How to Re-Think, Re-Position and Re-Tool Your Way to Speaking Success…
Phillip Van Hooser, MBA, CSP, CPAE

October 12, 2009
8:30 Registration, 9:00-11:45 - Program
Maggiano's-Oakbrook

“Common Sense Thinking Regarding Uncommon Business Practices That May Help Grow Your Business and Possibly Make (or Save) You Gobs of Cash in the Process”

 

Phillip Van HooserSeize the opportunity to meet our NSA National President!
You’ll learn first-hand how Phil goes about challenging conventional wisdom while creating business practices that work for him, his clients, and his family. Hear the thinking that has resulted in his creating a thriving 21+ year business, a solid bottom line…and healthy family relationships.

 

Since 1988, Phillip Van Hooser has spoken, written, coached and consulted on leadership and service professionalism issues with groups and organizations around the globe. From his earliest business experience as a manager and leader in FORTUNE 500 heavy manufacturing and consumer products companies, Phil knows the leadership methods that work to inspire improvements in performance, productivity and profitability…and those that don’t!

 

As a professional speaker and trainer, Phil has addressed more than 2,800 audiences and has spent more than 8,500 hours - on stage! As a successful business author, Phil’s unique perspective and expertise have been published in numerous trade journals and publications including Investors Business Daily. Additionally, Phillip Van Hooser is the author of three books:

  • You’re Joe’s Boy Ain’t Ya? Life’s Lessons for Living, Loving and Leading;
  • It Takes More Than Guts; and
  • His best-seller, Willie’s Way: 6 Secrets for Wooing, Wowing and Winning Customers and Their Loyalty, where Phil used his extraordinary storytelling ability to illustrate a proven customer service model that builds customer loyalty and improves profitability even in the most difficult business environments.


By way of pertinent content, masterful storytelling and real-world applications, Phil’s audiences experience tried and true leadership and service professionalism lessons drawn from the real world - ideas that can be enjoyed, embraced and easily transferred to current business circumstances to create immediate results.

 

A member of the National Speakers Association since 1988, Phil is serving NSA’s membership as its national President during 2009-2010. In 1993, Phil earned the Certified Speaking Professional designation and in 2006, Phil was inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame.

The Program:

Can you challenge the conventional wisdom and thrive? You bet! Phillip Van Hooser did.


Listen as he explains why…

  • taking any speech for any fee on your topic may serve to raise your fees…and bottom line
  • negotiating fees can sometimes be a good thing
  • bigger (as in staff, offices and inventory) is not always better creating products could be a really lousy idea
  • hiring a speech coach could hurt, not help, your performance
  • paying big bucks for product development is just plain crazy
  • letting clients go can get you more income
  • refusing referral fees can result in even more business
  • working with speakers bureaus may stunt your professional growth
  • missing family birthdays, dance recitals and ballgames may make you a better parent


Maybe you don’t consider yourself a contrarian, but you occasionally find that some common “wisdom” touted by speaking, training and consulting self-proclaimed “gurus” just doesn’t fit your personal business model. Maybe you want to grow your business, serve your clients better, get more repeat and referral business and sell more products, but you’re just not sure how to make it all happen. Maybe you want to rethink and retool your business practices, but you’re fearful of sacrificing where you are to get where you could be. If any of these statements rings true with you, our guest for this session will help you see a different perspective that might help you generate more profits, passion and personal satisfaction from your work.

 

Phil has learned to challenge conventional wisdom while creating business practices that work for him, his clients, and his family. Hear the thinking that has resulted in his creating a thriving 21+ year business, a solid bottom line and healthy family relationships. Check out his website: www.vanhooser.com

 

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Schedule:

  • Oct. 12
    Presenter:  Phillip Van Hooser, MBA, CSP, CPAE
    Place:  Maggiano's Oakbrook
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