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Stevie Ray

Stevie Ray offers audiences a road map to success. As a nationally recognized speaker, Ray has spent the last 25 years motivating audiences in teamwork, leadership, and customer services.

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“Your use of humor to illustrate your points kept our learners fully engaged and wanting more. Thank you for making our conference so successful.”

Susan Clark

Fairview Health Services

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Why you should book Stevie Ray for your next event

Audiences relate to Ray’s entertaining and informative keynote addresses, which offer insight into the best way to achieve personal and professional success. Interspersing comedic anecdotes with practical solutions, his unique presentation offers memorable and effective information.
By equipping audiences with practical tools for elevating productivity and performance, Ray ensures that listeners leave with actionable strategies to transform business methods.
His book The Road Map to Influence helps organizations understand how to master the ability to produce positive outcomes in the face of obstacles.

As a professional entertainer, Stevie Ray founded an improv company in 1989, which focuses on entertainment and training. Serving as Executive Director for the business, he frequently secures top-tier speaking engagements. He’s a member of the National Speakers Association and a columnist for the Business Journal Newspapers.

As the author of several books, Ray encourages readers to reach success by mastering the ability to influence other people. Providing motivational and leadership to both Fortune 500 companies and small businesses, Ray leverages his personal brand of humor to entertain and inspire.

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Keynotes

Keynote by Stevie Ray: The Roadmap to Influence

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions.

This is Stevie’s signature keynote. In it, Stevie teaches you how the brain accepts or rejects ideas, as well as hands-on techniques to help you influence others toward positive outcomes. Everyone from the CEO to the newest intern owes their success to the ability to influence others; whether it is pitching ideas to clients, motivating staff, or connecting with customers, it doesn’t matter how well you know your job if you cannot positively connect with others

Learning Objectives:

Capture attention: learn the neuroscience behind the Approach/Withdraw Response, and how to use this response to your advantage.

Create connection: learn the two main methods of persuasion, and how to determine which to use in a given environment.

Motivate action: getting agreement is worthless unless action is taken. Learn the simple methods to ensure that momentum leads to outcomes.

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Keynote by Stevie Ray: Influential Leadership

If you can’t influence, you can’t lead.

Too many leaders are trained in their profession, but not in how to garner support for initiative, or to motivate staff to do their best work. In this exciting session, Stevie Ray illuminates the various styles of leadership, and how each applies to specific teams and situations.

Learning Objectives:

The nine recognized styles of leadership, and the types of teams and situations best suited for each.

The neuroscience involved in leader-follower dynamics.

The psychological trigger words that either motivate others or cause greater resistance.

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Keynote by Stevie Ray: When Influence Isn’t Easy

Resolve difficult situations without losing your cool, or losing a friend.

It is one thing to influence those who are cooperative, but what do you do for those in-your-face moments when tensions are high? For this unique session, Stevie not only draws on his expertise in influence, but also on his over 40 years of martial arts training (he was actually a celebrity bodyguard at one time). Learn to de-escalate tense situations, and create positive results.

Learning Objectives:

How the Amygdala Response of the brain affects emotions and responses.

De-escalation techniques to maintain control of challenging interactions.

Techniques to move from stalemate to forward momentum, all while keeping the relationship intact.

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Customer Reviews

“Your use of humor to illustrate your points kept our learners fully engaged and wanting more. Thank you for making our conference so successful.”

Susan Clark Fairview Health Services

“It was great seeing you TWICE in the past couple days. I think your message is phenomenal for both older audiences like my bank and younger audiences. I have thoroughly enjoyed each of the three times I have heard you speak and have learned something new each time. Thank you again for making a difference in my career.”

Sam Posl Retail Banker, Bridgewater Bank

“The survey results are in, and it looks like you knocked it out of the park! In response to – Overall, how valuable do you think this session was? – every single respondent rated it a 5, very valuable. Every single attendee indicated they would be interested in participating in another session like this.”

Alana Nistler Director, Product Innovation Prime Therapeutics

Stevie Ray

Motivational speaker advocates for mastering influence to achieve success

Offering a dynamic and unique performance, Stevie Ray has garnered a reputation for providing entertaining keynotes about mastering influence techniques. As an influence expert, he offers services to more than 1,000 corporations throughout the country. He’s opened for popular comedians, such as Weird al Yankovic and Paula Poundstone as a traveling comedian. In 1989 Ray founded Stevie Ray’s Improv Company in Minneapolis with the goal of providing success training and entertainment to nationwide audiences. He’s achieved his goals by incorporating the very influence strategies that he now teaches to audiences across the globe.

Ray's dynamic and entertaining keynote addresses offer memorable and insightful anecdotes, as well as crucial information for influence mastery. His engaging address teaches listeners to forge a path to success with authenticity and conviction. Leveraging his experience as a professional entertainer, Ray breaks down information in a way that allows audiences to easily understand and implement it.

As the longest-serving national columnist for Business Journal Newspapers, the writer has established a strong following. His non-fiction books offer insight into ways to improve performance in personal and professional life. His latest work,
The Roadmap to Influence
highlights ways for businesses and individuals to master the art of influence.

Stevie is also a self-defense instructor and martial artist.