Jim Cathcart

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Motivational Speaker, Author, Executive Coach

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Jim Cathcart Biography

With over 42 years of professional speaking across the globe, Jim Cathcart is a well-established motivational speaker and a recognized authority in personal and professional development. He has delivered more than 3,300 presentations to diverse audiences in every state of the US, most provinces of Canada, and multiple countries including Scotland, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, France, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Poland, and Chile. An active speaker in China, Cathcart has addressed audiences in 21 cities since 2015. His international engagements also include presentations to business leaders in Taiwan and hoteliers in Bali, Indonesia.

Cathcart's background is as varied as it is impressive. Starting his career in various roles from warehouse worker to insurance agent, he became inspired to master motivation after hearing Earl Nightingale on the radio in 1972. This inspiration led him to a profound career shift from a government clerk to a highly sought-after professional speaker and author. Today, he is a member of the professional Speaker Hall of Fame and has been recognized with numerous awards including The Golden Gavel Award, The Cavett Award, and The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the National Speakers Association. He has authored 20 books on various aspects of personal development and professional success.

Cathcart's professional accolades also include being a "Hall of Fame" business motivator, a certified speaking professional, and a recipient of The Legends of Speaking Award. He has been selected as one of the Top 5 Sales & Customer Service Speakers multiple times by Speaking.com in online surveys and has been listed among the Top 50 Sales Influencers by Top Sales World magazine. His profound impact on the industry is further commemorated by the San Diego chapter of the National Speakers Association, which renamed their member of the year award "The Jim Cathcart Service Award."

An avid motorcyclist and guitar player, Cathcart brings a relatable and energetic style to his presentations, connecting with audiences on both professional and personal levels. His teachings emphasize the importance of relationship building, self-leadership, and continuous learning. He covers a wide range of topics including leadership, sales, decision making, and empowerment, focusing on helping professionals harness their natural strengths and align themselves with roles that maximize potential and productivity. His approach to professional growth and customer loyalty through improved service standards has made him a beloved figure in the speaking circuit.

Jim Cathcart continues to be a highly active motivational speaker, executive coach, and a respected figure in virtual communications. Regularly featured on platforms like ThriveTimeShow.com and TSTN.com, he remains a sought-after voice in discussions on effective leadership, change management, and peak performance. His dedication to teaching and empowering others underscores his ongoing commitment to influencing positive change in the professional world.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/04/2024.

Jim Cathcart Speaking Topics

  • Relationship Selling™ (Treating Connections as Assets), The Power Minute (Motivation), The Acorn Principle (Tapping Your Potential), Leadership and Motivation, Relationship Intelligence®, Communication Strategies

  • Relationship Selling in the New Era

    As the author of the original Relationship Selling, published in 1986, Jim Cathcart has decades of practical experience in seeing what works and what doesn’t. His Eight Competencies of Relationship Selling written in 2002, emphasizes increasing Sales Readiness at all levels of the organization. He motivates sales people to see customers as assets and to build profitable business friendships.

  • Growing Leadership At All Levels

    “If you can’t lead you, please don’t lead me!” Self Leadership is the beginning point for Organizational Leadership. Cathcart’s best seller The Acorn Principle grows out of his psychological research coupled with cutting edge business strategy and shows people how to use the collective intellect of the organization to tap individual strengths and maximize motivation. He shows how to get people to embrace the “genetic code” of your organization.

  • The Grandma Factor: Lifetime Customer Loyalty

    When you find meaning in what you do, you bring value to what you do. Everyone knows how to provide good service; our challenge is getting them to want to. The real magic in customer service comes from discretionary efforts, when people go beyond their job description. This presentation focuses on the ways systems, strategies, standards, and relationships impact service. Jim Cathcart teaches building your clientele through “up-serving.”

  • Rethinking Ourselves for a New Era

    "If you can't lead yourself, please don't lead others." The most popular methods of leadership, management, sales, and service delivery are already dangerously out of date. New technologies require new ways of thinking. Every day another standard practice becomes obsolete. To continue to grow and thrive we must learn to constantly rethink our markets, our systems, our relationships, our strategies, and ourselves. This presentation combines stories, visuals, research, and audience interaction to dramatically improve the way we think and act.

  • Intelligent Motivation for a Challenging World

    Knowledge and skill will not win the day, but confident action can change your world. Learn how to increase your drive, strengthen your discipline, and sustain the action that is needed to succeed. “Intelligent Motivation” is determining what is important, identifying what action is needed, and doing what is necessary to generate and sustain that action until your desired outcome is achieved. It is conscious, objective, intentional, and relentless action on vision, focus, standards, meaning, agreements, measures, and rewards. In this program, Jim Cathcart will teach you how to inspire vision, take focused action, create firm standards, make your work more meaningful, and develop clear agreements, accurate measures, and appealing rewards.

Jim Cathcart Videos

  • How to believe in yourself: Jim Cathcart at TEDxDelrayBeach
    Jim Cathcart thought he would never make a difference. An average student from a working class family with no athletic or special skills, he...

Jim Cathcart Books

  • Relationship Selling: The eight competencies of top sales producers
    Relationship Selling: The eight competencies of top sales producers
  • The Acorn Principle: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
    The Acorn Principle: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself

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Jim Cathcart is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Relationship Selling™ (Treating Connections as Assets), The Power Minute (Motivation), The Acorn Principle (Tapping Your Potential), Leadership and Motivation, Relationship Intelligence®, Communication Strategies, Relationship Selling in the New Era, Growing Leadership At All Levels , The Grandma Factor: Lifetime Customer Loyalty, Rethinking Ourselves for a New Era and Intelligent Motivation for a Challenging World. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jim Cathcart for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Jim Cathcart generally travels from Austin, TX, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Tim Sanders, Don Peppers, Tony Alessandra, Vince Poscente and Dr. Jackie Freiberg. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jim Cathcart for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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