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About Patrick Leroux - Bilingual Motivational Sales Speaker:

Bilingual keynote speaker Patrick Leroux is a successful entrepreneur and best selling author of eight books on customer service, sales and personal and professional development. Patrick Leroux helps his client to achieve superior results through action. Patrick’s presentations offer solid, simple and original ideas as well as being dynamic, funny and captivating.

Patrick’s ability to deliver a high energy message with passion and humour challenges people to re-evaluate their own limitations, real or imagined, and to take responsibility for ther own results. Patrick can help people stop making excuses as to why they are not living up to their full capacity.

On July 14th 2002, Patrick became the first person in Quebec to have earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation. This is the highest designation given by the International Federation for Professional Speakers. Since 1980, less than 10% of the organization’s members have earned this honour. Patrick is also the founder and president of the Montreal chapter (1998) of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) and a National board member of CAPS (2003-2004).

Mr. Leroux has given more than 1 000 presentations to over 175 000 people across North American and the Middle East. He speaks mostly at conferences and sales conventions, helping his participants realize their full potential and achieve the highest level of success in all aspects of their lives.

What Patrick Leroux Talks About:

Igniting the Fire Within: From Comfort to Commitment
Why is it that some people are more motivated and experience more success than others? How are they able to achieve exceptional results in all aspects of their life? With the help of a fast-moving series of methodologies, ideas and techniques which each person can apply in every area of life and work, this session will allow you to discover the secrets of success and how to get motivated (and stay motivated for life). This particular session contains the keys to personal effectiveness, maximum achievement and unlimited success.

Growing Your Business IS Your Business
What business development strategies are used by the top 1% sales people? If you’re like most people, you use only two or three business development strategies—and generally the least efficient ones. Would you like to sell more, faster and more easily than ever? In this highly stimulating session, you will learn a series of practical, proven strategies that you will be able to adopt in order to make your sales explode and get ahead of your competitors who undercut you. Here are a few of the lessons you will learn in this captivating, fascinating talk:

• If you don’t have a list, you don’t really have any business;
• Your best sources of future income stem from your present clients;
• How to ask for, attract and obtain lots of referrals;
• Why—and above all HOW— to keep in touch with your prospects and your present clients on a regular basis; and
• Where and how to make the most of your networking activities.

How to Build Trust and Rapport Instantly
What are the success secrets of the best communicators? How could you earn the trust of an individual in the first few seconds? How do you adapt your communication to the personality style of others? Are you a red, yellow, green or blue? The purpose of this funny and highly interactive session is to make you a better communicator and better persuade and influence people. The audience will learn:

• Why people think and act like they do;
• The 4 personality styles: Are you red, a yellow, a green or a blue?;
• That you must adapt your communication to the personality styles of others;
• How to discover someone’s motivations, fears and needs within the first few minutes;
• That the best gift you can give others is to listen to them well and fulfill their personal needs and motivations; and
• That if you want to get some honey (persuade others) you must not knock over the beehive.

The 10 Secrets of Success in Customer Service
It takes thousands of dollars and months to find a good customer but it only takes a few minutes to lose one. Not only do you want satisfied customers. You also want LOYAL customers. What are you doing to create that loyalty? In this highly interactive and information rich session, you will learn that:

• Customer service is not a department… it’s an attitude;
• Listen to your customers;
• You never have a second chance to make a good first impression;
• Your organization is as good as your worst employee;
• The customer is always right even when he is wrong;
• You must provide your customers with a memorable experience if you want to create loyalty; and
• You should never take your customers for granted.