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Kevin Kelly Quick Facts
Main Areas: Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneurial thinking, leadership and creativityBest Sellers: How? When you dont know how
Career Focus: Speaker
Affiliation: Kevin Kelly Unlimited
Kevin Kelly is an Internationally Acclaimed Motivational Speaker and
authority on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, creativity and
personal excellence.
After graduating with a Commerce degree in 1987, he proceeded to break sales record in each of the companies his worked for.
Over the past two decades, he has keynoted at events around the world including the Middle East, Far East, Europe and the US.
Whether
it is a one hour keynote speech or a one day seminar, Kevin has the
ability to engage people one hundred per cent in his interactive
experiences. His results speak for themselves - four presentations in
Monaco, Edinburgh, Colorado and Tehran recorded a 4.5 out of five
average. Kevin weaves his magic with a cocktail of exercises,
information and stories that are based on his unique experiences around
the world, inside and outside corporate corridors. From challenging
himself to write a Best Seller even though limited by a poor grade in
English, to going from high income to low income and back when he
decided to follow his passion, to breaking sales records in many
companies, Kevin more than walks the path of his own philosophies.
Born
in the West of Ireland where he still lives with his wife Deirdre
and son Conor, his other book titles include his Business Book "Basics
before Buzz" and "Life: A Trip Towards Trust." In addition, he has
produced three motivational CD's Good Enough - Now go get it; Setting,
getting and forgetting Goals and Compelling Communication Strategies.
(All now translated into Farci.)
Kevin
has appeared many times on National TV and radio shows in Ireland, UK,
USA and most recently featured on the front page of Success Magazine in
Iran.
"Honesty, Integrity and Passion" - these are the three
things you get when you recruit Kevin as a Motivational Keynote speaker
according to research conducted amongst his key customers.
If you want a ROI (return on investment) from your next keynote speaker choose Kevin - authentic, engaging and results driven.
"
We engaged Kevin to speak to our entire workforce a number of months
prior to the business closing. We were looking for an alternative means
to invigorate people and to instill a positive outlook in an inherently
negative situation. Kevin Kelly delivered. His sessions focused on job
searching, self-marketing and self belief. Feedback was universally
positive and an exercise we were delighted to have delivered to our
folks.".
- John O’Donovan
Director of Operations
Boston Scientific Tullamore
"Some
speakers motivate and some have great content. Kevin Kelly has both
which means he brings double the value to your conference. If you want
a speaker who will inspire, motivate, educate, entertain and give a
performance so powerful that the delegates will hardly dare blink for
missing something then Kelly is your man."
David Thomas, World Memory Champion, International speaker, and Sunday Times #1 Best Selling Author,
www.TheMotivationSpeaker.com
"Your
interactive and motivational style of speaking provoked lots of
innovative and new thoughts in our audience and made our event a real
great success,and unleashed the potential of our delegates, you were
one of the most impressive speakers we have ever had in the past 5
years of our conferences"
Sepehr Tarvedian CEO
http://www.hamayeshfarazan.org, Iran
"Kevin
is motivational, inspiring and enthusiastic, not to mention lively,
entertaining and thought-provoking. His energy was transferred onto his
audience as he engaged with them throughout. He encouraged self belief
and instilled the importance of positive thinking. He certainly offered
something different !"
Cathal Divilly, Managing Director, Great Place to Work® Institute Ireland
www.greatplacetowork.ie
"I
really enjoyed your interactive and inspirational keynote at the PMI
Leadership meeting in Budapest. Your energy and content was inspiring."
Thangavel Subbu
PMI ISSIG
"The
feedback to Kevin Kelly was very positive - most people in addition to
have been entertained and informed, took some vignette or tool away
from the talk that should have a positive impact on their work
performance in the future."
Karen Fitzsimons
Davis Langdon
Top 50 Best Companies to Work for 2008
www.dlpks.ie
"Too
often speakers base their presentations on other people's experiences -
Kevin has lived and breathed every bit of the journey he takes you on.
That's what makes him stand out head and shoulders above every other
speaker I have seen in the last 15 years. Yesterday Kevin's
motivational keynote took 30 colleagues and me on a rollercoaster ride
for three hours. Initially it was scary, then the adrenalin pumped
through all our veins and when he eventually allowed us to loosen our
grip we all walked away shattered but taking with us the experience of
a lifetime.
The energy with which he delivers is breathtaking -
it's akin to Michael Schumacher on steroids!!" The seminar lasted three
hours - the impact will be forever.
Michael Brady
CEO 98FM
"Radio Station of the Year 2008"
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Kevin Kelly
Knowledge always gives you enough reasons not to act.
Action precedes excellence.
The only failure in life is the failure to learn from failure.
As managers/leaders/entrepreneurs, we need to adopt a policy of constructive paranoia in the workplace - act as if we were just about to lose our key clients and/or our key staff.
We need not to just think ,but do differently.
Getting Started With Kevin Kelly
Leadership Training:
Get Real!
(Keynote, half day or full day):
In this leadership training session, Kevin will share with participants the challenges they face as leaders and the strategies they need to embrace, to leverage personal and organisational potential.
Leadership - How to get real and why?
- Listening: 4 new perspectives
- Communicating in an attention deficit society.
- Diluting the ego and attracting mastermind alliances
- Leadership Language – going for gut
- Finding comfort and opportunity in discomfort.
- Leadership training first principle – start with yourself.
- How to move towards conviction and congruence?
- Creating Leaders at all levels – why?
- The only route to tapping into organizational potential.
- Developing a creative culture – how?
Entrepreneurship:
Coaching The Tiger - Unleashing The Entrepreneur Within
(Keynote, half day or full day):
Right around the world, fear of failure is the number one reason that stops people from setting up their own business (Source: Global Entrepreneurial Monitor.)
In this entrepreneurship session, participants will learn how to disempower this limiting pattern and move towards achieving their dreams. Participants of this entrepreneurship session will be left in no doubt that they possess the resources required to take that next step - if they so choose.
In addition, the entrepreneurship session will provide them with the tools required to walk the path of the entrepreneur, and embrace entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship Session - Potential Content:
- Eight assumptions about human behavior - by understanding our internal and external customers, we can geometrically improve our rapport/sales/negotiating ability.
- Personal Audit: Participants of the entrepreneurship session will complete a unique exercise that will highlight, and then help to disempower limiting beliefs. As in all organisational challenges, identifying the problem is the challenge, not solving it. This exercise will allow individuals to find and floor their fears.
- You got it! Exercises and anecdotes that will help dissipate the limiting belief "I am not good enough" that haunts many people. By identifying and mirroring off past success strategies, a new sense of self belief will be instilled.
- Crossing the bridge from inaction to action - the first steps.
Sales Motivation:
Unlimited Sales Potential
(Motivational Keynote or half day):
In this sales motivation session, Kevin will highlight the many assumptions you can make about human behaviour. Based on these observations, Kevin shows how to build rapport with potential clients effortlessly.
Sales Motivation session - Potential Content:
Eight Assumptions about Human Behavior, including:
- How people cannot lie...successfully. Exploring the intimate link between our physiology (the way we look) and our psychology (the way we think).
- How people crave attention. How to excel in an Attention Deficit Society -a unique understanding of the power of listening from four different perspectives.
- How people like each other that are like each other. Building rapport by mirroring. How?
- How people buy experiences, not things.
- How you are the difference?
Primetime: priming yourself for personal and business success.
Action precedes excellence.
