Meridith Elliott Powell
Business Growth Strategist | Keynote Speaker
Thought-provoking, Inspiring, Highly-Engaging, Programs Packed With Cutting-Edge Content, Gets Your Franchise Team To Do The Impossible – Take Action! – that is how franchise audiences describe Meridith Elliott Powell. A master-certified business growth strategist, and award-winning author, Meridith helps franchises and franchisors round the world gain the sales and leadership strategies they need to turn uncertainty to strategic advantage.
Meredith Elliott Powell – Thrive!
CPAE – Council of Peers Award for Excellence Recipient
Speaker Hall of Fame Inductee
Speaker Hall of Fame Inductee
Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair, a Top Sales Experts To Follow by LinkedIn, and Top 41 Motivational Sales Speakers. Meridith has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of six books, including “Cut Through The Excuses – Send Sales Through The Roof” , and her latest “Thrive: Strategies To Turn Uncertainty To Competitive Advantage,”
Meridith is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Investment News, and American Banker among others. High energy and highly interactive, Meridith’s helps franchises and franchisors learn the new rules of success today, and the strategies they need to build their business, engage their team, and leave their competition in the dust.
Meridith is a Certified Speaker Professional, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers, as well as a Certified Virtual Presenter, having passed the rigorous certification standards to achieve this designation.
In her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in this new economy. No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning.
Partial Client List:
- Bravo Brio
- Caldwell Banker
- Edward Jones
- Farm Bureau
- FASTSIGNS
- Interim Healthcare
- Merrill Lynch
- Nationwide
- OneAmerica
- Raymond James
- Re/Max
- Senior Care
- State Farm
- Subway
- True Value
- US Lawns
- VOYA Financial
Just because your sales team has gone virtual, just because cutting through the white noise is more challenging than ever. And just because virtual has created another hurdle to customer engagement. None of that means this cannot be your best sales year on record.
This is a new marketplace with a new set of obstacles and a whole new set of opportunities. Know how to use the tools for virtual selling is only half the battle. You need a sales team that understands what made them exceptional at traditional sales and use those talents to create a unique and compelling virtual experience for your customers.
Every sales team is going virtual. Every sales team is embracing the technology.
But not every sales team is going deeper to learn what opens doors truly, engages customers, and gets deals to close in a virtual world. The sales cycle has changed – and you need a new set of strategies to turn this uncertainty to your competitive advantage.
In this innovative and cutting-edge program, Meridith Elliott Powell delivers a sales keynote, as you have never heard before. Her power-packed, paradigm-shifting content will leave your team inspired, motivated, and ready to master the art of selling virtually.
Audience Will:
- Deep-dive into getting you and your team virtual sales-ready – camera tips, tools, and technology, how to read your customer’s cues, how to look natural and sound experienced
- Receive Proven strategies for differentiating yourself in a virtual world
- Receive The 5 step methodology for engaging, connecting, and getting customers to say yes
- Get their guide to what virtual customers want, and how to overcome the most common objections they will have
- Learn the Innovative techniques for taking price off the table and opening the door to deep and expanding customer relationships
- Learn the Cutting-edge ideas for how to use virtual to be more productive, more efficient and more effective at mastering sales
- Have a plan of action using virtual sales strategies to Engage, Sell & Leave Your Competition In The Dust
Available as a Webinar or Virtual Presentation
Confidence, Hustle, Drive – what do those words have in common? They are the essence of the most successful among us. Traits gained when you have the depth and courage to do whatever it takes. Imagine having the power to push through any obstacle. The resilience to overcome any crisis. And the creativity and endurance to thrive in the face of adversity.
To emerge successfully from struggle demands you turn excuses into solutions, and you dare to “go for it” and fly with “no-net.” The struggle is the best teacher. Better than any leader, coach, or mentor. But only when you embrace it. Understand the powerful lessons in it. And you’re willing to commit to going the distance.
Join us for this power-packed session, where keynote speaker Meridith Elliott Powell, will walk you through the ground-breaking research on how struggle transforms leaders, organizations, and lives.
No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just the proven strategies you need to find the path forward and turn to struggle to success.
Audience Will:
- Hear the Powerful statistics of how struggle expands learning and creates opportunity
- Learn the Secrets to building a confident mindset that fuels curiosity and discovery
- Receive 5 Proven strategies for emerging successfully from crisis
- Learn The facts as to why businesses survive, and some don’t
- Receive Customized plan of action to overcome struggle & find the path forward
Available as a Webinar or Virtual Presentation
Who would have thought a virus could so drastically impact our marketplace. Social distancing has become the norm, businesses are shutting down, and it has us all wondering when and if things will ever return to normal.
As business owners and leaders, we have some tough questions to face. How can we do business in this new environment? How do we engage and attract customers? Is our business model viable? How can we remain relevant? Can we rebuild?
At this moment, we are redefining success. As leaders and business owners, how and where you focus your time and energy will determine not only if you make it, but if you and your business will emerge successfully.
In this power-packed, cutting-edge online keynote, business growth strategist Meridith Elliott Powell walks you through her proven formula to PIVOT your business. Whether you need to breathe new life into the company you have, expand into new markets, or completely reinvent your business and your strategy, this keynote covers it all.
Based on research from her book, “Thrive: Turning Uncertainty To Competitive Advantage.” Meridith studied organizations and leaders who redesigned their businesses, reinvented their products, and positioned themselves to emerge successfully from adversity.
Audiences Will:
- Learn innovative techniques for quickly assessing market changes and your business model
- Gain insight into how the market is shifting and where the opportunities are
- Hear real-world stories of businesses and leaders who pivoted to success
- Receive a customized plan of action to Rebuild, Reinvent and Relaunch
Available as a Webinar or Virtual Presentation
Competitive, challenging, and constantly changing – that is today’s uncertain marketplace! To survive, you need a new set of leadership strategies and a new approach to business growth. In this high-energy, power-packed session, Motivational Speaker Meridith Elliott Powell shares the strategy you need to understand the new normal, master uncertainty and create your path forward.
In this program, Meridith walks you through the steps you need to develop your strategy, proactively prepare for future disruptions, standout from the competition, and dominate your marketplace. You’ll leave this session with a personal plan of action that ensures you have what you need to stay razor-like focused, highly flexible, and ready to turn uncertainty to competitive advantage.
Audiences Will:
- Gain Insight into the three phases of this crisis, and the strategies you need to navigate them all
- Receive Proven techniques for keeping your team calm, motivated and moving forward
- Learn the Secrets to anticipating change and proactively preparing for disruption
- Learn the Robust techniques to understand the changing buying cycle, and how to master sales in the new normal
- Get their quick-start, customized strategy for thriving in uncertainty
Available as a Webinar or Virtual Presentation