Southwestern Speakers is comprised of top-producing thought leaders, authors, and experts who deliver dynamic presentations that shift the hearts and minds of audiences worldwide. Our team of experienced agents can assist in suggesting the right speakers for annual conferences, meetings, and events and will provide outstanding service from start to finish. Southwestern Speakers goes above and beyond to elevate each event and offers additional programs to extend the impact of our speakers’ presentations long after they have left the stage.
One of the most recent communicators to join our roster is “Identity Leadership” speaker and author, Stedman Graham. We were excited to officially welcome Stedman to the family and also kick off our new branding this past month with a launch party and a private book-signing event to highlight his newest book, Identity Leadership. It was an inspirational event, and we look forward to seeing how Stedman, along with our other exceptional speakers, continue to make an impact on the world. Please read below to learn more about all of our speakers.
STEDMAN GRAHAM
As a businessman, educator, and speaker, Stedman Graham presents, consults, and conducts training with corporations, organizations, and nonprofits on the topics of identity development, maximizing leadership, achieving success, and personal and professional branding. His corporate seminars are driven by the Identity Leadership Nine-Step Success Process, a life and learning management system designed to organize a person’s life around their identity. Stedman believes leadership is everything and that the needs of the 21st century cannot be met by followers.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Identity Leadership; Diversity: Leaders Not Labels; Build Your Own Life Brand; You Can Make It Happen; Move Without The Ball
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
MAC ANDERSON
Mac Anderson is the founder of Simple Truths and Successories, Inc., the leader in designing and marketing products for motivation and recognition. These companies, however, are not the first success stories for Mac. He was also the founder and CEO of McCord Travel, the largest travel company in the Midwest, and part-owner and vice president of sales and marketing for Orval Kent Food Company, the country’s largest manufacturer of prepared salads. Mac is also the Founder of Inspire Kindness, a movement-based company whose mission is to motivate kindness in individuals and encourage others to act.
His accomplishments and knowledge in these wide-spanning industries provide some insight into his passion when speaking to many corporate audiences on a variety of topics, including leadership, motivation, and team building.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: 212 Degrees; 212 Degrees for Leaders; 212 Degrees for Service; Charging the Human Battery; The ROI of Kindness
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
MARK BROWN
Whether he’s working with leaders who want to improve their communication and presentation skills or learn how to get more out of their team members, Mark Brown teaches the principles of influence and inspiration. His audiences are inspired by the true story of how he emigrated from Jamaica to the United States at 18 years old with only $40 in his pocket and became one of the most popular inspirational speakers in the world today.
Mark is one of the only professional speakers in the world with a presentation that has been nominated for an Emmy Award. He has delivered more than 3,500 professional presentations to 1.7 million people from Boston to Bahrain, Alberta to Australia, Hong Kong to Halifax, and San Diego to Saudi Arabia.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Powerful Presentations; Inspire and Influence; Doing More with Less; How Leaders Get Things Done; The Dash Between the Dates; How to Be Your Best
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
BRIAN BIRO
Brian Biro is one of the nation’s foremost speakers and teachers of Leadership, Possibility Thinking, Thriving on Change, and Team-Building. A former vice-president of a major transportation corporation in the Pacific Northwest, Brian helped lead a major turnaround that resulted in the company quadrupling in revenues, becoming solidly profitable, and being named the leader in the air freight industry for customer service and convenience by Distribution Magazine. In the last 28 years, Brian has delivered over 1,800 presentations to audiences around the world.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Breakthrough Leadership; Champions of Change; Controlling the Controllables; Silos to Energy; Building People; From EGO to WE GO!
LEARN MORE: Bio
DAVE BROWN
Every day, millions of salespeople don’t reach their potential because they fall victim to call reluctance, creative avoidance, and fear of rejection. The result is that they struggle to remain focused and motivated for themselves and they cost their employers an unparalleled amount of potential profit. Most organizations have no distinct plan or process for coaching their sales team through these roadblocks. Dave Brown is the world’s leading authority and practitioner on prospecting and call reluctance. He can teach teams strategies and tactics to help them immediately increase their prospecting activity.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Painless Prospecting and The Answer’s Behind the Next Door: Exploring the Power of Personal Persistence
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
GARY GARFIELD
Gary Garfield engages and educates audiences with the truly unique insight he gained first practicing law and then as the CEO who turned around Bridgestone Americas’ performance. Through his truly unique approach to culture change, Garfield refocused the organization, drove innovation and collaboration, and broke down silos. The result: the company pulled out of its marketplace rut and achieved record profits every year, which grew by more than 500% and outperformed the S&P 500 during Gary’s six-year tenure.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Culture First; Leaders Make the Necessary Changes; A Company as a Community Partner
LEARN MORE: Bio
FREDDIE RAVEL
Freddie Ravel is the internationally-acclaimed “Keynote Maestro” who blends his infectious passion for business breakthroughs and the power of music to unlock the minds, hearts, and potential of audiences around the world. He engages and reveals the Four Foundations of music—melody, harmony, rhythm and SCORE—to inspire and transform participants. In his dynamic multimedia “keynote concert” where speaking meets masterful piano performances backed by a full orchestra and legendary music icons, Ravel helps the audience unravel obstacles, enhance listening skills, and increase productivity to SCORE breakthrough success.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: The Rhythm of Success; Listen Up! The Key to Diversity, Inclusion and Team Success; The “Keynote Maestro” – Your Master of Ceremonies
LEARN MORE: Bio
RON MARKS
Ron Marks is one of the most experienced sales trainers in the world. For 35 years, he owned a company that produced thousands of training seminars with Tom Hopkins, Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins, and inspired hundreds of thousands of sales professionals around the world. Since 2007, Ron has become one of the Partners at Southwestern Consulting, which is a multi-million dollar international training company that has helped over 7,000 leaders in 35 countries. Additionally, Ron earned his CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), which is the highest ranking designation awarded to professional speakers. Ron has worked with almost every type of professional selling organization. He is also the bestselling author of Managing for Sales Results, which was originally published by John Wiley & Sons.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Leading High-Performance Teams; Managing for Sales Results; Convert Customers Quicker
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
EMMIE BROWN
Emmie Brown is one of the world’s most sought-after experts at helping leaders develop processes to build great teams and maximize overall performance. Her presentations share timeless and universal wisdom about the principles that make great leaders, managers, and personal producers. The insights she delivers in her trainings speak directly to what the leadership team needs to do to take the entire staff to the next level.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: WIN This Season; Managing Systems to Lead People; The People Business; Seek First Selling; How to Source, Select & Retain Talent
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
GENA PARKER
Gena Parker draws her management and coaching experience from her time spent as a corporate recruiter and salesperson with Southwestern’s oldest and most recognized company: Southwestern Advantage. This is where Gena realized the value of schedule, habits, leading by example, and never asking anyone to do anything she’s not willing to do. After working with college interns in Southwestern Advantage’s program for six years, Gena discovered that she had the desire to work with salespeople who wanted to be “sales professionals.” Naturally, she teamed up with Southwestern Consulting. Gena speaks to help her audience see their natural proclivity to sales and thus captures their limitless opportunities. Gena proves that—no matter what someone is selling, where they’re selling, or how new they are to their market—good habits, a good schedule, and time-tested principles will lead to success.
TOP REQUESTED TOPICS: Natural Born Salesperson; Leadership Management
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
RON ALFORD
Ron Alford is an expert when it comes to recruiting, sales training, and coaching individuals and teams to reach higher than they ever imagined. As an endurance athlete having completed many marathons, triathlons, and ultramarathons, he lives with the strong belief that true success and enduring joy comes from principle-centered living—that’s the foundation, and everything else flows from there.
Ron’s compelling keynote program helps teams rise above negative circumstances, negative thinking, and negative odds to break belief barriers and accomplish new heights in both personal and professional endeavors. A true practitioner, Ron teaches about the five components that move people to achieve their true potential. If you want to break through barriers, destroy complacency, get to the next level, and create explosive growth, then partner with Ron Alford.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Rise Above; Redefining Possible; Principle Centered Leadership
LEARN MORE: Bio | Highlight Video
DANA POTTHOFF BANKS
As an experienced coach, trainer, and speaker, Dana has worked with thousands of individuals to inspire their fullest potential and encourage them to not just work harder but work smarter. She believes that the foundation of all growth lies in helping people find their passions, purposes, and callings—to turn their everyday tasks into extraordinary paths of impact. She believes that “success” is the pursuit of excellence in every area of life and that empathy is the key to unlocking understanding.
TOP REQUESTED PROGRAMS: Thursday Night is Own Your Seat
LEARN MORE: Bio
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