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Steve Smith
Steve Smith is one of the most sought-after speakers with extensive experience of working with leading corporate organisations Raising the Bar for clients across the globe for over 20 years. He is a former Academy of Chief Executives speaker of the year.
In Person
£4000 - £10000
Price based on UK delivery
Virtual Event
£2000 - £10000
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As well as being a successful entrepreneur, he is still one of Britain’s most successful athletes having won a medal in every major championship including the Olympic Games, incredibly his British high jump record has now stood for over 30 years. He was recently inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame.
His business experience ensures that the real-life links into audience roles are never forgotten and his down to earth approach ensures they leave inspired to Raise the Bar.
Steve’s presentations are inspirational, interactive, challenging and great fun drawing on his experience in elite sport and the Olympic Games as well as lessons from some of the world’s greatest performers.
Key themes can include:
- Leadership
- Change
- Winning mindset
- Resilience
- Benchmarking
- Performance culture
- Controlling the controllable
- Coaching
“Bottom line, Steve is a tremendous speaker and is able to tell a compelling and motivational story with learning elements that are directly applicable to business. He inspired a large and diverse group of pharmaceutical sales and marketing personnel to focus on what they can control in their environments and what gives them the edge in the marketplace in the face of intense competition and little differentiation.”
“Steve Smith was on stage for about an hour and it completely flew by, he captured the audience attention completely and held it all the way through. The mixture of humour, Steve’s personal story and the video clips made the presentation spot on for the audience. A lot of colleagues have said that this was the highlight of their day, and the best motivational speaker that they had heard. Steve’s presentation came across as very fresh, passionate, full of energy and enthusiasm and ultimately inspirational. Exactly what we were looking for on the day. I have already recommended Steve to colleagues in Barclaycard.”
“The feedback from the team at Boots after Steve spoke at our communications event was overwhelmingly positive. Steve is a very engaging speaker and has a fantastic ability to draw parallels between his experiences as a top class athlete and the challenges of the commercial world. He was able to inspire a diverse (and sometimes cynical!) cross-section of people with everybody coming away from the event feeling energised and motivated. I’m now looking at opportunities build on the fantastic success of this initial event.”
“Steve is an outstanding motivational speaker. He helped us achieve one of the most successful conferences we have held. He took the time to understand our business and managed to link his findings to his personal experiences of being an athlete. The feedback after our event was amazing. Everyone was in agreement that he made the day.”
“Steve is a really engaging speaker and managed to capture the attention of every single person in the audience – who ranged from senior managers to shop floor staff. Everyone left the event feeling motivated and inspired by him. We sincerely look forward to working with him again in the future and would highly recommend him.”
“The feedback from Steve’s presentation has been unprecedented in strength. He raised all previous bars set by our guest speakers.”
“Exceptional, inspirational, motivational – never were such adjectives more true than in Steve’s case. His story did more to set a positive mood and create a real sense of excitement than any of our own internal presentations ever could.”
“Steve Smith gave a fantastic input to my staff training day. He was inspirational and even engaged with the most cynical of my staff! They were able to relate to the sporting context and compare their own work and personal motivation in a really interactive and positive way. We would have all been happy to ask questions all day! Steve’s input has had a lasting effect on the morale and feeling of positivity amongst the staff and that was the main objective of the day – they were buzzing the following day and were full of praise for his presentation.”
“We asked the delegates to rate different aspects of the presentation, as well as the event overall, out of a total satisfaction rating of 5:0. They rated the event 4.47 from a highly critical audience. The comments we have been receiving are ” best one yet”. So, as you can imagine, I’m delighted! The message, delivery and the energy he maintained throughout was exactly what I had hoped. So, all in all, we are very, very happy as were our delegates.”
“Steve took around 500 colleagues on an exciting rollercoaster ride into his world as an Olympian. He told his story with passion, humour, and honesty and had the audience back with him at the games, completely captivated. He seamlessly linked how ‘raising the bar’ for an athlete is no different to anyone in business wanting to stay ahead. The parallels he drew between the key elements of his approach and how dot-commers could think about their success rang true with all levels in the audience – from administrator to IT programmer to CEO.”
“Steve’s directness and passion overcame any cynicism. To prepare he had quietly joined us ahead of his session, listened to the messages we were seeking to drive home and adjusted what he said accordingly. This professionalism and tailoring made him stand out. An enormously engaging, thought provoking and professional speaker.”
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