10 Reasons Linda is the Right Speaker for Your Meeting

1. You Want a Veteran Professional Speaker who can address Strategic Issues

Linda Talley is the author of Business Finesse: Dealing With Sticky Situations in the Workplace for Managers, The Daily Win and Success, the 10 Most Important Lessons in Specialty Store Retailing.

She comes from a background in healthcare marketing where she worked in multi-hospital systems before beginning her own management consulting firm and home health agency.

Linda has studied and spoken on the nuances of body language as it pertains to leadership, sales and customer service for close to two decades. She is an expert on body language in the workplace and how it impacts leadership, sales productivity and customer service.

Linda is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional).  The CSP is an earned designation awarded by the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers to recognize demonstrated commitment to the speaking profession through proven speaking experience. This distinction is earned by less than 7% of the 4000 professional speakers worldwide. 

She has also written numerous articles for various trade magazines and has been interviewed for numerous national media, including USA Today, Cosmopolitan, American Way, Investors Business Daily. 

2. You Want Energy, Education and Entertainment

Linda is an energetic, fast-paced speaker who focuses on the most essential and often elusive points of body language which provides for an eye-opening presentation that will entertain and educate your audience.  Linda’s goal for each presentation is to not only provide solid content presented in an entertaining and interactive manner but to make the emotional connection with the audience through her stories and life experiences. By combining these, the audience can experience the pain, the laughter and learn from their own “aha” moments. When you begin with Linda, her opening keynote will start the enthusiasm that will ignite and burn throughout your meeting and be carried back with each attendee.  When Linda is the closing keynote, your audience members will take home ideas that will improve their performance and keep them talking for months!

3. You Want Meaningful, Immediately Useful Skills and Ideas

Linda will give your audience skills and ideas that will leave them breathless! They will be talking about these ideas and new ways of interacting with people throughout the meeting and will keep talking about them for months to come.

4. You Want an Emotional Connection With Your Audiences

Because of Linda’s extensive work history, consulting/coaching and speaking business, she is able to connect with any level of audience from the highest shareholder or executive to the lowest stakeholder and every level in between. Her extensive experience has given her a perspective of what’ s going on with each level in terms of non-verbal communication.

5. You Want High Evaluations

Linda consistently scores 90% + in her evaluations. You get all the praise for hiring not only an expert but one with whom audience members are thrilled! You and Linda both look good!

6. You Want Someone Who is Easy to Work With & Returns Your Calls

Linda answers her own phone and returns calls quickly. Decision makers have commented on how quickly she “gets back” to them. After talking with Linda, you’ll see why Linda is entertaining as she entertains and makes you laugh on the phone!

Linda is easy to work with, fun to speak with and is the “quintessential speaker particularly in terms of communication before the conference.”

7. You Want Extra Value

Linda provides free handouts for all sessions which include a bibliography and customized article for that program. Linda asks each organization to fill out a Pre-program Questionnaire (PPQ) in order to tailor her program to the audience.

Photos (color and black and white) are provided as well as topic summaries, brochures and articles for the client to use in their promotional efforts for their event and you always have easy telephone access to Linda prior to the event.

8. You Want a Custom Tailored Keynote Presentation That Leaves Your Audience Inspired and Educated!

Linda does about 60 speeches per year and has the time, energy and self-motivation to continuously research, refine and update the information and delivery to suit your audience.

9. You Want Timely Information

Linda continuously reads the latest research on body language as it applies to leadership, sales and customer service and during her travels, uses the opportunity to observe and gather real life situations to include in future programs.

10. You Want Someone You Trust & Is Reliable

Linda’s extensive client list shows her experience in speaking in numerous industries because her topics cross industry lines. She will make certain you get a good night’s sleep before her program by calling you and letting you know she has “landed” at the hotel. In the nearly two decades Linda has been speaking and the hundreds of speeches she has delivered, she had never missed a speech.