Five Reasons Joel Garfinkle is The Sought-After Motivational, Professional Public Speaker
1. FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE: Joel is an expert motivational speaker for leadership. Working closely with executives, senior managers, directors and employees at some of the most well known and successful companies in the world, Joel has come to understand the keys to leadership greatness. Knowing what makes a leader successful allows Joel to connect with audiences in meaningful and deep ways. A motivational, inspirational business speaker, Joel’s gathering of best practices enables him to use real-life, impactful and thought provoking stories to move audiences to action. His high-energy presentations are rich in content and in-depth research.
2. EXTREME CUSTOMIZATION: Success as a motivational speaker for leadership hinges upon a speaker’s ability to connect with his audience. Joel spends an extensive amount of time gathering information from his client organizations so that he can customize his talk to meet their needs. Each audience has its own uniqueness and Joel prides himself on making sure he targets his message, content and delivery to that uniqueness. Many motivational, inspirational business speakers do not take the time that Joel does to completely understand the company, division, people, culture and environment he is to address. In addition to spending time with the event coordinators during a pre-event briefing, Joel interviews at least two participants. He is committed not just to knowing the desired end result for the presentation, but to understanding key issues confronting participants and to absorbing their personal stories from inside the company.
3. TOP-NOTCH CREDENTIALS: As a motivational, professional public speaker, Joel has coached many of the world’s leading companies, including Google, Cisco, Gap Inc., Oracle, Bank of America, Starbucks, Hewlett-Packard, and Visa. He is the author of five books: (1) Executive Presence, (2) Time Management Mastery, (3) Love Your Work, (4) Find a Job in 14 Days, (5) Land Your Dream Job.
4. EXTENSIVE EXPERTISE, KNOWLEDGE & HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE:
- 15 years experience as an expert on career advancement, excelling as a business leader, career transition and job fulfillment.
- Recognized as one of the top 50 coaches in America.
- A consultant for two of the top consulting firms in the world: Ernst & Young in Hong Kong and Accenture in San Francisco.
- Having served clients in a variety of industries, Joel has a broad understanding of business, organizational behavior and personal dynamics.
- Regularly featured in the national media, including ABC News, National Public Radio, Forbes, New York Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Fast Company.
- Publishes a popular bimonthly newsletter “Fullfilment@Work,” which is distributed to more than 10,000 subscribers around the world.
5. HIGHLY ENGAGING AUDIENCE PARTIPATION
Joel’s work as a motivational speaker for leadership encourages a high degree of audience-participation that takes place in an informative and interactive learning environment. Participants learn key skills, practical tools, and approaches that can be transferred immediately to their current work responsibilities. Audience involvement occurs during:
- Small and large group peer discussion and learning.
- Entire audience facilitated discussions.
- Exercises with partners and groups.
- Structured individual self-inquiry and reflection.
- Dynamic and interactive sessions with other participants.
- Tips, ideas, and easy-to-implement advice.
- One-on-one sample coaching sessions.
- Lecture and discussions on relevant topics.
- Question-and-answer discussion with professional coaching.