Project Description

Meridith Elliott Powell

Meridith Elliott Powell

Business Keynote Speaker & Business Growth Expert

Voted one of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts, Top 100 Sales Influencers by LinkedIn, and Top 41 Motivational Speakers. Meridith Elliott Powell is an award-winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist. With a background in corporate leadership and sales, her career expands over several industries including banking, healthcare and finance.

Meridith worked her way up from entry-level to earn her position in the C-Suite. She is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Vice-Chair of the National Speakers Association, A Master Certified Business Growth Strategist, A Certified Executive Coach and Certified Speaking Professional.  In addition, Meridith is an invitation-only author for LinkedIn with more than 600,000 learners taking her courses around the world.

With a passion for helping her clients learn the strategies they need to turn uncertainty to competitive advantage. Meridith has a cutting-edge message, rooted in real-life examples and real-world knowledge. She is the author of nine books, including “THRIVE: Turning Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage” named Top Sales Book, and Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy, written with Dr. Mary Kelly. Who Comes Next? solves one of the biggest challenges in business today – building your leadership bench. Both books have won the top honors for the Benjamin Franklin Independent Books Sellers Award. One of the highest honors for business books.

Meridith is regularly featured in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., Investment News, and American Banker among others. High energy and highly interactive, she helps leaders and business owners learn the new rules of success today, and the strategies they need to Thrive in Uncertainty. You can find her inspiring message and strategies on both of her podcasts: Sales Logic – the “logical” approach to selling successfully in challenging times, and THRIVE – where Meridith interviews leaders, sales professionals and business owners who have transformed their organizations to turn uncertainty to opportunity.

In her highly engaging keynote-speaking sessions, Meridith shares how you can think, feel and most importantly react to uncertainty, and the power of what you can do to start to control change rather than have change control you. Meridith shows her audiences how to attract more business, retain top talent, and leap into position to win in a constantly shifting marketplace.

Meridith always deliver practical solutions to businesses toughest challenges.  No walking on coals, no breaking boards, just real-life strategies you can put into place first thing Monday morning.

When not coaching or keynoting, Meridith can be found on her favorite hiking trail, riding her mountain bike, or endlessly chasing little white golf balls on courses round the country.

Topic Titles

THRIVE: Turning uncertainty To Competitive Advantage

Leadership Redefined: Ownership, Engagement, Results!

Sales Redefined: Dominate, Differentiate, Deliver

Defy: Strategies to Succeed No Matter What This Economy Does

Succession Planning Redefined: Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Made Easy

Success Redefined: Confidence, Hustle, Drive

Books

30 Days To Sales Success

The Confidence Plan

The Confidence Plan: A Guided Journal

Thrive: Strategies to Turn Uncertainty to Competitive Advantage

30 Days to Sales Success: Build More Profitable Relationships, Close More Sales, Drive More Business

Who Comes Next? Leadership Succession Planning Made Easy

The Best Sales Book Ever/The Best Sales Leadership Ever

Own It: Redefining Responsibility

List of Past Clients

  • American Association of General Contractors
  • American Association of Healthcare Administrators
  • BOSCH
  • IBM
  • Caterpillar
  • Clopay
  • Blue Ridge Community College
  • Cal State University
  • Electrical Cooperative Federal Credit
    Union
  • Farm Credit Advisory Group
  • City of Greensboro
  • City of High Point
  • Mental Health Systems
  • Park Ridge Health