Duncan Stevens

Duncan Stevens Speaking Topics

• The 3% Rule - Unlocking High Performance Leadership

  Helping to Create High Performing Leaders Through An Interactive Keynote Full of Powerful Insights and Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways

  Why is it that some leaders are more influential, effective, and successful than others? Often it is the result of attitude and mindset and constantly adapting and evolving their leadership skills.

  Designed to inspire, motivate and educate leadership teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bite-size strategies, techniques and habits that leaders can employ immediately to create more collaborative, purpose-driven, innovative teams and the mind-set and habits that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your bottom line.

  BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • Use Duncan’s High Performance Model to transform yourself and your teams.
  • Learn the mind-sets and attitudes of high performing leaders.
  • Reframe what it is to be a leader and not just a manager to enhance collaboration.
  • Learn a proven empowerment strategy to drive commitment over compliance.
  • Learn the psychology of leadership and how accountability and response-ability are the cornerstone to success.
  • Learn how to build and create an innovative culture and creative teams.
  • Understand what drives engagement and motivation in a workplace to overcome silos
  • Leave with actionable, practical strategies you can apply immediately.

• Unlocking Potential - Building High Performing Teams

  Helping to Unlock The Potential Of Teams & Cultivating a Mindset For Success With Powerful Easy, Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways

  In this powerful keynote designed to inspire your teams to embrace change, and the power of collaboration and cultivate a mind-set for success to strive to better than the best and excellence as standard.

  Designed to inspire, motivate and educate your teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan Stevens shares easy to apply, actionable, bite-size strategies, techniques and habits that teams and leaders can employ immediately to work more collaboratively, think more creatively and keep pace with change with the world around them. Be it, increasing sales, impacting the bottom line or growing as an organization, your team will be left inspired and thinking differently!

  BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • Use Duncan’s High Performance Model to transform yourself and your teams.
  • Learn the mind-sets and attitudes of high performing teams that you can apply
  • Understand how to foster more collaborative relationships.
  • Understand the difference between and fixed and growth mindset .
  • Learn the psychology of high performance and how accountability, decisiveness and response-ability are the cornerstone to success.
  • Unlock your creative potential.
  • Use the frameworks and strategies used by high performing global teams.
  • Leave with actionable, practical strategies you can apply immediately.

The 'Magic' of Collaboration

How Collaboration Can Future-Proof Your Organization and Bring About Transformational Change For The Better

Silo working is becoming one the biggest challenges for organizations. Silos can be hugely beneficial for laser focus but can often be more damaging and are often the result of underlying cultural challenges. This results in a lack of motivation, low morale, high employee turnover and low performance. Influence and persuasion expert Duncan Stevens delivers unifying keynote speeches around the world to bring teams together and offers insights and actionable strategies to overcome silo working and bring teams together to work more collaboratively.

Using his skills as a professional mentalist for the past 15 years, Duncan brings teams together with his interactive, entertaining mentalist routines and interactive experiments that hang the bigger message of his keynote on. These same skills can be used to help equip teams and leaders with the ability to navigate change fearlessly, embrace collaboration and leverage opportunities these bring.

BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Use Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to nurture collaborative working
• Learn the #1 technique to create more collaborative, creative , innovative teams
• Understand the behavioral science behind building collaborative teams
• Discover strategies to strengthen both internal and external collaboration.
• Recognize why ‘traditional brainstorming’ is hampering creativity and innovation
• Have the skills to lead teams through times of change collectively
• Leave with a new sense of purpose and commitment to knowledge sharing
• Know your part in creating a collaborative culture and it’s importance

Navigating and Embracing Change

Helping Teams And Leaders Navigate and Embrace Change To See New Possibilities and New Opportunities

It’s not change that’s catching organizations out – it’s the pace of change. So we need to keep pace with that change to remain relevant to our customers and effective in the impact we have on our industry. In fact a recent Harvard Business Review suggests that organizations that regularly adapt to change have a 72% higher survival rate compared to those who resist it.

The problem is that according to Kotter International, 70% of change initiatives fail, primarily due to employee resistance or lack of management support,

The good news is that involving employees early in the change process and inspiring your team internally or hiring Duncan as an external change management keynote speaker can reduce resistance, increase buy-in and inspire your team to think differently about change.

BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Understand the 4 barriers to change and how to overcome them.
• Lean into change with excitement and a new perspective for possibilities.
• Learn the #1 technique to create more collaborative, change-confident teams
• Learn the best practices and proven methodologies to guide the change process
• Understand how to sustain change and build a change-ready culture
• Increased Employee Buy-In and Engagement to the change process
• Leave with alignment on change from leadership to individual level
• Recognize why ‘traditional communication strategies’ hamper change buy-in.
• See how embracing change can yield more opportunities personally and professionally.

Mastering Effective Influence

How Brilliant Teams and Leaders Leverage Effective Influence To Build and Maintain More Authentic Long-Term Relationships and hear yes more often.

All teams and leaders (not just sales teams) are having ever-increasing demands placed on them and our ability to have our voices heard as leaders, support function teams or sales teams in order to influence, collaborate and communicate authentically is becoming ever more crucial for business success.

In this custom, interactive, fun, and content-rich keynote audiences members will learn Duncan Stevens' Effective Influence Model to will help them establish, build create longer client relationships and hear yes more often in negotiations. You will leave with the exact, proven, and easy to apply strategies you can apply to hear yes more often.

BY THE END OF THIS SESSION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Use Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to influence and negotiate more effectively
• Master the art of active listening to understand client’s needs and behaviors
• Learn how to effectively communicate the value, not just the price of your offering
• Understand the behavioral psychology behind influence to hear yes more often
• Adopt a new, sustainable approach to leading others through the negotiation process
• Cultivate longer-lasting relationships with new and existing clients
• Understand how you can leverage influence to collaborate more effectively.

For both sales teams & internal and external stakeholders and support teams