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Michael Veltri is a leadership expert, battle-hardened business executive, and nationwide bestselling author. Recognizing that success in business and life is created by the daily decisions we make, Michael elevates teams, fuel-injects leadership, and improves business performance through better decision-making practices.
From ancient Japanese warriors to brain science, from business titans to academic research, Michael tapped wide-ranging resources to develop aground breaking model for better decision making that leads to exponential leadership growth and peak performance with balance, not burnout. Simple, elegant, and effective, Michael’s approach has positively impacted some of the world’s most successful organizations, brands, and leaders.
Michael is also a cancer survivor, decorated U.S. Marine veteran, and master-instructor in classical Japanese martial arts. He brings his business savvy, martial arts discipline, and Marine Corps leadership to every keynote speech inspiring, motivating, and educating audiences worldwide.
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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 the 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:
Master the 5 most powerful decision-making solutions that you’ve never heard of
Build a culture that celebrates fresh thinking and embraces new decision-making ideas
Implement better decision-making skills on a daily basis across all business activities and roles
Avoid the 5 biggest decision-making traps that kill successful organizations
Apply best decision-making practices from successful companies worldwide
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:
5 simple and effective decision-making tools to boost sales
What’s truly behind objections — and how to conquer them
How to create a culture of achievement and sales excellence
How the “3 x 15 Decision-Making Rule” can double sales
How to break free from historical decision-making bias in your sales process
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:
Develop unprecedented decision-making prowess to attack business problems of all sizes
Uncover 5 fresh decision-making tools to evolve your leadership to the next level
Authentically express your leadership to fuel-inject business results
Avoid the 5 biggest leadership traps
Silence internal and external distractions to strengthen your “leadership muscle”
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 a 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:
Build, motivate, and lead high-performing teams
Learn 5 secret techniques used by Zen masters to increase performance, which can easily be adapted to your own organization
Understand the most common reasons “high potentials” burn out
Expand your ability to deal with ambiguity, change, and competing priorities
Uncover best practices from a martial arts master’s mentality: determination, flexibility, and resilience
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