Keynotes
From Cultivating Conscious Contributions to Influential Communications
Focus: Personal Impact, Leadership, Personal Empowerment, Influential Sales, Persuasive Presentations.
Suzanne F. Stevens inspires and challenges individuals and organizations to contribute NOW while creating a positive ripple effect from any situation in order to impact their Community, Company or Country and beyond.
Suzanne is an international speaker, entrepreneur, trainer, host, philanthropist and Chief Edge Optimizer for Ignite Excellence Inc. Group of Initiatives. Learn more about Suzanne.
In every keynote Suzanne incorporates over 26 years of sales and marketing experience, 12 years of influential communications training to fortune 500 companies, 2+ years of interviewing African Women leaders, 10 years of being an entrepreneur and leader, 5 years of running a foundation, with her adventure travels to over 60 countries to bring audiences to the front row!
Suzanne using her primary research, interactive nature, human observations and slice of humour to get the audience not only to ask “Why not?” but “What If?”
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Keynotes (expanded details below):
- I AM HERE. Make your Mark -Consciously Contribute™ from Any Situation. Inspired by African Leading Ladies
- Diamonds out of the Rough™ Conscious Contributors’ Leadership Attributes. Inspired by African Leading Ladies
- Explore YOUR Edgeness™ The Interaction between Discovery & Potential
- The UnSales Sales™ Debunking 10 top Sales Perceptions
- Presentation Oxygen™ Top Persuasive techniques to Breath Life into your Presentations
I AM HERE. Make Your Mark – Consciously Contribute™ from Any Situation
Inspired by African Leading Ladies
As a child you etched: “I was here” in a tree, in your desk at school, on the bathroom wall. Each time we wrote: “I was here,” it was a glimpse into a craving to be acknowledged, to leave a legacy and to live a life of significance.
The opportunity doesn’t live in the WAS, it lives in the HERE.
Suzanne F Stevens delivers a thought- provoking and inspiring keynote that will challenge the audience on how they can contribute to their community, company or country, and beyond while creating a positive ripple effect NOW. Suzanne provides insight on how to transform the HOPE of leaving a legacy into the ACTION of consistent conscious contribution in every opportunity, in every decision and in every interaction – effectively living your legacy.
I AM HERE is a philosophy that recognizes that contributing is not a stage in our life but a way in which we live our life.
This belief is inspired by the pioneering research conducted by Suzanne and her husband Michael while travelling Africa for 2 years. Sixty-three African women pioneers were interviewed for Wisdom Exchange TV (www.WisdomExchangeTV.com), a mentorship site designed to educate and inspire future African women leaders. Viewership has expanded to 77 countries and growing.
African women’s consistent conscious contributions are the platform in which I AM HERE is etched. What choices are we making to consistently consciously contribute? Are we writing I was here, or living I am here?
Suzanne brings her audiences to the front row by using her primary research, interactive nature, human observations and slice of humour to get the audience not only to ask “Why not?” but “What If?”
In this 45-minute keynote, the audience will gain insight into:
- Taking the lead to contribute in your community, company, or country and beyond. I AM HERE today.
- What you should consider prior to contributing. I AM HERE tomorrow.
- Making conscious contributing a philosophy of living life. I AM HERE everyday.
Suzanne will tailor the emphasis of this keynote to meet the event objectives.
Who will benefit:
This keynote is designed for anyone in an organization, as it is a personal philosophy on how to live our lives that can have impact on each member of the audience, your organization or association.
Our contribution: If your organization hires Suzanne for this keynote she will give a portion of the proceeds to your favourite charity and a smaller portion to our Ignite Excellence Foundation (www.IgniteExcellenceFoundation.org).
Diamonds out of the Rough™
Conscious Contributors’ Leadership Attributes
Inspired by African leading ladies
When we look at a diamond we see its sparkle, but the journey to get to its radiance is laced with years of pressure, heat, and discovery. Only later when it is mined, cut, and then polished is it truly appreciated. It is now when its clarity illuminates a sparkle that those in its view can appreciate its brilliance.
African Leading Ladies are these Diamonds out of the Rough™. They use their strength, determination and sparkle while leading their teams to have a radiant affect on their surroundings.
Suzanne F Stevens is an international speaker and the Host and Co-Producer of Wisdom Exchange TV (www.wisdomexchangetv.com); a web-enabled resource where women Leaders all over Africa are interviewed and share their words of wisdom, leadership lessons and strategies for success. These women are pioneers, trailblazers and leaders of many in business, politics, education and philanthropy.
Suzanne and her husband have self-financed a charitable initiative that celebrates African women leaders while educating future leaders. They have travelled Africa for two years and continue their journey of discovery. Through in-depth interviews Suzanne shares strategies and the collective conscious contribution leadership style of these African Leading Ladies that have formed the diamonds that impact their communities, country and continent.
Suzanne will share the leadership attributes Africa women exercise to consciously contribute to their teams, community and country and beyond. She will share how we all can apply these philosophies to sparkle as leaders for everyone to appreciate then illuminate.
Suzanne brings her audiences to the front row by using her primary research, interactive nature, human observations, and slice of humour to get the audience not only to ask “Why not?” but “What If?”
In this 45-minute keynote, the audience will gain insight into:
- 10 Leadership attributes that are consistent amongst 63 African Leading Ladies
- How to use these attributes to be a leader from any position
- Opportunities for leaders incorporate the concept of contribution in their organizations
Suzanne will tailor the emphasis of this keynote to meet the event objectives.
Who will benefit:
This keynote is designed for anyone who responsible for leading others.
Our contribution: If your organization hires Suzanne for this keynote she will give a portion of the proceeds to your favourite charity and a smaller portion to our Ignite Excellence Foundation (www.IgniteExcellenceFoundation.org).
Explore your Edgeness™
The intersection of discovery & potential
What is your Edgeness™? In order to discover it, you need to push far enough outside your comfort zone that you meet someone you never met before – an enhanced version of you. We often stay in our comfortable zone, it is secure and we know what to expect. Here there are fewer opportunities to be judged, and less opportunity to fail. But life begins at the edge.
The place where you have not gone before is the place to explore, to experiment. To start challenging the “What if?” Questioning is just the beginning. We need to take some risks and not be prisoners to our barriers where our view is limited rather than limitless.
Suzanne F. Stevens will inspire individuals by asking the questions that we often don’t ask ourselves. She will share how leaders who “imagined”, and pushed their beliefs of self, environment and others, and what they achieved just by pushing their edge. More importantly, Suzanne will show you how to take these learnings and push your edge and embrace your Edgeness™. Self-discovery is a solo journey, but having a little guidance toward what is possible is just the push we often need.
Suzanne brings her audiences to the front row by using her primary research, interactive nature, human observations, and slice of humour to get the audience not only to ask “Why not?” but “What If?”
In this interactive 45-minute keynote you will gain insight into:
- How to discover your Edgeness™
- How to dream outside your circumstance
- How to reduce problems and create possibilities
Suzanne will tailor the emphasis of this keynote to meet the event objectives.
Who will benefit:
This keynote is designed for anyone in an organization as it is a personal philosophy on how to live our lives that can have huge positive impact on an your organization or association.
Influential communications strategies
The Unsales Sales™
Debunking 10 Top Sales Perceptions
As children few of us dreamt about being a salesperson. Now, many of us recognize in order to advance, selling our services to our clients is paramount to our career growth. Others appreciate it is one of the most lucrative fields if execute with the right combination of persistence, professionalism, proactivity and persuasion. The reality is the less of a ‘salesperson’ you are the more lucrative it becomes.
With each new sales methodology, there are new philosophies and tactics that are used to make the ultimate sale. There are as many sales philosophies as there are weight loss programs, the challenge is getting a salesperson to believe it will work, and want to stick to it for a long-term all while getting him to his and your desired goal.
In an interactive engaging delivery Suzanne F. Stevens debunks 10 sales perceptions that limit an individual’s potential growth and sales! The use of influential communications is the backdrop to all the sales strategies. Suzanne tailors each talk to your organization’s common sales challenges, opportunities and specific preconceived perceptions.
During the presentation the audience is involved immediately as they will decide what perceptions to debunk. Experienced and novice salespeople alike will choose the perceptions, participate in its realization, and decide if it is right ‘program’ for them. What Suzanne can do is serve up ‘Unsales Sales’ realities, provide creative presentation and serve small portions for your audience to consume, while leaving them full of ideas to digest and act on.
Suzanne incorporates high energy, participatory style with a slice of humour to bring the audience to the front row while promoting understanding, retention and action.
In this 45-minute keynote to two-hour session will allow the audience to gain insight into:
- How to overcome salespersons’ perceptions that limit their sales potential
- How people really make decisions on who they will buy from
- How to cross-sell to increase short and long-term sales while establishing productive partnerships
Suzanne will tailor the emphasis of this keynote to meet the event objectives.
Who will benefit:
This keynote/session is designed for anyone who responsible for the sale of products, services or ideas: Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Sales people, Account Managers, Sales Managers.
Presentation Oxygen™
Top Persuasive techniques to breath life into your presentations
There is delivering a presentation and than there is living a presentation – the difference – oxygen. Suzanne F. Stevens has coached Fortune 500 company Executives, Sales People, Account Managers and Project Managers on how to inject life into their presentations and pump it full with your authentic personality, heightened delivery, and the secret to all persuasive presentations – EdgenessTM .
Suzanne will challenge the audience’s perceptions of how they present, particularly when they need to persuade people to an action. She will focus on 10 techniques that will help the audience build their confidence, credibility, and control while engaging their community, colleagues, or clients.
As a international speaker, trainer, and coach, Suzanne’s mantra is: “We perform at our best at the edge of our comfort zone.” In Suzanne’s high-octane, interactive presentation with a slice of humour, her goal is to take people to the edge where they meet an enhanced version of themselves.
In this 45-minute keynote to two-hour session the audience will learn how to:
- Take the focus off them self and put it on the audience
- To move an audience to action
- Engage an audience so they remember you
- Present so you relate and differentiate yourself, your offer & your company
Suzanne will tailor the emphasis of this keynote to meet the event objectives.
Who will benefit:
This keynote/session is designed for anyone who responsible for the presenting to: pitching new business proposals; delivering corporate visions; executing projects; presenting ideas to colleagues & clients: Executives, Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Sales people, Account Managers, Sales Managers, Project Managers…