Kevin Kelly
A motivational coach with a bent toward entrepreneurs, Kevin Kelly is an Ireland native who played an inspirational role in the formation of the new "Celtic Tigers" (Ireland's future entrepreneur program). His presentation weaves together exercises, information, stories and all kinds of media in a unique and inspiring experience.
Kevin Kelly is an Internationally Acclaimed Motivational Speaker and authority on entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, creativity and personal excellence.
After graduating with a Commerce degree in 1987, he proceeded to break sales record in each of the companies his worked for.
Over the past two decades, he has keynoted at events around the world including the Middle East, Far East, Europe and the US.
Whether it is a one hour keynote speech or a one day seminar, Kevin has the ability to engage people one hundred per cent in his interactive experiences. His results speak for themselves - four presentations in Monaco, Edinburgh, Colorado and Tehran recorded a 4.5 out of five average. Kevin weaves his magic with a cocktail of exercises, information and stories that are based on his unique experiences around the world, inside and outside corporate corridors. From challenging himself to write a Best Seller even though limited by a poor grade in English, to going from high income to low income and back when he decided to follow his passion, to breaking sales records in many companies, Kevin is a unique motivational speaker who more than walks the path of his own philosophies.
Born in the West of Ireland where he still lives with his wife Deirdre and son Conor, his other book titles include his Business Book "Basics before Buzz" and "Life: A Trip Towards Trust." In addition, he has produced three motivational CD's Good Enough - Now go get it; Setting, getting and forgetting Goals and Compelling Communication Strategies. (All now translated into Farci.)
Kevin has appeared many times on National TV and radio shows in Ireland, UK, USA and most recently featured on the front page of Success Magazine in Iran.
"Honesty, Integrity and Passion" - these are the three things you get when you recruit Kevin as a Motivational Keynote speaker according to research conducted amongst his key customers.
If you want a ROI (return on investment) from your next keynote speaker choose Kevin - authentic, engaging and results driven.
"We asked Kevin to handle the coveted spot closing out our MDRT Experience meeting in Seoul, Korea this year. Kevin gave the audience an abundance of energy, enthusiasm and practical take-away messaging that our members can immediately apply to their lives. I would definately urge any organization to consider utilizing Kevin Kelly on their program."
- Anthony Germade
Executive Producer
Million Dollar Round Table
"Thank you for an entertaining and content rich workshop. In addition to engaging our people......you delivered some valuable messages that resonated cross culturally in our marketplace."
- Anson Bailey
Principal, Business Development
KPMG China
"Polished speaker, great audience control, great content - 'exceptional execution of ordinary ideas' is a great core message."
- Joseph W. Jordan
Senior Vice President - National Sales Organization
MetLife USA
"We had the Top 25 Executives from around the world here for the first time and we needed to set the tone for the meeting. Kevin did just that providing challenges and insights for each one of us and creating a positive and open interaction"
- Flextronics
http://www.flextronics.com
"We engaged Kevin to speak to our entire workforce a number of months prior to the business closing. We were looking for an alternative means to invigorate people and to instill a positive outlook in an inherently negative situation. Kevin Kelly delivered. His sessions focused on job searching, self-marketing and self belief. Feedback was universally positive and an exercise we were delighted to have delivered to our folks."
- John O?Donovan
Director of Operations
Boston Scientific Tullamore
"Xceptionalize your Business - selling and excelling in challenging times"
What to expect? A unique interactive experience that fuses the most up to date research, stories and exercises.
Content: "Xceptionalize your Business" will focus on the three P's to unleash your business potential
1) The Promoter -The Culture Creator - how to develop real presence that will boost employee engagement and customer loyalty. You will learn how to highlight and disempower limiting beliefs.
2) The People - Customer(Internal and External) Learn five assumption about human behaviour that will allow you deliver quality attention to your clients and staff
3) The process - learn how the best companies in the world create a compelling buying experience.
Business Managing in an Attention Deficit Society
In this keynote, Kevin highlights the challenges of managing in the current climate and provides participants with a blueprint for organizational success.
Content:
Three keys:
- Customer Engagement: How to convert your customers into friends - customers leave, friends don't!
- Employee Engagement: How to tap into the innate creativity and potential of your staff. As technologies converge, employee engagement is a prerequisite for business survival and success.
- Realizing You: How to become a more authentic, effective manager
Customer service Exceptionalize your service
Customer Service Excellence could be your competitive edge in the marketplace. This keynote covers how to "exceptionalize" your service and boost your bottom line.
Content:
- The marketplace
- Excellence through understanding - profiling the customer
- Contact point analysis
- Setting standards
- Exceeding standards and "exceptionalising" your service
- Action
Sales Motivation: Motivation through Understanding
(Motivational Keynote or half day):
In this sales motivation session, Kevin will highlight the many assumptions you can make about human behavior. Based on these observations, Kevin shows how to dramatically increase your sales figures.
Content:
Eight Assumptions about Human Behavior, including:
- How people cannot lie.successfully?
- Exploring the intimate link between our physiology (the way we look) and our psychology (the way we think). Knowing when to close or leave! How people crave attention?
- How to excel in an Attention Deficit Society? A unique understanding of the power of listening from four different perspectives.
- How people like each other that are like each other? Building rapport by mirroring. How?
- How people buy experiences, not things?
- How and why you should "exceptionalise" your service?
- How you are the difference?
Primetime: priming yourself for personal and business success.
Action precedes excellence.
Sales Motivation: Modeling off past success strategies
(Motivational Keynote or half day):
By modeling off past success strategies, participants will be able to silence that negative inner voice that says "I am not good enough" and move closer to achieving their targets.
Content:
- Childlike Wisdom - Success strategies that endure the test of time.
- The Power of Belief
- Magnetic Attraction - what happened when you made that major purchase in your life?
- Go for Gut, the wisdom of champions
- Mission Possible - infect customers with your energy and enthusiasm for your products. Note: people buy people, not products.
- Action
Motivational Speaking Thinking and Doing differently
(One Day/Half Day Seminar or Keynote Speech)
In this session, Kevin will show how to re-ignite your potential by changing your thinking. Remember thinking precedes excellence.
Content:
- "I am the problem; I am the solution." - Starting point.
- What is your current thinking - are you fooling yourself?
- Conscious Incompetence to Subconscious Mastery - how?
- Personal Audit - Highlighting and disempowering limiting beliefs.
- The power of focus
- ActionM
Motivational Speaking: Goals - setting, getting and forgetting
(One-Day/Half day Seminar or Keynote Speech)
In this session, Kevin will provide participants with the exact goalsetting process he has successfully used to write a Best Selling Book and build an International Brand.
Content:
Goal-setting Guidelines: The how to of Goal setting including new exercise that proves what you see is what you get!
The Goal for the 21st Century = the secret to a life less limiting.
- Prime Time: Exercises designed to internalise your goals/ dreams
- The First Step: Getting participants to set goals in all aspects of their lives.
Leadership Training: New Leadership in a New Marketplace
(Keynote, half day or full day)
In this leadership training session, Kevin will share with participants the challenges they face as leaders and the strategies they need to embrace, to leverage personal and organizational potential.
Content:
- Leadership training first principle: start with yourself.
- Self Awareness is seen by Stanford Business School Advisory Committee as the most important attribute that a leader should develop. Kevin will bring you on a trip that will make you a more authentic and effective leader in challenging times.
- How to move towards conviction and congruence?
- Internal and External customer engagement ? how?
- Creating Leaders at all levels - why?
- Developing a creative culture - how?
- Listening: 4 new perspectives
- Communicating in an attention deficit society.
- Diluting the ego and attracting mastermind alliances
- Leadership Language - going for gut
- Finding comfort and opportunity in discomfort.
Entrepreneurship: Success through failure
(Keynote, half day or full day)
Right around the world, fear of failure is the number one reason that stops people from setting up their own business (Source: Global Entrepreneurial Monitor.)
In this entrepreneurship session, participants will learn how to disempower this limiting pattern and move towards achieving their dreams. Participants will be left in no doubt that they possess the resources required to take that next step - if they so choose.
The session will also provide them with the tools required to walk the path of the entrepreneur.
Content:
- Eight assumptions about human behavior - by understanding our internal and external customers, we can geometrically improve our rapport/sales/negotiating ability.
- Personal Audit: Participants of the entrepreneurship session will complete a unique exercise that will highlight, and then help to disempower limiting beliefs. As in all organizational challenges, identifying the problem is the challenge, not solving it. This exercise will allow individuals to find and floor their fears.
- You got it! Exercises and anecdotes that will help dissipate the limiting belief "I am not good enough" that haunts many people. By identifying and mirroring off past success strategies, a new sense of self belief will be instilled.
- Crossing the bridge from inaction to action - the first steps.
Course Styles:
Energetic, informative and interactive with a focus on integration. In addition to keeping the audience engaged, we strive to provide them with a toolbox of "How to" skills before they leave the auditorium.
Other Seminars
Kevin can customize a program in any of the following fields:
- Managing Change
- Motivation
- Leadership Training
- Entrepreneurship
- Sales/ Customer Service
- Teamwork and Creativity
Chelsea Handler
US Toll Free: 1.800.842.4483
International: +1.214.744.3885


