Principal and Founder of Sjodin Communications, Author and Keynote
Principal and Founder of Sjodin Communications, Author and Keynote
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Terri Sjodin is a renowned speaker, author, and entrepreneur, celebrated for her expertise in helping professionals enhance their persuasive presentation skills. More than thirty years after launching her company, Sjodin Communications, from a spare room in her home, she has built an impressive client list that includes Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, national sales teams, industry associations, and even members of Congress.
She is the author of several books, including “Scrappy” and the New York Times Best Seller, “Small Message, Big Impact”, (Penguin/Portfolio), which also hit the Wall Street Journal Hardcover Business bestseller list, and USA Today Money bestseller list. Her newest book, “Presentation Ready” based on a multi-year, three phase research study, was recently published by McGraw-Hill.
In July of 2012, Terri was inducted into the NSA Speaker Hall of Fame. This award, called the CPAE, is a lifetime award for speaking excellence and professionalism. Inductees are evaluated by their peers through a rigorous and demanding process. Each candidate must excel in seven categories: material, style, experience, delivery, image, professionalism and communication. She also received the prestigious CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation. Less than 12% of the 5,000 speakers who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers hold this professional designation. She was also named one of the top five Women in Business by the Orange County Business Journal.
Beyond her success as an entrepreneur and author, Terri is a popular LinkedIn Learning Instructor and a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows throughout the country, appearing on The Today Show, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, and many industry podcasts. Her impact extends beyond the business realm, as she serves on the Orange County Board of Trustees for Olive Crest. Olive Crest is dedicated to preventing child abuse, to treating and educating at-risk children and to preserving the family one life at a time.
Terri graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communication. Before forming her own company, Terri was a top sales producer with both The Achievement Group and Resource Dynamics.
Her combination of academic communication theory, field research, and practical street sales experience collected during thousands of coast-to-coast business presentations cast Terri in the leading role of advising today's professionals on becoming more polished, persuasive presenters and adapting to the changing marketplace.
Terri is a high content speaker – Her approach is fresh, real-world, and her style is sassy and practical. Each presentation is loaded with street-worthy ideas, methods, and tips that men and women can use immediately to get results. Many consider Terri to be today’s sales professionals speech coach.
Most people want to improve their presentations but don’t know where to start — and that can be costly. That is where this program can help.
In this session, Terri shares the results from her multiyear research project on the state of sales presentations, which identified 12 common mistakes that may cost an individual the win, the deal, or the opportunity, and shows how to avoid them. Why focus on mistakes? Because you can’t improve what you don’t recognize as a problem. The solutions will ultimately help you course-correct faster and gain greater confidence for future presentations.
The audience will gain an understanding of:
Has your sales presentation become far too informative versus persuasive? You are not alone.
In this session, Terri will address one of the highest ranked mistakes participants self-identified in The State of Sales Presentations research study: Being Overly Informative Versus Persuasive. She will show you specific method for developing logical persuasive arguments in the body of your presentations, including how-tos for identifying your most compelling talking points. This is a roll-up-your-shirt-sleeves interactive session.
In today’s competitive market, it takes more than just showing up, more than persistence, more than just having a dream to reach your goals. Sometimes you have to get a little scrappy and creative to earn the right to be heard!
In this special session, attendees will get a sneak peek into Terri Sjodin’s book, Scrappy: A Little Book About Choosing to Play Big (Penguin Random House August 2016). The American Heritage Dictionary defines “scrappy” as “…full of fighting-spirit.” The impetus of a scrappy mindset might begin when a person (insert you) has a specific goal with a specific challenge to circumvent, most likely within a certain time frame. Terri will share research, interview material and incredible stories from a variety of people from different industries who have pulled off seemingly impossible wins or achieved crazy, fun goals. This session will give you tactical ideas to help you execute on your vision of what you can accomplish…once you decide to get scrappy.
Sjodin Communications is offering a new 4 Part “Live” Event Webinar Series done entirely online through your company’s preferred platform!
Join renowned presentation coach Terri Sjodin for a series on the art of presenting to create influence! The focus will be on developing verbal communication skills for greater impact with clients, whether virtually or in-person. Terri will share ideas and data from her national research study on the State of Sales Presentations, including an overview of the 12 Most Common Presentation Mistakes people make and how to avoid them… which, by the way, are proving to be even more prevalent in virtual presentations!
The goal of this series is to start the conversation on “leveling up” your virtual presentations and adapt to the changing marketplace
You won’t find a more captivating, enthusiastic, humorous, and street savvy speaker than Terri Sjodin.
Terri Sjodin delivers. While she came to us highly recommended, she definitely exceeded our expectations. Her presentation was the highlight of our event and comments heard from attendees included: Terri’s presentation was excellent. Not only did she give me some great ideas to help me be a better presenter, but I found it very entertaining as well. We would have Terri back again. Thanks for helping make our event a success.
Terri has the ability to teach you how to use your own authentic voice when you deliver a speech or message. She challenges you to create your own path, continue to improve and grow, enjoy the ride by being creative and scrappy, above all enjoy the ride!
“Terri’s ability to breakdown the complicated and often intimidating subject of communication and public speaking was impressive. The organization and delivery of each session helped drive her lessons home and brought to life the important aspects of a persuasive presentation in real life context. Her captivating approach to this topic draws the audience in and enlightens even the most seasoned presenters. From the first session to the last, Terri’s thoughtful content impressed our team and inspired them to incorporate her lessons into their day-to-day work.”
“Terri is an exceptional author, coach and presenter. She delivers her message in a very concise and impactful manner. Our organization has contracted her repeatedly to engage and increase productivity with our managing principals. She is also very personable and incredible to work with throughout the entire engagement and execution process.”
“…Everyone loved your dynamic and instructive presentation. It set the stage and was referenced often throughout the rest of the day. You were definitely a highlight of the Retreat!”
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