Speaking Engagements

Kevin Armstrong will disrupt the way you think.

Kevin’s Speaking

How Leaders Can Be Leveraged

“It was the very first conference we have put on where every single person stood up at the same time in an ovation (for Kevin Armstrong).”

Rocco Chiovitti
V.P. Sales, Danka Corporation, (Houston, Texas)

True leaders rarely make exceptional managers. Yet every day, businesses are destroyed when business owners and their executive teams place their greatest leaders into management roles. Why does this happen?

For the past 20+ years of his career, Kevin Armstrong has studied the important differences between the roles of ‘leader’ and ‘manager’ in business. His speaking engagements expand on this concept in an interactive, thought-provoking manner which disrupts current thinking and leaves audiences with a new understanding of how leaders can be leveraged through exceptional management to achieve business and personal success.

Kevin’s thought-provoking presentations include, but are not limited to, insights on:

How to implement a culture of accountability where politics cannot survive.
How you are destroying your business by placing your leaders in management positions.
How to differentiate, value and align your leaders and managers – get everyone in the right seat, heading in the same direction.
How to get your business working for you rather than you working for your business.
Tangible tools for becoming a more effective manager – a “Manacoach.”

Business is a performance-based endeavor where exceptional management of top players leads to success. Through his engaging and highly effective presentations, Kevin Armstrong leaves business owners and executives with a clear understanding of how to achieve that success.

Stop destroying your business by making managers out of leaders. Kevin’s proven concepts and techniques are supported by years of experience and data, and he has the results to back it up. Explore our testimonials and see for yourself.

Kevin’s Speaking Topics

How to implement a culture of accountability where politics cannot survive.

Once you have more than one person in a room politics will exist. The question is to what extent. Kevin will have your team laughing but learning how to reduce politics, increase communication, deal with issues in an effective and productive manner, and increase accountability. It’s simple but not easy.

How you are destroying your business by placing your leaders in management positions.

All of Kevin’s sessions concentrate on the common words that we use that really don’t have an agreed upon common understanding. Unlike any other performance activity, in business we give the coaches (managers) the lion’s share of remuneration, recognition, and status, while the people who deliver, the leaders, are in large part ignored. In this fun filled session we take a closer look at why it’s not working and how to change it.

How to differentiate, value and align your leaders and managers – get everyone in the right seat, heading in the same direction.

Imagine an organization where everyone has the right attitude, is aligned with your core values, and each person knows exactly what they are accountable for, what the standards are, and how those standards will be measured. After this thought provoking interactive session you walk away rethinking how your business unit can move forward.

Tangible tools for becoming a more effective manager – a “Manacoach."
  • Are you a good manager? Do you motivate your team members to give 110% of their knowledge, talent and potential each day? Do you have the courage to initiate the “tough” conversations? Do your team members know exactly what they are being held accountable for?
  • There is a significant difference between exceptional management and great leadership. Perhaps you are a person entering into management. Or, perhaps you are a business owner who now realizes that you are a technician, or an entrepreneur that needs to become a better manager, or hire good managers in order to enjoy your business more, and / or make it more valuable.
  • Through a speaking engagement with Kevin, your team will need to examine the meanings and the differences between these two words. You’ll walk away able to better define what makes an exceptional manager, and what that manager does.
How to get your business working for you rather than you working for your business.

Picture this in your mind: if over the next three years on a compound basis your sales double, your profits double, but also the amount of time you spend working in and on your business doubles, what do you look like? The answers to this question vary but none of them are good. They include words like divorced, physically out of shape, emotionally stressed, sick, disabled, tired, but the good news is you have money and you think your business is doing well. It’s important not only that your business grows, but that your freedom from your business also grows so that you can enjoy time with your loved ones while pursuing your personal goals. 90% of business owners and manacoaches don’t even know what those personal goals are. In this presentation you will leave a different person with an actual strategy on how to create this freedom.

Our Promise to You: After our session, if you don’t walk away with tangible tools to become a better manager or leader – you don’t pay.

Leader or Manager:
Where do you fit?

 

Which role are you better suited for: the exceptional manager or the great leader?

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“I interview a lot of consultants and not only is Kevin a consultant, but he’s lived it. He’s been on the streets, he’s been a manager, a teacher, and he has a very good idea of what selling is all about. It was the very first conference where people thanked me for choosing a Speaker. These people were so excited they wanted to hit the streets immediately. It was the very first conference we have put on where every single person stood up at the same time in an ovation. Kevin didn’t just give them the “ra ra” and pump them up, he gave them tools they could use. It’s hard to put into words. You had to be there.”

Rocco Chiovitti
V.P. Sales, Danka Corporation, (Houston, Texas)

“There are many challenges in organizing a conference with your managers and the last worry you want when you hire a professional is that he or she is not going to come through and present in a way that makes you look good. It was a pleasure to have the comments from the floor at the end of the four day meeting that showed that Kevin’s presentation was highlighted as the top three hours of the conference. If you want somebody who is reliable, who has integrity, and who comes through with the agenda as you have discussed, then there is no question that your money would be well spent hiring Kevin!”

Jim Werner
Vice President Marketing, Carrier Corp. (A division of United Techologies)

“Kevin is well organized and does his background preparation well. In conference he is an effective public speaker. He radiates confidence and organization. He brings other people out and encourages contributions from the floor. Kevin is an excellent facilitator.”

John Lawrence
Headmaster, St. George’s School

“In the last 3 years I hae been to roughly 12 various seminars and this one was light years ahead of all of them. Tremendously enjoyable and very informative.”

Jim Szabo
Plant Manager, Queensway Machine Products Ltd.

“A nice balance of education and entertainment. It’s always easier to learn when it’s fun.”

Gail Lowe
Co-ordinator, Milner Fennerty

“Kevin is a master at communicating concepts simply, yet very effectively. More corporations would be well advised to listen to him carefully.”

Mike Feedham
National Purchasing Manager, Werner’s Wholesale Group

“Kevin tells a story and makes his point with a sense of humour. What a great way to keep our interest and help us learn.”

Patricia Mohrmann
Enrolment Representative, Canadian Scholarship Trust

“Strikingly accurate at exposing problem areas and providing solutions. Motivation through reality not just ‘fuzzy-warm’ entertainment. Practical and cost justifiable…finally someone who speaks from experience.”

Tom Anderson
Agency Director, C.S.T. Consultants Inc.

“In the over 40 years I have owned a business, I have never come across someone who can deliver such useful information for a business owner or a team leader, in such an entertaining and enjoyable way, in such a short amount of time. Kevin knows his stuff.”

Harry Watson
President, Metro Testing Laboratories Ltd.