Kevin Kelly B Comm
Kevin Kelly Quick Facts
Main Areas:Motivational Speaker, Entrepreneurial thinking, leadership and creativityBest Sellers:How? When you dont know how, Basics before Buzz,Xceptionalize-success secrets for students
Career Focus:Speaker
Affiliation:Kevin Kelly Unlimited
Kevin is a best-selling author and internationally acclaimed professional keynote speaker on leadership, entrepreneurship, sales, customer service, creativity, human achievement and motivation. He is also the creator of a new business concept, "Xceptionalize", derived from two words, “Exceptional Execution”, which inspires companies and individuals to focus upon "exceptional execution of their duties."
Raised into a small family-owned retail business, Kevin has been selling and negotiating from a very young age. Upon graduating University College Galway with a Bachelor of Commerce degree, he entered the demanding world of enterprise sales, superseding sales records in each of the companies for which he worked in the construction and manufacturing industry.
Over the past two decades, Kevin has delivered conference and company keynotes throughout Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and South America for Fortune 500 companies, educational, not-for-profit organisations and such prestigious associations as The Million Dollar Round Table. His experience spans Consumer Retail, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Technology sectors.
Kevin is an inspired leadership speaker who “walks the path” practicing his own philosophies. Whether it is from having challenged himself to author a best-seller book; to going from high income to low income and back again once he decided to follow his passion; to breaking corporate sales records; to developing an international personal brand, Kevin knows what it takes to bring ideas and strategies alive.
Through his professional speaking platform, Kevin’s driving passion is to share his real-world experiences and ideas. Appreciating that we live and work in an attention deficit society, his on-stage delivery style encourages active audience engagement through a mix of fast-paced interaction, sharing anecdotal life stories and cutting-edge human achievement and excellence research.
met Kevin Kelly at the "WOM Latam Leadership Symposium" in Buenos Aires. We were invited as guest-podium-speakers to talk about Excellence of Management and the Challenges of Leadership. I would like to express my feelings when I listened to Mr. Kelly's speech/performance for the first time: If you want to join the next generation of business leaders, you have to meet or listen to Kevin Kelly. I feel he can deliver to any audience the real world of business because he is a thought leader for our time. He understands how to infuse into you immediately applicable management-practices - the kind you should follow to be a great leader. He has all the tools and experience to transform your career and business and to drive winning results.
-GUY CARON , ex Creative Director of Cirque de Soleil and producer of upcoming Ice Age Live
"At WOM-Latam, we seek to give our audiences the opportunity of sharing real world experiences and ideas, and provide support to companies seeking to transcend their challenges and reach their goals. In this sense, I have to tell you that your session has been clear, dynamic, engaging and highly inspirational for all the attendees, both conceptually and in terms of practical solutions. Your excellent material contained information very relevant to our customers, with excellent examples and has been oriented at the right level for the audience. It has been a great pleasure working with you and I hope we can do it again in the near future."
-Julio Kupferman,
WOM-Latam , CEO
Argentina-
"Thank you so much, the workshop exceeded my expectations! You really know how to motivate and engage an audience with your energy and enthusiasm. The session provided them with practical take-aways that they can put into action immediately."
-Judy Brennan,
Leadership Institute Planner, Project Management
Institute USA- www.pmi.org
"It was great to go through the review process driven by you in the talk. We oftentimes forget what we should be doing due to being immersed in our daily routine. I am very much inspired by your high energy, people sensitivity and drive to be Xceptionalized!"
-Yvonne Y Y Chan,
Head of HR, Corporate & Commercial Banking
Hang Seng Bank Limited- www.hangseng.com
"Kevin's keynote was very motivational and inspirational. I like the idea of pursuing your dream without over-analyzing the pros and cons."
-Terence Ng,
Senior Leadership Development and Learning Channel Manager
Hang Seng Bank Limited- www.hangseng.com
"Kevin joined the Lane Crawford team for an informal breakfast session to share his thoughts on how to Xceptionalize Service. The feedback from the audience was overwhelmingly positive. He was engaging, entertaining and importantly gave some real takeaways that could be used immediately. Understanding customer’s DNA and accepting that “everyone can be your teacher” resonated particularly well with the teams. The queue for signed books at the end was testament to their desire to get more of Kevin Xceptional thinking!"
-Alison McLaughlin, L and D,
Lane Crawford - www.lanecrawford.com
"Thank you for an entertaining and content rich workshop. In addition to engaging our people......you delivered some valuable messages that resonated cross culturally in our marketplace."
-Anson Bailey,Principal, Business Development KPMG China
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
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?
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.
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.
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