Speaker Resources

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Trust, Trustworthiness, Trust Habits™ – What is trust? How does it behave (through the 8 laws of trust)? What makes a person trusted by another person? How to form habits that change behaviors, build trust, and transform organizations.

Dr. Yoram Solomon is the author of The Book of Trust (now in 3rd edition, and the most comprehensive book ever written about trust), the book series Can I Trust You? and host of The Trust Show podcast. He has published 16 books, 22 patents, and was one of the creators of Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 technologies, for which he was dubbed “TI’s Great Innovator.” Dr. Solomon was named by Innovation Excellence as one of the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers,  and by Thinkers 360 as one of the top 20 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Culture.  He was a columnist at Inc. Magazine,  Innovation Excellence,  and other publications, where he published more than 300 articles.

Dr. Solomon holds a PhD in Organization and Management from Capella University, an MBA from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an LLB from the Tel-Aviv University Law School, and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ort Singalovski College. He completed the executive Marketing Management Program at Stanford University and the Developing the Strategic Leader program at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in Colorado Springs. Dr. Solomon is certified by CCL to administer the KEYS and SKILLSCOPE assessments and is an authorized provider of school board training by the Texas Education Agency.

He has founded several startups and sold a startup company in Silicon Valley. He has held various positions from General Manager of a $100m business unit in a Fortune 200 company to a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, and to CEO.

Dr. Solomon is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship at Southern Methodist University, and formerly at the University of Texas at Dallas.

A National Speakers Association Professional Speaker, he spoke in several different national and regional conferences, including the Human Resources Southwest Annual Conference, the Association for Strategic Planning National Conference, CDX Annual Conference, Meeting Planner International (MPI) Annual conference, and many more, to audiences in excess of 2,000, both in-person and virtually.

Yoram was the host of the first TEDxPlano in 2014, and spoke at TEDxOakLawn in 2018 and TEDxPlanoSeniorHS in 2022. His customers include a wide range of Fortune 500 companies as well as startups, for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations, in a broad spectrum of industries from technology to retail, healthcare, defense, and education. He served companies such as AT&T, Dannon, Amway, Texas Instruments, Medical City, and many more, who described his keynotes and workshops as transformative.

In 2015, he was elected to the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees. Yoram served in the IDF 35th Airborne Paratrooper brigade and as a USAF CAP pilot and Aerospace Education Officer.

Selected Speaking Topics:

• Someone Found Your Blog! Now What? – A breakdown of why storytelling in marketing is so important, and how to incorporate stories into your blog posts and other marketing materials.
• Is SEO Important? How Can People Find You Online? – A breakdown of how SEO works and how business owners can use it to their advantage to get in front of prospects when they’re looking for them.
• 10 Things You Can Blog About Right Now – A list of 10 ways you can come up with topics to blog about, regardless of your industry.
• Who Are You Blogging For? – Actionable tips people can use to identify their target audience and create their marketing personas.

Alison Ver Halen is a content marketer and SEO strategist who helps small business owners such as yourself attract, engage, and convert high-quality leads online so you don’t have to go hunt them down. She does this by creating long form website content that is engaging, SEO friendly, and leads readers to the next step in the buyer journey.

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• Secrets of Fifty-Year Marriages – Practical keys to success from couples in my research on happy long-term relationships
• How I Hated College but Ended Up with a PhD – An encouraging message for parents and students who aren’t sure they’ll survive higher education.
• Resilience: Wisdom from The Greatest Generation – How the strengths of WWII and Depression-era survivors can inspire the rest of us in modern times.
• Flow: How to Find It and Keep It in your Work Life – Explore how to re-engage in your current career or figure out what you’ll do NEXT.

Kerin Groves is a professional counselor, career coach, educator, and researcher. She has over 25 years of experience in small businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, corporations, health care systems, and higher education. A lively and engaging speaker, Dr. Groves is an expert in human behavior and communication. Her specialty areas are aging, long-term relationships, lifelong career development, and positive psychology.

Also a Speaker Coach & Master of Ceremonies

Speaker’s Selected Topics:

• 30 Seconds to Success: Generating Referrals From Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch – Jeff has been teaching this since 2004 and has helped thousands generate more business from the time they spend at networking events and on sales calls.
• Speaking As a Business Strategy: The 9 Laws to Reach Business Speaking Success – Positioning yourself as the Expert in the front of the room will drive revenue to any business. Jeff spoke over 250 times in 3-years without an agent or bureau. And made money 90% of the time! Practical speaking solutions from the Expert on Business Speaking.
• The 7 Costly Mistakes Networkers Make – We network to find and cultivate business relationships to find strategic partners and clients. But are we networking correctly and maximizing our networking possibilities? Jeff shares what he’s learned in years as an active networker and a networking guru.
• Chamber of Commerce – Plaque on the Wall or Source of Revenue? – Too many business owners see their Chamber membership as a civic obligation and don’t take advantage of the contacts and opportunities available. Imagine turning that Plaque on the Wall into Profits for Your Business!
• Get Up and Speak: The 7 P’s to Effective Presentations – In this talk, Jeff shares how to be effective and to overcome the fear of public speaking. Whether it’s a sales presentation to 1 person or a keynote to thousands, the same principals apply.
• Conversation Starters vs. Conversation Killers – How to tell people what you do so they want to know more. And tell their friends about you.
• Identifying Your Ideal Target Members – Member recruiting for non-profits and trade associations using basic advertising techniques.
• Public Speaking for Fun & Profit – The main reason people get nervous about public speaking is because they are unprepared. This talk offers actionable tools for people asked to speak. Whether it’s a business presentation, speech to a group, or educational talk, the lessons Jeff teaches will help.
• Attracting Engagements: Bookings That Lead to Revenue – You can’t share your message effectively if you can’t get in front of the right audiences. Jeff shares the system he developed when he successfully booked 250 speaking engagements in 3 years. You don’t need to learn from your mistakes. It’s much less painful to learn from someone else’s.
• The Speaker Success Checklist – There are things you know you need to succeed as a business or public speaker. And there are things you don’t know you need. Jeff shares the list that led to his success in sharing his message with tens of thousands of individuals.

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From the Elevator Pitch to Keynote Speeches, Jeff Klein guides people to the right words for each situation. He is a speaker, speaker coach, trainer, author, podcaster, and frequent podcast and media guest.

He is the author of 30 Seconds to Success: Generating Referrals with Your Elevator Pitch, and the upcoming Speaking As a Business Strategy: 9 Laws to Business Speaking Success.

His experience includes representing The Studios at Las Colinas, the largest Soundstage facility in the Southwest, and working with the Texas Rangers Baseball Club and Dallas Stars Hockey production teams. He spent the late 1990’s representing the Texas Motion Picture Industry as the Executive Director of the Texas Association of Media Motion Professionals. Jeff’s Film, TV, and Video Clients included American Airlines, PepsiCo, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Southwest Airlines, EDS, Ford, WISHBONE!, Goodyear, Frito Lay, JCPenney, RadioShack, WFAA, and Sign-A-Rama.

Jeff has served on non-profit boards for the Dallas Jewish Community, the SwimPlus Foundation, Team Networking, and the Young Professionals of Plano, part of the Plano Chamber of Commerce. His volunteer work includes the Susan G. Komen Race For the Cure, the Anti-Defamation League, H.O.D., and his Synagogue in Plano.

He founded SpeakerCoop.com in 2006 and has grown it from a local lunch with 50 attendees to an International community reaching almost 20,000 people.

He has spoken over 800 times to trade associations, sales organizations, conferences, conventions, & business groups. When he’s not speaking, Jeff spends his work time training speakers and businesspeople to grow their businesses using the words they say. He spends his personal time playing boardgames, volunteering, watching movies, and occasionally acting in them.

Testimonials

Jeff is a very compassionate and giving person, who engages his audiences and gets them involved. After you hear him speak, you’re energized and ready to test these valuable and new found skills. – Jon Perry, Entrepreneur at DFW Card

Though I consider myself a rather good communicator, Jeff helped me realize that I was unintentionally saying things that either blurred, or were inconsistent with, my intended message. (Which I came to see wasn’t clear enough in the first place.) If you’re concerned about the quality and consistency of your messaging at all, or especially if you’re not, Jeff is your guy! – Chad King, Director of Sales at Cognoscape, LLC

Selected Speaker Topics:

• Motivating and Communicating Across Generations:  Key strategies to effectively lead every generation in your workplace at the same time.  Great for managers, business owners, and other leaders who are challenged by generational differences.  Attendees leave with proven solutions that they can use right away.
• Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Top Talent from Every Generation: Great talent is in short supply.  It’s expensive to recruit and train new employees only to have them quit in the first few weeks.  Some new hires don’t even show up on the first day!  This keynote provides insight and solutions for HR Professionals, Business Owners, and Managers that are frustrated with recruiting turnover, and a lack of engagement.   Attendees leave with solutions for building multi-generational teams that are enthusiastic about coming to work every day.
• Building High-Functioning Multi-generational Teams:  Each generation has different expectations that they bring to work based on the world they grew up in.  When these differences collide, there is lower productivity and morale suffers.   However, research shows that multi-generational teams are more innovative, collaborative, and better at solving problems!   It’s all about team building based on understanding each other’s perspectives and values.   This understanding leads to an appreciation of what everyone contributes.  Those who attend this keynote leave with a better understanding of generational and individual differences as well as ways to find common ground to build on.

Shawn Johnson is the “Strategist for Generational Inclusion”.  She is an infectious Speaker and Trainer whose passion is working with leaders to encourage inclusive collaboration between various generations.  Shawn shares solutions for attracting and developing inspiring leaders at every level, motivating, and engaging a generational inclusive workforce, and communicating effectively using a common vocabulary. She is a member of the John Maxwell Team, a Certified DISC Behavioral Analysis Consultant, Next Gen Facilitator, and has completed courses in Positive Psychology.

She and her husband, Ronnie, live in the Ft Worth area and have two millennial children who challenge her every day to be open-minded at all times!

Selected Speaking Topics

• Spiritual Entrepreneurship – Fulfilling Your God-ordained Destiny – My purpose in life is to empower others to succeed by helping them to discover their own life purpose and encouraging them to passionately pursue it until their purpose is fulfilled. This requires them to leave their comfort zone and engage in difficult and risky endeavors with no guarantees of success. In other words they must develop an entrepreneurial spirit. The ultimate key to success then is to do this with the guidance and empowerment of God’s Holy Spirit. Hence I call this process spiritual entrepreneurship.

Bill Harrison is a spiritual entrepreneur and life coach. Having enjoyed successful careers in several different industries (manufacturing, construction commercial real estate, telecommunications, marketing consulting and academia) we have learned that our talents, skills, experience and God-given gifts can be applied in different ways in many diverse situations. All that was required was a willingness to go wherever God led us and to do whatever he asked us to do. In the process of so doing we learned that God had a plan for our lives that was more challenging that our own plans, but also far more exciting and rewarding. In the process we have been afforded opportunities to go places (including all 50 of the United States and some 60 foreign countries) and do things that have gone far beyond what we expected for ourselves.

Based on our life experiences as a married couple with dual professional careers, my wife and I developed the concept that we call spiritual entrepreneurship. The challenges we faced in fulfilling the requirements of two separate careers without neglecting our family obligations led us to the principles and practices of this concept.

Selected Topic Titles:

• Caregiver’s Guide to Self-injury
• Practitioner’s Guide to Self-injury
• Stress in the Workplace
• Time Management
• Leader, Dictator, or Avoidant: What Makes Someone a Great Leader
• Dating Beyond the Swipe: next steps for a great first date
• When Making the Grade Causes You to Fail: the problem with perfectionism
• Walls, Windows, Walkways: Boundaries in Personal, Professional, and Academic Life
• How to Ride the Roller Coaster of Life with More Thrills and Less Spills
• The Best Way to Save Someone Happens Before You Need to: Life-Threatening Epidemics
• Help! I’m on Fire! Putting out the Fires of Stress with Burnout Prevention
• Taboo! Uncomfortable! Is This Healthy? Am I “normal”? Let’s Talk About MH!
• Take Back Control Today Over Your Stress, Worries, and Anxiety
• Are You Talking to Me or At Me? Aggressive vs. Assertive Communication

Do you want to know how to spot the difference between someone who is a professional speaker with training and experience versus someone who happens to speak for an occasional paid event?

Lori Vann has been a professional speaker for over twenty years who has received training from multiple internationally known coaches, in addition to the lessons that she learned as a performer and a professor for two colleges. Having presented on national and international stages for a wide variety of audiences and event types, Lori is regarded as a speaker who provides value for the audience and organizers; this is one of the many reasons why she has been a repeat presenter for numerous organizations.

Many speakers can provide information, but few speakers are able to present the information in a way that is meaningful, memorable, and usable. Lori is able to connect with your audience by providing a tailored talk with examples that will resonate with your attendees in a down-to-earth, genuine manner. Whether she is the keynote speaker for a large conference or providing a workshop to a small group of individuals, she gives every talk her full attention to make sure that your goals for the event are met.

Contact Lori today to learn how you and your attendees will have the WOW factor with her as the speaker for your next event.

Selected Speaking Topics:

• Market Dominating Position – Mike shows business owners how to generate more clients, close more sales, and increase their overall revenue and profits; quickly and inexpensively. He has helped business owners find $17,000 in potential new revenue is as little as 45 minutes.

Mike Montes is a Kingdom Entrepreneur. Although the statement seems simple, it’s from that statement, he finds his purpose.

He is the founder of Breakthrough to Impact, an online platform designed for people who are looking to break through their limiting beliefs and take their business or life to the next level. He has also founded Yavin Digital, a digital marketing agency that specializes in helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses using social media. Mike also co-founded CoPlay which helps people live out their passions by connecting them with others who share those same interests.

Mike is the author of a book on entrepreneurship, Don’t Pee In Your Lemonade and is working on his second book, Finding the Great in all Your Good. He is also getting ready to write his third book, Give to Give. His YouTube channel features videos about how to make money online, Mike’s entrepreneurial journey, and how you can become a better leader.

Speaking Topics Include:

• 168 Hours: What are you doing with yours?
• Alexander Graham Bell…or the phone is really not a living organism that can eat you alive!
• Are You a Sales Person?
• Follow-up Basics
• Function of “Sales” in Emerging Companies
• I Hate “The Price” Conversation
• Implementing A Predictable Sales Process
• Is Networking Enough?
• Is There Ever Really a Win-Win?
• Making and Keeping a Sales Plan
• Negotiating Contracts
• Presentation Skills That Don’t Allow Fainting
• Proven Cash Producing & Qualified Lead Generation Technologies
• SALES CHECK-UP: Prescription for Healthy Sales
• Sales Strategies
• Selling Your Unique Advantage
• Smart Doesn’t Always Win
• Ten Steps to a Predictable Sales Process
• Trade Show Training
• Who Do You Know? The Rule of 250
• Who is the right salesperson for your company?

Today, The Sales Company serves individuals and companies around the world. The connecting thread between all of these is that you are “good people,” You treat others the way they want to be treated. You do what’s good for all involved. You sleep well at night. Integrity is your north star.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t get a “thrill” from helping someone. Helping others is a way of life for me.

After enjoying so much success in the technology industry back in the “good ol’ days” of selling for many different manufacturing companies, I felt like I had earned a PhD in sales. My “helping” grew from selling for different companies to consulting with companies about how they could sell better, smarter and make more doing what they were already doing.

Early on, I realized that my view of sales was very different than other consultants’ view of sales. I asked lots of questions about everything from hiring the right people to how the company was doing overall financially. The end result often took us away from sales consulting and moved the company toward the real problems that were affecting sales.

Today, my dream of The Sales Company is alive and well as a solopreneur consultant. That was—and still is—a great way for me to personally work with the individuals and companies who want to work personally with me. However, I always knew what I really wanted.