Motivational Business Speaker | Author | Coach

Recognised as an international business speaker, Jen can touch, move and inspire an audience to think differently about business and create positive change. Jen's style is energetic and engaging. She shares real business stories to teach audiences fundamental business principles in an entertaining way. Jen's business success has been internationally recognised by her being a judge for the Middle Eastern Business Achievement Awards in Dubai, UAE.

For 10 years Jen has worked with over a thousand business owners and executives throughout Australia, as well as New Zealand, South Africa, China, USA, Thailand and Indonesia. She is a certified business coach and an award winning business planner and consultant.

Jen is a regular contributor to business magazines such as Australian Broker, Bendigo Magazine and HR Capital Magazine.

If you want a genuine, motivating business speaker to inspire your participants into action, Jen is the perfect speaker for them.

TOPICS:

The Entrepreneurs Game – Education and entertainment are the two winning ingredients in this game. It has been designed for teams and groups that want to build their team AND appreciate small business customers.

Many people interact and work with small business customers and due to life and work experience, don’t appreciate the demands and challenges small business have such as product development, marketing, teamwork and selling. This lack of understanding impacts the quality of customer service and connection. What if your staff could appreciate your customers even more by experiencing their world?

This two hour game allows teams to build a product, develop a marketing spiel and then pitch the product to the group all within a timeframe. Your participants will experience leadership, delegation, teamwork, communication skills, creativity, innovation, time management, public speaking and some of the challenges of small business development.

Wrapped around the game is an empowering context of communication strategies for participants to use and adopt during the game and also after the game is finished. Wouldn’t it be great if your team could ask better questions, listen with understanding and come from a place of appreciation of your customers rather than just having to deal with them?

The Entrepreneurs Challenge creates a real time experience in the game and an appreciation and insight into what it takes to be an entrepreneur.

The Confident Woman – Key strategies woman can use to be successful – anywhere, anytime.

Women are just as talented as men and can do anything they put their mind to. Women need specific strategies on how to get to certain places in their career and also how to have the ideal mindset to keep going and DARE to be brilliant. This workshop addresses the following key themes:

• Marketing yourself and building the brand of YOU is a 24/7 focus
• How to get on boards, committees and closed networks
• How to advance your career and get the top jobs, projects and opportunities
• How to be feminie without being hard or too soft!
• Strategies on building your support network and personal fan club
• Knowing the glass ceiling exists only if you think it does.

If you want your women to be inspired, focussed and in action about building their careers and their worlds, this presentation will have them pumped for many days and weeks to come.

Attracting the Ideal Client
When you’re in business, winning customers and clients is important. Yes, sometimes you up with a lot of customers that you don’t want. They waste your time; haggle about price; they are too fussy and want extra services they don’t want to pay for; or their average spend is hardly worth all the effort. Every business has an IDEAL customer, and when you can identify them, marketing results improve. So does your cash flow. So does your PROFIT. Jen has a simple process you can use to identify your ideal clients so you can direct your marketing efforts, serve your customers well and enjoy being in business.

How to Survive and Thrive in Tough Times
In tough times business owners need clarity and focus. There is little room for daydreaming, procrastinating and taking expensive punts to try something new.

The 5 areas for keeping control and focus in the business are:

• Get Real – know where you are, where your going and what you need
• Listen to the Market – it’s not about you, what does your customer want
• Redesign, Package or Innovate
• Engage – know how to connect, market and sell
• Review – test results; get feedback and how to get over yourself when you get stuck!

Jen has worked with numerous business owners to get through tough times and ensure they are stronger, more balanced and are ready to handle any future challenges.

Planning for Success
Setting compelling visions and realistic goals and getting the skills to make it happen. Many business owners achieve their initial vision and then stop growing because their initial goal is realised. Other business owners have been slogging at it for years and have forgotten why they were there in the first place. And start-up business owners are so passionate, their initial energy and focus needs to be directed and focused to get the best results. Planning is a challenge for many. Jen shows how it can be simple, logical and get results quickly for any sized business. Jen’s Vision-Mission-Values workshop can be done in half a day with up to 50 staff. It creates stunning results and inspires the team to a whole new level.

The Art of Business Networking
Meeting and greeting people at business events for many is a scary concept and they would rather not have to do it. The problem arises though, how do you let people know what you do and how you could help them if you don’t get out and promote yourself and hand out business cards? Luckily, business networking is a skill that can be learned, confidence can grow and after time, the fear and nerves settle. Jen inspires audiences on how to network, breaks down the big questions like – how to get in and out of groups, keep moving and remember names.

Jen Harwood’s website is www.jenharwood.com