Meridith Elliott Powell
Named one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts To Watch, Top 41 Motivational Speakers, and Top 50 Sales Speaker, Meridith Elliott Powell is passionate about helping her clients learn the secrets to turning uncertainty and change into major competitive advantage. Meridith is an award winning strategist and author, whose research in the field of uncertainty and change will shift how you think, how you feel, and most importantly the actions you take to move past extreme obstacles and challenges.
Everything about today’s marketplace is different – your customers, competition, technology, and employees. In a world that has changed so drastically, doesn’t it make sense that you need a new approach to how you sell, how you lead, how you grow your organization?
Sales strategist, leadership expert, Certified Speaking Professional, and award-winning author, Meridith Elliott Powell wants today’s businesses to stop viewing uncertainty as something that prevents them from being successful. This is why her virtual programs, leadership coaching, online courses, and keynote presentations leverage her 9 step formula for making uncertainty your company’s strategic advantage™.
So you can stop letting unpredictability be an obstacle to your success, and start embracing today’s uncertainty to to drive your organization’s growth and achieve phenomenal results.
A couple of years ago Meridith became obsessed with the word uncertainty and how we as business owners react so negatively to the word. She wanted to discover why so many of us let unpredictability become an obstacle to our success, so she started on a journey to find business leaders and organizations that had learned how to turn uncertainty into their strategic advantage.
She was able to uncover a wealth of knowledge. Meridith discovered several companies that have managed to survive a wide range of adversity.
From economic downturns and depressions, world wars, and even a global pandemic these organizations were able to create powerful growth opportunities from their uncertain times.
Through exhaustively researching these amazing organizations Meridith was able to find several common threads each of these success stories shared. And, she compiled what she learned into her 9 step formula for making uncertainty your company’s strategic advantage.
This formula works and Meridith Elliot Powell wants to share it with you. So contact Preferred Speakers today so that you can start leveraging today’s uncertainty and get on track to make this the best year ever.
THRIVE: TURNING 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 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, you need a strategy, and you need the research that shows the path you exactly how to turn disruption to 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 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, the secret, the plan, exactly the path you need to follow to put you in the driver’s seat and in control in the face of uncertainty.
- You’ll Gain The Secrets to staying highly flexibly and highly focused to strike the delicate balance of progress and seizing opportunity.
- Your Personal Plan of action for thriving in uncertainty.
LEADERSHIP REDEFINED: OWNERSHIP, ENGAGEMENT, RESULTS!
Employee engagement trumps customer engagement – every single time! The relationship you build with our team members and associates is more important, will impact growth, more than the relationship you build with your customers.
There is 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 this 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 of and the engagement level of your team. In this session, 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, and create loyalty and longevity in a world where turnover is the norm.
Key Takeaways:
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Learn why engaging today’s employees is different, and gain the leadership development strategies to understand what employees want, and how to easily and effectively deliver time and time again.
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Proven strategies to get the best and the brightest to beat a path to your door even in the toughest environments.
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Innovative strategies to creating culture in a virtual world, and the secrets to getting employees to want to come back to the office.
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Powerful tactics to build a team that is as passionate and committed as you are about the growth of your business
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The secrets to turning uncertainty of your market, team, customers and sales into your greatest competitive advantage.
SALES REDEFINED: DOMINATE, DIFFERENTIATE, DELIVER
You followed all the rules. You’ve read all the books. You’ve implemented all the strategies. And still growing your branch, building your practice is a constant challenge. A challenge to get above the white noise. A challenge to stand out from the competition. A challenge to get to the decision maker. And a challenge to get the deal to close.
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 your market and leave your competition in the dust.
Key Takeaways:
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Deep understanding of how your marketplace has changed – the shifts in the marketplace, alignment of sales and marketing, client buying behavior, and competitive landscape.
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Innovative techniques that get the doors to open and put you in front of decision makers.
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Powerful ideas you need to shorten that sales cycle and increase your close ratio
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Cutting-edge strategies to build your reputation and credibility with clients
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Proven strategies to prominently position you in the marketplace making it easier for clients to choose you over the competition
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Your personal strategy to Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver
You were FANTASTIC!! Truly!! "THRIVE" is such a great message.....there was so much from your session, we have years of content.....so thankful to have you. You are a POWERFUL presenter, and our team, our vendors -everyone loved you,
Jocelyn Flaherty, Business Event Marketing, DTCC
You knocked it out of the park! You are AMAZING. Your message is so strong and exactly what our division heads needed to hear. You were the talk of the entire conference
Dianna Oreck, CMO, Berkshire Hathaway
The best in the series hands down. Our first standing ovation! You more than delivered. I have gotten so much positive feedback - our partners and wholesalers already asked to have you back next year
Mitch Haber, Regional Director, OneAmerica
You are phenomenal! This group- they are hard to impress - and you hit it out of the park. When I saw our senior guys taking notes - I knew this was special!
Scott Fitzpatrick, Sr VP, Acadiasoft