Conor Cunneen
Substance with Humor to IMPROVE People, Performance, Productivity with a Smile!
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My goal – nay – my passion is to Improve People, Performance and Productivity enjoyably, and to leave you and your audience with a smile on the face, a spring in the step, a beat in the heart (which is very important I am told) AND memorable, implementable concepts to take back to a more engaged workplace and workforce.
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Who is IrishmanSpeaks?
I am a proud Irishman who hails all the way from a wee village in County Cork and with a brogue to prove it. Today, I am happily exiled in Chicagoland, where the natives are friendly, the winters are (ahem) chilly and I have been force-fed more corned beef and green beer by empathetic event planners than I ever had in Ireland! And I love my job! ♥ ♥ ♥
My goal – nay – my passion is to Improve People, Performance and Productivity enjoyably, and to leave you and your audience with a smile on the face, a spring in the step, a beat in the heart (which is very important I am told) AND memorable, implementable concepts to take back to a more engaged workplace and workforce.
I give thanks every day to have been blessed with the Irish gift of storytelling and humor. This allows me to present relevant content that is memorable and implementable.
What will IrishmanSpeaks do for you?
Based on detailed discussion with you and your team, I will provide customized presentations to satisfy your objective. The net result will be – whether it is Sales or Strategy, Association or Agri, Corporate or Cancer – an energized, engaged, enthusiastic audience that will leave your event with the tools improve their own and colleagues’ performance.
Conor’s Business Expertise?
Here’s what one of my bios says!
“Conor is an in-demand, thought-provoking and oh-so-funny speaker who presents powerful and compelling business Substance with Humor to audiences from Harley-Davidson to Helsinki, from Memphis to Madrid.
This two time cancer survivor is a former VP Marketing with multi-national giant Unilever who has worked in senior Marketing and Sales positions on world-class brands as diverse as Hellmann’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Thomas’s English Muffins, Knorr and Lipton. Prior to joining Unilever, he worked with Nokia, and was a Brand Manager with Heineken. He was designated a Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland in recognition of his marketing and branding expertise.
A serious student of the communication process and how to connect effectively with his audience through careful research, story telling and anecdotes, Conor is one of less than 70 people in the history of Toastmasters to be awarded Accredited Speaker designation. A multiple author, his most recent book is – What Mark Twain Learned Me ’bout Public Speaking. His other books include Why Ireland Never Invaded America (that’s an acclaimed business book), For the Love of Being Irish, and SHEIFGAB: 8 Building Blocks to Successful Job Transition.
Conor hosted JobTalk on Chicago radio for 5 years. He is a recipient of the National Speaker Association Nick Carter Award for Commitment to the Speaking Profession and represented Chicago at the 2010 and 2014 World Championship of Public Speaking. He is a board member MPI Chicago, and the Community Career Center, Naperville, husband to his long-suffering wife, Pat and dad to John and Amy.
My Brand Promise (Hey, I come from a Marketing and Sales background!) is E4:
♣ Energize
♣ Educate
♣ Entertain
♣ Easy to work with.
The Irish are famous for The Gift of GAB, but after this presentation you and your team can also be famous for The Gift of GAB as you demonstrate how Goals, Attitude, Behavior generates better Motivation, better Teamwork, better Productivity and ultimately a better Environment and Culture.
Available in either Keynote or Workshop/Seminar format, The Gift of GAB – customized to your needs – will have you Laughing, Learning and Leaving with a smile on your face, a spring in your step and clear guidelines to help you, your colleagues and your organization grow.
The Gift of GAB is suitable for CEU / Continuing Ed Credits
Goals
- • Goals and Vision impact work and productivity in a positive manner
- • Daily Micro-Goals provide focus and motivation
- • Successful people have clears goals and vision.
- • Goals and vision provide a personal and business roadmap.
- • Goal setting generates productivity and results
Attitude
- Attitude IS a choice
- Poor attitude is like cholesterol. It clogs the system and your work environment
- Good attitude provides the oxygen for a good environment
- It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you react
- Learn THE most important question to ask when things go wrong
- Learn THE most important question to ask BEFORE that difficult meeting
Behavior
- Your Behavior Creates YOUR Brand
- Your Behavior Determines what people say about you
- What People say about you IS YOUR BRAND
- THREE words to a great business or personal Brand
This program is a great conference kick-off for any event, whether you are seeking a speaker on Leadership, Advertising, Marketing, Sales, Employee Engagement, Branding, Oncology or Healthcare.
As an opening or closing keynote speaker, Conor has presented this program to Customer Service Conferences, to Consumer Loyalty events, financial services, and Communication programs.
It is THE perfect program for Personal Branding – be it financial services, small business, attorneys or sales
And what about Conflict Resolution? Check out Conor’s videos on Attitude and the powerful question “What do I want my Attitude to be?”
The Gift of GAB from this inspirational speaker is a powerful catalyst for enhancing Corporate Culture and for improving Emloyees/Workforce.
When concerned about employee motivation or a lack of worklife balance, the core concepts of Goals, Attitude, Behavior will resonate with your colleagues.
The Gift of GAB generates peak performance and performance improvement for your employees/workforce.
Conor’s presentation skills that embody humor, emotion, storytelling, problem solving and just a good dose of laughter and stress reduction techniques are perfect for almost any event or any occasion.
Give this humorous, motivational, likeable guru who has won numerous awards for his persuasion/influencing skills a phone call whether you are in human resources/labor relations, healthcare or hospitality, Leadership or Laughter.
Conor customizes all his programs.
Programs you will enjoy.
Programs that Improve People, Performance and Productivity – with a smile!
Format: 45-60 minute keynote. Also half day workshop and seminarThis program is perfect for:
- Customer facing / front line customer service personnel
- Leadership who wish to build customer service ethic
The audience will leave with:
- A smile on their face
- A spring in their step
- AND
- Memorable implementable ideas to help them create a great customer service experience
- Appreciation that creating that WOW customer service experience is a team effort
- AND
- Mental triggers to remember what the Irishman said
This is a motivational, funny program that has real impact on customer facing personnel.
This program is perfect for anyone involved in dealing with customers or patients. Although dental and medical practice do not always treat patients as customers I tell my clients in seeking a dental or medical customer service speaker that you are not dealing with patients, you are dealing with people – your customers!
Conor Cunneen is a Motivational Humorous Business & Marketing Speaker to Associations, Corporations, Healthcare and Non-Profits.
This former Foodservice Marketing VP gets consistent business from Google search.
Why?
Because he appears more than once on page one when people from specific segments search for his skill set.
For instance as a two-time cancer survivor, Conor often gets business because clients Google for terms like “Humorous motivational speaker oncology.” Google it. Conor’s videos will pop up.
Google “Customer Service Speaker Medical Dental Practice” and you will see why Conor gets business in that sector.
While not claiming to be a big budget Search Engine Optimization expert, Conor is what you might call a small budget Search Engine expert who will take you through exactly what he had done to get keynote speaker and workshop engagements from clients as diverse as Nurses Week, Oncology, Sales, Safety Conferences, Restaurant and Foodservice.
In this down to earth program on Google, SEO and Digital Marketing, Conor will show:
- How you can get found by potential customers that you never knew existed.
- How one simple video can be repurposed numerous times.
- How you can consistently get on Google page 1 for your specific services without spending a penny on advertising
- How you can create high visibility personal branding and business brand awareness inexpensively
- Why Web Designers are NOT SEO experts
- Why YOU need to know some basic SEO tenets to speak to your web designer
This program is perfect for Small Business Marketing, Small Business Associations, Chambers of Commerce, SBA entities, franchise groups.
Optional Titles:
1) How Google, SEO and YouTube can GROW your Business – Inexpensively!
2) Video Marketing for Small Business
Communications Programs to IMPROVE Sales, Marketing, Leadership Presentation Skills
1) Communications Skills & Secrets of Mark Twain
In this fascinating communications program, you will learn tips, tricks and techniques that made Mark Twain such a popular and compelling inspirational speaker via a unique MARK TWAIN acronym.
Message
Audience
Relate
Know your Objective
Tickle (Humor)
Wait (Pause)
Anecdote
Involve
Narration
Communications Skills Program
2) Humor & Presentation Skills
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Mark Twain
Optional Title: Adden Humur Two You’re Presentashun! (Program is much better than the spelling. Honust!)
You know the scene! The speaker droned on and on and on and on. Finally an audience member throws a shoe at said speaker, misses, and hits one of the other panelists on stage who responds “Please, hit me again. I can still hear him!!”
Chicago Humorous, Motivational Leadership and Communications speaker combines business and communication skills from Ireland, UK and USA with the humor that won Chicago Humorous Speaker of the Year to present a program that, bottom line, WILL make you a better communicator.
You will not leave a stand-up comic. But you will leave with an appreciation that putting a smile on your audiences face just two or three times during a presentation will make a major difference in how your message is achieved AND you will know how to create that smile
Suitable for CEU / Continuing Ed credits
It is not so long ago that three icons of American business – McDonald’s, Starbucks and Ford Motor Corporation were deemed by many observers to have their best years behind them.
Thanks to inspired leadership and good management, each company has performed a superb turnaround that provides leadership lessons for everyone, irrespective of the size of business.
In this powerful program with Conor Cunneen former VP Marketing Unilever and Fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, you will learn the power of
- Clear and Compelling Vision
- Restroom Marketing
- Genchi Genbutsu (a Toyota concept that means Go to the Source and Learn)
- The Brand Experience
- Innovation (and that it does not have to be ground breaking)
- Social Media (Boring, stodgy Ford (not) does a great job with social media
- Talent Management and Bench Strength
Given that Conor Cunneen is a Chicago Humorous Speaker of the Year who knows how to provide Business Substance with Humor, you can be sure that this is not your ordinary keynote or workshop on Leadership
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