As professional destination management consultants, we have seen
hundreds of speakers including many celebrities and well-known authors.
I can personally say in my 20 years of incentive and corporate meeting
planning it is rare to find a keynote speaker who will invest the
preparation time you did to tailor a program to our needs.
~ PRA Destination Management, Inc.
Wow! Did Press Ganey hit the mark when we selected you as a presenter
at the 2004 Press Ganey National Client Conference! Your high energy
and dynamic presentation style made it easy and interesting for
our attendees to learn. Here are just a few of the many comments
we received.
“Awesome! Excellent speaker! Very motivational! I cannot wait
to present these items to my management team! Great ideas!”
“Barbara was exciting, motivating and fun. I respect her ideas
and plan to implement many. Thanks!”
~ Press Ganey
I would like to personally thank you for putting on a fantastic
presentation. Your presentation style left a remarkable impact on
our group. If I may, let me share some of the responses turned in
by our attendees.
“This was another one of my favorites! Not only did Barbara
get us enthused about work but she got us enthused about life!”
“Great energy for an opening speaker! I liked the way she
blended personal well being and happiness along with business tactics.”
~ Greystone Communities
Super job! I've never seen anyone prepare and present sales and
client relationship concepts in such a powerful, creative and engaging
way. You clearly practice what you preach. We have a very specialized
product yet you knew about us, our business and delivered exactly
what our sales reps needed. For such a short session we got valuable
tools to make more effective calls and position our reps as consultants.
Even our more experienced reps were impressed and very favorable
in their comments. You exceeded our expectations and delivered value,
practical ideas and tons of motivation!.
~ Hollister-Stier (Allergy Extracts)
Your presentation was excellent, and the response from the sales
representatives has been extremely positive. When looking for a
speaker for our meeting, I felt it important to not have someone
who “entertained” only. You certainly did your “homework”
well. I was initially nervous how a female speaker would be received
by my sales organization, which is highly technical, highly educated,
and predominantly male. Your engaging style and content had their
rapt attention.
~ Dionex Corporation
Your Dream Big! keynote was the most talked about portion of our
event. For a group of seasoned – “been there, done that”
– meeting professionals, who research, book and witness speakers
on a frequent basis, this is quite a feat!
~ Meeting Professionals International
On behalf of the Westin Maui team, I want to personally thank you
for the dynamic presentations you delivered to our teams here at
the Westin Maui Resort & Spa. Your insights into sales with
passion, service excellence through engagement, and your personal
observations through the eyes of a guest, all provided unique value.
On of my mangers wrote, “I now have great ideas to engage
and reenergize my staff and feel valued as a member of the management
team.”
~ Westin Maui Resort & Spa
Your opening keynote, The Customer Care Professionals Role--Be
Savvy, Be Strategic, Be Smart! was insightful, practical and dynamic.
You gave our members concrete suggestions for enhancing their careers
and engaging their staff. Thanks again for a great presentation
at the SOCAP annual conference!
~ Society of Customer Care Professionals (SOCAP)
Trust me when I tell you, you have inspired me to implement a number
of things within my department, organization and my personal life.
You mentioned positioning and adding value in your keynote so I
wrote an article and am building deeper relationships with my internal
customers.
To engage my staff and improve their service performance I created
a simple motto to reinforce our service standards. You recommended
staying current and connected so I am pursuing a board position
with my professional association. Best of all, you motivated me
to create my very own Dream Board! Even my boss commented on my
increased focus and motivation. Now I'm excited about inviting you
to work with our company.
Thanks Barbara for all you do...the little words and thoughts you
share with people have a large impact on our personal and business
lives. I love what I do because you reminded me its fun!
~ N. Patel, Customer Service Manager and convention audience
member
It was very apparent from the onset of your presentation that you
spoke with several attendees in advance of the meeting. I watched
as our management’s eyes opened with amazement at the knowledge
and preparation you made in understanding our products and challenges.
~ Hewlett-Packard Company
You were such a ray of hope to see and listen to at the Site meeting.
Since losing my father 2 months ago, life and "things"
have seemed very off for me. I have thought about your "cappuccino
moments" and the dream board you suggested every day, so you
definitely made an impact on me. Having worked for AT&T wireless
I thought I had seen all the motivational speakers known to man!
You were fun, gave great examples and truly inspired even me who
has been so down.
~ Society of Incentive and Travel Executives
Outstanding job Barbara! You were by far the highest rated speaker
in our staff development and leadership series. Your energizing
and idea-packed session, Engage Staff, Deliver Service, Dream Big!
was the perfect message to get everyone to take ownership and accept
responsibility for patient satisfaction and their own work and life
satisfaction. The comments on our staff evaluations were full of
praise and superlatives!
~ Jeanne Wilson Manager, Training and Development, Slidell Memorial
Hospital
Congratulations on your smash hit presentation, "Passion,
Power & Prosperity: Put More in Your Life!" It was obvious
from your packed, "standing room only" sessions that our
sales associates loved your energy, powerful message and entertaining,
yet genuine, style.
~ Coldwell Banker
On a scale of 1-10 you are a 100!
~ Western Car Wash Association
I have received nothing but "rave" reviews. You’re
the first speaker I’ve worked with (and I’ve worked
with several) who did her homework to meet the needs and expectations
of my group.
~ Bell South
You’ll be pleased to know that on a 5-point scale, you received
a 4.65. Our general managers appreciated your solid ideas to develop
a strong guest mentality at their properties.
~ American Hotel & Motel Association
Congratulations! Your "world class" presentation at our
QUEST meeting once again left us "very satisfied customers".
~ Gulf Power Company
You’ll be pleased to know that on a 1-10 rating scale, your
evaluations averaged 9.6 -- one of the highest-rated programs for
our chapter.
~ San Diego Society of Association Executives
Hardly a day goes by when one or more of your ideas is not brought
up. Your scores were outstanding from presentation style through
usefulness.
~ Midwest Mortgage Services
Your presentation was voted one of the best our distributors have
experienced.
~ John Paul Mitchell Systems
I want to thank you for the superb keynote presentation,
“Sales Magic! Secrets to Develop a High Performing Team”
you delivered at our Semi-Annual Wholesalers Meeting. Being in the
insurance and investment business, we have seen excellent speakers.
So I agree with our president when he thanked you on stage and said
to the audience, “In all my years of listening to speakers,
Barbara is by far the best! Her material was excellent, filled with
useful ideas and delivered in an engaging style.” We look
forward to inviting you back for our Top Producer meeting this May
in Colorado Springs and partnering on other projects.
~ Legacy Marketing Group
Many of our financial advisors made wonderful comments and received
great ideas from your presentation, “Manage Your Book of Business
– The Key to Expanding Relationships.” It’s rare
for a speaker to score all 5’s on the evaluations and you
did just that! Our advisors appreciated your high energy, interactive
style and solid content. Plus your Dream Big! closing message was
a fun impacting ending to our conference.
~ Financial Network
Attendees rated your keynote, “The HR Director’s Role
– Be Savvy, Be Strategic, Be Smart!” as one of the most
highly rated presentations in the conference, as well as your breakout
session, “Break the 80/20 Rule – How to Identify, Reward
and Reenergize Your “B” Players!” In fact, some
comments included:
“Ms. Sanfilippo was great! I love her enthusiasm!”
“Sanfilippo – More! More! More!”
This being the fifth time you have provided programs for the Tennessee
Bankers Association is certainly a testimonial that you continue
to deliver exceptional information.
~ Tennessee Bankers Association
Your opening keynote, Dream Big – Be Bold, Focus on the Future!”
at our 2005 CUNA Marketing & Business Development Conference
got great reviews! Your challenge to combat complacency and be bold
in the credit union movement and in life made an impact. I thought
you’d enjoy these attendee kudos from the evaluations.
“Wow! What an incredible experience! I wish I could bring
her back to my CU!”
“Wow! What an inspiration. She, by herself, made the entire
conference worthwhile.”
~ 2005 CUNA Marketing & Business Development Conference
I continued to receive many positive comments from our associates
regarding your insights. They have told me that they have incorporated
your ideas into their daily activities. Your understanding of Bank
of America’s Small Business Banking Group made a difference
with the audience as evidenced by the following comments:
“It was obvious Barbara understood our business and what challenges
we face. She did her homework.”
“Excellent speaker! The best I’ve had the opportunity
to hear, ever.”
~ Bank of America
We have rarely had a session that received as many positive comments
as yours. Comments like, "best ever", and "bring
more people like Barbara!" helped make this session the highest
rated program at this meeting. The amount of time you spent prior
to the meeting getting to know our members - their needs, their
challenges - and making sure that your message provided information
they could actually use was tremendous! We here at NAILBA are looking
forward to your return keynote at our June Focus meeting!
~ National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies
Well, the results are in and both your idea-packed and entertaining
programs “scored a hit!” The CEOs and the senior management
appreciated your energizing and practical ideas on how to advance
their sales culture. We’re also pleased we invited you back
to present to our investment executives at our National Sales Conference
in Scottsdale. The pre-call planning, positioning, and sales call
critique tips were right on target and provided excellent take home
value.
~ PrimeVest
Your keynote, "Dream Big! What's the Best that Can Happen", was
a hit at our yearly client conference. Our conference surveys reflected
it and after your session I heard several people chatting about
"creating Cappuccino Moments" and making sure they had "real" free
days in the future. Thanks for encouraging us to dream for those
things that we think are out of our reach...your own inspiring story
is proof that they aren't.
~ Fiserv - Southwest Region
Your powerful message for our audience was more than just a presentation.
You bonded with our bankers, made them want to be better managers
and glad they were part of this interactive session. Your discussion
made our event and was the highest rated program!
~ Forward Financial
We were looking for a tailored program with take-home value and
motivation and you delivered. Our Management Development Manager
exclaimed you hit the bull's eye in what we were looking for.
~ American Family Insurance Group
The evaluations are in and you are a HIT!!! In my nine years of
coordinating Annual Managers Meetings, I have never seen such an
abundance of 100% positive remarks about our guest speaker.
~ Sterling Savings Bank
Your general session, "Building an Effective Sales and Service
Culture in Your Credit Union", received an excellent rating.
Some audience comments, "Sanfilippo is absolutely the best."
"I could listen to Sanfilippo for two more days!"
~ Texas Credit Union League
One of our bank CEOs wrote: "The most useful message I’ve
heard in 30 years of bank conferences", "Fantastic presentation,
she alone was worth the registration price."
~ Community Bankers of Louisiana
You were consistently ranked 9.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 in every
category. Let me pass along an evaluation comment, "I need
everyone at my credit union to hear Barbara, she is absolutely the
best."
~ Shell Employees Federal Credit Union
Bankers from all three divisions gave you rave reviews for your
upbeat style, real examples and specific strategies. As one new
manager put it, "I can’t tell you how many practical
techniques I came away with." The preparation you did for our
meeting was quite evident.
~ First Banks
You ranked as one of our top presenters with 4.4 for content and
4.7 for delivery. You are a meeting planner’s dream speaker!
You do your homework, respond in a timely manner and then deliver
a powerful, tailored presentation!
~ Credit Union National Association
Thank you so much for presenting at the IBA HR conference. The
attendees loved the session and said it was the best part of our
conference. You provided great information with amazing enthusiasm!
Our attendees felt like they got a CEO level session that spoke
to their specific needs. In fact, one person was so inspired with
the ideas and renewed sense of purpose, she decided to delay her
early retirement and try some new approaches.
~ Iowa Bankers Association
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