Steve Diggs, CSP Motivational Leadership Speaker & Author

KEYNOTES and BREAKOUT PRESENTATIONS:

PROGRAM: The Ultimate Leadership Challenge: Building Brand YOU!™

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(NOTE: This is my most requested presentation! I will begin with some audience participation magic to get everyone engaged and involved. Lots of humor and eye candy.)

Your personal brand is what other people say about you…after you’ve left the room…here’s how to take control of that message.

To compete effectively in today’s changing business (and, interpersonal) climate every one of us needs to build a compelling and unforgettable personal brand…built on service to others. For over 20 years I ran a leading Nashville branding firm helping businesses build killer brands. In this eye-opening presentation I will share these same principles…helping your audience build their personal brands to empower the people they serve, lead and love.

These are the 8 Thought Sparklers for a radically successful life! 1) Take the B.O. Approach…It’s Not What You Think 2) Message vs. Method…Change or Die! 3) Reach & Frequency Formula 4) The G.B.E. …Change Happens When You Tell the Story 5) A New Way to Be Ambidextrous 6) Stop Pre-Supposing 7) Play to Your Strengths…Not Your Passions! 8) Embrace the Concept of “Alternative Success”

Your audience will be motivated and empowered to change…with incredible takeaways they can begin using the next day.

Infotainment at its best…this is an event designed to educate, motivate, and build a can-do attitude…funny and upbeat!

TAKEAWAYS: – Your team will be motivated and empowered to change. – This an event designed to build a team spirit and a can-do attitude…funny and upbeat! – Everyone will leave with a positive action plan they can begin using the next day. – Your team will see their potential in a totally new light.

PROGRAM: The 8 Traits of the Radically Resilient Leader...and Eat Their Problems for Breakfast!™

Resilience is the ability to recover from, or adjust easily to, change or misfortune…and thrive!

The United States Army and its elite 101st Airborne have looked to Steve for training in their Master Resiliency Program. For decades he has taught the concepts of resiliency…always finding an answer…and never quitting. This is a presentation guaranteed to toughen, fortify and motivate your entire team!

Thought Sparklers include:

• Overcoming the Fear Factor

• Killing “Plan A” Thinking

• Get comfortable outside your comfort zone

• Learn to overcome misfortune…and eat your problems for breakfast

• The Portable Outhouse Concept

• Why you should become a ferocious truth teller

PROGRAM: The Art of CHANGE...and How to Embrace It™

There are two undeniable facts about change: 1) Change is INEVITABLE. 2) Change is usually UNPREDICTABLE.

So, the question is, how do we manage change…and how do we inspire the ones we lead to overcome the fear of change?

Today’s world is moving at breakneck speed, and change is the only constant.

In this upbeat and stimulating presentation Steve will show your team how to pull together, overcome their fears, and learn to embrace change.

INSTRUCTIVE. ENCOURAGING. ENTHUSING!

PROGRAM: Fast-Forward Leadership...7 Traits of the Ridiculously Successful Leader™

Everyone on your team is a leader...but few realize it...even fewer know how to maximize it.

Based on Steve’s book, Fast-Forward Leadership: 14 Ways to Become a Stand-Up Leader…this funny and motivational presentation will get your entire team on the same page...as Steve opens their eyes to the:

• HEART of a Leader

• MIND of a Leader

• ATTITUDE of a Leader

The focus is on empowering your organization to develop the Fast-Forward Leadership™ style.

These are the foundational principles that lead to a culture of vision and success… without compromising ethics.

Everyone on your team will go home with exciting takeaways that'll boost their productivity and profitability.

Thought Sparklers include:

• Implement the 3 Steps from Success to Significance

• Lead Gen Zer’s…overcome victimhood thinking…stop herding cats

• Use the reach & frequency formula

• Build purpose…grow performance

• Go for the GBE (Goose Bump Effect)™

• Kill your R.Q. (Regret Quotient)™

• Apply the 3 Laws of Effective Conflict Resolution

• Learn the 12 keys of a successful negotiation

• Implement the 5 Laws of Friendly Persuasion™

• Time…your vanishing inventory…how to manage time effectively

• Apply to concept of Alternative Success™

• Make your workplace a happier place

• Deepen you leaders’ bench strength

PROGRAM: Get the GREEN LIGHT...the Art of the Soft Sell™

Sell More. Close More. Earn More!

“By age 25, Steve was in the top of all Realtors in the U.S.! A star salesman himself, Steve Diggs knows how to put a jet pack on your life! If you want to learn how to sell—see Steve!“

- Dave Floyd, Principal Broker, Silverpointe Properties

With over 30 years in the trenches, Steve has seen it all! Selling has changed. Today’s selling is all about relationships and becoming trusted advisors. Buyers are sophisticated. We should treat them as we would want to be treated.

Inspired by his book, Get the GREEN Light!, Steve's methods are designed to help even shy people learn to prospect, communicate, demonstrate, and close sales effectively…without high pressure tactics. At the end of the day…everyone’s a winner!

Perfect for Two Groups of People:

• Veteran salespeople to up their game…by getting retooled and refueled!

• People who, traditionally, haven’t considered themselves to be in sales.

This eye-opening presentation will teach your team to catch the vision…and become possibility thinkers.

PROGRAM: How to Live an Outrageously MOTIVATED Lifestyle! ™

(Available as a stand-alone Keynote or a 2- or 3-session Workshop)

Without motivation all progress ceases. -Steve Diggs

Steve considers this his “happiest topic” because he lives it! As a matter of fact, Steve pretty much runs on happy…and he loves to show others how to do it!

This funny presentation begins with Steve’s “Top 10 Signs You May Need to Get Motivated.”

Thought Sparklers include:

• Failure…It Can Be the First Step to Success!

• Overcoming the “Dumb Stuff Trap”

• What psychologists tell us about the two types of motivation

• Why it’s important to make failure painful…and how to do it

• Success is infectious

• Short-term vs. long-term thinking…which really motivates you?

• Reduction to the ridiculous

• The Principle of Positive Reinforcement…and how it works

• Your tongue…best friend or worst enemy?

• Setting goals…why it’s important and how to do it

• Pre-act so you don’t have to react

• Unlocking the Locus Rule

• Develop the attitude of gratitude

PROGRAM: ReTooled & ReFueled…Fresh Horses for the Journey Ahead™

Based on Steve’s belief that a mind once stretched by a new idea…can never return to its original dimension, this is a most unique presentation.

Steve will share eight specific thought sparklers and send your audience out with new skill sets they can begin using the next day. Your team will learn to overcome victimhood thinking and develop an attitude of gratitude!

(Perfect as a Closing Keynote!)

PROGRAM: The Come-Back Customer: What Great Companies Do to Keep Them Coming Back™

The most successful companies are those that have a radical focus on customer service.

Steve helps companies keep their customers loyal, happy, and their best source of new customers. These are the CX strategies that will do the same for you!

• Build a Passionate & Enthusiastic Team…with an Eye on the Bottom

Line

• The Golden 6 …What You Must Do to Keep a Customer

• The 3 Strategies to Make the Customer Experience MAGIC!

PROGRAM (WORKSHOP): Person to Personal: The People Skills in the Workforce Event™

(Available as a 2-, 4-, or 6-session Workshop)

This is the ultimate team building experience! Designed to accomplish 3 goals by showing your team how to:

1. Effectively relate with your customers

2. Respond better to management

3. Play better in the sandbox with each other

Your team will have an unforgettable…and life-changing…day as they discover how to:

• Get on board with the BIG Picture

• Motivate (and, Integrate) the Z's

• Apply the 3 Keys for Achieving Consensus

• Build civility in your workforce

• How to Become Mentally Ambidextrous™

• Create bridges & build rapport

• Get their money in order with The 7 Keys to a Worry-Free Money

Life™

• Implement long-term vs. short-term thinking

• Make a GOOD decision

• Resolve conflicts & overcome the stuff that separates us

• Kill the 7 Deadly Time Thieves™

• Bring an end to the entitlement mentality

PROGRAM: The Fine Art of Mentoring™

Everyone should either:

1) BE a MENTOR,

2) HAVE a MENTOR, or

3) BE DOING BOTH.

In this visit Steve shares his passion for mentoring as he shares 5 dynamic Thought Sparklers.

He will share:

• How to become and incredibly credible person

• "The 4 Right A's" that build relationships

• How to build a benefit-oriented life

• Why you should be a ferocious truth teller

• How to overcome frustrations

• How the Leadership Graph™ can change your mentee’s life

PROGRAM: How to Make a KILLER Presentation

One thing is for certain: Steve knows how to make a presentation...he's done it over 3,000 times!

Steve holds the highest earned designation in the speaking business, the National Speakers Association’s CERTIFIED SPEAKING PROFESSIONAL (CSP) degree…held by fewer that 5% of speakers worldwide. He is an inductee to the Motivational Speakers HALL of FAME. Here’s where he reveals the magic!

PROGRAM: 11 Keys to a Worry-Free Money Life…the No Debt No Sweat Lifestyle!

Have you ever wondered why your team seems to be distracted and apathetic at work? Research shows that 87% of them are struggling with money problems! Here’s how you can solve that problem.

Steve is not a financial advisor…he is an expert on personal money management. As a matter of fact, he wrote the book on it! Since the national release of No Debt No Sweat!, Steve has spoken on the topic over 500 times nationwide!

What if your team had no money worries to distract them…and knew they had you to thank for the helping them? Do you think they’d be more efficient at their jobs?

Your employees will learn how to:

• Get rid of car payments

• Maximize their income and make it work

• Control their credit cards

• Get out of debt

• Build their Personal Financial Freedom Plans™

• Stop fighting with their spouses about the bills