Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/29/2024.
The Story Behind the Million Dollar Arm
Inspired by watching a professional cricket match on ESPN late one evening, J.B. traveled across the world to India with the plan and dream of finding Major League Baseball's (MLB) first Indian born player.
Bernstein actually found two boys named Rinku and Dinesh that he brought back to the US to became baseball pitchers. Seven months later they both became the 1st Indian born athletes to ever sign professional sports contracts in the USA, in any sport.
The MDA contest continues and is now called the “MLB Million Dollar Arm”. The next contest expects 500,000+ young men and boys to try out.
J.B. shares the business side of the Million Dollar Arm saga and uses it as a blueprint of how to be successful.
Not only in business, but to succeed in life.
Whether you are in a B2C or B2B business, selling goods and services is not easy. Sales leaders must have an ability to act quickly and be an expert in many categories.
Most importantly, they must be impervious to rejection.
Using experiences from his unique background as case studies, J.B. shares the 6 roadblocks to closing sales and how to bust through them. The presentation ends with an interactive sales challenge from Bernstein to the audience. These exercises will the leave attendees inspired and thinking of new ways to redefine maximizing sales in their own organizations.
Big ideas do not magically appear. There is no hidden storage unit of pre-generated ideas locked away in the recesses of our minds. Good ideas come from a process.
In this marketing focused program, J.B. shares the steps in his revolutionary “Idea Generation System”. This presentation is completed with cases studies and accomplishments from his career to show the system in action and the results.
Ideas are the lifeblood of business growth, but so few believe they are capable of coming up with them. After this presentation business leaders walk away with fresh thoughts on how to better foster a culture of big ideas and creativity that can permeate their entire organization.
More important, the rank and file leave with not only the belief that big ideas are within their grasp, but also the simple tools to start bringing new ideas and results to their own business.
J.B. Bernstein is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as SOMETIMES TO WIN, YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THE GAME, SEVEN FIGURE SELLING and HEY... WHERE'S MY BIG IDEA?. The estimated speaking fee range to book J.B. Bernstein for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. J.B. Bernstein generally travels from Las Vegas, NV, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Saj-Nicole Joni, Kim Ng, John Naber, Ken Burns and Natalie Lefever. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling J.B. Bernstein for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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