The way you tailored the presentation to our theme really helped our members - who travel in from all over the country on that first day - relax and focus in on the Conference and their role in it in a personal and meaningful way. Craig Hauser, Disney Program Director, Chain Restaurant Compensation Assoc. Your enthusiasm and passion for the subject leaves the audience with no other choice but to move into action and develop the type of leadership and lifestyle that you are suggesting. Maria Maldonado-Wexler Abbott Labs - Training and Development Your ability to weave personal stories into the information you are sharing really makes the presentation come to life. Suzanne Alexander Director of Human Resources, FTI Consulting You blend relevant content and smooth delivery creating the perfect adult learning environment. You brought home each point with an illustrative story we in the audience could easily relate to. Barbara Dwyer Benedictine University You are so talented at illustrating your messages through personal stories and helping the audience to create mental images to go along with the concepts. Rachel Connolly Deloitte Your presentation was very effective because you tailored the program to the needs of our senior staff and modified it to "fit" our organizational culture. Bob Marshall Asst City Manager, City of Naperville Both your content and delivery were excellent. Kate DeVries Archdiocese of Chicago Young Adult Ministry In a compelling yet engaging manner, you helped the attendees learn more about creating a vision themselves. Michael Murphy Executive Director, International Catholic Stewardship Council Thank you for making me feel that I had given the membership what they needed by selecting a speaker who had something helpful to say regarding their upcoming tasks in the Junior Leagues. Janet Millikan Junior League of Kane and DuPage Counties Our greatest challenge in developing the Discover KPMG leadership program was to identify a dynamic speaker who could provide valuable content in a manner which would be engaging to a unique audience. In my opinion, you were clearly successful in helping us achieve these objectives and made a lasting impression with the student participants. Your ability to connect with a young audience and provide meaningful information in a fun and engaging manner is a testament to your exceptional ability as a keynote speaker. Kurt Roberts KPMG Your powerful references and examples developed a strong connection between the message that you delivered and the experiences of our geographically diverse staff population. Kevin Harker American Heart Association I am especially pleased that you do more than just deliver a message. The fact that you provide a takeaway for each participant around the FOCUS acronym, and then reinforce that message to participants a week after the conference clearly differentiates you from your peers Ken Bansemer National Director of Recruiting, RSM McGladrey When looking for a speaker, we seek a person with three essential qualities; exceptional and relevant content, platforms skills, and an ability to relate to a college audience. In all cases your delivery exceeded our hopes. The content was perfect for a group of high achieving/honor students who are soon to be professionals. Your articulation, modulation, use of stories and humor all made it easy for students to relax while being fully engaged. And your work over the years with this particular demographic was obvious in how well the students immediately related to the material. Denny Reigle, AICPA Past National President of Beta Alpha Psi The content was thoughtful, logically organized and reflected your investment beforehand in understanding our firm and our industry. All these factors were critical in moving a group of free-thinking owners of this firm to take action. Thank you very much! Dick Poladian Lowe Enterprises I appreciate the professional and comprehensive manner in which you approach your speaking engagements, with clear and timely communications beforehand to assess the need and tailor your talk to our professionals' interests, and with fantastic follow-up. You always provide added value with your e-news, CD's and many other opportunities. Carolyn Gaughan Executive Director, Kansas Academy of Family Physicians Your presentation contained far more than the usual sound bites of motivational and leadership wisdom. They were a very inspiring and uplifting presentation of strength, courage, and power of the human spirit to overcome almost any obstacle!. Dave Sparkman UnitedHealthcare Your presentation was one of the best I have ever attended. The information you provided was easy to understand and very interesting. You gave the right amount of information to the audience members at the right time, enabling them to absorb and digest your message. The handouts you created added to the content and emphasized your main message points. They were excellent tools during the event and continue to be useful to us today. Amy Moench Regional Director of Recruiting, CBIZ Accounting, Tax & Advisory Services You were able to effectively tailor your presentation in a way that your audience knew you appreciated what challenges they face on a day to day basis. Karen Tarazi Crowe Horwath Your message is one of meaning and a message of challenge for us to rise to all that we can be. Your personal conviction comes across loud and clear. Al Gustafson Old St. Pat’s Church – Chicago You are an incredibly powerful speaker, particularly with the imprint you leave on the audience. You provide real content that can be used immediately and in the future. Your session attracted the largest number of attendees we have ever had in seven years of conducting our Sales Institute! Shawn Green, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing Director of the Aurora University Sales Institute Thank you so much for your rousing closing presentation to our Federation of Schools of Accountancy Consortium. You really charged up the audience to go back to their work (and their lives) with a renewed enthusiasm for finding heroism in what they do. One of the participants called me to say the program was so good that we should repeat it in its entirety next year . . . he said he would even want to come again! Karen V. Pincus University of Arkansas - College of Business Administration The feedback from the participants was amazing. Folks felt energized, re-focused on being a strong leader, and re-committed to encouraging purposeful leadership back on their own campuses. John was so at ease with our audience. His ability to seek out feedback and participation from the audience was well appreciated. As one of the more seasoned professionals shared with me, “John’s presentation was exactly what I needed and set a great tone for our meeting this year. Thank you for bringing him to us.” Daniel M. Maxwell Coordinator, Midwest Activities Directors Conference
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