Lee Warren’s initial career was in the magic world, spending over 20 years as a professional magician, and he was even a member of the world-famous Magic Circle. He was so good, the Prince of Wales, Prince William called him “absolutely amazing”. He is an advocate for live theatre, and he has written for and performed at The Almeida Theatre, and The Royal Opera House.

He then moved into the sales industry, with his first role seeing him selling copies of Encyclopaedia Britannica during the digital revolution when everyone was going paperless. He went on to head up the sales department for Eurotunnel’s Le Shuttle Magazine, Head the Sales for News International, and co-created the first database-led sales programme for Hertz Leasing.

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Lee now combines his experience in sales with his background in magic and theatre to give keynotes, presentations, and workshops to a wide range of companies.

But how did he go from magic to speaking? “A lot of my performing was for corporate client events, and my clients would often ask me to introduce the event, and generally bring a bit more energy into the room. Slowly, that part of my performing took over from magic.”

KEYNOTE TOPICS

How to Persuade Anyone to Do Anything (Well, Almost): Whether you’re in a leadership role, a salesperson, or trying to get teams to work together, you need to be able to persuade your colleagues and clients. Lee combines magic, exercises, business psychology, and case studies to teach the skills needed to communicate with influence. This session can be given as a keynote, seminar, or workshop for intimate audiences or wider events, and is ideal for nyone who needs to sell something to a client.

Key Takeaways

– How to change the way you’re writing fees

– How to stand out by connecting with people emotionally

– When to negotiate

– How to build trust quickly

– How to increase your influence

– How to get people to act on your ideas

– Why you should always offer more than one option in a proposal

Making Networking Work: This interactive and engaging session gives you all the skills you need to be a world-class networker and leave you ready for your next networking opportunity. This session is available as a masterclass, workshop, seminar, or keynote with audience engagement. There is no PowerPoint, instead it is a range of fun activities for the audience to engage in. It is perfect for meetings and conferences where networking is important, and leadership development events where attendees need to learn the importance of networking.

Key Takeaways

– When and how to leave a conversation

– How to follow up, properly

– Why everyone undervalues networking and what to do about it

– The best ways to meet people

– How to keep conversations going

– How to get referrals

– How to create a networking strategy

– The secret to remembering names

– How to use social media

Grown-Ups Don’t Use PowerPoint: Poor presentations cost money, waste peoples time, slow down sales projects, and adds to endless pointless meetings. Lee looks at ways to engage and persuade your colleagues and clients through more interactive means. This session works as a workshop, interactive seminar, or keynote talk. It is perfect for anyone who has to present and wants to learn how to do so in a captivating and exciting way.

Key Takeaways

– How to ‘hook’ an audience

– How to get into your audience’s head

– How to craft a compelling presentation

– Skills that everyone can use to conquer nerves and deliver a great presentation

– How to deal with questions

– The presentation mistakes almost everyone makes, and how to avoid them

– How to avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’

– A fool-proof structure for getting presentations right every time

As well as keynote talks and seminars, Lee also offers workshops and consultancy services. Lee has helped with a range of challenges, including cultural clashes, leadership teams who need to inspire employees, a lack of networking and synergy, companies without a clear common vision, teams who don’t see themselves as sales people but need to sell, and sales teams who need to be re-engaged and re-enthused.

Lee’s example workshops include:

Sales Without Selling: An interactive workshop taking you through a process designed to help you see the sales journey from the client’s point of view.

Kissing Frogs: This interactive workshop is designed to help maximise your potential on the stand during a trade show.

Life’s a Pitch: This workshop focusses on how to create and deliver pitches which will leave the competition crying.

Clients include: Barclays Wealth, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, Laing O’Rourke, Roche, Shell

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book sales business speaker Lee Warren for your next live event.

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