Meridith Elliott Powell

Business Keynote Speaker & Business Growth Expert Creating Ownership at Every Level; Profits at Every Turn

Meridith Elliot Powell has been voted one of Top 15 Business Growth Experts To Watch and Top 41 Motivational Sales Speakers. An award winning author, Meridith has a background in corporate sales and leadership, 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 Master Certified Strategist, Executive Coach, Certified Virtual Presenter and Certified Speaking Professional, a designation held by less than twelve percent of professional speakers.

  • Meridith Elliott Powell Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    North Carolina, USA

  • Meridith Elliott Powell Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type

    $20,001 - $30,000

  • Languages Spoken

    English

  • Travels From

    North Carolina, USA

Suggested Keynote Speaker Programs

Sales Redefined: Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session The rules of selling have changed. For your elite sales team to remain elite, you need new skills and a new sales playbook. It’s a new world – and you need a ...

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session

The rules of selling have changed. For your elite sales team to remain elite, you need new skills and a new sales playbook.

It’s a new world – and you need a sales strategy that empowers you to own your market, dominate your industry, increase new opportunities and ensure you leave your competition in the dust.

Why?

Because sales have 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 understand the market and redefine the experience.

You need to transform how you attract clients – build your reputation – engage with the marketplace – create a healthy pipeline and get results. Join us for this high-energy, highly interactive, and high-powered keynote were business growth strategist and keynote speaker

Meridith Elliott Powell shares the innovative techniques you need to dominate, differentiate and deliver!

This program has it all – power-packed content, highly engaging and a personalized roadmap that makes getting your return on investment guaranteed.

Key Takeaways:

  • Future of Sales – deep understanding of what is different about sales today
  • Consistent Innovation – powerful methodology to evolve, adapt, stay ahead
  • Competitive Advantage – clear strategy to win on price, value, relevance
  • Service As Sales – secrets to selling through guiding, advocacy and support
  • Customized Strategy – your personal plan of action to easily and effectively implement

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THRIVE: Turn Uncertainty To Your Competitive Advantage

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session Uncertainty changes everything – customers...

Format Options: 45 to 60 Minute Keynote | Half-Day Workshop | Full-Day Session

Uncertainty changes everything – customers, competition, the marketplace. It’s challenging out there: A challenge to stand out. A challenge to get to the decision makers. A challenge to keep up with customer demands. And a challenge just to compete.

Sales success today requires a different mindset, strategy, and approach to business growth. You need the skills to push through obstacles, see opportunity in challenge, and create exceptional customer experience integrating marketing, sales, and service.

In this powerful keynote, Business Growth Strategist and Hall of Fame Speaker, Meridith Elliott Powell, will share her proven, well-researched methodology for turning uncertainty to competitive advantage.

In this hands-on session, you’ll dive deep into what it takes today to open new markets, find new opportunities, expand existing relationships, and leave your competition in the dust. This presentation will shift mindsets, energize performance and drive results.

Key Takeaways:

  • Deep understanding of how your marketplace is changing – and how those shifts are impacting decision making, pricing, marketing, sales and service.
  • Innovative techniques for opening new markets and finding new opportunities.
  • Proven strategies to make it easier for clients to choose you over the competition.
  • Techniques to shift how you think, feel, act about uncertainty and change.
  • Personal plan of action for redefining success, exceeding goals and leaving the competition in the dust.

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Add Ons: Beyond The Keynote

The keynote is designed to expand your team’s thinking, shift their paradigm, and inspire your team to action. Beyond The Keynote is the fuel that keeps momentum going long after the SKO ends. Sales pulse survey: A powerful diagnostic of your team’...

The keynote is designed to expand your team’s thinking, shift their paradigm, and inspire your team to action. Beyond The Keynote is the fuel that keeps momentum going long after the SKO ends.

Sales pulse survey: A powerful diagnostic of your team’s ability to consistently hit quota in the face of uncertainty. The results inform her keynote customization and give you a strong snapshot of where your team stands on key sales competencies. The survey allows for customized keynote, training and coaching.

Sales briefing pre-event: A 60-minute virtual session with VP of Sales and team managers before the event. Giving them a keynote preview and a customized toolkit on how to coach, support and ensure implementation of the skills covered in the SKO.

Half-day workshop: A hands-on, interactive deep dive into either keynote framework. Includes breakout exercises, group work, role-play scenarios, and individualized strategy sessions. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

Sales manager breakout session: A separate, parallel session for sales managers and leaders on how to coach and reinforce the framework with their individual teams. Turns managers into multipliers. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

30/60-day follow-up virtual session: The research is clear: SKO momentum fades fastest in the 30–60-day window after the event. This optional follow-up session brings Meridith back virtually to reinforce the framework, troubleshoot real-world application, and re-energize the team when it matters most. This session includes lives Q&A. This includes “HOT SEATS” where Meridith takes questions and challenges LIVE, and role plays or answers on the spot!

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About Keynote Speaker Meridith Elliott Powell

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts, Top 100 Sales Influencers by LinkedIn, and Top 41 Motivational Speakers. 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? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy, written with Dr. Mary Kelly. Who Comes Next? solves one of the biggest challenges in business today – building your leadership bench. Both books have won the top honors for the Benjamin Franklin Independent Books Sellers Award. One of the highest honors for business books.

Meridith is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Investment News, and American Banker among others. High energy and highly interactive, she helps leaders and business owners learn the new rules of success today, and the strategies they need to Thrive in Uncertainty. You can find her 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.

In her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shares how you can think, feel and most importantly react to uncertainty, and the power of what you can do to start to control change rather than have change control you. Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in a constantly shifting marketplace.

Meridith 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 can be found on her favorite hiking trail, riding her mountain bike, or endlessly chasing little white golf balls on courses round the country.

Testimonials

“Meridith was an awesome keynote speaker for our annual summit. She brought energy and excitement to close out our day. So many speakers discuss concepts with no real road map. What differentiated Meridith is that she offers specific exercises to turn uncertainty into to a competitive advantage. All of our associates are eagerly awaiting her next book that is soon to be released. I would highly recommend her for any company looking for a motivational speaker that offers a real game plan.”

Robert T.

President and CEO, Capitol Financial Solutions

“How she can transform from the stage is amazing; I have hired her multiple times!”
Trish Springfield

Trish Springfield

SVP, Southern Bank

“Have never seen a presenter go so above and beyond, your energy is amazing and your techniques work. How she got 1200 people up, active and engaged was incredible!”

Dan Allison

CEO, Vitalize Consulting

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