Karen Leong is renowned as an international keynote speaker and facilitator on transformation.
A TEDx speaker, TEDx coach and Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Karen is the best-selling author of Win People Over and the creator of the Influencing Styles profiling tool.
Karen is the founding director of Influence Solutions Pte Ltd, an organisational development firm headquartered in Singapore, with a global footprint.
She leads an experienced team of consultants, facilitators and executive coaches who help organisations achieve sustainable results in increasing performance, productivity and profitability.
As the co-founder of the online global leadership summit - Rise Through The Ranks featuring global gurus and C-suite executives, Karen has inspired a community of thousands from over 70 countries.
Acknowledged in the media as a global thought leader, Karen was honoured as the Decisive Woman Leader 2020 and Visionary Woman Leader 2019 by Business APAC magazine.
She is also featured as an influence analyst and expert commentator in the global media such as BBC Worldwide, Reuters, Channel News Asia and Business Times on iconic events such as the US Presidential Debates and Trump-Kim summits.
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Influence 247 - Win People Over
In this compelling keynote, based on Karen Leong's book “Win People Over - 75 Simple and Powerful Ways to Influence Anyone”, you will learn how to expand your sphere of influence naturally.Influence 247 - Win People Over
Influence 247 is a high-impact keynote, based on Karen Leong's book - Win People Over - 75 Simple and Powerful Ways to Influence Anyone. Influence is not just a work skill but also a life skill.
You will learn to demystify influence into its two pillars and accelerate the process of influence with anyone, hence boosting their confidence in being a versatile influencer. Karen guides her audience into an empowering journey where they learn to go beyond the transaction to establish rewarding relationships with their bosses, clients, colleagues and other stakeholders.
Join the thousands of executives and leaders from around the world who have experienced the transformational impact of the Influence 247 system and online profiling tool.
Activate the influencer within.
You will:
• Enhance your versatility in influencing people, regardless of their position, profile or personality types.
• Learn powerful conversations that build rapport and develop deeper connections rapidly
- Takeaway simple, yet powerful steps to increase like-ability & respect
- Boost your self-confidence with simple, visible actions
- Sustain easy, natural conversations of influence in all situations
- Walk away with a personalised action plan that helps you achieve the desired results
Harnessing the Opportunity of Change
Having the right mindset and robust processes to ensure business sustainability are critical, especially in today's context where change and disruption are a constant.Harnessing the Opportunity of Change
This insightful and experiential keynote will help to empower people to be effective agents of change. Through powerful stories and statistics delivered in a compelling way, Karen will help participants realise the value of change, and how they have been handling change all their lives and already have highly developed internal resources to do so.
Leaders are empowered with the clarity and tools to communicate the change and disruption effectively and support their teams to thrive and ensure business sustainability.
The audience will benefit from:
- Understanding the fundamentals of change
- Appreciating the value of change and disruption and how to leverage them to support sustainability
- Recognising their inherent ability to handle change and disruption
- Effectively communicating the value behind the opportunity
- Leading change into the future
The Attitude Advantage : Elevate your impact, Execute with excellence, Achieve great results
The Attitude Advantage is a life-changing keynote that will transform the way you approach adversity, and enables you to turn obstacles into opportunities. Especially relevant in today’s competitive, fast-changing environment, this highly experiential session is based on a simple and inspiring idea. That every problem or obstacle in our lives, contains an equivalent or greater benefit or opportunity. It empowers people to become self-directed performers, transform the way they think, equips them with the right attitude, innovative mindset and required resilience for growth.The Attitude Advantage : Elevate your impact, Execute with excellence, Achieve great results
Key Points
- How to turn any problem or obstacle to your advantage
- Where the most successful people find the best opportunities in life
- How to turn any loss into a gain, and any failure into success
- What enables people to triumph in the face of adversity
- The keys to solutions-focused thinking so that you can achieve your goals and solve real challenges effectively
Transformational Thinking - Make Success a Habit
Transformational Thinking is the release of old thinking and the adoption of radically new ways of thinking and behaving that enable you to achieve a quantum leap in results. Gain insights into your default mode of thinking, and learn how to shift your perspective. You will be amazed how a small shift in thinking can lead to big results. Transformational thinking can be applied to all areas in life and work. Its universal application allows you to transform your personal performance as well as that of the team you lead.Transformational Thinking - Make Success a Habit
Delivered through the fine art of story-telling, this inspiring, empowering and soul-searching keynote will reveal five simple yet powerful actionable realizations that will inspire success and happiness. In this thought-provoking seminar you'll gain insights and strategies for making major positive changes in all of the most important areas of your life.
Key Points:
- Learn your default mode of thinking and how it leads to the results you have been getting
- A paradigm shift that leads to a new way of thinking
- Takeaway Small actions that can generate big results
- Insights that will boost your personal performance and that of your team
- Five powerful realizations that can impact all areas of your life and work
Social Selling Success
Achieve sizzling sales results with social selling, while leaping over high rejection rates with traditional sales techniques...Social Selling Success
The truth: In this fast-changing digital world, one thing remains the same.
The emotions that trigger decision-making haven't changed.
It's still based on human psychology.
This refreshing perspective enables us to harness what works in the real world and adapt it to the "always on" digital world as well.
In this entertaining, interactive and impactful keynote, Karen leverages the psychology of influence to help you win people over in social selling.
Here's the thing.
With the social media revolution, most of the buyer's journey takes place online, before any discussion with a salesperson. Buyers consume over 5 pieces of online content before talking to sales persons. Even B2B buyers tap into social media to help with their decision-making. Have you incorporated this into your selling process? If not, you need to.
At the same time, it is becoming more difficult to bet cold calling. 90% of decision-makers never respond to cold calls. Yet for warm referrals, sales success goes up four times. That's the massive opportunity that social selling offers.
This refreshing perspective - simple and powerful is why the world's top companies and trade associations invite Karen Leong to their stages.
Your audience will learn how to:
- Leverage the psychology of influence to win people over
- Nurture high-quality social networks and warm introductions
- Leap over gatekeeper blocks by connecting with key decision-makers directly
- Link up with real people; hone credibility and trust even before you meet them face-to-face
- Move away from scripted sales techniques to natural, impactful conversations that inspire people to say YES.
- Go beyond the high rejection rates with outdated sales strategies and harness the future of selling
- Build powerful thought leadership on social media, and have prospective clients come to YOU instead
Influential Presentations - Wow Your Audience
An influential Presentation is a transformational keynote that transforms your presentation skills in delivering memorable and impactful messages. Interactive and engaging, this experience will enable participants to achieve personal breakthroughs in their confidence when speaking on stage or at meetings.Influential Presentations - Wow Your Audience
Key Points:
- Understand your natural communication style
- Leverage your strengths to communicate powerfully, yet tactfully
- Master the elements of an influential presentation
- Rapidly plan and prepare presentations that get your point across with clarity and brevity
- Employ visual, verbal and vocal mediums to enhance your presentations
- Present confidently to large and small groups
The Customer Connection
Explore how organisations can foster a customer-centric culture that empowers employees to influence and delight customers at every touchpoint. This keynote reveals strategies for embedding influence into your culture to drive loyalty, advocacy, and businessThe Customer Connection
growth.
Takeaways:
- Understand the principles of influence and gain the versatility to influence different
personality types.
- Learn the art of creating favourable first impressions with the customer every time.
- Discover techniques for building trust and rapport with customers.
Redefining the Customer Experience
Re-define how your organisation approaches customer engagement by combining influence and innovation. This keynote demonstrates how businesses can inspire trust, spark creativity, and deliver exceptional experiences that drive loyalty and long-term success.Redefining the Customer Experience
Takeaways:
- Discover how influence principles can elevate customer interactions.
- Understand the importance of adaptability in exceeding customer expectations.
- Explore actionable strategies to enhance customer satisfaction and retention.
Expanding the Pie
This keynote challenges leaders and teams to shift their mindset, embrace change, and leverage competition as a catalyst for innovation. By understanding the ever-changing realities of customers and competitors, organisations can expand their market, differentiate their offerings, and create sustained growth.Expanding the Pie
Takeaways:
- Embrace agiliity and a resilient mindset to anticipate customer needs and stay ahead
in a fast-changing market.
- Harness evolving customer needs and market shift to drive innovation and unlock
new opportunities.
- Focus on differentiation and value creation to expand market share.
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Karen Leong Asia's Transformational Speaker
Influence 247 - Win People Over Exclusive Keynote Experience
Karen has the ability to bring practical actions to the forefront of your thinking. She has enabled many ah-ha!' moments. ... keep reading Credit Suisse
I normally will not last more than a minute in a typical program. Karen's program is an exception. It is exciting and of great value.
The Opportunity of Change was a wonderful and influential experience at our Regional Senior Management Meet. Our team benefited from the power of change across the Asia region.
Karen engaged a diverse group so well with her wit and vivacity, sharing her experience and wisdom in Influential Leadership. Effective, fun experience. Can't recall too many programs that gave me a more effective set of tools for applying the skills at work.
The feedback from key opinion leaders from across Asia Pacific was very positive. In a very short time, people got a lot out of it.
Karen is able to turn a complex topic into a simple (even funny) learning process that's easy to assimilate. Karen has influential presence and deep expertise.
A memorable and uplifting experience for all women leaders.
