HOW TO DELIVER STUNNING BOTTOM-LINE RESULTS
This 45 – 60 minute customized keynote is perfect for:
C-suite executives
Senior leaders in all industries
Why do some executives fail while others thrive? Because the best C-suite executives have a decision making system to help them — and their teams — avoid and conquer common decision-making traps. From life or death decisions on the battlefield to the boardroom, Michael Veltri draws on his background as a battle-hardened business executive and decorated U.S.
Marine veteran to teach CEOs and senior executives better decision-making skills that deliver stunning results. As a professional-level Japanese martial arts instructor, Veltri blends the fluid and flexible qualities of the martial arts with bleeding-edge business savvy to bring a completely fresh perspective on decision-making skills.
His inspiring presentation delivers practical tools that can be used immediately to increase productivity and deliver bottom-line results.
You’ll learn to:
HOW TO CRUSH THE TOP LINE WITH UNPRECEDENTED DECISION-MAKING PROWESS
This 45 – 60 minute customized keynote is perfect for:
Sales teams across all industries
Sales manager meetings (including sales kickoff events)
Successful sales professionals, and their managers, are never satisfied. Yesterday’s major achievements are today’s performance standards, and surpassing quota is the expectation, not the exception. As old methods become commoditized and ineffective, new creative sales techniques are needed more than ever.
Drawing inspiration from his knock-down-drag-out fight with cancer, nationwide bestselling author and multiple Diamond Club award winning sales professional, Michael Veltri has created a new and powerful model of decision-making success that leads to unprecedented sales results.
In his energizing and inspiring presentation, Michael teaches sales professionals how to surpass expectations — both their own and their organization’s — while crushing quota and slaying the sales dragon.
You’ll learn:
SURPRISING, UNORTHODOX APPROACHES TO POWERFUL LEADERSHIP OUTCOMES
This 45 – 60 minute customized keynote is perfect for:
Leaders in all industries
Managers of all levels
With the “speed of business” evolving at an exponential rate, the ability to make the right decision at the right time is paramount to the success of any organization. Windows of opportunity open, yet close even quicker in today’s 24/7 hyper-connected, hyper-distracted world.
Truly responsible leadership is difficult, and management needs fresh and creative ideas to make the best decisions possible — especially when the pace is fast, the stakes are high, and the outcome unclear. Michael Veltri weighs in with new and unique perspectives on this critical leadership challenge.
A highly successful serial entrepreneur, decorated U.S. Marine veteran, and battle-hardened business executive, Veltri shows leaders how to employ his simple and effective decision-making system.
This presentation will help leaders and managers of all levels:
ACHIEVE PEAK PERFORMANCE WITH BALANCE, NOT BURNOUT
This 45 – 60 minute customized keynote is perfect for:
HR executives in all industries
Hiring managers looking to attract & retain top talent
With intense competitive pressure to attract and retain top talent, how can HR executives and business leaders hire the best and the brightest while ensuring their high potentials continue to excel without burning out? Drawing from his success as an HR consultant and executive recruiter for some of the world’s top companies and brands, Michael Veltri answers these important questions and many more in his fresh, relevant, and timely talk. Based on his nationwide bestselling book, The Mushin Way to Peak Performance, Veltri takes the audience on an illuminating journey, showing how the Zen concept of mushin (moo-sheen) — meaning “no-mind” — helps achieve more with less, fuel growth, and maintain laser focus. Walk away energized, educated, and equipped with bold new tools and techniques to achieve unprecedented results with balance, not burnout.
In this important keynote, Veltri helps HR executives, business leaders, and hiring managers learn to:
Michael Veltri is a renowned leadership keynote speaker, performance strategist, and bestselling author whose work bridges the timeless disciplines of ancient martial arts with the modern demands of business. A battle-tested warrior in both the boardroom and the dojo, he founded and scaled one of the largest martial arts academies on the East Coast, training elite professionals from across Washington, DC, while simultaneously building, growing, and selling multiple successful companies over three decades.
Veltri’s bestselling book, The Mushin Way to Peak Performance, distills 5000 years of Japanese warrior wisdom into a practical decision-making system for today’s leaders. Developed over a decade of immersive research and training in Japan, his methodology has been adopted by top-performing organizations seeking clarity, sustained growth, and competitive advantage.
A U.S. Marine veteran, cancer survivor, and master martial artist, Michael brings rare authenticity and depth to every engagement.
Michael Veltri is a battle-tested warrior, both in the boardroom and in the competitive world of martial arts. He is the founder and CEO of one of the largest martial arts academies on the east coast, serving a who’s who of Washington, DC’s elite.
Over three decades, he has built, scaled, and sold his own companies and is now a sought-after adviser to leading executives who crave business transformation and peak performance.
Veltri’s prolific bestselling book, The Mushin Way to Peak Performance, distills 5000 years of ancient wisdom into a practical field guide for the modern business executives seeking to fuel growth and sustainable success. Developed over 10 years of hands-on research in Japan, Michael’s system has been adopted by top-performing organizations around the world.
Veltri is a proven entrepreneur with both the successes and battle scars to show for it. Spending a decade in Japan, he’s discovered a new system for performance, based in time-tested practices of ancient warriors. A cancer survivor, martial arts master, U.S. Marine veteran, and bestselling author, Michael brings an authentic, grounded, and inspiring presence to every engagement.
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