Ian
Stephens
Speaker Profile
Ian Stephens is one of Australia's leading motivational keynote speakers on sales, customer service and business development. He is a speaker with a passion for the practical. Dubbed 'Tim the Tool Man', Ian's entertaining and dynamic talks demonstrate how to build and create practical productivity tools, and develop skills that the front-facing people can use to increase revenue.
Formerly a management consultant with the international sales/revenue generation specialist, Ian has global experience working with a wide range of national and international clients including CHEP, Brambles, Sensis, Wesfarmers, Cleanaway, Smorgon Group and Redken. His expertise creates the means for clients to make their revenue strategies happen.
Ian has climbed the corporate ladder at remarkable speed. With practical experience as a sales representative, supervisor and sales manager, Ian was appointed State Manager of a multi-million dollar business at the age of 24.
Today, Ian is in constant demand and is booked to speak or facilitate on average for 160 days a year. His outstanding people skills not only assist companies and individuals to build and implement practical sales tools, but also to minimise the resistance associated with adopting new ways of working.
He is the author of The 7 Step Pathway to Mastery and The 7 Universal Laws of Sales Success, practical guides for individuals and organisations who want to grow to become or remain a leader in their industry and markets. With a fresh, witty and dynamic style, his practical and entertaining presentations demonstrate how he 'walks the talk'. His three minute national speedball routine must be seen to be believed and can be tied in to virtually any conference theme.
Ian Stephens is one of the most versatile corporate presenter in Australia, able to seamlessly combine the roles of master of ceremonies, motivational keynote speaker or content-rich trainer and facilitator.
Travels from Queensland
Client Comments
Client Comments
- We were very happy with Ian's presentation content, construction and delivery and that is why we have used him on a number of occasions in the past 10 years.
Pacific Seeds - Great delivery and content and we were grateful that Ian took the time to join us for the cocktail event.
ANZ - Very engaging
iNova Pharmaceuticals - Ian grasped our brief really well and delivered a fantastic presentation. Not only was he very engaging the message delivered was succinct and concise and well received by all members of the team.
3M Australia - Ian threaded through the Jenny Craig message throughout his presentation to make it more relevant.
Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centres - Ian did a great job for us at our 2009 Annual Sales Conference. Ian MC'd the event for us and did a great job of keeping things moving. His keynote speech was very well received and gave us some practical "take-aways" and his overall training throughout the event was upbeat, extremely professional and delivered with lots of energy.
Finite IT Recruitment Services - Absolutely brilliant!! He engaged the delegates, got them involved and has a great sense of humour. Most importantly he delivered a message in keeping with our conference theme and people are still quoting him. Highly entertaining and a pleasure to work with.
Fresh State - Ian was a great addition to the conference. Direct comments from the client were that he related to the audience, did his research and everyone left with a new idea.
Verve Creative - Spoke well and managed the crowd's energy levels well throughout the day.
Actron Air Conditioning - An inspiring speaker.
Tower Life Australia - Ian was extremely hands-on in organising a role play session at our conference. I was extremely impressed how he took ownership in putting together thyer role play, he participated in a tele-conference, came into the office for a face-to-face meeting, met with the members involved in developing the role play scripts, wrote the scripts and managed the members involved. Totally professional.
CPA Australia (NSW Division) - He was rated as one of our most popular speakers. A pleasure to work with.
eMOCA Pty Ltd - The choice of Ian Stephens was an excellent one and he hit the right chord with our team. Ian was so easy to work with and was ever so flexible on the day like a true professional. It was very informative, fun and educational and I would not hesitate in recommending Ian and Saxtons to anyone. Thank you for making or conference an overwhelming success!
Excom Education Pty Ltd - A true professional. Engaging and dynamic. His use of stories and humour made a real impact on the team. The tools and processes he introduced and implemented played a major role in our turn around from 20% down, to now being 40% ahead of budget YTD.
National Sales Director Sensis SME Online - In my 15 years as a HR professional, I have never seen a speaker capture an audience's attention like Ian did with his speedball routine. Inspiring, fresh, and still talked about, Ian delivered on the promise of practical tools which could be immediately implemented after the conference.
Cleanaway - Great presence and very relevant to our needs
Readymix Holdings - Excellent.
Network Marketing Pty Ltd - Our client was very pleasantly surprised, Ian was excellent.
Schwarzkopf Pty Ltd - Very well organised from the 1st meeting to the event.
Redken 5th Avenue
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