Resilience and performance expert with black belt expertise — helping sales and professional teams become pressure proof.
Michael Licenblat is a resilience and performance expert who has built his practice around a distinctive credential: more than two decades of martial arts training, including black belt status in multiple disciplines, which informs a deeply embodied understanding of performing under pressure. As the author of Pressure Proof and the founder of a speaking and consulting practice that has worked with major financial institutions, law firms and professional services organisations, he brings both the science and the practical discipline of resilience to corporate audiences.
His four signature keynote topics are tightly focused on the performance challenges that sales teams, professional services firms and leadership groups face most acutely: managing disruption and change without losing effectiveness, accelerating business development in competitive markets, recovering from rejection and setbacks in sales, and building the influence skills required to get buy-in from difficult stakeholders. Michael's approach is concrete and behavioural — he gives audiences the specific practices and mindsets that make the difference, not just the encouragement to be more resilient.
For financial services, professional services, legal and sales conference audiences, Michael Licenblat is a particularly well-matched choice. His material is built on real engagement with the pressures these sectors face, and his ability to translate the principles of elite performance into applicable daily practice makes his sessions among the most practically useful on any event program.
Michael Licenblat is a keynote speaker based in Victoria who speaks on business strategy, mental health & wellbeing and peak performance. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
In your current business climate, you will be under great pressure to deliver more in less time with fewer resources. There will always be days of setbacks and failures; changes that you can’t control; workloads that never end, and problems that don’t seem to have solutions. Setbacks, challenges and changes are an inevitable part of growth. To sustain a competitive edge, you need to be able to flow with change, adapt to pressure, and remain motivated. Developing a high-performance resilience will be the currency of success. This is greatly determined by how fast you can bounce back from the setbacks, changes and challenges, and repurpose pressure into an advantage. In this presentation, Michael will explain how to become Pressure Proof so you can out-achieve your targets and thrive in high-pressure environments.
Key takeaways:
• Bounce back faster from setbacks and challenges.
• Build an adaptive capacity to achieve more and solve problems faster.
• Remain motivated under pressure with a resilient mental attitude.
• Embrace change and flow with uncertainty
In times where competition is growing and clients are more discerning, businesses need to work both harder and smarter to secure their market share and client revenue. Having the ability and self-assurance to knock on new doors, follow up clients, mine your database for leads, and set up client meetings can mean the difference between your success and failure. Many technical industry professionals, however, tend to avoid business development because they don't like it, ‘it looks needy’, it feels 'salesy' or because of the fear of rejection. For many industry professionals they need to shift their mindset & approach to increase success. This is a powerful and practical session that helps technically oriented people to get past their call apprehension and sales aversion to achieve their business development targets – even when they don't feel like it. In this session, you will learn the key elements of business development to turn sales reluctance into results and put more prospects in your funnel.
Key takeaways:
• Overcome the reluctance and call aversion to initiate more leads and new contacts.
• Get past the motivational killers that slow down business development activity.
• Become confident and comfortable approaching new and existing clients.
• Be more dollar productive to reach your revenue targets faster.
Every year companies spend tens of thousands of dollars on training their sales teams in areas like prospecting, questioning and closing more sales. While this type of training is clearly valuable, it fails to address a key factor impacting sales performance. That is, the ability to manage the rejections, ghosting and push backs they face on a daily basis. As a significant proportion of initial sales calls, follow-ups and meetings end in ‘No’, setbacks are a part of any sales process. Most salespeople, however, are never taught how to deal with the impact of hearing ‘no’, and as a result, their sales motivation and dollar productivity are diminished and the likelihood of future success reduced. Using the psychology of sales resilience, Michael will explain how to turn setbacks into springboards to bounce back fast and achieve more, rather than sit in self-pity, stay stuck and give up after a series of sales setbacks. In this presentation, Michael provides practical techniques on how to bounce back from sales setbacks so that you can remain motivated and dollar productive to hit sales targets faster in any market.
Key takeaways:
• Recover quickly from rejections and challenges to achieve more.
• Keep their ‘drive alive’ by not personalising rejections or pushbacks.
• Use failure as a stepping stone to project you forward.
• Develop a mindset to stay focused and dollar productive in tough markets.
Building high-performance teams, delivering excellent service and building client rapport requires more than technical skills. To have impact, you need to be able to influence and communicate with a range of personalities, without taking them personally or becoming worked up. Many people, however, avoid conflict, resist feedback or become drained by the fallout. When this happens, issues don’t get resolved, outcomes don’t get achieved and people walk on eggshells, resulting in teams that are not united and customers who don’t trust you. Whether you are in leadership, client management or customer service, having the emotional intelligence to confidently address and resolve issues allows you to increase buy-in, improve outcomes, reduce negative undercurrents and decrease turnover. Using the psychology of reading Pressure Patterns, Michael will explain how to resolve issues quickly, get buy-in faster and have the tough conversations - without becoming drained. He will give you an understanding of what sits behind behaviour, so that you can have the confidence to tackle, resolve and repair even the most difficult issues.
Key takeaways:
• Be more influential with challenging, non-compliant or negative people.
• Stay cool and calm during an emotionally charged interaction.
• Achieve outcomes faster with different personalities.
• Resolve issues efficiently and effectively without becoming drained.
I can't sing Michael’s praises high enough. The information shared was practical for both work and home and the presentations were engaging and thought provoking.Sleeping Duck
We would like to express our thanks for your outstanding presentation. Not only was the delivery of the presentation inspiring, but it dealt with the topic of dealing with adversity on a very practical level that lends well to implementation in the workplace.The Adecco Group
Michael provided us with an outstanding and motivating presentation which our attendees consistently rated as one of the best presentations, and him as one of the best presenters, at the BCI Summit Australasia. Michael's ability to meet our needs at very short notice, and adapt to a change in presentation length shortly before the Summit made him a pleasure to work with.Business Continuity Institute
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