Jess Todtfeld: Communication Speaker

Communication and media expert Jess Todtfeld teaches leaders and teams how to elevate influence, deliver stronger messages, and generate real results through high-impact communication strategies.

Quick Facts:

  • Highlights:
    • Former television producer for CBS, NBC, and FOX with 5,000+ segments produced
    • Guinness World Record holder for most interviews conducted in 24 hours
    • President of Success in Media, Inc., a leading communication training firm
    • International bestselling author of Media Secrets
  • Formats: Keynote speaker, media trainer, communication strategist, workshop facilitator
  • Audiences: Corporate leaders, sales teams, public relations professionals, spokespeople, authors, experts, and organizations seeking stronger communication, influence, and message delivery.
  • Outcomes:
    1. Practical tools to communicate with clarity, influence, and confidence
    2. Methods to increase media exposure, presentation impact, and audience engagement
    3. Strategies to close more business and generate tangible results through effective communication
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  • Travels from: New York, NY
  • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

Talent Services

Keynote Topics:

CLOSE MORE BUSINESS EVERY TIME YOU SPEAK TO PROSPECTS AND CLIENTS

Format: 1 to 2 hour Keynote

This program is perfect for: Sales Teams, Financial Advisors, People who don’t think they are in sales (but need to sell)

The audience will leave with:

– A specific system to become more interesting and more memorable

– The will have specific action items to retool what they speak about.

– They will write out stories on-the-spot that could be used in client / prospect meetings

– Learn a system to create more action from those they speak to, and create more word of mouth.

– Learn how to work with or without PowerPoint … and when using it, NOT use it as a sleep aid

– Create more powerful connections

– Create More Referrals and Introductions

Talent Short Bio

Jess Todtfeld is an electrifying keynote speaker, media expert, and communication strategist with more than 20 years of experience helping leaders, executives, and organizations amplify their influence and achieve measurable results. A former television producer for CBS, NBC, and FOX, Jess brings rare behind-the-scenes insight into how messages land, how audiences respond, and what it truly takes to stand out in a noisy world. Over the course of his media career, he produced more than 5,000 television segments and earned a Guinness World Record for delivering the most interviews in 24 hours—cementing his reputation as a master of high-performance communication.

As President of Success in Media, Inc., Jess trains CEOs, spokespeople, authors, experts, and public relations teams to communicate with clarity, confidence, and impact. His high-energy keynotes blend entertaining storytelling with practical techniques that audiences can implement immediately—whether their goal is greater media exposure, more persuasive presentations, stronger leadership communication, or increased sales results.

Jess is known for his ability to transform communication skills through proven frameworks, interactive exercises, and real-time practice.

Electrifying speaker Jess Todtfeld has an incredible talent for inspiring audiences: his magnetic speeches are entertaining and teach audiences how to gain more results in various fields. With more than 20 years of experience in the media industry, Todtfeld helps CEOs, spokespeople, authors, experts and public relations representatives with achieving real results.

From the beginning of his career, speaker Jess Todtfeld gained a tremendous amount of experience by helping people both from behind and in front of the camera as he worked for leading television networks including CBS, NBC and FOX: during his spell, he produced more than 5000 sessions on television. Furthermore, Todtfeld also earned a Guinness World Record entry as the person giving the most interviews in 24 hours.

Currently, Todtfeld is the President of his own company Success in Media, Inc. – one of the most prominent business communication and media training establishments in the United States. Through his work as a trainer and a media and communication keynote speaker, he inspires people to find their real purpose, asking his audience the important question first: “What are you trying to create more of?”

As a speaker, Jess delivers exciting speeches magnetizing the audience, that captivate and teach audiences inspiring life strategies, how to be remembered and methods that energize organizations through communication techniques – resulting in more media exposure. Furthermore, Jess is an expert in instructing clients on how to close more business and gain tangible results utilizing effective presentation strategies.

Jess has worked together with companies such as the tech giant IBM, the global financial services corporation American Express, the United Nations and LinkedIn. In 2016 he also released an international best-seller titled Media Secrets: A Media Training Crash Course.

Jess Todtfeld inspires people through specific strategies and fun, interactive exercises to create more of what they want.  Whether it’s more impact, influence, or income, Jess will show your group how small communication changes will create a massive impact.

The game changer?  Your group will create on-the-spot change and customize the material during the session.  Takeaways are more clear when it is not just a to-do list, but customized items that can be acted on after your event.

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