Neal Petersen

There are No Barriers ~ Only Solutions!

The Power of Positive Attitude & How It Affects Performance

Neal has always defined himself by what he can imagine – rather than how others would define him and how he sustained his dream in the face of numerous barriers is compelling.

The Importance of Realizing Goals: Perseverance & Determination

Overcoming fear and facing danger and the unknown has been central to how Neal approaches his goals and his life. Audiences will walk away understanding the validity for direct correlations between perseverance, determination, passion and dedication to achieve any goal.

With Choice There Is Consequence

Neal’s impact transcends age, gender, and race to promote the creation of leaders, life-long learners, and individuals who are mindful of the consequences their choices will have on personal, familial, community, and generational levels.

Change Is Constant: It’s How You Play the Cards

Audiences will understand that you have to address the possibility of failure if one wants to achieve great things. His message will connect with audience members’ experience facing challenges – sales quotas for instance – that may seem formidable at first – until imagination, innovation and passion are applied.

Why Neal Petersen:

– Neal’s keynote is a powerful multi-sensory experience using a treasure chest with symbols of turning barriers into solutions and for larger productions thunder, lightning and fog.
– US fees are inclusive of travel -clients know all costs upfront.
– Always mindful of client budgets, Neal never invoices for add-on expenses
– Neal’s impact continues off stage, he remains engaged with audience members attending social activities, book-signing, one-on-one conversations, group activities adding value for your investment.
– Having visited over 100 countries and lived in 5, Neal appeals to diverse audiences.
– Neal is sure to give your event the WOW it needs. His passion and uniquely delivered life-story are the ideal open or close. Audiences are quickly riveted and remain so until he exits. Neal can drive home any message seamlessly and will leave your audience refocused and reenergized, ready to tackle the challenges ahead.

In these challenging times of uncertainty, fear and insecurity rise, many feel like solo sailors, adrift, grasping for survival. Neal lays out the importance of a clearly communicated vision and direction, followed by detailed planning, preparation, passion and execution using his remarkable personal story.

Neal’s life-story addresses adversity, diversity, leadership, team work, motivation, crisis, innovation, change and execution, and the courage to embrace fears.

Take away values:

– Neal carries a treasure chest on-stage and in it are examples of how he turned barriers into opportunities to achieve his dream and empowers others to turn their baggage into treasures.
– Innovate – how to capitalize on ever changing winds storms by being prepared.
– Change – adapt to wind shifts and stormy seas by knowing when to alter course.
– Leverage economic challenges to your advantage – keep pumping, choose a winning course and navigate to your advantage.
– Attitude adjustment – refresh your vision and sense of purpose.
– Elements of success include passion, determination, perseverance and hard work.
– With focus and planning, a dream can become a reality – anything is possible.
– Life is about choice and with choice are consequences ~ choose your course wisely.

Testimonials

“Neal is so unique to all other speakers as he is so much more than a keynote, he is the “best of the best. Neal not only delivers a unique, captivating and memorable life-story, filled with valuable content, but he masterfully weaves in his audiences challenges and he does it seamlessly because he is PREPARED! He digs deeper and goes out of his way – to gain an in-depth understanding of where they are as a group, where they want to be and what it will take to get them there. Neal is truly a leader and teaches genuine leadership, by example, in all aspects of what he represents.”
– Axis Capital

“Neal Petersen was an outstanding keynote speaker for us. His positive message of ‘No Barriers, Only Solutions’ was powerful, his preparation was impressive and showed that he knew his audience cold, his life story of hard work and success was riveting, his delivery was first-rate. Everyone was glued to their seats, and then at the end of his speech, 750 members rose up and gave him the rousing ovation he deserved. Neal was a huge hit!”
– Geoff Beckwith, Executive Director, Massachusetts Municipal Association

“Neal is one of the most inspiring, dynamic and thought provoking speakers you will ever witness, he is mesmerizing.”
– NACo past president

“We always like to hear from speakers who have accomplished the unimaginable and Neal certainly fits this description. He delivered his powerful message in a unique and compelling way that captivated our audience. His story of overcoming barriers resonated with our attendees and provided them with the motivation needed to tackle daily obstacles. The research he conducts on the company in advance of the keynote allowed him to connect in an even deeper way. Overall, well worth the investment.”
– Mark Clemente, PNC Financial Services Group

“I had an opportunity to attend a 2016 customer summit sponsored by a Cardinal Health with which we do business. The keynote speaker was awesome and his message was very apropos given the challenges we face in an ever-changing healthcare industry. His story was both incredible and inspirational. He told it skillfully and with great passion. It’s a story of insatiable will and perseverance to overcome adversity and succeed. So motivated by it, I had to share with you. I spoke to him after and he may be the most interesting/impressive individual I have met.”
– Christine M. Cunningham, RRT, Director of Clinical Service, CornerStone Medical Services

“If you want to hear an inspirational story that will motivate your employees to reach greater success in both work and life then I highly encourage you to hire Neal Petersen as a motivational speaker at your next conference. Recently, I had the opportunity to hire Neal to speak at my annual 2013 Sales and Marketing conference.
Neal’s presentation ability to take his life story and connect it to our health insurance business was remarkable. Our annual survey results of the conference rated Neal as one of the three highest keynote speakers we’ve ever had and our group gave Neal a rousing standing ovation at the conclusion of his keynote.”
– Vin Capozzi, SVP, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare

“I have been very fortunate to work with Neal Petersen – we brought him in to speak to 3 of our top producer meetings. He is a great speaker and he has found ways to help financial advisors take Neal’s experiences and to apply it to their practices in such a way to grow their businesses through the tough times and enjoy the good times”
– Larry Roth – CEO – Advisors Group, AIG

“Neal Petersen delivered one of the most inspirational talks I ever heard at a corporate event. He had the whole audience enthralled as he talked about his life and how he set himself what seemed to be an impossible challenge. Impossible that is, unless like Neal, you believe there are “No Barriers” ”
– Qlik

“It is rare that I am asked by my senior management at IBM to immediately hire a keynote speaker when he is barely off the stage to give another keynote speech the following week – but that is in fact what happened with you Neal. And I want to thank for the extraordinary presentation you gave in San Diego to 8,000, but for the follow up presentation you gave in Barcelona with virtually no prep time as well. I truly was in awe of the spirit you drove into the audience and how you made your own journey so very relevant to every person in both locations. You were nothing short of a genius! You generated some of the highest ratings and most positive feedback I have seen in many years of running WW events in this division.”
– L. Benway – IBM