Speaker, Consultant, Agent of Change
Regarded as one of The Top 100 Keynote Speakers in America the Ryan Estis experience blends interaction, energy and actionable content designed to elevate business outcomes.
The former Chief Strategy Officer for the $100 million People Marketing division of McCann-Erickson World Group Advertising is widely recognized as a leading expert in Leadership & Culture, Sales Effectiveness, Branding & Social Media and HR/Workforce Trends. Recently recognized as "one of the best keynote speakers seen or heard" by Meetings & Conventions Magazine alongside Tony Robbins, Bill Gates, Al Gore and Marcus Buckingham, Ryan serves as the USA Sr. Associate with Employer Brand International, an advisory member on the SmartBrief Workforce Council, is a certified Human Capital Strategist and professional member of the National Speakers Association.
His work has been featured in Electronic Recruiting Exchange, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Professional Magazine, HR Times, SHRM, Business News Network, Crain`s Business, Staffing Management Magazine, and the books Your Employer Brand and Employer of Choice.
As the Chief Experience Officer in his growing Consulting Practice, Ryan helps companies more effectively connect to their two most important audiences: Employees and Customers. Through speaking, training, brand strategy and communication design Ryan Estis & Associates helps optimize people and performance.
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Ryan is a Professional Speaker and Business Performance Expert helping companies, managers, leaders and sellers more effectively connect to their two most important audiences: employees and customers.
Regarded as one of The Top 100 Keynote Speakers in America the Ryan Estis experience blends interaction, energy and actionable content designed to elevate business outcomes. His message is a compelling crusade on corporate culture, communication, client acquisition, brand ambassadorship, change and preparing to thrive in the ultra competitive, hyper connected business environment we now know as the new normal.
Ryan works with category leading companies to help them achieve the next level of breakthrough performance including AT&T, Mayo Clinic, CDW, Cabela`s, Giant Eagle, Hewitt, Microsoft, Medtronic, Equifax and BlueCross BlueShield.
His guiding principles include:
Passion: Improving communication, competency and culture to elevate employee and customer engagement and enhance business performance.
Purpose: Making a difference in the lives of others.
Premise: Put people first... profits follow.
Promise: Delivering experiences that people never forget.
Performance: Putting individual contributors, leaders and organizations in a position to achieve extraordinary results.
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Talk Titles:
Passion on Purpose:
Turning Corporate Culture Into A Competitive Advantage
This keynote experience will review the essence of cultivating a high engagement, high performance work culture. As we prepare for the next growth cycle in business Ryan will elevate understanding around the needs and expectations of the modern day workforce. Ryan will challenge conventional thinking with new research and specific examples from category leading companies that succeed at maximizing human potential and sustaining a culture that drives breakthrough performance.
We know a healthy organization when we see it. Switched on employees. Authentic leadership. Open communication. Trust. The kind of place where people come first and performance and profit follows.
Most organizations leave tons of capability and human potential on the table. This keynote offers practical advice and actionable insights to help you reverse that trend. Our premise is passion at work occurs most often when the right person, in the right job is supported through very intentional and strategic action by an organization. Where leadership is aligned with the vision and values and employees are the ultimate extension of the brand.
Next Level Leadership:
Managing For Breakthrough Performance In The New Economy
This keynote offers a compelling crusade on corporate culture, communication, collaboration, change and preparing leaders to thrive in the ultra competitive, hyper connected business environment we now know as the new normal. We will review the evolution of work style design and explore the leadership role in earning BIG emotional commitment around a common purpose. Ryan will challenge conventional leadership practices and explore progressive techniques and technology that pace with the evolving needs of today`s knowledge worker.
As we prepare the organization for this next growth cycle our approach to effective leadership is being transformed. Traditional command and control leadership is proving less effective and giving way to a more connected, collaborative, open and flexible approach to managing people and performance.
This interactive keynote will deliver new ideas, information and actionable insights that leaders can leverage immediately to drive productivity and performance.
The Brand Experience:
Accelerating Business Growth Through Remarkable Experiences
This high energy, high impact keynote will introduce actionable content to elevate the relationships you have with your most important stakeholders: employees and customers. Ryan will transform thinking by teaching organizations how to own a unique and remarkable experience, elevate emotional engagement and earn BIG commitment from the people you care about the most.
Successful brands serve as a promise about an experience that creates expectations in the hearts and minds of customers and employees. Culture will increasingly determine how effective you`ll be in keeping those promises. The ability to influence culture will define and determine the impact of your brand experience.
A more meaningful experience is often the catalyst for success! Leveraging insight and examples from category leading service providers, this keynote will help participants accelerate growth by focusing on HOW you do whatever it is you do, understanding that WHAT you do is increasingly becoming a commodity. Companies that win today understand how to brand their experience, consistently.
The Communication Revolution:
Driving Growth Through Social Business
This keynote examines the business implications around the evolution in how we connect, communicate and collaborate to accomplish meaningful work. Globalization, economic, generational and technological drivers are accelerating change and challenging our traditional approach to productivity and performance in the workplace. Ryan will inspire breakthrough thinking on getting connected in the digital economy and offer compelling insights on culture, community, change and preparing to thrive in the increasingly transparent, hyper connected business environment we now know as the new normal.
This keynote experience will examine how progressive companies are winning by making their business more social. Ryan will challenge conventional thinking with an emphasis on preparing participants to leverage the social revolution and get connected to compete in the new world of work.
Other Titles:
Generation NeXt: Leading Through the Generational Divide
This keynote experience will offer entertaining insights into key attitude and behavioral trends along the generational divide with a forward thinking look into the future of work. Today`s business leaders are faced with managing the attitude, values and work styles of 4 distinct generations. Identity and ideology conflicts are on the rise as the millennial generation arrives in the workplace with an evolved set of expectations about the work experience and their opportunity to have an impact from day one.
This keynote will serve to challenge conventional work style design and elevate understanding around the new expectations of today`s workforce. Generational diversity, if managed properly, can add to an organizations innovation and brand identity. But change is never easy. Ryan will offer thought provoking perspective on evolving traditional workplace values and structure to fit the new economy.
Unleash Your Inner Super Hero: 8 Keys to Achieving Breakthrough Performance
This program is designed to help people tap into their own deep reservoir of potential and unleash their unique capability into the world. Ryan helps people see new opportunity through techniques designed to remove the barriers of fear, doubt, stress and uncertainty that inevitably show up in life and threaten to inhibit our performance.
This important message introduces 8 core insights about productivity and performance that help people initiate or accelerate the process of becoming their very best. We are living through an incredible period of transformation and Ryan teaches us how to lean into this moment as an opportunity, embrace what is next and new and let go of the things we cannot control to find more meaning, mastery and momentum in our work life. The content is actionable and participants will emerge better prepared to navigate change and achieve their next big, breakthrough moment.
The keynote serves as a call to action for those who desire fulfillment from their work and are determined to achieve their full potential.
Rock Star Selling: Selling Value in the New Economy
This hard-hitting, high impact keynote examines the dramatic evolution in professional sales. Ryan, a former Chief Sales Officer, dissects how the best sales organizations are leveraging elevated sales capability to meet the expectations of more sophisticated and demanding customers.
This keynote introduces the Sales 3.0 capability required to compete and win business in a complex sales cycle - expertise. Ryan will demonstrate how the very best sellers are developing and deploying their expertise to offer the customer a more compelling value proposition. This keynote can easily align with an existing sales methodology and will demonstrate how the seller capable of providing the customer new insight and valuable perspective is better positioned to impact buying decisions.
Earning attention, opportunity and partnership with today`s customer requires advanced sales skill and new selling strategy. Ryan will inform, entertain and inspire the sales organization to embrace this shift in seller competency toward a focus on category expertise, consultative skills and the customer outcome.
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Speaking Topics:
Sales, Leadership, Team Building, Branding, Motivation, Generations, Social Media, Marketing, Technology