Keynote Topics
“Speak at Your Best!™ – Selling Your Product, Service, or Message to Key Audiences”
When you give a speech, presentation, sales talk, or any public remarks, your listeners aren’t hearing what you think they are. How you hold yourself and move; and your body language, gestures, and vocal dynamics are broadcasting messages you may not even be aware of! Your skills with logic and language are also critically on display. “Speak at Your Best™ – Selling Your Product, Service, or Message to Key Audiences” will help you develop your message and revolutionize your approach to speaking for sales, advocacy, service delivery, testimony, or any other persuasive situation. Discover powerful and proven techniques for moving your listeners to action. Former professional actor and internationally recognized communications expert Dr. Gary Genard shares secrets from his book Speak for Success—75 Ways to Captivate Audiences in Presentations, Speeches, Sales Talks, Meetings, Conference Calls, and More! in this dramatic and exciting keynote. If influencing audiences is critical to your company’s sales or your organization’s success, this is your must-hear program of the year. For annual sales meetings, motivational seminars, in-house and off-site trainings, industry and professional conferences, courtroom performance training and witness preparation, networking events, corporate retreats, NGO meetings, and more!
“Voices of Leadership™ – Power Speaking Techniques for Women”
Studies have shown that female executives rank as high as their male colleagues in almost every measure except one: confidence. In today’s competitive global environment, women need the authority and presence to match their intelligence and capabilities. This keynote program with Dr. Gary Genard, an internationally known speech consultant, empowers women executives, advocates, spokespersons, and other professionals to project maximum credibility and achieve sustained influence. Your attendees will acquire fast-track techniques for speaking with power and persuasiveness on behalf of your company, organization, or mission. From speech anxiety to vocal power to effortless credibility to dynamic platform skills, your women speakers will discover how to speak with the Voice of Leadership™. For motivational seminars, industry and professional conferences, in-house and off-site trainings, break-out sessions, courtroom performance seminars, networking events, corporate retreats, NGO meetings, and more!
“Speaking for Sales Success: The SalesTalk™ Training System”
Are your salespeople master communicators? Do they have the skills to speak dynamically on behalf of your company while fostering long-term relationships with customers? Dr. Gary Genard’s unique SalesTalk™ Training system helps inside and outside salespeople reach “the next level” of sales success. You’ve never offered a program like this for your sales team—which will boost their skills, enthusiasm, and confidence. Don’t let “good enough” communication and listening skills chip away at peak earnings performance. Dr. Genard’s keynote is chock-full of fascinating yet practical solutions to the challenges you face every day in gaining and retaining customers. Experience dramatic improvement in your sales reps’ ability to impress prospects, customers, and clients as a result of this program! For annual sales meetings, conference break-out sessions, in-house and off-site trainings, new hire orientations, skills improvement seminars, and corporate retreats.
“Overcoming Speech Fright: Coping Skills for Professionals”
Do key executives at your company or organization suffer from communication anxiety? If so, they share a problem with 70% of the population! Most of us experience butterflies before a performance. Yet for many professionals, speech fright is a serious problem limiting personal and company goals. Speech performance expert Dr. Gary Genard has the solution in this keynote that’s ideal for company meetings, corporate retreats, and conference break-out sessions. Your people will learn why speech fright occurs and acquire key coping techniques. More important, they’ll gain the comfort and confidence to turn apprehension into an energized and dynamic performance every time. Help your team thrive in critical speeches and presentations with this interactive keynote speech. For executive coaching sessions, in-house and off-site trainings, conference break-out sessions, skills improvement seminars, and corporate retreats.
“In the Volcano: Media Training for Spokespersons and Crisis Teams”
Will your company or organization be “meeting the press” in an upcoming television, radio, magazine, or newspaper appearance? Are you facing a crisis situation in which your entire image or product survival is at stake? Learn not only how to survive but to thrive in media encounters in this empowering program. Speech and media consultant Dr. Gary Genard will take your leadership team on a fascinating journey—complete with clips of the best in the business—where you’ll learn how to match wits with any media outlet or reporter. Learn how to dramatically increase your media savvy and influence with a media coach who works with the United Nations, the U.S. Congress, the State Department, and C-level executives worldwide. For executive coaching sessions, in-house and off-site trainings, skills improvement seminars, spokesperson training, and corporate retreats.
Gary Genard, Ph.D., founder and president of Public Speaking International, is an internationally recognized expert in communication performance. A former professional actor, he now helps clients in all aspects of dynamic and influential oral communication skills. In his ongoing work as an executive coach, trainer, and speech consultant, he has helped thousands of speakers worldwide achieve speech and presentation excellence. His clients include multinational corporations, board members and corporate officers, association and industry spokespersons, NGO staffs, current members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, the State Department, the U.S. Army, the United Nations, and foreign ministries from around the world. He is an active member of the National Speakers Association (read his speaker’s profile), and is available as an expert source through Business Wire (Dr. Genard’s expert profile).
Dr. Genard is currently Professor of Public Speaking and Media Training at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Management Communication at Simmons College in Boston. His teaching credentials also include Harvard University, Boston College, Tufts University, the University of Illinois, Bentley College, and Emerson College. He has published widely on the issues of public speaking and media appearance effectiveness.
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