Patricia Fripp

Biography

Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales trainer, and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well known sports and media personalities, ministers, and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her "One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America." She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Steven Covey's Executive Excellence magazine calls her "One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence." Kiplinger's Personal Finance named her speaking school the sixth best way to invest one thousand dollars in your career.

Before becoming a full-time speaker, Patricia enjoyed a successful 24-year career in a service industry. She owned two highly successful businesses and trained both service and sales personnel. Her first paid speaking engagements and training seminars began in 1976.

Since 1980 she has spoken to over 100 groups every year, many of them repeat engagements. This includes Fortune 100 companies and major associations worldwide. The National Speakers Association, with more than 4000 members, elected her their first female President in 1984. She has won or been awarded every designation given by the NSA, including their Hall of Fame and their highest honor, the Cavett Award, considered the "Oscar" of the speaking world.

Patricia is the author of two books, Get What You Want! and Make It, So You Don't Have to Fake It!, and coauthor of Speaking Secrets of the Masters and Insights into Excellence. She is featured in the Bullet Proof Manager video series, which is sold in over fifty countries. Fripp starred in the popular training film Travel the Road to Success: An Adventure in Customer Service.

Fripp's hobby of avid movie going and attending screen writing seminars adds an extra pizzazz to her training sessions that is not generally found with other speech coaches. A media star herself, she has been featured in the press and on TV for over thirty years.

Patricia keeps good company, and is a Founding Faculty member of MentorU.com, a distance learning company of world-class business experts providing training utilizing the latest Internet technologies. She is a member of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable, consisting of twenty-two of the most successful, in-demand speakers in the country.

Publications

Get What You Want
Learn how to turn your potential into performance! Set your goals and achieve them. Let this book help you with personal growth, business and career success.

Titles

Opportunity Does Not Knock Once: Strategies and Tactics to Maximize Opportunity You May Be OverlookingM
No matter what the makeup of your audience, Patricia will adapt to the specifics of your conference and industry.

In this entertaining, thought-provoking, motivational keynote you learn that opportunity does not knock once; it knocks all the time. Often we do not notice the sound!

Patricia encourages you to reflect on your past experience and basic talents, acknowledge your past success and build on that foundation and develop new skills, habits and attitudes

How to Promote Your Business: High-tech, Low-Tech, No-Tech!
Effective self-promotion is the first step to entrepreneurial wealth. Many in our industry don't have a clue where to start. In this session you will learn the techniques and philosophies of outrageous success from Patricia Fripp. She will guide you to be a more profitable and successful promoter!

Getting, Keeping, and Deserving Your Customers
Companies, like products and services, cannot remain commodities if they are to become industry leaders. In customers' minds, they must be differentiated from competitors. They must have competitive advantages that make them stand out as preferred choices. The key to success does not get any simpler than that.

Patricia Fripp knows how to use service as a competitive advantage. Using real-life examples and stories gleaned from years of working with Fortune 100 clients and her own entrepreneurial success, Patricia will show you how to become memorable to customers, achieve differentiation, and build your business.

If you want to get, and keep, your customers' loyalty you need to deserve it. The key to the success of your business does not get any simpler than that.

Superstar Sales Presentations: The Inside Secrets
How many more sales could you or your salespeople make if they stopped making stupid mistakes and started giving totally awesome sales presentations? Suppose there were a way to get your prospects to remember and repeat what you say to others in their organization. Remember, every sales presentation is a captured or a missed opportunity.

The Story Behind Awesome Storytelling
What sets the truly great speakers apart from the rest? Quite simply, it's the power of the stories they tell. Good stories can inspire, persuade, educate, entertain and help you better compete for the assignments you want! Award-winning speaker and executive speech coach Patricia Fripp will help you understand the formulas and techniques that are guaranteed to make your stories simply awesome.

Life is a Series of Sales Situations
Every day you sell yourself, your ideas, your value, your company, product and services.

You do it in person, on the phone, in writing, at work, in the community, and in your industry. Do you come across as the dynamic, competent professional you are?

If you do, or don't, you will benefit from this entertaining, thought-provoking session with award-winning speaker, in-demand speech coach, and sales presentation skills trainer Patricia Fripp.

21st Century Leadership
Everyone is doing more with fewer resources. Learn how you can produce a productive and creative environment with the "inside secrets" and best practices of the Fortune 500 clients Patricia works and consults with.

Building Self-Confidence to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas to Upper-Management
The reality is, if you have brilliant ideas and no confidence to share them, you will never get the credit for having them! Fripp teaches you career-building strategies that can get the attention of upper management and have a long-term impact on your career. Included are self-esteem building techniques and a formula to introduce yourself memorably.