Robert Stevenson Speaker Biography
Expert at Building a High Performance Culture,
Improving Efficiency & Accelerating Growth
Robert Stevenson is one of the most widely recognized professional speakers in the world today. He has owned several companies, sold internationally in over 20 countries and authored four books; one a best-seller (How to Soar Like an Eagle in a World Full of Turkeys) and the others are soon to follow. His latest book, Raise Your Line, is receiving high praise from reviewers.
Career
Mr. Stevenson is an expert at building a high performance culture, improving efficiency and accelerating growth. You will be hearing from a man who has lived his experiences, not just studied them. He has held positions from Salesman to Chief Executive Officer. With over 30 years of extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience, Robert Stevenson understands what it takes to succeed. He is a man who knows how to deal with the risks, competition, and the ever-changing business arena.
Professional Speaker
As a professional speaker for over twenty-five years, Mr. Stevenson has spoken to over 2,500 companies, interviewed more than 10,000 employees, managers, and senior executives and worked with over 250 different industries; over 2 million people have benefitted from his powerful, practical, compelling and thought provoking programs. He calls upon his vast knowledge of what he has learned from some of the most innovative, resourceful and powerful companies in the world along with what he learned running his own companies and shares this wisdom with his audiences. Robert delivers a high-energy program that can help anyone or company to achieve higher levels of excellence. He helps prepare companies for the 21st century. With a powerful blend of experience, research, case studies and competitor perspectives, Robert’s original insights help organizations, business leaders and associates understand how to unleash their future potential.
Education
Mr. Stevenson has shared the podium with such renowned speakers as former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, General Norman Schwarzkopf, Anthony Robbins, Tom Peters, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Steven Covey. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech where he received his BS in Industrial Management and was a three year letterman in football.
Clients
Today, Robert travels around the world, sharing powerful ideas for achieving excellence, both personally and professionally. His client list reads like the Who’s Who in business. Companies like Prudential, FedEx, Berkshire Hathaway, Chevron, Harley-Davidson, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Radio Shack, Caterpillar, American Express, Time Warner and Kellogg have all invited Robert Stevenson to help motivate, inspire and educate their people.
Robert Stevenson Speaking Topics
How to Establish / Maintain Relationships in a COVID Environment
Robert Stevenson, who was just named to the Top 5 in the World by Thinkers 360 / LinkedIn for Change Management Thought Leaders & Influencers, has written a new program on How to Establish / Maintain Relationships in a COVID Environment? In many industries, Face-to-Face sales presentations and service follow-up, have come to a halt. Dropping by their office, taking clients or potential customers to lunch or dinner, meeting for drinks, attending sporting events or annual conferences aren’t happening right now. Your methods for conducting business in the past may be NECESSARY TO CHANGE if you are going to be successful in the future. Making poor decisions on how you establish new relationships and maintain your current business relationships in this COVID environment could cost you a fortune … even destroy your company.
Change: If You Don't Like Change, You are Going to Hate Extinction
Change is a constant. You can either choose to embrace it or watch as you organization disintegrates right before your eyes. Some people embrace change. Some people just go with the flow and deal with it only when they have to. Then there are those few, die hard, stubborn, inflexible, obstinate people out there, who are going to fight changing to the bitter end. In today’s accelerating pace of technological change, if you plan on WINNING, SUCCEEDING, and STAYING ON TOP, you better pay attention to the ever-changing landscape. Blind devotion to past technologies, methodologies, systems and procedures is a success killer. The pace of change is accelerating in every industry, every market, and in every facet of our daily lives. This program is designed to show people how to not only handle change, but embrace it; in simple terms, how to cope, control and capitalize on change. It will show you how making a decision to alter your course (change) becomes a catalyst for emerging ideas. Your mind wants a direction, a course, a decision and when you give it that clarity it rewards you with new hope, inspiration and energy; you quit floundering in your indecision and flourish in your new direction. It puts you in a better frame of mind and you now start seeing how you can make things work rather than dwell in the debilitating mood of self-defeat; changing your mind becomes and energizing force.
Leadership: The Leadership Formula
"The energy in a business radiates from its leaders and affects every aspect of the organization. It is critical to understand that Leadership is a Process – Not an Event." The Leadership program focus is on practical, insightful and useful skills that help to make relationships work and companies prosper. Designed with the goal of helping organizations thrive in today's marketplace, Mr. Stevenson identifies how to start, maintain, and deepen working relationships. This program starts with the nine elements of the Leadership Formula then delves even deeper into the philosophy of relationships. Mr. Stevenson addresses courage and challenge, confidence and commitment, compassion and communication, change, cooperation, and control.
Strategic Planning: Riding A New Wave To Success
Mr. Stevenson has developed this program to facilitate the Strategic Planning process. This program enables the organization to get a handle on what it is doing right, where it can improve, and what must be done to reach the goals being set. Some of the greatest experts for any business are their own people. Utilizing various aspects of dynamic interaction, Mr. Stevenson will take full advantage of the brainpower sitting in the room. With Robert as the catalyst driving the audience, everyone will get involved and in no time be combining their collective brilliance to accomplish far more than previously thought possible. This training session will show participants how to involve their own associates or subordinates in obtaining the best possible solutions for problems and issues they face. Participants will learn how to dig deep to find what needs improvement and learn how to produce a prioritized strategic action plan intended to improve the organization and better prepare it for today's ever changing environment. Depending on time constraints this program can also give a detailed account of what is going right, and what needs improvement along with having the group produce a prioritized strategic action plan intended to improve the organization and better prepare it for today's highly competitive and ever changing environment. This seminar will prove to be one of the best allocations of corporate resources ever authorized.
Sales: The Answers to Successful Selling Are All Four Letter Words
The art, discipline, techniques of selling have traveled many different paths over the centuries. Whether one is doing research or actually working in businesses it is obvious the path to selling effectively has gone from simple to highly sophisticated and back again. This program doesn't mean to oversimplify the process of selling something, but it will make it understandable and easy to implement by sticking to the basics. The program breaks down the Art and Science of Selling into a no-nonsense set of guidelines that will make even the most novice of salespeople a success.
Team Building: I've Got Your Back
For your organization to succeed in this ever changing environment you need to be certain you are running at peak performance; all resources must be utilized to full potential. When considering the resources of an organization, its most valuable asset is always its human resources. To be able to maximize results, you need to be able to maximize Operations, Preparations, Motivations, and Expectations. Mr. Stevenson has developed a program that addresses the many aspects of teamwork and how to make it function at its optimum potential. Great TEAMWORK is the true reason for success of any company and it rests in the hands of their employees Coming Together as ONE.
Robert Stevenson Books
Raise Your Line
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Robert Stevenson Speaker Testimonials
Robert Stevenson What an incredible guy For someone as experienced and well travelled as he, he is an incredibly hard working, no nonsense, positive energy to be around. Many of the executives noted they have never engaged with a speaker who did research as diligently as Rob did Rob took more than a hundred pages of notes and spoke to our sales teams for HOURS For someone not familiar with aviation (at least at the beginning of the process) he could legitimately start a job today if he wanted to Rob’s presentation was engaging, thought provoking, and delivered with a great sense of humor He hit the nail on the head with some of the statements about the inner workings of our teams, and regarding some of the challenges we face as a company, as well as on a personal level He sent us (very useful) materials after the event, which many of us have already printed it out and posted on our walls as a daily reminder. Rob joined us for dinner the night prior to the event, and again the night of the event, which I think is something you should recommend your clients do moving forward. It allows for the guests and speaker to connect on a more personal level He got a chance (and went out of his way) to speak one on one with as many attendees as he could during his time with us. We will definitely be working with him in the future.
- | Clay Lacy Aviation
You hit home on all fronts - service, stress, team building, dealing with change, communication and leadership. You truly got us pumped up. I thank you for a truly inspiring and rewarding experience. The best part of all, you made me a hero.
- | American Express - Tax & Business Services
I can't thank you enough for recommending Robert Stevenson to us. He was an incredible closing speaker for our Winter Marketing Conference. Rob has tremendous talent to convey his message through humor, emotion, and stories that we all will remember for some time to come. Our attendees left the conference motivated to tackle the new sales year and the challenges before them.
- | BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
You were the hit with our conference participants as evidenced by the enclosed evaluations. I have nothing but glowing remarks about how motivational you were. People were truly impressed that you included so much information about our company in your presentation. Thank you for the outstanding job.
- | Georgia Power - A Southern Company