Leo Pusateri: Expert Value Man
Financial services keynote speaker and value-based training authority Leo Pusateri helps advisors and leadership teams know, price, sell, and live their true professional value.
- Highlights:
- Recognized authority on value-based training in financial services
- Trusted thought partner to C-suite leaders and elite advisors
- Proprietary programs used globally across major financial institutions
- Founder of Pusateri Canada and international consulting firm
- Formats:
Keynote speaker and value-based training consultant
- Audiences:
Financial advisors, wealth management firms, broker-dealers, RIAs, executive leadership teams, and financial entrepreneurs.
- Outcomes:
- Advisors clearly articulate and confidently price their value
- Leadership teams strengthen consultative client relationships
- Firms build sustainable, value-driven cultures and growth strategies
- Travels from: New York, NY
- **Fee range: On Request
Keynote Topics
"You" are the Value
Our most widely delivered keynote, this focuses on the challenges to distinguish your organization based on the value you provide.
Here we walk audiences through our acclaimed Value Ladder process; the critical questions of distinction that lead to developing your compelling story of value.
Becoming A Branch or Firm of Destination
Have your divisional and branch managers created reputational value in their marketplaces?
Is their office considered the “Branch of Destination”? Do the top financial entrepreneurs want to work at the branch?
Has your branch manager re-recruited talent to stay and build their practice? In this keynote, we challenge branch managers to develop a Branch of Destination mindset and the value message to support it.
Pricing Your Value
Clients are willing to pay for value only when they fully understand your value.
We challenge Financial Entrepreneurs to examine their value at levels they may not have before, reconsider how and why they have priced their services as they have, and develop strategies for changing or reinforcing how clients perceive their value.
One belief drives the keynote: you should be unapologetic about your price if you are fundamentally convinced of your value.
Talent Short Bio
Leo Pusateri is a passionate keynote speaker, consultant, and the financial services industry’s leading authority on value-based training. Known as the “value man,” Leo is widely recognized as the premier thought partner for senior leaders, C-suite executives, and top financial advisors seeking to articulate, price, and deliver their value with clarity and confidence.
Leo’s proprietary, time-tested programs are implemented globally and have become the gold standard for value-based education in financial services. His work spans broker-dealers, RIAs, investment management firms, private banks, family offices, and insurance organizations. From North America to Europe and Asia, Leo has worked with leadership teams and financial entrepreneurs in cities including Singapore, London, Zurich, Vancouver, and Madrid.
As demand for his work expanded, Leo launched Pusateri Canada, opening a Toronto office to extend his firm’s intellectual property and consulting capabilities across North America. In addition, he formed a long-standing strategic partnership with PriceMetrix, a firm dedicated to helping financial advisors become better CEOs of their businesses.
Read Full Bio
Passionate, inspirational, and motivating are words many would use to describe Leo Pusateri. Affectionately known as the “value man” in the financial services industry.
He is also recognized as the industry’s premier thought partner of value-based training, not only by senior leaders in the C-suites, but among top advisors as well.
When it comes to knowing, pricing, selling, and “living” your value, Leo’s time-honored and proprietary programs are in place around the world.
This is a testament to his knowledge capital that he enthusiastically shares with clients. He has traveled globally to places such as Singapore, Spain, Vancouver, Zurich and London. His travels find him working with senior leadership teams to financial entrepreneurs who represent broker-dealers, RIAs, investment management firms, private banks, family offices, insurance companies and others.
Through Leo Pusateri’s robust training programs, firms have endorsed Leo’s skill set as the absolute best-in-class in bringing value-based training to the table.
Due to increased growth, popularity, and utilization of his work throughout North America, Pusateri opened an office in Toronto and launched Pusateri Canada to extend the intellectual properties and consulting capabilities of his firm.
Additionally in 2008, Pusateri formalized a strategic partnership with PriceMetrix of Toronto, which focuses exclusively on helping financial advisors become better “CEOs” of their business.
Leo Pusateri practices what he preaches and is an authentic role model for consultative, respectful dialogue. He truly lives his values — with undeniable passion — and teaches others what he has learned over his professional lifetime.
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