Powerful Persuasive Presentations

“Patricia Fripp is the best keynote speaker and investment. She keynoted our major client conference, Meeting of the Minds, and was a tremendous hit. After her opening keynote, she conducted half of the ten top-rated breakout sessions.

Based on the incredible feedback, we invited her back the following year for an equally successful repeat performance. We were so impressed by Patricia’s impact that we later engaged her for executive speech coaching and sales presentation skills training.”

“Each year, we hold two large customer conferences that attract more than 7,000 attendees from over 70 countries. These events have become extremely popular because of our high-quality technical breakout sessions. Many of our Nutanix speakers are engineers and technical architects. While they are experts in their specific areas, very few are comfortable or experienced speaking to audiences of 200 to 500 attendees.

For the past several years, we have engaged Patricia Fripp to help our nearly 100 speakers strengthen their presentation structure and script their content so it is clear, concise, and engaging for all attendees, including those for whom English is a second or third language.

In addition to the intensive pre-event coaching, Patricia also works with our speakers on-site, perfecting their delivery and making sure they feel comfortable and confident in the environment. Patricia is absolutely best-in-class. Her decades of presentation and coaching experience are obvious, as is her genuine passion for helping our speakers do well. She is their biggest cheerleader.

Her overall excellence and personal commitment to our speakers are unmatched, which is why Patricia’s coaching sessions are always oversubscribed. Our presenters know the value she brings and are always eager to sign up for additional training. Presenter training has gone from mandatory to sought-after.

Since Patricia became part of our team, our customers have told us our breakout sessions are some of the best they have ever attended and have raved about the professionalism of our speakers. We consider the investment in Patricia a must-have part of our events. She truly is part of the team.

We are now leveraging Patricia in other areas beyond public events. She is coaching speakers for our high-visibility Executive Briefing Center, and not surprisingly, we are receiving the same outstanding feedback from those presenters as well.”

“At the recent SAP BusinessObjects annual sales meeting, Patricia worked closely with our CEO, on both the content creation and delivery of his keynote address. She also coached several other members of his senior staff on their respective presentations.

We made the decision to engage Patricia for two major reasons: we wanted to improve the quality and impact of our most important presentations, and we wanted to invest in our senior people as part of their professional development. We believed this investment would continue to provide benefits far beyond any motivational impact an outside speaker could create.

The results were very positive. Our feedback indicated a definite improvement in both the quality of the presentations and their impact. Our CEO was particularly pleased with the results he achieved through his commitment to the coaching process and his diligence in taking those lessons to heart. Those presenters who made themselves available for Patricia’s one-on-one coaching scored significantly higher than those who did not.

I would recommend Patricia and her services to anyone considering working with a speech coach because she brings great experience, a dynamic personality, and a tireless work ethic to every project she undertakes.”

“Patricia Fripp is amazing. As a speech coach, you will never find anyone with her wisdom, experience, and ability. Once I began working with her, she improved my speaking style immediately.

Her ability to listen to what her clients want to say and instantly give them the right words is incredible. Patricia can take an average presentation and quickly transform it into something great.

She takes the time to explain and teach her clients how to think about speech structure and language, so we are equipped to apply the same strategy moving forward. Patricia truly cares about her clients’ success.

After my personal experience, Patricia has coached many of our engineers and executives.

When you partner with Patricia, you are getting both a coach and a fan.”

“The leadership team at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices first heard Patricia Fripp deliver a two-and-a-half-minute tribute at the celebration of life for one of our dearest friends. We immediately thought, ‘I wonder what she could do with 50 minutes.’

We were not disappointed. From her opening line, Ms. Fripp’s presentation was positively provocative. Her natural storytelling ability drew us in immediately, and everyone wanted to go along for the ride.

She mined the nuggets of information we asked her to include, all while skillfully weaving in audience participation. Many professional speakers present in broad sweeps of concepts. Patricia drilled down in a way that disrupted many of the preconceived notions our sales professionals had about how to communicate effectively with clients and prospects.

Thank you, Patricia, for a productive and powerful presentation.”

“Based on my personal experience working with Patricia Fripp at my previous company, I knew she would have an immediate impact on our sales team. Our expectation was simple: we wanted our sellers to leave with actionable ideas they could use right away.

Over the course of the meeting, we watched people begin adopting Patricia’s ideas and best practices in real time. Our seasoned sales professionals were excited and willing to try her sales presentation techniques.

To ensure she had the right context for her content, Patricia conducted interviews prior to our conference and participated in the full meeting. This went a long way toward building credibility with the sales force.

Patricia was flexible and creative in helping us create a high-impact program within the constraints of our time and budget. Our internal leaders and sales professionals agreed it was time well spent. Since we only come together once a year, we must be highly judicious in planning our agenda. Patricia’s session left the sales team energized, excited about what they had learned, and ready to put her techniques into action.

Many commented that it was some of the best sales training they had ever received.”

“For three decades, we have had the privilege of working with Patricia Fripp as our go-to expert for keynote addresses, breakout sessions, and our bespoke speaker school at PayrollOrg.

Her skills go far beyond her content expertise and exceptional platform presence. Patricia’s speechwriting and speech coaching have been pivotal in refining the delivery and impact of presentations for our leadership team and industry specialists. She is the best speaker investment we have ever made.

Each year, my admiration for Patricia only grows stronger. She remains a cornerstone of our annual conference, consistently delighting our members with her dynamic presentations and unwavering commitment.

Patricia’s enthusiastic and dependable contributions have made her an invaluable part of our success year after year.”

“Your participation in our annual American Cemetery Association Convention was, without a doubt, one of the high points of our meeting. I am still hearing wonderful comments about you as people reflect on the convention.

Your presentation was exciting, inspirational, moving, entertaining, funny, and filled with substance. For many attendees, your presentation was the pinnacle of the event. You showed Zig Ziglar and Mark Victor Hansen how to give a speech.

In point of fact, I have never worked with a speaker who takes their job as seriously as you do. Your interest in our association, our industry, and our specific needs, along with your tireless preparation and thought over the past year, was obvious the moment you stood in front of our group.

As the saying goes, you had them in the palm of your hand. You are truly a credit to your profession and to the National Speakers Association, and you were a tremendous addition to our program.”

“Imagine two hundred ministers, each convinced he or she may be God’s finest gift to oratory, listening to a layperson teach them how to improve their communication skills and deliver exciting sermons. Then imagine a standing ovation at the conclusion of the session. Those powerful images tell the story of our first experience with speech coach and dynamic keynoter, Patricia Fripp.

It has been said that a minister will fly around the world to preach a sermon but will not walk across the street to hear one. However, from start to finish, Patricia held our congregation of preachers in the palm of her hand. They laughed, learned, participated, and told us they wanted her back so they could laugh and learn some more.

We believe that each weekend, thousands of our church members are hearing sermons that fall easier on their ears and penetrate further into their hearts and minds because of the speaking tips and techniques Patricia taught in her keynote and workshop.

We are having her back.”

“The leadership of FOCUS Learning Corporation deeply appreciates your contribution to our conference success. Your preparation for your keynote, How to Take the Conference Home, was amazing.

Even with your preparation interviews of our clients, our president had no idea it was possible to deliver such an upbeat keynote on technical issues. We still do not know how you managed to sit through so many presentations that could have felt rather dry to an outsider.

You truly did your homework and brought us an outstanding wrap-up that tied everything together. I do not know how you absorb so much new material and then move forward incorporating key facts and people into your speech so seamlessly.

It takes remarkable talent and skill to be such a powerful speaker.”

“Patricia Fripp received the highest reviews of any professional keynote speaker in our company’s history, and we have hired at least thirty top-level speakers. Fripp is the best.

Her presentation on Powerful Presentation Skills was so well received that many of our financial professionals became interested in hiring her to coach them on their marketing presentations. As a result, Patricia has received repeat invitations.”

“Patricia Fripp addressed the Michigan Credit Union League Conference, and her presentation, Leadership Presentations: How to Inspire Action and Commitment, was a tremendous success. She demonstrated exactly what it means to hold an audience in the palm of your hand. At the same time, she showed our audience precisely how to do that in their own presentations.

We laughed, learned, and walked away committed to focusing more on the power of our own presentations. Fripp teaches more than public speaking. She teaches you how to put wow into your presentations.

Even if you never give a formal speech, her ideas, techniques, and suggestions will improve your personal speaking skills and style. If your goal is to elevate the communication skills of your leaders and associates, then Fripp is for you.”

“I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the hands-on sales training you provided to our Western sales team last week. I have attended many courses over the years, and I must say that, at some point in the day, most had me looking at my watch to see when they would be over.

However, your program flew by. I could not believe I sat there for ten hours and was actually prepared to invest a few more.

Your enthusiasm, knowledge of our business, and the practical applications you taught our team will benefit the careers of many of our sales professionals, as well as our customers. I look forward to having you become an active part of American Home Shield training events in the future.

Thanks again.”

“Twenty years ago, I was part of a two-day sales presentation training at ADP conducted by Patricia Fripp. I still remember that even the superstars left slightly humbled and very much improved.

When we later engaged her to deliver a sales presentation program at our Sales Kickoff, she exceeded our expectations once again. What impressed me most was that, during her multiple pre-program interviews, we were already receiving rave reviews on the advice she was giving our associates while learning about our specific business.

Her program was highly customized and exceptionally well received. We especially appreciated her flexibility and the follow-up programs she provided to help solidify her techniques.”

“Another triumph. How you can reduce this group of long-experienced, overeducated, well-connected, ultra-sophisticated, and, in some cases, cynical speechwriters to a room full of awestruck, gasping schoolboys and schoolgirls, I will never know, even though I have watched it happen twice.

Thanks for yet another great show.”