MICHELLE BOWDEN

Welcome to the Birdcage: How Persuasion Smart are YOU?
SUCCESSFUL companies are made up of PERSUASIVE people. Based on thousands of hours of global research, Michelle can show you there is a gap in the way your people persuade your customers, prospects and decision makers.
Sales & Marketing Speaker | Australia

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MICHELLE’S SHOWREEL

BIO

Welcome to the Birdcage - How Persuasion Smart are YOU?

An idea is just an idea until you persuade someone to support it, fund it or endorse it. As a business professional there is nothing more important than the art of persuasion. You rely on your persuasive abilities to win business, develop productive relationships and drive results. So, … How Persuasion Smart are you?

Key Takeaways

Assess your persuasive strengths and weaknesses.
You cannot not influence!
We are all persuaded in different ways and this should affect your persuasive approach.
Understand why some people are total pushovers and others seem impossible to convince.
Extend your persuasive reach and appeal to all four persuasive types.
Add new skills to your toolkit to engage and persuade your stakeholders, no matter their persuasive preference or style.

Style

This is a life-changing learning initiative that incorporates generative, experiential and accelerated learning to ensure you and your people laugh, learn and remember. There’s lots of fun, activity and importantly all delegates work on their own communication issue to ensure all content is completely relevant to them.

Who is Michelle Bowden?

MICHELLE BOWDEN CSP works with organisations that want persuasive people who communicate clearly, smash their sales results, and generally achieve more.

Her name is a synonym for 'presentation skills' in Australia.

She’s a multi-million-dollar pitch coach to her client list that reads like a who’s who of international business: banking and finance, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications plus many more.

Michelle is the creator of the Persuasion Smart Profile®, a world-first psychological assessment tool that reports on your persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work, the best-selling, internationally published author of How to Present: the ultimate guide to presenting live and online (Wiley) and How to Persuade: the skills you need to get what you want (Wiley).

“Captivating – the best presentation we’ve had in 10 years!”

Russell Evans, CEO, Walters Kluwer, Asia Pacific.
“I felt engaged 100% of the time and that has never been my experience. Really good fun. I loved learning tangible formulas that are immediately applicable. Extremely useful and beneficial.”

Ian Gilroy, Technical Manager, Cisco.
“Excellent! I was a sceptic, now a convert! You have changed the way I think about structure and the build of presentations, especially the open and close. I loved the energy and pace as well as the progress and building blocks.”

Martyn Gilling, Chief Pricing Actuary, RGA Reinsurance of Australia