These are unprecedented times! A marketplace where disruption is happening on steroids. One where there is more change building outside of your organization than in it. And a relentless pace of uncertainty that can radically impact your ability to grow your organization and keep your team motivated.
The only guarantee you have – is more change is coming. And if you’re not prepared – if you don’t have a plan – then research proves this level of uncertainty will negatively impact your ability to drive innovation, attract top talent and achieve bottom line results.
While uncertainty can seem daunting, the truth is uncertainty has an upside – it always has an upside. In fact, it can be your greatest asset to thrive, grow and turn disruption into opportunity. But you need a plan, you need a strategy, and you need the research that shows the path you exactly how to turn disruption to opportunity.
Join Business Growth Strategist and Award-Winning Author, Meridith Elliott Powell in this high powered keynote where she reveals the research, the stories and the methodology.
This keynote has it all – energy, engagement, and a personal plan of action for every attendee.
Key Takeaways:
Your Personal Plan of action for thriving in uncertainty.
EVERY attendee receives a FREE copy of Meridith’s groundbreaking research study revealing the concerns, ideas and innovative solutions of more than 800 CEOS.
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Employee engagement trumps customer engagement – every single time! Turning attrition to attraction begins with understanding this point. The relationship you build with your team members is more important, and will impact growth, more than the relationship you build with your customers.
In today’s marketplace, there is so little you can control, and the one thing you need to succeed – a strong team – is getting harder and harder to create. It’s time for a new approach, a new perspective and a new set of strategies to redefine how you lead.
In these highly shifting, constantly changing economic times the organization with the best talent is the team guaranteed to masterfully navigate change, exceed customer expectations, and leave the competition in the dust.
The fastest path to profitability and business growth is through the quality of and the engagement level of your team. In this powerful keynote, Business Growth Strategist, Meridith Elliott Powell, shares the leadership development strategies you need to hire top talent in the most challenging times, build culture in a virtual world, and create loyalty and ignite passion in a time where turnover is the norm.
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Uncertainty changes everything –customers, competition, and decision-makers. It’s time to update your approach to sales – from how you get through the door – to how you get the deal to close.
It’s challenging out there – a challenge to get above the white noise. A challenge to get to the decision-makers. A challenge to stand out from the competition. And a challenge to stay motivated.
Why?
Because sales has gone through a major disruption. If you’re still using traditional techniques, then you’re making sales so much harder than it has to be. To succeed, you need to evolve.
You need to transform how you attract clients – build your reputation – engage with the marketplace – and get results. Join us for this high-energy, highly interactive, and high-powered keynote where business growth strategist and keynote speaker Meridith Elliott Powell shares the innovative techniques you need to dominate, differentiate and deliver!
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Do you feel like the uncertainty of today’s economy holding you back from achieving success? Are you ready to unleash your potential with proven strategies to dominate your market and outperform your competition?
It’s time to take control and unleash your full potential. Discover how you can rise above the chaos and thrive, no matter what the economy does!
Introducing a game-changing program by motivational speaker Meridith Elliott Powell that will equip you with the business growth strategies and leadership development skills you need to dominate your market, build a team that thrives in change, and design a strategy that gets results – all while leaving your competition in the dust.
Don’t let the economy dictate your success – take charge now! Book Meridith for an unforgettable live presentation, virtual keynote, live streaming event, or webinar and transform your organization into a powerhouse that thrives in any economy.
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In today’s marketplace, your competitive advantage comes down to the level of talent you attract, retain and develop – period! To compete, you need to build your leadership bench. Learn the secrets to attracting top talent. And develop a culture of succession, a deep pool of leaders that ensures the viability and sustainability of your organization. One that is committed to getting results.
It’s tough out there – a perfect storm. The great resignation combined with more than 75 million baby-boomers reaching retirement age – the war for talent is on. You need to be prepared. Attracting, retaining and developing talent today – it is different. You need a new approach, a new perspective, and a new plan.
In this innovative, high-energy program, Business Growth Strategist and leadership expert, Meridith Elliott Powell, shares the proven strategies you need to build your leadership bench, and design a succession plan that ensures the long-term growth of your organization.
In this session, Meridith reveals what it takes to build a strong talent pipeline, develop your future leaders, and create a succession plan that gives you a clear competitive advantage.
Best of all, she’ll break it down, she’ll make it easy, and you will leave with a clear plan of action that you can easily execute.
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Uncertainty changes everything! The marketplace – customers – competition – your team. To grow and compete – you need a new perspective and a new strategy for how you lead and how you position your organization for growth.
In this powerful program, you will learn the new tools for success in a highly shifting, constantly changing marketplace. Keynote speaker and business growth strategist, Meridith Elliott Powell, will share the business growth strategies you need to dominate your market. Build a team that thrives in change. Design a strategy that gets results.
You’ll learn the secrets to defy marketplace gravity and grow no matter the challenge or obstacles this market puts in your way. In this session, Meridith will share the innovative leadership development and sales strategies you need to navigate change and succeed no matter what this economy does.
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Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist known for empowering organizations to navigate disruption with confidence and clarity. Drawing on a career spanning banking, healthcare and finance, she advanced from entry-level roles to the C-Suite, giving her a grounded, insider perspective on what drives business growth and leadership effectiveness in volatile environments. She is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Vice-Chair of the National Speakers Association, a Master Certified Business Growth Strategist, a Certified Executive Coach and a Certified Speaking Professional.
An invitation-only LinkedIn Learning author, Meridith’s courses have reached more than 600,000 global learners. She has written nine books, including THRIVE: Turning Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage, named a Top Sales Book, and Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy, coauthored with Dr. Mary Kelly. Both titles earned the Benjamin Franklin Independent Book Sellers Award.
Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist. With a background in corporate leadership and sales, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare and finance. Meridith worked her way up from entry-level to earn her position in the C-Suite.
She is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Vice-Chair of the National Speakers Association, A Master Certified Business Growth Strategist, A Certified Executive Coach and Certified Speaking Professional. In addition, Meridith is an invitation-only author for LinkedIn with more than 600,000 learners taking her courses around the world.
With a passion for helping her clients learn the strategies they need to turn uncertainty to competitive advantage. Meridith has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of nine books, including “THRIVE: Turning Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage” named Top Sales Book, and Who Comes Next?
You can find Meridith Elliott Powell inspiring message and strategies on both of her podcasts: Sales Logic – the “logical” approach to selling successfully in challenging times, and THRIVE – where Meridith interviews leaders, sales professionals and business owners who have transformed their organizations to turn uncertainty to opportunity.
Meridith Elliott Powell always deliver practical solutions to businesses toughest challenges. No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning. When not coaching or keynoting, Meridith Elliott Powell can be found on her favorite hiking trail, riding her mountain bike, or endlessly chasing little white golf balls on courses round the country.
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A concise keynote highlight reel where Meridith Elliott Powell shows leaders and sales teams how to reframe uncertainty, reduce fear and turn rapid change into growth.
This 3 minute and 25 second keynote preview introduces Meridith Elliott Powell’s core message about thriving in today’s unprecedented pace of change. She opens by citing an Accenture report that found the pace of change has increased 183 percent in just four years, framing the reality that leaders now operate in an economic environment unlike anything experienced before. To succeed, she explains, leaders must shift how they think about uncertainty and adapt how they lead.
Meridith emphasizes that uncertainty consistently produces one universal emotion: fear. When fear is present, team members move to the part of the brain that shuts down creativity and innovation. She challenges audiences to flip the script by viewing uncertainty as a positive force that can propel growth rather than prevent it. Testimonials reinforce the impact of her approach, with attendees calling her a marketing guru and noting how her insights exceeded expectations.
She describes researching nine companies founded as early as the late 1700s that remain in business today. These organizations succeeded because they embraced adaptability, customer insight and strategic focus. Meridith advises leaders to speak with ten existing customers without selling anything, simply asking questions and listening. Customers, she says, provide the gold businesses need to stay relevant. Additional testimonials highlight lessons about foresight, resilience and learning to see around corners in order to thrive.
Meridith closes by outlining essential practices: conditioning yourself for change, securing your base, staying relevant, solving the right problems and moving quickly. Executed together, these actions enable leaders to turn uncertainty into competitive advantage and outperform rivals.
A fast-paced 2 minute and 16 second keynote preview where Meridith Elliott Powell introduces her Thrive System, showing leaders how to turn nonstop change into strategic advantage.
This 2 minute and 16 second video features Meridith Elliott Powell outlining the core principles behind her Thrive in Uncertainty System. She opens with a candid acknowledgment of today’s reality: every workday brings unpredictability. Competition is rising, economic pressures continue, interest rates and inflation fluctuate and regulation and rapid technological advancements add constant strain. Yet, she stresses, these conditions do not eliminate the possibility of achieving a record year. Success begins with getting comfortable with uncertainty.
Meridith explains that leaders must shift their mindset, stop letting external forces control them and instead learn to take control of the change happening around them. The foundation of progress is having a strategy you trust so deeply that no matter how the year unfolds, working the plan will move you forward.
She then introduces her Thrive System, developed over six years of research into why some organizations navigate difficult periods successfully while others disappear. Through extensive study, she has identified the common patterns that enable resilient companies to outperform competitors. She frames uncertainty as the biggest challenge leaders will face in the coming year and outlines the key questions her system helps answer: how to develop teams with the mental capacity to embrace and drive change, how to transform personal reactions to uncertainty and how to uncover opportunity in every challenge.
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