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About Bodine Balasco – Entertaining and Motivational Business Speaker:

Bodine Balasco has established himself as one of the country’s most knowledgeable business speakers, known for his combination of valuable content, interactive style, uplifting energy, and humorous storytelling. He is a keynote speaker on customer service, leadership and motivation. Members of the Institute of Management Consultants gave Bodine a 10+ rating on their 5-point scale. Successful Meetings Magazine has named him one of the Top 21 Speakers for the 21st Century. He is academically trained in public speaking and human behavior with degrees from UCLA in Speech Communications and Social Psychology.

While working as an entertainer 17 years ago, he was invited to create and deliver his first keynote speech at a business conference. It was then that came back to his formal training in communications and psychology, and found his true calling in life. He received a standing ovation after that first business speech, and he’s been at it ever since.

Bodine’s path is that of a researcher and passionate communicator, who loves sharing wisdom and strategies that can make a difference for people and work teams. And he’s always updating his awareness. At the recent Expo for the California Association of Realtors, Bodine was invited to deliver the luncheon keynote speech on using technology to create business success in challenging times. Betty Thomas, the Expo manager, says she chose Bodine to be their luncheon speaker because he’s so entertaining and he shares strategies that are productive and current.

His academic training, multifaceted background, and years of research have given him an extraordinary knowledge of human behavior and strategies for success. Bodine has achieved national-class success for himself as an athlete, as a magician, as a speaker, and a workshop trainer. His client list reads like a page from the Fortune 100 — AT&T, Mitsubishi, 3M, Warner Bros. Television, Verizon, Boeing, and Fedex to name a few.

He delivers his information, insights, and strategies with an energy that makes his messages unforgettable, and truly makes learning exciting and fun.

Read the five points of his business promise and you’ll quickly realize he’s a speaker who can make a difference at your meeting, and also make a difference with your group that will last long after the meeting is over.

What Bodine Balasco Talks About:

Creating Desired Results: Using the Structure of the Creative Process to Create Business Results
For people, companies, and work teams the issue is always about creating desired results. In today’s economy it might be accurate to say the issue is about creating desired results with limited available resources. In other words, where does the leverage come from for creating results we care about, even when we have less resource than ever?!

The good news is, in this presentation Bodine shares what might be considered the best method available for generating innovative thinking, strategic action, and sustainable energy for execution and follow-through.

Capturing the Heart of Your Customer: Creating Business Growth by Creating Customer Loyalty
This is about creating RETENTION and OBTAINING REFERRALS; and using technology to do both. In this presentation Bodine shares modern customer service principles and internet communication strategies for creating a level of service that will allow you to obtain a steady stream of referrals from your existing customers.

To gain a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace, we must drive our behavior with a broader definition of service excellence. We must raise our sights and focus on creating customer loyalty.

It’s based on creating customer value and strengthening the customer relationship with each and every customer contact. Bodine will help your team realize this is not inspirational, it’s operational. Your business success depends on the two key characteristics of loyal customers… customer retention and business referrals.

Creating authentically loyal customers is not an easy task in a world where the buyer has all the power, but it can be done. And it’s the key to business growth in the 21st Century.

Meeting the Leadership Challenge: Developing Employee Engagement
Is there anything more important than having truly engaged employees? Examining the most authentic Top-10 List of What Employees Want from Work, from a study by the Public Agenda Foundation, Bodine will present strategies and insights that will help you develop truly engaged work teams.