Typically held in January and February, sales kick-offs (SKOs) provide a vital opportunity for businesses to discuss their goals for the year ahead, announce new initiatives, and equip staff with the knowledge and tools needed for success.
When executed effectively, SKOs foster unity, instil confidence, and inspire ongoing development and improved performance.
To create a truly impactful SKO, businesses should reflect on and celebrate the previous year’s achievements, deliver comprehensive briefings on company and industry updates and focus on nurturing both internal and external relationships.
Working alongside in-house leaders, external SKO speakers can provide valuable insights that help build team morale and offer a fresh, unique perspective on evaluating business models and methods.
Jamil Qureshi
Jamil Qureshi is a globally recognised speaker and expert on all aspects of the psychology of performance, people, leadership, business transformation and change techniques, and has helped six sportspeople get to world number #1.
In business and industry, Jamil has worked from CEO and board level to middle management in a variety of sectors. He has worked with business leaders and companies in over 24 countries, helping teams to fulfil their potential by nurturing alignment and communication among employees, orchestrating change and performance programmes and ultimately increasing profitability.
In addition to keynote motivational talks, Jamil can deliver bespoke workshops for employees across all levels of a business, with previous clients including Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard, Emirates Airlines and Lloyds Banking Group.
Jo Fairley
Best known as the co-founder of Green & Black’s, one of the world’s leading organic chocolate brands, Jo Fairley is an acclaimed motivational speaker and entrepreneur.
Having guided Green & Black's through from its infancy, Jo possesses a unique knowledge of brand establishment and development, along with a deep understanding of target-setting and the importance of securing business growth.
By sharing the inspirational story of the conception and growth of Green & Black’s, Jo delivers real-world insight into creating, launching and growing a brand.
Caspar Craven
Caspar Craven believes that to set, tackle and achieve your goals, organisations must leverage their distinct human competitive advantage: the extraordinary skills and talents that already exist within their teams.
Asking how you and your team will achieve your big bold goals, Caspar examines the frameworks and principles that underpin a company’s culture to encourage the ideas, tools and strategies to achieve.
Throughout his career, Caspar has built and led teams in global corporations, start-up’s and struggling businesses, with his previous client list including Amazon, Natwest and Unilever.
Ben Hunt-Davis MBE
In 1998, Ben Hunt-Davis was part of an underachieving Men’s Rowing Eight who set themselves the goal of winning Olympic gold in just two years.
Across the following two years, the team challenged every decision they made with the question, “Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?” If it didn’t, they tried something different.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, their goal became a reality when they won gold, the first British winners since 1912.
Since then, Ben spent two decades as a sought-after keynote speaker and performance coach working with various companies to assess and transform their business practices.
Karren Brady CBE
Voted Business Woman of the Year and rated among the 50 most inspirational people in the world, Karren Brady is passionate about business, entrepreneurship and encouraging future generations to fulfil their potential.
At 23, Karren was appointed Managing Director of Birmingham City Football Club, which was at the time, in administration. Just four years later, she became the youngest Managing Director of a UK plc, when she floated the club on the London Stock Exchange.
In 2010, Karren joined the board of West Ham United where under her leadership, the club became one of the fastest-growing brands in global football.
For more than a decade, Karren has been a sought-after keynote speaker, sharing her insight on turning failure into success, harnessing entrepreneurial spirit and driving towards change.
Jim Lawless
Record-breaking freediver and high-performance coach Jim Lawless, is a unique force in the world of motivational speaking and inspirational leadership.
Not content with merely championing bold actions, Jim has put his theories to the test, literally putting his life on the line to prove his approach delivers solid results.
In 2010, Jim tested his philosophy on the importance of mental toughness to achieve success by becoming Britain’s Deepest Freediver, and the first Briton to dive below the magic 100m barrier, on a single breath of air.
Able to speak on leading through disruption and dislodging the familiar, Jim delivers thought-provoking keynote talks, to provide practical lessons on transformational change.
Damian Hughes
Damian Hughes is an international speaker, bestselling author and co-host of the acclaimed High Performance Podcast alongside Jake Humphrey.
Combining his practical and academic background within sport, Damian speaks on organisational development and change psychology to help organisations cultivate and sustain high-performing teams.
Throughout his career, Damian has served as a member of the coaching team for a wide range of international and national sporting teams including the England Rugby League and Scotland Rugby Union, with his innovative approach to creating a winning mindset being praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali and Sir Alex Ferguson.
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