Keynote Presentations

The New Profit Model: Making and Keeping Money -- a 60-minute presentation designed for business owners with fewer than 500 employees

Hello -- looking for a great keynote presentation for your next conference? Is your audience tired of fluffy content that doesn't deliver value a business owner can take back and use right away?

I'm a successful owner of my third business, a successful speaker who has spoken to over 2,500 CEOs in the past 18 months and I can promise you the information I'm going to deliver is information your audience wants to know.

How do I know that? Because I speak from experience .......

I understood how to read a balance sheet, a Profit and Loss Statement and the importance of Cash Flow.

None of that knowledge kept my company from the brink of bankruptcy.

I was responsible for a $12M company and almost lost it because I didn't know what I didn't know.

That sense of helplessness has made me passionate about helping other business owners navigate the growth curve of their company.

I'm Laurie Taylor, President of FlashPoint! I was not a Harvard Business School graduate. My background, a degree in Parks and Recreation and a Masters in Public Administration, did not prepare me for the challenges of running my own business.

Remember I said I Speak from Experience -- Boy, Do I!

But in 1987 I joined my partner, Sherri, and together we grew a company from 2 to over 100 employees. Along the way, we learned every business lesson the hard way.

In March, 2000, the dotcom blow up hit and all of our clients were high tech, telecommunications and dotcoms -- we almost lost the company.

Only through sheer tenacity, a laser-like focus on driving revenue and educating every single employee on how we made and kept money, were we able to bring the company around.

If Your Audiences are Business Owners Who Want to Better Understand How to Manage Their Growth ......

Call me.

I can deliver a presentation that will go right to the heart of their business issues. I'll speak their language and challenge them to recognize the areas of their business that they aren't focusing on -- the critical aspects of laying down a solid Profit Design.

This goes way beyond the standard, off-the-shelf talk about Business Plans. In fact, if a business owner isn't focused on their Profit Design, their Business Plan will suffer right along with their business.

In this 45 - 90 minute presentation, I'll cover issues that include:

How to set up a financial statement to help you make solid business decisions

How to identify your Core, Adjacent and Edge businesses in order to spend your limited resources effectively

How to teach your staff the difference between Making Money and Keeping Money in order to engage them in the process

How to determine if you are an Eagle or a Sheep Dog in order to set up a profit design that will sustain profitability

How to educate each person in your company on how they impact profitability on a daily basis

How to cement your relationship with your customers to keep them from looking elsewhere

 

Running a business is hard work. As a business growth specialist, I am committed to helping businesses not only survive but thrive.

This program, The New Profit Model, is designed to kick-start your profit engine and explore how to improve your bottom line.

I'll Take Your Audience Through a Profit Design Inventory ....

By reviewing and understanding the underlying causes of the company's current performance, a business owner will be able to objectively evaluate where improvement can be made.

If I knew then what I know now, the chances of weathering the dotcom explosion would have improved dramatically. The challenges of running a company in good times pale in comparison with running a company in bad times.

I've been through both and believe that taking a fresh look at profitability is in every business owner's best interest.

By laying a solid foundation based on an in-depth review of all aspects of how your company makes and keeps money may mean the difference between just getting by and staying in business.

At the end of this dynamic presentation, a business owner will .....

Understand their past, current and future stage of growth so they can get focused on the right things at the right time

Explore the 12 components of Profit Design and identify the top 3 - 4 for where your company is today in its growth cycle

Understand how to take the information and begin to educate their management team on the right areas of concern

 

Give me a call or send me an email. Let's make sure your next conference is one that will keep business owners engaged. I'm Ready! Contact Laurie Today!