Linda Schwefel

Helping organizations build stronger, more self-aware leaders, teams and sales people through a new language of communication.

Fee Range: $10,000 and Below

Location:

Minnesota

Phone: 800-328-6008

Linda has the ability to engage any crowd. She's motivating and energetic while delivering high-value content at the same time. She's delivered successful events to everyone from the MN nurses association to generals and captains in the Military.

Linda Schwefel brings over 20 years of training, keynote speaking, coaching, and professional selling experience to her role as Managing Partner of DiscoverYourself.com. She has been a Sales Manager, and Top Salesperson with Xerox, where she was the Marketing Representative of the Year her very first year. Linda later worked as an Account Manager for Versyss Corporation (OEM for IBM), where she was ranked 2nd nationally out of 700 Sales Representatives 5 years in a row.

Linda's sales career evolved into conducting full-time sales training and delivering keynote speeches in 1991. This led her to found Keynotes.com, which she ran as a speaker's bureau from 1993-1998, while also speaking and training sales teams, leaders and senior executives across the country.

Today she delivers keynotes, teaches programs and workshops and coaches using the Insights Discovery System. Linda delivers an engaging and informative session which shows attendees how Insights can aid communication among members, and enhance self-discovery. Linda's programs are fun and interactive, and they teach participants how to understand themselves and others better. Linda also speaks to Vistage, the largest CEO membership organization in the world. She teaches from a real-world perspective as a business owner herself and engages leaders to maximize the impact of her programs.

Linda has a BA in Business from the University of San Diego, and multiple sales training certifications. She lives in Excelsior, Minnesota with her husband Scott, and has three children, Kenzie, Connor and Scottie Nicole.

Speech Titles and Descriptions:

INSIGHTS INTO MORE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS

This program is perfect for:

• Any large group looking to improve personal and professional communications skills, while increasing their own self-awareness

The audience will leave with:

• The ability to move themselves to conscious awareness of others

• A new understanding of their own unique communications style

• Understanding how to identify other's communications styles

• A way to connect and adapt with anyone immediately

• Knowledge of a color based system to understand self and others

• Walk away with colorful tools that make their new language of communication come alive immediately, and they will continue to use it every day for years afterward

Linda has delivered this program over 1000 times from Kuwait to Shanghai to London to Paris, and also to over 1500 CEOs. It is engaging, informative, and adds a new dimension of colorful communications to any conference or event.

INSIGHTS INTO INCREASING SALES PERFORMANCE

This program is perfect for:

• Sales People

• Small Business/Franchise Owners

• Sales Management

• Customer Service/Sales

The audience will leave with:

• New knowledge of their own unique selling styles

• An understanding of how to recognize buying styles in others

• A new level of consciousness about how to better read clients' body language, tone and pace, and speaking pattern

• Which types of responses work best for which unique personality types

• How to lead conversations to predetermined conclusions

• How to increase sales performance

Linda has delivered this talk with sales teams around the world and in every industry. This program is the easiest to use and will drive new behaviors immediately in the participants. This program is engaging, fun and delivers amazing sales results afterward.

INSIGHTS INTO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

This program is perfect for:

• C suite executives

• Emerging Leaders

• Seasoned Leaders

• Managers

• Business/Franchise Owners

The audience will leave with:

• A new level of self-awareness, and consciousness of others

• An understanding of how they are naturally inclined to lead and manage others

• A way to recognize unique styles of those they manage, and the skills to engage every direct report in the best ways

• A better way to manage up for greater career success

• How to handle difficult conversations in the best possible way

• How to influence others, and lead conversations to predetermined outcomes

Linda has taken over 1800 CEOs through this program, and over a dozen billion dollar leadership teams as well. It has been one of the highest rated programs with Vistage, the largest CEO membership group in the world for over a decade, and she has delivered it in London, Paris, Geneva, Shanghai, and Kuwait.

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