Lisa’s Keynote Presentations

Lisa Ford is a speaker with over 20 years of experience presenting to businesses, associations and government. She speaks throughout the United States and internationally on topics of customer service, leadership, team issues and change. Lisa is best known for her work in the areas of customer service. She is the author of the video series How to Give Exceptional Customer Service, the #1 selling business tapes in the U.S. for over 5 years.

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Lisa Ford's Presentations

Why Customer Service is Not Enough

Why Customer Service Is NOT Enough

This is a presentation on why customer service alone will not lead to long term survival. Everyone has read the books, many businesses have pledged fidelity to its customers but few have implemented actions that match their attitude. And most efforts are faint hearted, gimmicky or off the mark. Today’s organization must focus on the customer experience and retention with renewed energy. This speech is a combination of content, examples and motivation. The challenge is to get customers to love your products, services and people. The audience will learn the tough questions to make needed improvements. Lisa relates statistics, strategies and stories so the audience leaves with skills and the desire to win and keep customers.

KNOWING AND DOING

Create A Customer Service-Focused Culture

Create A Customer Service-Focused Culture

Face it–front-line customer service is a tough job. One of the biggest challenges is keeping your team inspired and motivated every day. Learn what works when it comes to inspiring exceptional service and creating loyal customers. This session will cover the environment you must create to encourage a strong, engaged team, your role in modeling the right behavior and the strategies to maintain the right service attitude. Other hands-on information includes how to hire the right team member to start, how to train staff who are emotionally equipped to handle front-line intensity, and what to discuss at team meetings to maintain momentum. Lisa will also deliver ideas on service standards, using empowerment correctly and managing today’s generation of team members.

EXECUTION DRIVES LOYALTY

How to Lead a Team

How to Lead a Team

The competition may be able to copy your products or services, but they cannot copy your team. This session will give you the strategies that will set your team apart from the rest. The ideas covered are: how leaders guide success; what the best organizations do; create trust to gain respect; develop operating agreements to ensure accountability; and get the team to make their own decisions. Lisa will also cover the characteristics of a successful, engaged team member and how to reward and recognize each team member to keep the motivation high and the team on track.

LEADERS MUST LEAD

Everyday Excellence

Everyday Excellence

The best way to survive in today’s fast moving and changing workplace is to be better and smarter every day. You must examine what value you add to the organization and you team. This session covers how individuals must make a difference and increase their results daily. People will learn to understand and love change, take risks and action to make things happen. Lisa shares questions to identify what value you add and create an action plan to increase your value. You will also hear how to create your own luck and success and maintain an attitude of energy and enthusiasm. Today’s world is one where everyone must accept that we are all “self-employed”. Lisa will give people a chance to laugh and learn while accepting the new reality.

FOCUS ON FUNDAMENTALS

Create a Culture of Engagement

Create a Culture of Engagement

To build a business, you must have a focused and engaged team. Your team makes the difference with your customer, your daily results, growth, innovation and profitability. As a leader, your actions set the tone for a productive, upbeat and customer focused business. Employees want to be engaged, connected contributors. Lisa will deliver strategies on how you can take your business to the next level for your employees and customers. You will learn what to give employees so they can perform at extraordinary levels and how to use empowerment and recognition to create engagement. Lisa will also discuss the fundamental drivers of engagement to start doing immediately.

ENGAGE TO OUT-THINK AND OUT-SERVE

“Lisa was and is phenomenal! She captured the attention of a very diverse audience. All were engaged and responded to her presentation. When rounding in the hospital, all I hear is how awesome she was and how she touched people to look at their behaviors on service. She has a great sense of humor and her stories are wonderful and entertaining. We found her very responsive to the language and key messages we were trying to create in the forum, as take home messages for our staff and MDs. I find Lisa exceptional to work with and have already recommended her to my peers in the organization. I am a true fan of Lisa Ford.”

– Kaiser Permanente

“To share a few comments, “It was the best conference – Red Cross or other wise – that I’ve ever been to. If this doesn’t inspire our staff, nothing ever will.” “Lisa Ford was great! Did you notice how everyone dashed back after break? No one wanted to miss a minute.”

– American Red Cross

“All the feedback we received regarding Lisa and her presentation was very positive.  The message and the steps she provided served tangible take- aways our leaders can use immediately.  Lisa’s style was different from our previous presenters, her integrative approach was well received and we were successful in keeping the event relevant, impactful and fresh for our leaders.  Thank you again!  To bottom line it, our expectations were exceeded!”

– Cox Communications

“Lisa’s program exceeded my expectations and our employees will look at how they approach customer interactions differently. Her humor and real-life stories really make it easy to relate and understand.”

— Allstate Insurance Company