t compete, change the game
- Playing to win vs. playing not to lose
- How to turn innovation into action
Sales Groups: Don't Satisfy The Customer, Surprise Them
- Why the old conventional rules for selling don’t work in these faster, more competitive, rapid changing times
- How to keep out of ‘commodity hell’
- Do the impossible for the customer
- How to win by out-thinking not outworking the competition
- How to keep yourself ‘up’ all day
- How to get yourself in the ‘peak zone’
- How to prepare for a major presentation
- How to achieve goals by ‘trying easier’
- How to motivate your customer
Recognition Events: Using Success As A Spring Board To Greater Heights
- How winners stay on top; The two main characteristics of perennial winners
- Why some people keep winning and others don’t
- The most overlooked strategy for keeping on top
- How to conquer the sabotage thinking that traps winners
- Why you should always mess with success
Leading In Turbulent Times
- How to create a Change Ready© culture in which innovation flourishes, people are open and excited about change and performing at peak levels
- Three strategies for keeping people motivated and ‘up’ in tough times
- How to overcome the most common obstacles to change and innovate new ideas
- Three steps for developing can do thinking that turns new ideas into action and increases confidence, commitment and momentum
- How to coach people to excel under pressure
Developing A Change Ready Mind Set
- Create change not respond to it, lead not follow, proactive not reactive
- How to out-think rather than out-work the competition
- Three characteristics of Change-Ready© thinking
- Three strategies for thinking ‘out of the box’
- Sacred Cow Hunts, streamlining productivity
- Red/Green time - the 90% solution
If It Ain't Broke...Break It!
Surfer’s rules for riding the wave of change without wiping out
Four Break-It! thinking techniques for developing bold innovative new ideas and opportunities:
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flipping rules
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looking outside
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working backward
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combining things that haven’t been
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thinking like a beginner
Bold, innovative ‘out of the box’ thinking strategies for: ~ keeping ahead of the wave
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solving old problems in new ways
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creating new opportunities and possibilities
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how to create the Future not respond to it
Sacred Cows Make The Best Burgers
- How to Round up Sacred Cows; outdated policies, practices, systems and strategies that cost money and prevent change and innovation
- How to eliminate thinking that creates sacred cows and enables them to 'graze' on profits and productivity
- Rules for a Sacred Cow hunt
- How to put sacred cows on a diet
- The ripple effect
- How to Streamline processes and operations
- How to control email epidemics, paper piles and meeting mania
- Cutting out vs. cutting down outdated policies and practices
