Keith Ferrazzi

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Keith Ferrazzi

Expert in Business Relationship Development | Bestselling Author

Keith Ferrazzi is one of the world’s most “connected” individuals. Believing that professional relationships are the real keys to success, Keith challenges organizations to adopt bold, new behaviours that spur greater collective success. His direct and dynamic approach transforms how leaders and their people collaborate and align across silos, helping them to meet the evolving demands of their market by becoming more innovative and agile.

Keith draws on his experience as CMO and head of sales at Starwood Hotels and CMO of Deloitte, along with his successful entrepreneurial career which has led him to be the chosen partner for guiding the transformation efforts at several Fortune 500 companies including the unprecedented turn-around at General Motors. He uses compelling stories and lessons learned from the research that led to his first two bestselling books, Never Eat Alone and Whose Got Your Back?, plus the all-new content of his upcoming book, tentatively titled Leading Without Authority.

Keith has been named a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, one of the top “40 Under 40” business leaders by Crain’s Business, and one of the most creative Americans in Who’s Really Who. He is also a frequent contributor to CNN and CNBC, and has been a guest on Larry King Live and Today Show. His writing has appeared in Forbes, Inc., Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.

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Dare Your Team to Go Higher Together

Keith brings his insight and expertise, as well as his good humor and audacious demeanor, to address your organization’s specific challenge or aspiration, creating events that move your people to make bold transformations.

The Change Challenge

Despite numerous approaches, transformation success remains stuck at 30 percent. Keith’s Company Challenge will jump-start your organization’s change initiative with his provocative and entertaining program, and inspire you with how to fix it.

The Future of Work

Modern organizations have resources available to them that were only dreamt of a decade ago. Keith’s program walks your team through how this exponential growth requires your team to become “porous,” that is continually open to change. When people commit to this new mode of being, they are ever-ready to pivot with the next great disruption to their business and their lives.

Never Eat Alone

Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps – and inner mindset – he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his Rolodex, people he has helped and who have helped him. Ferrazzi first used his remarkable ability to connect with others to pave the way to a scholarship at Yale, a Harvard MBA, and several top executive posts. He developed a network of relationships from Washington’s corridors of power to Hollywood’s A-list, leading to him being named one of Crain’s 40 Under 40 and selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the Davos World Economic Forum.

Who's Got Your Back

The real path to success in your work and in your life is through creating an inner circle of “lifeline relationships” – deep, close relationships with a few key trusted individuals who will offer the encouragement, feedback, and generous mutual support every one of us needs to reach our full potential.

Whether your dream is to lead a company, be a top producer in your field, overcome the self-destructive habits that hold you back, or make a difference in the larger world, Who’s Got Your Back will give you the roadmap you’ve been looking for to achieve the success you deserve.

A speaker’s success is is often judged by the sincerity and passion of the message. A coveted extra is how quickly his message is discussed and implemented. Keith provided our company with both. His messages were quickly implemented by many and still discussed due to his infectious sincerity and passion.

Constellation NewEnergy

Networking is not just trying to get something from someone else, but we often misconstrue that concept. Keith Ferrazzi puts a very refreshing and accurate perspective on networking as more of both personal and business relationship building. This is an invaluable perspective for our students.

Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Keith, you were able to help our students more in one-day than I’ve seen in my 20 years in career services. The tools, motivation and impact you made with our MBA students will help them in their careers and their lives in general.

Penn State University

Keith’s passion and commitment to understanding the human condition and how we all can breakthrough to achieve personal success captivated the audience and had them the entire time. His unique relationship insights and expertise clearly had a powerful impact on our group of highly demanding Harvard MBA alumni.

Harvard Business School

Keith really changed the dynamic of the event and really connected disconnected parts of our team together. We have never seen so much energy in the room between these two internal groups that typically don’t work well with one another.

Fox Films

Your presentation [at the World Business Forum] was more powerful, and helpful to me in my business, than any other speaker I listened to in that conference. It really was. I thought the conference was great and I got a lot out of it, but your message was concise and 100% relevant to me.

DSI Entertainment

Keith, the energy you brought in the hour that you were here is still felt with our team weeks after the event. You gave us a set of principles and strategies has brought a new level of motivation and charge to continue to grow our business nationally. Because of your relationship-building skills, you have helped connect us to many new partnerships in our national expansion. I am deeply grateful.

Insurance Office of America

Keith pushed us to think outside of the box and added more to our wallets! He gave us both motivation and tools to go out and apply his message in our everyday lives, not just with our clients, but with everyone in our lives.

Goldman Sachs International

Keith spoke to a group comprised of the top talent across Deutsche Bank from VPs and directors to mid level executives, discussing the importance of building relationships to engender personal and professional growth. In a short period of time, he provided these folks with the tool sets needed to cultivate and expand their current network relationships along with strategies enabling them to build new meaningful and personable relationships. Success from a corporate standpoint hinges on the efficacy and ability to communicate both within and across all departments. I think Keith was instrumental in addressing our goals as a corporation and we’d love to have him back in the future.

Deutsche Bank

You have a phenomenal message, tremendous business insights and a wonderful understanding of the human condition.

Assante Wealth Management

I truly enjoyed Keith’s presentation. He is a humble man who spoke truth and enlightenment. He made a tremendous impact on our meeting. It was emotional and I knew we had made the right choice by inviting him to speak.

Aramark

The gift of Keith’s message that he gave to our agents was very powerful and left them on their feet at his ability to create a behavior change within the room and all throughout the conference. I am confident that his presentation will become the new standard for relationship building at all of our conferences and I can’t wait to bring him back to our next event!

King Pharmaceuticals

The Global Mentoring event was a huge success and I am glad Keith Ferrazzi was part of it. His energy is contagious. There is no question he is doing exactly what he was put on earth to do. He is amazing.

Merck & Co., Inc.

Keith’s message came at a much needed time. While many of our realtors have adapted and outperformed the current market, their future long term success remains questionable in an industry of constant flux. We are in the business of relationships. Our success hinges on our ability to develop, nurture, and expand meaningful relationships both internally and externally with out clients. Keith has helped us bridge a gap to understanding the added value proposition of building genuine relationships that transcend the current transactional mindset indicative of this industry.

Prudential Fox & Roach

I am pleased to have worked with Keith Ferrazzi. Keith and the team at Ferrazzi Greenlight took the time to understand our business and more importantly issues we needed to address head-on in order to launch a significant change initiative aimed at our top clients. The program they designed helped us break down silos and achieved buy-in we hoped for. We moved from confusion and uncertainty to clarity. The methodology has enabled us to be more transparent with one another and helped our senior people focus on what they need to get done to drive our business.

CB Richard Ellis

The speech [Keith] delivered was one of the best I’ve heard in years at this conference. I knew that the brokers took more from both your presentations than any other speaker we’ve brought to our event in the years that I’ve been year. The feedback on your presentations was outstanding. You do a great job.

Coldwell Banker

Keith, your presentation was a real hit with the young professionals. They are a group that is not easily impressed and you certainly did that and brought real life lessos and value for the group to apply.

Executives Club of Chicago

Keith Ferrazzi is not a typical keynote speaker. He began his presentation off stage, down in the middle aisle near the audience, speaking directly to the attendees. Keith was engaging, candid and inspiring. Choosing him as our speaker for this first time event was an excellent decision that created a buzz during and after the event. Keith challenged attendees to go beyond networking, stop focusing on themselves and get out there and create meaningful relationships that will help take their business and personal life to the next level.

Detroit Regional Chamber

Keith Ferrazzi’s keynote on -Unleashing the Power of Your Event – was the best session of our conference and I wish he could have continued longer. I wish he could have spoken all day.

Council of Protocol Executives (COPE)

Keith spoke at our Conference Kick Off last Tuesday with some of the greatest feedback we’ve seen at this conference’s history! We’re looking at working together again soon.

Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPAO)

You ABSOLUTELY triumphed as chairman. You brought an energy and excitement that was not only enjoyable – it added value to the experience and left people truly inspired. Many people can carry the role of chair – but you really soared. You are obviously very skilled and extraordinarily talented in pushing people beyond!

Institute of International Research (IIR)

We could not have chose a better way to kick off our conference than opening with Keith. He energized the audience, increased the level of engagement and connection among attendees, and provided important learnings that carried over through the balance of the conference. In fact, a number of other keynote and workshop speakers referred back to Keith’s presentation. The feedback we have received since the conference has been outstanding, with Keith and his plenary noted as highlights.

Boyden Global Executive Search

Your speech was by and large the most discussed event at our conference! Your zeal and your enthusiasm was not only seen but felt throughout the entire audience. Your insight on how to turn an ordinary conference, a meeting, or any other type of corporate event into an opportunity to foster deep personal relationships provided our members with a refreshing new outlook that will forever change the way they conduct business. Your concepts of transparency and vulnerability allowed our members to immediately connect and interact with one another a level I thought was never possible. I still am receiving emails to this day recognizing the impact Keith’s message has had on both their professional and personal lives!

Meeting Professionals International (MPI)

Keith’s message was extremely empowering and insightful. He’s ability to clearly communicate the strategies and practices critical for building deeper, more personal relationships provided our members a roadmap that will allow them develop meaningful relationships long after the conference. His messages on personal branding and individual currency helped our members shift their current perceptions about their profession on both a micro and macro level.

Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (SOCAP)

Keith was the perfect opening keynote speaker at our conference. His energy woke up the room and got the Summit off to a sizzling start. You could see the audience perk up and hang on Keith’s every word. His anecdotes from his years as chief marketing officer really resonated with this particular audience. People were inspired and energized by Keith’s presentation. In fact, I had several attendees ask for Keith’s contact information to secure him for their future sales and marketing meetings. In a day which also featured keynotes from Mark Cuban and CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Keith was the conference’s most talked about speaker.

CNN International

Wow! I was amazed by the impact that Keith had on our group at our annual meeting. He was able to take a group of already tight-knit individuals and help them to better the relationships that they have with one another. I have already seen our members start to apply Keith’ s principles in with their teams and clients.

Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA)

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Keith Ferrazzi

Expert in Business Relationship Development | Bestselling Author

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Keynotes

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