Originally from a blue-chip background, Nicola held senior sales positions at American Express, Procter & Gamble and Gucci, before switching her focus, initially to a scaleup business where she was part of the management team that successfully scaled and exited, before starting her own consulting firm in 2004.

She’s brilliant at combining theory with practical tools and templates that business owners can take away to use directly in their own businesses and with their own teams to build a profitable and scalable Sales Engine for their own company.

Nicola Cook – Speaking topics:

1. Nicola Cook on Building a Sales Engine for Growth

During this high energy and practical sales acceleration presentation for business owners and sales leaders, Nicola walks you through the four key principles of S.A.M© (The Sales Acceleration Model), the sales growth methodology that has added an average of +140% to the Net Profit of Company Shortcuts’ clients. By following her guiding principles, a business that is struggling to build scale in their sales operation, or a business who is experiencing organic fast revenue growth but at the expense of margin protection and consistent customer experience, or one who is frustrated with flat sales growth and profit results; can and will achieve accelerated growth.

2. Nicola Cook on Sales Teams 2.0 – The new Sales & Marketing Eco-system

The landscape of sales & marketing has changed. Digital advancements have disrupted the buying cycle and most businesses are ill-equipped to understand or manage a buyer’s needs as they engage with you. Based on the latest research, Nicola will summarise the changes in buying behaviour against the four main types of buyers, before outlining how to structure, recruit and build a sales team fit for ‘The Age of the Customer’

3. Nicola Cook on Sales Secrets© – The sales skills everyone in your business should know

It’s unusual (in the UK specifically) for individuals to want to be labelled as ‘in sales’, yet everyone in your business needs to understand their contribution towards revenue generation and profit protection, yet most have never been trained in the most basic fundamentals of selling. Would everyone in your business know how to spot an opportunity, how to engage them, qualify them or what to do next? Nicola’s simple sales structure and techniques will enable you to empower your people and embed into your business the ethos that ‘sales is a culture – not a department’, ensuring everyone is equipped with the skill set to drive sales growth.

4. Nicola Cook on Stiletto Leadership

A fun and engaging keynote, underpinned by real research and latest thinking, peppered with anecdotes and real-life stories Nicola will share why we should celebrate the natural differences of masculine and feminine leadership, and specifically for female delegates, why they should tap into their feminine strengths to achieve their ambition, build teams and empower others. Inspired by Nicola’s personal stories and tales of mistakes she’s made, the impacting consequences and the successes she’s created by applying her own Stiletto Leadership style.

5. Nicola Cook on Design the life you want, don’t settle for the life you have – (specifically for teenagers & young adults)

Nicola donates a number of days per year to work with educational organisations where she delivers this inspiring and uplifting keynote to young people at their school. Nicola is able to share her experience of growing up in a North East steel town where ‘The Company’ closed in 1980, at the same time the region was decimated by the simultaneous loss of coal mining and shipbuilding, plunging the area into abject poverty but more sadly wiping away all hopes and aspirations of a generation. Her story of how, from an early age, she decided not to be limited by or defined by the lack of opportunities or self-limiting mindsets of many of her peers is an important message that Nicola is passionate about sharing with young people as they themselves begin to make decisions in their own lives.

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book female business speaker Nicola Cook  for your next live event or corporate video.  

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