Rory Vaden: Leadership Speaker

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    • Travels from: Nashville, TN
    • **Fee range: $20,001 - $35,000

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    7 STEPS TO ACHIEVING TRUE SUCCESS

    RORY ONLY ACCEPTS 30 INVITATIONS TO SPEAK EACH YEAR.

    Every business or enterprise needs to have their people performing at the highest possible level. Yet, a recent study of 10,000 people reported the average employee wastes 2.09 hours each day at work on non-related job tasks.

    The Average salaried employee in the US makes $39,795 per year which translates to costing a company approximately $10,396 per year per employee! PROCRASTINATION, as it turns out, is one of the most expensive, yet invisible costs to both individuals and companies worldwide.

    Is it possible that this imperceptible problem is taking money out of your pocket, preventing your company from growing, or holding you back from promotion?

    Strategist and business speaker Rory Vaden shares key insights and erases common misconceptions about how to overcome procrastination, creative avoidance, distraction, priority dilution, fatigue and other common day success saboteurs by building lasting self-discipline.

    The stress and anxiety about all there is to do and the lack of time we have to do it can be a grinding frustration. There is a silent yet pervasive epidemic that stifles innovation, and consistently burns out our top human capital costing organizations millions of dollars in wasted time. This insidious dynamic that costs organizations millions of dollars each year is called Priority Dilution™.

    Based on the insights researched and presented in New York Times bestselling author Rory Vaden Tedx talk with over 3 million views, you will get insider knowledge from him and his firm Brand Builders Group.

    This program will challenge everything you know to be true about “time-management” as you will learn:

    • There is no such thing as “time-management” there is only “self-management.”
    • Why productivity in the next generation is much more about emotion than logic
    • How to move beyond urgency and importance to significance
    • Why “priorities” are a limiting paradigm relating to your time
    • If you are a “Gunslinger” or a “Worry Wart” and why rich people never pay their taxes early
    • When is the right time for patience and when is the right time for action
    • 5 permissions you need to finally be free of the pressures of productivity while getting maximum results

    This Rory Vaden session will help you reduce your stress, increase your focus and most of all teach you how to MULTIPLY YOUR TIME with 3-dimensional thinking!  

    [Note: This talk is available as a customized version applied directly to the following topics or themes: leadership, innovation, teamwork, performance improvement, time management, productivity or work life balance] 

    Rory Vaden is the New York Times bestselling author of Take the Stairs. His insights have  been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur, Inc, on Fox News national television and in several other major media outlets.

    As a world-renowned speaker, His Tedx talk has been viewed over 2 million times, he is a 2x World Champion of Public Speaking Finalist and he was recently named as one of the top 100 leadership speakers in the world by Inc Magazine.

    He is also the Co-Founder of Brand Builders Group where he teaches people to build and monetize a rock solid reputation™.

    Rory Vaden | Leadership Motivational

    Rory Vaden PRESENTATIONS ARE PRACTICAL

    Your audience will be challenged. Rory provides fresh original concepts that they have never heard before that they can immediately apply to their daily life. He will present eloquent and precise ideas that are rooted in deep data-driven expertise and knowledgeable actual experience that will expand the thinking and competence of your audience.

    INSPIRING

    Your audience will be motivated. Rory Vaden introduces principles and frameworks that are truly useful. He will will create a distinct energy that your audience has never experienced before and he will begin conversations that far outlast his time at your event. They will walk out of the room ready to do the hard work that is necessary to succeed.

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