Award-winning sales leader helping organizations build confident teams, stronger leaders, and lasting sales performance.
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Beth is an amazing Mentor and teacher. Her industry knowledge is unprecedented.
Erick Giunta
Executive Director at Surfside Recovery Services
Beth Maynard is an award-winning keynote speaker, sales leader, and Vice President of Learning & Development at Sales Gravy. Known for her dynamic stage presence and practical approach, Beth helps organizations strengthen sales performance, elevate leadership, and build emotionally intelligent teams that thrive in competitive markets. With decades of experience coaching Fortune 100 companies, global enterprises, and family-owned businesses, she delivers high-energy keynotes packed with actionable strategies audiences can implement immediately. Beth’s sessions inspire professionals to communicate with confidence, lead with accountability, and turn sales challenges into measurable opportunities for growth.
Beth Maynard is one of the most respected voices in modern sales leadership, emotional intelligence, and sales performance development. As Vice President of Learning & Development at Sales Gravy, she has spent decades helping organizations transform the way their teams sell, communicate, and lead. Her engaging keynote presentations combine practical sales strategies, leadership insights, and humor-driven storytelling that leave audiences energized and ready to take action.
Organizations across industries book Beth Maynard for events because she delivers far more than motivation. Her sessions provide actionable frameworks that help teams improve accountability, strengthen customer relationships, and drive measurable revenue growth. Whether speaking to sales professionals, executives, or leadership teams, Beth creates experiences that challenge audiences to think differently and perform at a higher level.
Known by clients and peers as “The Hammer,” Beth brings a direct, empowering style to every stage. Her ability to connect with audiences while delivering practical solutions has made her a trusted advisor to Fortune 100 companies, global enterprises, and fast-growing businesses looking to build stronger sales cultures and more effective leaders.
Beth Maynard specializes in Sales EQ, helping organizations develop emotionally intelligent sales professionals who communicate with confidence and build lasting customer relationships. In today’s competitive business environment, technical product knowledge alone is not enough. Teams must understand how to listen, connect, and respond effectively in high-pressure conversations.
Beth’s keynotes focus on helping professionals master emotional intelligence in sales and leadership settings. She teaches audiences how to navigate objections, improve communication, strengthen trust, and create more meaningful client interactions. Her practical approach gives teams the tools they need to sell smarter while building stronger internal collaboration and customer loyalty.
Through relatable stories and real-world examples, Beth demonstrates how emotional intelligence can transform sales outcomes and leadership effectiveness. Audiences leave her presentations with strategies they can immediately apply to improve performance and communication across every level of the organization.
Strong leadership is at the center of every high-performing organization, and Beth Maynard helps leaders create cultures built on accountability, confidence, and consistent execution. Her leadership keynotes focus on developing managers and executives who can inspire teams, coach effectively, and drive long-term growth.
Drawing from decades of front-line leadership experience, Beth shares practical insights into what separates average teams from elite performers. She helps leaders identify gaps in communication, improve coaching conversations, and create environments where employees feel motivated to succeed.
Beth’s sessions are particularly valuable for organizations navigating change, growth, or performance challenges. She equips leaders with clear strategies for improving team engagement, increasing accountability, and strengthening overall organizational culture. Her ability to connect leadership principles directly to measurable business outcomes makes her presentations impactful for companies of every size.
One of Beth Maynard’s most popular keynote themes centers on transforming objections into opportunities for growth and connection. Sales professionals often struggle with difficult conversations, stalled deals, or resistance from prospects. Beth helps audiences shift their mindset and approach these moments with greater confidence and emotional control.
Her presentations provide practical techniques for handling objections, improving active listening, and communicating value more effectively. Rather than relying on scripted responses, Beth teaches audiences how to create authentic conversations that strengthen trust and move relationships forward.
Attendees gain strategies they can immediately implement in client meetings, negotiations, and leadership discussions. Her focus on practical execution ensures audiences leave inspired while also feeling equipped to apply what they learned in real business situations.
Beth Maynard has worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to fast-growing family-owned businesses. Her broad experience across industries allows her to connect with diverse audiences and tailor her message to the unique challenges organizations face today.
Companies book Beth Maynard because she combines high-energy delivery with meaningful business impact. Her keynote presentations consistently help organizations:
Beth’s presentations are engaging, practical, and outcome-driven. She understands the pressures modern organizations face and delivers solutions that resonate with both leadership teams and front-line professionals.
Beth Maynard’s speaking style is energetic, relatable, and deeply engaging. She blends humor, real-world experience, and actionable insights to create keynote experiences that audiences remember long after the event ends. Her sessions are designed to inspire action while giving attendees practical tools they can immediately put into practice.
When organizations book Beth Maynard for an event, they gain more than a keynote speaker. They gain a trusted expert who understands how to transform sales culture, elevate leadership performance, and help teams perform with greater confidence and consistency.
Whether your organization wants to improve leadership effectiveness, strengthen sales execution, or create a culture built on accountability and emotional intelligence, Beth Maynard delivers a keynote experience that creates lasting impact and measurable business results.
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Beth is an amazing Mentor and teacher. Her industry knowledge is unprecedented.
Erick Giunta Executive Director at Surfside Recovery Services
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When I met Beth Maynard, I was entirely new to the sales field. She did not dwell on my inexperience; rather, she identified my skillsets that would translate well to the job. She saw the potential in every individual during our training, no matter their background or personality. Beth has a way of deeply listening and ultimately bringing out the best in you. She encourages you to "feel the fear, but do it anyway". Beth is able to connect authentically while making a professional and personal impact on your life. Her passion and heart is matched only by her sales knowledge and expertise. It is rare to find a trainer who approaches sales with careful consideration and high emotional intelligence, while still valuing the overall importance of the sale. Before I met Beth, I was entirely sales aversive; however, she taught me to understand and appreciate the value of sales when it's done correctly. Beth utilizes her own experiences - both good and bad- to educate and inform her clients; this keeps her training fun, personable and engaging. I cannot recommend Beth enough.
Erin Wibert Carlton, LMHC Specializing in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and Adult Psychotherapy
Keynote by Beth Maynard:
In this high-energy, inspirational keynote, Sales Gravy takes your audience on an unprecedented journey
into the mindsets and core disciplines of the highest-earning sales professionals. Sales Gravy walks
audience members, step-by-step, through the five disciplines of these ultra-high performers:
Your audience will Learn:
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As Sales Gravy weaves these powerful lessons into engaging stories, your audience will laugh and be
inspired to take action as they gain deep insight into the activities that maximize sales productivity and
tactics and techniques for actualizing these disciplines in the real world.
Keynote by Beth Maynard:
Based on Jeb Blount's mega-bestselling book Fanatical Prospecting, this powerful, high-impact keynote
will inspire your audience to think differently about sales prospecting and embrace prospecting activity.
Sales Gravy pulls no punches as we deliver the cold, hard truth that “the number one reason for failure in
sales is the failure to prospect for new opportunities consistently.” Then we pull the audience in with
examples, stories, and lessons that teach them a systematic process and framework for identifying,
engaging, and moving high-value, qualified prospecting into the sales pipeline, including:
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This powerful, high-impact keynote will inspire your audience to think differently about sales prospecting
and embrace prospecting activity. Your audience will gain actionable tactics, tools, and techniques for
becoming more proactive and successful with sales prospecting activity.
Keynote by Beth Maynard:
Legions of salespeople are coming face to face with a cold, hard truth: What once gave salespeople a
competitive edge - controlling the sales process, command of product knowledge, and a great
presentation - are no longer guarantees of success.
Likewise, a relentless onslaught of "me-too" competitors has made differentiating on the attributes of
products, services, and prices more challenging than ever.
Buyers’ expectations have also changed. They expect and demand more from their interactions with
sellers than a canned pitch of the company’s marketing brochures. They want a better buying
experience.
In this provocative keynote, Sales Gravy builds the case for why the buyer’s emotional experience while
going through the buying journey with the salesperson has proven to be a more consistent predictor of
outcome than any other variable. Then, through engaging stories and illustrations, Sales Gravy
demonstrates why sales professionals who’ve developed high sales-specific emotional intelligence
(Sales EQ) consistently outperform their peers.
In this message, Sales Gravy walks the audience through essential lessons including:
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This entertaining and educational keynote takes your audience on a fascinating journey into the new
psychology of sales and the real science behind influence, persuasion, and shaping buying decisions.
They’ll learn the secrets to building deep relationships, keeping stakeholders engaged, and separating
themselves from competitors by delivering a legendary buying experience.
Keynote by Beth Maynard:
For as long as salespeople have been asking buyers to make commitments, buyers have been throwing
out objections. And, for as long as buyers have been saying no, salespeople have yearned for the
secrets to avoiding the inevitable rejection.
But there is no avoiding rejection in sales. To be successful, sales professionals must learn to face
rejection, effectively handle objections, and keep moving.
Sales Gravy comes right out of the box to address the truth about rejection: We fear it more than death,
and unchecked, the fear of rejection can become a debilitating demotivator for sales professionals that
leads to failure. Yet, the fear of rejection isn’t an irrational psychological disorder. Instead, it’s a natural
human reaction based on neuroscience.
Then, Sales Gravy deftly leverages “edge-of-your-seat” stories of persistence and overcoming
gut-wrenching emotional obstacles to give the audience the keys to pushing through fear, becoming
rejection-proof, and developing an unstoppable mindset.
Finally, through live audience interaction, Sales Gravy demonstrates how, by combining this new
awareness with proven objection turn-around frameworks and techniques, salespeople can rise above
their disruptive emotions and quickly turn NO into YES.
The audience will learn a new psychology for turning around objections and techniques that work with
today’s more informed, in control, and skeptical buyers gaining deep insight into:
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The audience will walk away with the confidence to face and effectively handle objections in any selling
situation.
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