Chris Westfall

Chris Westfall Speaking Topics

• Finding Easier

  Discover how to make tough times easier with guidance from Forbes contributor and author Chris Westfall. Inside the interactive keynote presentation, tailored for your organization, you’ll discover:

  • The way to really improve retention and engagement for your team – and how to communicate (human to human) in the Age of AI
  • Insights into attracting the brightest and best to your organization
  • Self-leadership skills, so that you can access peak performance
  • Beating back burnout to find resilience, resourcefulness – and personal freedom

  In this highly interactive keynote, Chris Westfall looks at the nature of self-leadership – so that your team can find new roads to growth. This high-energy event focuses on driving new performance: filled with opportunities for turning reflection into new action. That way, your organization and your team members can go from “How are we gonna get through this?” to “What are we gonna get from this?”

  The takeaways here are crystal-clear:

  1. Discover greater resilience
  2. Improve your understanding of what self-leadership looks like – and learn how to demonstrate empathy to your peers
  3. Unpack the power of listening, so that you can make this maxim come to life: none of us is as smart as all of us

  This workshop is focused on personal and professional development, for high-growth organizations that understand how a powerful culture grows from the inside out. That’s right: new growth begins one person, and one conversation, at a time.

  Here’s the conversation that makes your new goals and objectives easier!

• Leadership Language

  Find out what you haven’t heard about leadership in this myth-busting journey of new discovery – and new outcomes – for the leaders in your organization. Connect with the only language you need to know in order to change your results. Engaging, personal, and inspiring Leadership Language shows your team how to tap into your leadership potential from the moment Chris Westfall begins speaking.

  When you understand Leadership Language, you know how to:

  • Lead your team to greater results, with an unstoppable contagious energy
  • Elevate your customer relationships, and launch ideas with new impact
  • Overcome the challenge of change through greater understanding of how people think, connect, and engage
  • Discover innovation, leadership, and creativity on your own terms – and turn those concepts into a competitive advantage

  Leadership Language tackles the number one challenge facing your organization today: effective communication. We’ve got more ways than ever to connect – but are you making the connections that matter?

  At the heart of every business issue, every new initiative and every customer service interaction is COMMUNICATION. Are you ready to change the conversation, and change your results?

  With Chris Westfall’s keynote, your employees, owners and team members will explore these powerful leadership communication questions:

  • What makes a leader effective, and why?
  • What’s beyond psychology and personality, when it comes to leading others to new results?
  • What’s your vision, and how can you share it in a way that’s compelling, engaging and actionable?
  • Finding lasting motivation: what’s beyond “flow states” and getting “psyched up” that causes behaviors to really change?

  Make your organization’s culture your competitive advantage with Leadership Language.

Secrets of the NEW Elevator Pitch

For sales audiences, marketing pros, and branding specialists, it's time to change the conversation and change your results • with guidance from the US National Elevator Pitch Champion.

Can you tell your story in a way that’s concise, clear, and compelling…even if your client decides to take the stairs?

There’s a new way of looking at the perfect “elevator pitch” – and, according to the US National Elevator Pitch Champion, it’s not a pitch at all! Leading clients around the globe to change from a ‘pitch” to a conversation has helped Chris Westfall to launch over four dozen businesses and propel his clients onto television shows like Shark Tank, Dragons Den in Canada, and even Shark Tank – Australia. Interested in creating multi-million-dollar revenues, attracting new customers, and generating world-class customer service? Want to build a better brand? Are you curious to know how to access the lost art of the persuasive conversation • without feeling pushy, sales-y, or fake?

The publisher of seven books, Chris Westfall has helped raise over $400 million in new investment, while launching over five dozen businesses. He’s coached the winners of the Harvard Executive MBA Pitch Competition, the Intel Global Capital Conference, SEC New Ventures, and the Rice Business Plan Competition – the largest and most lucrative competition of its kind in the world. What could your organization discover, in this interactive pitch workshop from one of the world’s top experts on compelling communication?

Takeaways include:

• Insights into instant interest: how to build rapport without being manipulative
• What mistakes your team is making, right now, when pitching for new business
• How to overcome the natural resistance to a “pitch” – and how to create the authentic conversation that replaces it

This interactive keynote can include audience participation – giving your team the chance to be coached by the best of the best! Learn how to grow your business, and why you’ve got to stop “pitching”, with advice from the National Champ!