Leadership advisor, speaker, executive coach and author Bill Wilkie has created the only path to mastery designed specifically for leaders. His keynote speeches powerfully communicate how excellence has become the largest hidden cost in business, and what leaders and entire companies can do about it! His speeches offer astute insight, advice, and motivation for anyone seeking sustainable peak performance in business and elswhere.
Bill Wilkie speaks at leadership conferences, company meetings, and corporate retreats around the world. Listeners greet his practical approach to escaping the Excellence Trap and realizing the promise of Leadership, Enterprise, and Market Mastery as a breath of fresh air and an inspiration. Listeners describe Wilkie’s talks as full of fresh ideas that somehow feel right and familiar, and consistently respond with great enthusiasm.
Bill Wilkie’s speech can be customized to your audience. Expanding on topics from his successful E-Book, Escape from Excellence, or from his blog of the same name, Wilkie targets his message firmly to business, but provides many examples of mastery from across the spectrum of human experience. Audiences are intrigued, inspired, and entertained. He is often asked to “stick around” for an extra day because attendees often wish to start or carry on the conversation informally, digging more deeply into the ideas and the possibilities he has presented.
A Powerful Speaker
As a speaker, Bill Wilkie has been described as, “the best I’ve seen” “absolutely compelling” “enthralling” “completely credible” “thought provoking, but accessible” “serious, passionate, and really funny” and “a secret weapon.” His speeches have been described by organizers and listeners as “the best speech of the conference” “a homerun” and “a powerful reminder of why we do this.”
With an energetic but grounded style, Bill speaks from the perspective about, and from, mastery with confidence, passion, honesty, warmth, and humor. “Frankly,” he say, “I’m bored by most speeches. But these ideas do inspire passion, both in me and in my audience.” For decades, colleagues had suggested that Bill become a keynote speaker. “But I resisted that until I had something powerful and fresh to say. There has to be substance, or I won’t show up. But these days I'm completely in my element.”