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Successful business executive Sheila Murray Bethel is an expert on Leadership, speaking on building strong teams, motivating and managing people, creating trust and loyalty, and increasing your bottom line.
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Our speaker Sheila Murray Bethel brings a broad view of current trends and relevant issues that maximize human resources, tackle issues related to leading people, and increases bottom-line results.
Successful Business Executive, Global Expert on Leadership, Best Selling Author, Speaker Hall of Fame
Dr. Bethel is a thriving entrepreneur who has built three successful companies. Business savvy and people-smart, Sheila Murray Bethel understands how and why people perform at their best and what it takes to scale and sustain a successful business.
Training and Development: The thought-provoking speaker Sheila Murray Bethel was Regional Sales Manager for three years for Adventures in Achievement, a training and development corporation with five offices in California and Arizona. In those three years, sales went from under $100,000 a month to $1.2 million a month.
Health Care: Sheila Bethel served for three years as a Founding BOD Member and Director of the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential, a not-for-profit national leader in innovative rehabilitation of brain-injured children, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Financial Services: The Money Lenders, a Californian corporation based in San Francisco, had $300 million in assets and $30 million working capital. Sheila was on the BOD and served as Executive Vice president of Sales and Marketing and COO for four years.
Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel’s client list covers Trade Associations, Education Institutions, and Government. Dr. Bethel is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame with over 3,000 presentations and over 2 million people in 20 countries.
Our speaker Sheila Murray Bethel holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a major in Communications and has served at the adjunct faculty of Indiana Purdue University, San Francisco State University, and the University of Southern California. Sheila served as a founding member of the Advisory Council for Amsted University based in Malaysia. Her books are used as course material in 127 universities and colleges worldwide.
Best Selling Author and Columnist
Her latest of five books, A New Breed Of leader, 8 Qualities That Matter Most In The Real World, What Works, What Doesn't and Why are published in English and Chinese and are
winning global praise such as:
” uniquely in tune with the times…right book right era.”
” should be read by every business leader.”
“If you wonder whether you are the kind of leader needed in the twenty-first century, you’re about to find out.”
Advisor/Consultant to Leaders
In addition to wide experience in the business and non-profit world, our speaker Sheila Murray Bethel has worked on special projects with four U.S. Presidents, Governors, Members of Congress, the Justice Department, and the Military. She served on the Board of Advisors of America’s Promise with General Colin L. Powel. Working with the Bush White House in 1990, she and her husband Bill founded the first business school in the old Eastern European block, located in Opole, Poland. Sheila has served on many Boards of Directors in both the profit and non-profit sectors.
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
What can you learn by examining the shared values and practices of world-class service organizations such as: Costco, Southwest Airlines, FedEx, the Dorchester Collection Hotels, and Nordstrom’s? Our speaker Sheila Murray Bethel has given keynote presentations and conducted seminars for some of the finest service organizations in the world.
She carefully explores the compelling evidence of a people-first leadership style. These organizations walk built up their foundation on ethics revolving around the motto “we care about our customers as much as we care for our own employees.” Sheila challenges commonly known myths about who your competition is and why a new perspective is so important. You’ll explore the 3 steps to move from customer service to the enduring quality of value-added customer focus:
Dr. Bethel ties these 3 concepts as links in a circular chain with a single purpose: a satisfied, happy, loyal, referral-generating customer. The keynote speaker Sheila Murray Bethel offers powerful and practical ideas to help you convert customers into “ambassadors of good will” whose referrals cement the reputation of your business, support your brand and set you apart from your competitors.
These 3 strategic tools open the way for you to join the realm of customer service giants and become a trendsetter, not a follower. Unforgettable customer service always begins with an investment in great servant leadership.
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
Keynote by Speaker Sheila Murray Bethel
What is the message you hope people take away from your presentations?
When I wrote my best-selling book, Making A Difference, it was not just a book to give a speech about, it is my philosophy of life. It is what I hope all audiences will take away with them; that each person has special skills and talents that they can share with others that can make a difference. That is how we all combine our efforts across the globe to make the world a better place to live and work.
Do you have a favorite experience from your speaking career?
Back to the making a difference theme; there is no one special experience, rather the times when I receive a note, or letter, or email or a call from someone who tells me how they used my ideas or stories to improve their lives or those they care about. When they tell me that I made a difference to them, it is the most special thing that can ever happen. It is my mission!
How do you prepare for speaking engagements?
Whether it is a one hour keynote or a two day seminar I ALWAYS speak with the client and cover all the questions in my preprogram questionnaire. I want to make sure we are on the same page. I want to clearly understand what the takeaways and calls-to-action they need to make the meeting or conference one of the best ever.
How do you define inspirational leadership?
With 25 years’ experience lecturing and training on Leadership in over 20 countries I have found that true inspirational leadership is about one thing, regardless of nationality. It is the ability to communicate and live a vision that brings people together with common goals and set of values that helps them be a part of something bigger than themselves. People everywhere want a leader who makes a difference and brings them along for the journey.
How much does humor factor into your keynotes and other speaking engagements?
Humor is vital! It is the best bridge between people that exists. A keynote will fall flat if there is no humor to keep people engaged and listening. Humor is the great equalizer. It helps make hard information easier to learn, and easy material more fun. If all a person does is use PowerPoint and give information they should just make a video and send it in. Well prepared and carefully timed humor is the difference between a pro and everyone else.
How are your keynote presentations unique?
I think you would need to ask my clients and audiences that question. I am a storyteller and use personal stories and antidotes with every main point in the speech or training to bring it to the personal level, making it understandable and usable by each person in their own way. This is what I am told is the big difference.
What are some of the important qualities successful leaders possess?
There are eight major qualities that a 21st century leader must possess. These are in my newest book “A New Breed Of Leader – 8 qualities That Matter Most in The Real World” – What works, What doesn’t and Why:
How can event planners help you make a great keynote and in turn create a successful event?
Event planners are always happy with the results when they help me do my homework. If they are willing to take a half hour (or more for anything longer than keynote) to answer my questions and give me a broad and narrow view of their concerns and goals for the event it is a win-win. My presentations are about them and their audiences, not about me. When someone asks me to do my standard presentation my answer is always the same, “There is no standard, one-size-fits-all speech or training.” Any event planner that takes the time and effort to collaborate with me on content increases the effectiveness of my presentation by 100%!
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