Mark Jeffries

Former Merrill Lynch stockbroker Mark Jeffries has become a trusted adviser and communications consultant to many global blue chip corporations, professional services organizations and law firms. Whether coaching high-level executives, taking team members through Pitch Skills or delivering his popular keynote to audiences around the world, Jeffries' services are in continuous demand.

He also regularly appears as an image and communications expert on network television news and lifestyle programmes including NBC’s The Today Show, BBC News, Fox Business and Sky News. Jeffries spends time ‘on-air’ discussing business success along with offering his views on leading Politicians and their ‘Strategic Communication’. He was also the featured expert on “Secrets of Body Language” a two-hour special that aired on the History Channel in the fall of 2008.

From business to politics, he is retained by senior political figures from Washington to London as a key adviser on presentation and soft skills.

Jeffries was the youngest ever broker at Merrill Lynch. After five successful years of finance he was ready for something new. He hired a film crew and made a showreel that led to his first break as a presenter on UK TV.

By interviewing over 4,000 people across more than 1,500 hours of live business television, Jeffries realized what was ‘unsaid’ became almost as important as what was said. An audience’s perception of someone could be completely altered by a simple gesture or action. So began a rapid rise in his abilities to see what the true message was and how image and presentation skills could be fine-tuned, improved and managed to create the ideal ‘communication’ in any crucial business situation.

Jeffries has also completed his first book What's Up With Your Handshake? – an Amazon No. 1 Bestseller in the Category – ‘Selling Skills’! His second book, The Art of Business Seduction, was published in July 2010.

If you want to sharpen up the impact and effect that you and your organization has on clients, Partners and colleagues and use ‘strategic communication’ to build relationships, increase sales and win negotiations, Mark Jeffries can help.

Mark Jeffries Blog Entries:

I Have to Tell You About the Future...

The 3 Rs of Networking: Building Career Connections at Every Opportunity

• 4. Host & Interviewer

  Combining an incisive knowledge of economics and finance with the rare ability to inform and entertain live audiences, Mark is very active in the world of big business. In recognition of his corporate background, network TV presence and business acumen, he is regularly booked to host national and international conferences for a variety of clients such as Microsoft, Motorola, Cognos, GSK, Bunzl, WebMethods, Roche, British Airways and PwC. In addition to his winning style of facilitation, conference organizers normally like Mark to conduct live interviews with their corporate chiefs and host Q&A sessions between delegates and senior management.

• 3. Smart Communication in Tough Times

  In these challenging conditions, you need to re-motivate and retool your people for success. You need a speaker who can inspire, challenge, entertain and, most importantly, help to grow your bottom line. Mark’s keynote is a hugely successful, instantly useable, entertaining and relevant event. He offers a valuable toolbox of innovative communication ideas designed to give your people many new approaches to growing clients and handling colleagues at this challenging time. From building and maintaining relationships through to the subtleties of word-power, onto the secrets of ‘planting ideas’ and Meeting etiquette, Mark’s speech brings an innovative array of useable ideas to your people - matching today’s opportunities.

• 2. Using Strategic Communication to Retain Your Clients, Motivate Your People and Grow Your Profits

  Relationships are based mostly on the communication between two or more people. In a time where corporations outdo each other in an attempt to attract and take your key people, the way you communicate with your top stars will make all the difference. It is well known that people don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses, so before you attempt to re-write your entire five-year business plan and before you increase pay levels across the board, simply re-visit the way you interact with your people. The good news is that you can use strategic communication and ‘soft skills’ to: · Create a sense of belonging and commitment · Deliver crucial clarity and ‘real’ language to instil confidence · Positively convey recognition to motivate individuals and drive teams · Inspire loyalty in all of your people at every level.

• 1. Using Soft Skills and Strategic Communication to Win

  Former Stockbroker turned Communications Consultant and Author, Mark Jeffries, presents an hour-long keynote filled with effective ideas, useable tips and smart common sense for your audience. Here is a keynote speech, delivered in a credible and entertaining style, which delivers an instantly useable set of strategic communication ideas helping your people grow sales, network effectively, build great connections, pitch for success and influence perception and opinion.
  
  Subjects covered in this practical, invaluable and entertaining presentation include:
  ·    Soft Skills - How to influence others
  ·    The golden rules of networking
  ·    Boardroom etiquette
  ·    Making more powerful and effective presentations and pitches
  ·    How to plant the seed of an idea
  ·    Reading other people
  ·    Techniquette—the etiquette of technology
  ·    Language – the power of words
  ·    How to alter the way others perceive you
  ·    Understanding your image
  
  
  The secret messages you really convey Mark presents the keynote in a style that is humorous and inspiring together with a message that is appreciated and remembered. In challenging times, we all need to display an additional edge putting us ahead of the competition and Mark Jeffries has the content, style and experience to get it across. Here is a speech filled with concepts and tips that can be used straight away taking advantage of any communication opportunity - a toolbox of ideas giving your people insight, confidence and motivation and a head-start over the competition.

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• Mark's keynote focused the minds of our people and got them thinking more about their interactions with others both internally and externally. The importance of the tiny differentiators was a welcome angle and we were very pleased at how our people responded to this key messaging. Mark has an impressive talent for truly capturing an audience. A valuable and entertaining session.
  Microsoft
• A thoroughly entertaining and hugely practical presentation. Mark's impressive ability to take a group of financiers through his range of communication and soft skills thinking in such a professional, captivating and relevant style exceeded all of our expectations. We will find it hard to beat the impact and value of this session at next year's event.
  Bunzl
• In front of our multi-national audience of more than 2,000 people, Mark Jeffries displayed a rare ability to connect with everyone, and to deliver some truly valuable tips on smart business skills, in an entertaining and engaging way.
  Cognos
• Mark's ability to understand our business and incorporate that into his keynote made for an excellent session. All of our people were talking about it afterwards and the time with Mark has truly helped to focus our people on the importance of Image, presentation and soft skills and using those skills to grow our business and client relationships
  TMW Ad agency
• Thank you so much for making the Progress sales Kick Off such an entertaining, informative and valuable event. You transformed the event for me into one of the best I have ever experienced in my career..Your soft skills keynote was really enjoyable.
  Progress Software
• Along with delivering a bang-on message you were able to suffuse it with intelligent humour and seemed to have the majority of the audience eating out of your hands! What a fabulous gift! I hope to see you at future events in the Vancouver area.
  Realtor, Vancouver
• Having seen many facilitators at other events across the IT industry, I can confidently state that I have never seen one as effective, impressive and ideally suited as Mark Jeffries. Mark was able to perfectly connect our sales and marketing people to our message. With his ideas, humour and questions he turned our kickoff event into a huge success.
  Progress Software
• You did a terrific job hosting the SAS Premier Business Leadership Series.
  Jim McCann, CEO, 1-800-Flowers.com

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  July 2010

  The Art of Business Seduction: A 30-Day Plan to Get Noticed, Get Promoted and Get Ahead

  In every business situation—to get that job, get that promotion, lead that negotiation, make that sale—you need to win people over. In highly competitive situations, you need to stand out, get noticed, and be remembered. This book offers a concise personal success plan that teaches you how to make the smart moves and say the right things to succeed in any business setting. As the "Business Seducer," Mark Jeffries utilizes the raw power of seduction to provide you with a proven system for becoming a Master of Business Seduction, giving you the tools to size up any business situation, think and act on your feet, and get exactly what you want.

  
  
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  April 2008

  What's Up with Your Handshake?

  Welcome to a toolbox of communication ideas designed to give you an advantage over everyone else in the business and social world. Unlock the secrets to: controlling perceptions, influencing decisions, leading meetings, manipulating opinion, winning sales and shining as a communicator. From the secrets of networking and conveying the right message to presenting the best image and gaining the boardroom advantage, this book examines in an entertaining and informal style how to fine-tune all aspects of your strategic communication and soft-skills.

  
  

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