Mark Jeffries

Former Merrill Lynch stockbroker Mark Jeffries has become a trusted adviser and communications consultant to some of the world’s largest and most successful corporations, agencies, accounting and law firms. He regularly appears as an image and communications expert on network television news, finance and lifestyle programs. Discussing the power of ‘Strategic Communication’ and ‘Soft Skills’, Mark appears regularly as an expert guest on NBC’s ‘Today Show’, CNBC, History, BBC News, ITN, Sky News and ‘Oprah and Friends’ (on XM/Sirius).

Dividing his time between The United States, Canada and Europe, Mark is invited to speak at major corporate conventions, conferences and meetings. He is also retained to coach many senior executives, CEOs, MDs, partners and sales teams, from clients across diverse industries and organizations including: Ernst & Young, Motorola, Microsoft, Cognos, KPMG, PWC, Freshfields, IBM, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada, United States Congress, Royal Bank of Canada, GSK, Astra Zeneca, BAE Systems and HSBC.

AT YOUR EVENT – MODERATOR AND SPEAKER

As an economist, former stockbroker and TV host, Mark brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the events he speaks at and facilitates.

A true all-rounder Mark is an entertaining and experienced ‘MC’, an incisive and knowledgeable facilitator able to quickly master the intricacies of business within any industry and a popular speaker with a ‘hugely entertaining’ and ‘immensely practical’ keynote presentation entitled ‘Using Soft Skills to gain the business advantage’.

Smart Communication in Tough Times

In these challenging conditions, you need to re-motivate and retool your people and team for success. You need a speaker who can inspire, challenge, entertain and, most importantly, help to grow your bottom line.

Mark’s keynote is a hugely successful, instantly usable, entertaining and relevant event. He offers a valuable tool box of innovative communication ideas designed to give your people many new approaches to growing clients and handling colleagues at this challenging time.

From building and maintaining relationships through to the subtleties of word-power, onto the secrets of ‘planting ideas’ and Meeting etiquette, Mark’s speech brings an innovative array of useable ideas to your people – matching today’s opportunities.

Former stockbroker and economist, Mark Jeffries is a leading expert and published author in ‘strategic communication’. He is a specialist in the art of relationship building, the power of soft skills and the subtleties of language.

His book ‘What’s up with your handshake?’ reached No. 1 in Amazon’s ‘Sales Skills’ category.

Mark has spoken to more than 60,000 people at conventions and conferences around the world and regularly appears on NBC’s Today Show, Fox Business, CNBC and BBC News. Clients include IBM, Microsoft, Boeing, Unilever, Royal Bank of Canada, Prudential, Ernst & Young and KPMG.

Your Audience will relate to this speech on every level, the testimonials Mark receives are universally excellent – the message is perfect for now – as your people must communicate more than ever before – both internally and externally. It’s useable too! People leave Mark’s speeches with a new set of tools to use immediately.

"Mark's keynote focused the minds of our people and got them thinking more about their interactions with others both internally and externally. The importance of the tiny differentiators was a welcome angle and we were very pleased at how our people responded to this key messaging. Mark has an impressive talent for truly capturing an audience. A valuable and entertaining session." — Alison Masters, Director, Marketing Communications, Microsoft.

"A thoroughly entertaining and hugely practical presentation. Mark's impressive ability to take a group of financiers through his range of communication and soft skills thinking in such a professional, captivating and relevant style exceeded all of our expectations. We will find it hard to beat the impact and value of this session at next year's event." — Brian May, CFO, Bunzl

"In front of our multi-national audience of more than 2,000 people, Mark Jeffries displayed a rare ability to connect with everyone, and to deliver some truly valuable tips on smart business skills and Networking, in an entertaining and engaging way." — Jane Baird, Cognos

"Mark's ability to understand our business and incorporate that into his keynote made for an excellent session. All of our people were talking about it afterwards and the time with Mark has truly helped to focus our people on the importance of Image, presentation and soft skills and using those skills to grow our business and client relationships." — TMW Ad agency