Dr. Nido Qubein: Performance Speaker

    Dr. Nido Qubein inspires audiences with his immigrant-to-icon journey, revealing proven strategies for service excellence, personal growth and transformational business and leadership success.

    Dr. Nido Qubein

    Quick Facts:

      • President of High Point University with students from 40 countries
      • Chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company with 220 stores
      • Director on major corporate boards including BB&T, La-Z-Boy and Dots Stores
      • International Speaker Hall of Fame inductee and Golden Gavel Medal recipient
    • Formats: Leadership and business keynote speaker on service excellence, performance, personal growth and transformational change.
    • Audiences: Corporate leaders, sales teams, executives, entrepreneurs, educators and organizations seeking inspiration paired with practical leadership strategy.
    • Outcomes:
      1. Proven frameworks for elevating customer experience and service excellence.
      2. Actionable strategies for leading through change and strengthening performance.
      3. Renewed belief in personal potential grounded in discipline, purpose and resilience.
    Reading time: 2 min
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    • Travels from: High Point, NC
    • **Fee range: $50,001 - $75,000

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    Keynote Topics:

    Change is an eternal concept. In today′s competitive marketplace, organizations must be able to grasp the reigns of change to ride it to a successful future.

    Many people are afraid to alter their behaviors, but it often proves more threatening than challenging. Dr. Nido Qubein transports audiences on a journey through business examples from his careers as a university president, business leader, corporate executive, and public speaker.

    He talks about change in an enlightening and transformational way so that audiences actually want to change for the better! Whether it is reculturing an organization or changing the mindset of an individual, this topic is as popular and timely as ever.

    Out of adversity emerges abundance. Difficult times often are filled with opportunities. Nido Qubein came to the United States as a teenager with little knowledge of English, no contacts and only $50 in his pocket, yet ended up a mega-success story.

    Today, Dr. Nido Qubein is president of a leading university and chairman of a national retail company – and one of the most sought-after leadership speakers on the professional circuit. Qubein will share his own story, and his ideas and strategies for succeeding through even turbulent times.

    This dynamic, authentic, entertaining speaker delivers a powerful, inspiring message on finding focus, balance and meaning in business, and in life. You′ll leave this presentation entertained, and inspired to be impactfully innovative.

    This presentation will show you how to prepare your employees for high productivity and your company for maximum profitability. Learn how to grow a well-trained, educated and motivated team.

    Dr. Nido Qubein makes an important point: Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future—a vision based on common values—is only training. He goes beyond dictionary definitions to show that yesterday’s thinking looks at the tasks people perform today and asks “How can we train our future employees to do these things?”

    Tomorrow’s thinking looks at the kind of people needed to execute corporate strategy and finds ways to educate employees to become those kind of people.

    To sell effectively in today’s ever-changing, competitive world, one must master sales skills and behavioral knowledge. Dr. Nido Qubein teaches both with humor and audience involvement.

    He focuses on the Law of Identification (when something becomes personal it becomes important; treat every customer as if you’re about to lose them) and teaches participants to ask penetrating questions (how must this person feel first so that this person will buy from us?).

    Dr. Nido Qubein emphasizes: Prospects don’t want to buy your product; they want to buy the product of your product. Remember: Your service and product must be better than your competitors and your customer must readily acknowledge that.

    Why should people do business with you? How easily can someone else imitate what you do? Do your customers think of you first?

    Nido Qubein shares dynamic principles for personal and corporate achievement. It doesn’t matter how much you know or what you can do.

    What matters is what your customers and colleagues believe and perceive you can do for them. Do they understand and value what you are offering? Your positioning reflects other people’s confidence in your ability to do whatever you do with professional competence and expertise-how much they trust you to meet their needs.

    Your positioning is the way people feel about you and your work; it’s about the way you make them feel when doing business with you. Nido Qubein shows your audience how to “position” for maximum results using a practical approach and a professional strategy.

    Communicating effectively with people, inside your company and beyond, is a minimum-requirement skill in our ever-changing global marketplace. This presentation is designed to help your audience develop the communication skills required and to wield them with power and effectiveness.

    They’ll learn not only the basics, but many of the finer points Nido Qubein has picked up during a long and successful career as a professional speaker, author, and advisor to top executives and to successful companies, including specific strategies used to “connect” for persuasion and results.

    To date he has written a dozen books, delivered thousands of speeches, and showed millions the art of effective communication. Entertaining and educational. An audience favorite!

    Change Management/Reculturing an Organization
    Change is an eternal concept. In today′s competitive marketplace, organizations must be able to grasp the reigns of change to ride it to a successful future. Many people are afraid to alter their behaviors, but it often proves more threatening than challenging.

    Talent Short Bio

    Dr. Nido Qubein is a globally respected leadership expert, business executive and educator whose life story embodies the power of perseverance, vision and service. Arriving in the United States as a teenager with limited English and just $50, he went on to build a career celebrated by The Biography Channel and CNBC in the documentary “A Life of Success and Significance.”

    Today, Dr. Qubein serves as president of High Point University, a thriving undergraduate and graduate institution with students from more than 40 countries. He has authored two dozen books and audio programs that have reached audiences worldwide. As a business leader, he is chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company and serves on the boards of major national organizations including BB&T, La-Z-Boy and Dots Stores.

    A member of the International Speaker Hall of Fame and recipient of the Golden Gavel Medal, Dr. Qubein is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in leadership and personal development. His extensive list of honors includes the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Horatio Alger Award, the DAR Americanism Medal, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine and numerous civic leadership awards.

    Dr. Nido Qubein came to the United States as a teenager with little knowledge of English and only $50 in his pocket. His journey has been an amazing success story. The Biography Channel and CNBC aired his life story titled “A Life of Success and Significance.”

    As an educator, Dr. Nido Qubein is president of High Point University, an undergraduate and graduate institution with 4,300 students from 40 countries. He has authored two dozen books and audio programs distributed worldwide.

    As a business leader, Dr. Nido Qubein is chairman of the Great Harvest Bread Company with 220 stores in 43 states. He serves on the boards of several national organizations including BB&T (a Fortune 500 company with $185 billion in assets), the La-Z-Boy Corporation (one of the largest and most recognized furniture brands worldwide), and Dots Stores (a chain of fashion boutiques with more than 400 locations across the country).

    As a professional speaker, Dr. Nido Qubein has received many distinctions including the Golden Gavel Medal, induction into the International Speaker Hall of Fame, and as the founder of the NSA Foundation in Arizona.

    He focuses on the Law of Identification (when something becomes personal it becomes important; treat every customer as if you’re about to lose them) and teaches participants to ask penetrating questions (how must this person feel first so that this person will buy from us?).

    Dr. Nido Qubein emphasizes: Prospects don’t want to buy your product; they want to buy the product of your product. Remember: Your service and product must be better than your competitors and your customer must readily acknowledge that.

    Dr. Nido Qubein transports audiences on a journey through business examples from his careers as a university president, business leader, corporate executive, and public speaker. He talks about change in an enlightening and transformational way so that audiences actually want to change for the better!

    Whether it is reculturing an organization or changing the mindset of an individual, this topic is as popular and timely as ever.

    Areas of Expertise: Achievement & Peak Performance, Change Management, Communication Skills, Education, Hispanic / Latino, Sales, Success

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