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Mark Jeffries    

Communication Consultant, Presentation Coach, Emcee & Moderator

Former Merrill Lynch stockbroker turned author and Keynote Speaker, Mark Jeffries, has become a trusted adviser and communications consultant to some of the world’s largest and most successful organizations. He speaks at and moderates conferences, summits, sales meetings, user forums and conventions all over the world for clients including IBM, Ernst & Young, SAS, HP, Zurich Insurance, Gartner, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Canada, Deltek & Bank of America.

With his depth of event experience, many of Mark’s clients now also use him as an an event consultant, working alongside the production team to create an event with audience appeal, a memorable impact and an effective message.

Dividing his time between The United States, Canada and Europe, Mark’s ideas, inspiration and guidance are sought across virtually all industries.

At your event As an economist, former stockbroker and TV host, Mark brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the events he speaks at and facilitates.

A true all-rounder Mark is an entertaining and experienced ‘MC’, an incisive and knowledgeable facilitator able to quickly master the intricacies of business within any industry and a popular speaker with a “hugely entertaining” and “immensely practical” keynote presentation entitled “The Art of Business Influence – Selling without Selling”.

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Hosted, Emceed or Moderated by Mark Jeffries

As a former TV host, Jeffries brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to every event. He is also an entertaining and experienced emcee and moderator who quickly masters the intricacies of business within any industry.

Communicating with Your Team in Tough Times

In todays economic climate you need to remotivate your people for success and prepare them for the profit and sales opportunities ahead. A former stockbroker and economist, Mark Jeffries is a leading expert in strategic communications and his book, Whats up with your handshake? Using the Secrets of Strategic Communication and Soft Skills to Win, reached No. 1 in Amazons sales skills category. In this instantly usable and relevant keynote, Jeffries shares important insights on not only how to meet todays challenges, but also how to forge ahead to grab the next opportunity. He offers:

  • A toolbox of ideas to grow a profitable business by improving your teams communication

  • Ways to network, negotiate, and connect with clients and colleagues at this challenging time

  • Ways to build and maintain valuable relationships through the subtleties of word power

  • The secrets of planting ideas, accumulating payback credits and encouraging meeting etiquette

Smart Communication in Tough Times: How to Harness Todays Profit Opportunities

The days of the hard sellof selling yourself, assuming people will buy and hoping for the bestare over, according to Mark Jeffries. In todays more selling-sophisticated world, the client communication skills that win are the soft skillsskills that positively enhance the way others perceive you. In this unique presentation guaranteed to make audiences think differently about how they are perceived, Jeffries describes these seemingly intangible soft skills, showing you how to integrate them into your professional life for bottom-line success. In Jeffriess presentation, you will learn:

  • Soft skillshow to influence others

  • The golden rules of networking

  • Boardroom etiquette

  • How to make more powerful and effective presentations and pitches

  • How to plant the seed of an idea

  • How to read other people

  • Techniquettethe etiquette of technology

  • How to alter the way others perceive you

  • How to understand your own image

  • The secret messages you really convey

The Art of Business Influence: Selling without Selling

Whether its leveraging your network, planting psychological seeds, using Social Media to grow your success, creating influence or negotiating dealsMark Jeffries has a toolbox of innovative, instantly useable and very entertaining methods and techniques to help increase the success of any audience member.

Based on ideas revealed in Marks two books Whats up with your Handshake? And The Art of Business Seduction all of the concepts presented in the keynote will motivate, inspire and help tilt the scales towards your business goals.

Subjects covered in this practical, invaluable and entertaining presentation include:

  • How to influence others

  • Harnessing Social Media

  • The L-WAR. Listen, Watch, Anticipate and React

  • Networking 2.0 - the new connection rules

  • How to plant the seed of an idea

  • The Jealousy effect

  • Reading other people

  • Techniquettethe etiquette of technology

  • Language the power of words

  • How to alter the way others perceive you

  • The 3 Cs of Powerful Communication

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