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John Bates

CEO/Founder
Executive Speaking Success
Country or state 
United States
Available to 
Global
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Highly sought after speaker & executive level presentational speaking coach/media trainer, Internet entrepreneur & consultant, senior executive team member: Skilled professional with extensive leadership experience in marketing strategy and implementation, information technology, business development and sales. Multifaceted, energetic and enthusiastic. Excellent client relations and team management abilities with advanced communication and public speaking skills. Excellent interpersonal relationship abilities.

Expertise includes:

• Business Development

• Team Leadership & Management

• Public Relations & Public Speaking Skill

• Effective Marketing Messaging Creation & Refinement

• Marketing Strategy & Execution

• Sales Presentation, Negotiation, Closing

• New Client Acquisition

• Memetic/Guerilla Marketing

• Virtual Worlds

• Creative Problem Solving, Analytical Skills

• Trend Recognition

• Youth Marketing

Past Speaking Engagements include: Events such as the Virtual Goods Summit, Virtual Worlds Conferences, the Harvard B-School Cyberposium, Web Attack, Jupiter conferences, Vanderbilt B-School Distinguished Speaker’s Forum, St Gallen B-School World Leaders Symposium, and many others including hundreds of University classrooms all over the US and Europe.

Specialties: Branding and identity creation and management, public speaking, media training and public speaker training, marketing messaging, people motivation & management, marketing with a focus on the 18-34 year old market, memetic brand advocacy, Internet marketing, public relations, broad knowledge of environmental and social issues.

Current position (1)

CEO/Founder

Executive Speaking Success

Degrees (2)
Bachelor’s Degree Sociology / Social Psychology Summa Cum Laude
University of California, Los Angeles
1986 to 1989
Philosophy
University of Utah
1981 to 1983

Presentations

Presentations (3)
The Speak Like a Leader Experience

Leadership, communication and effectiveness in a fun, entertaining and moving speech with uniquely surprising and highly actionable insights.

Excited About Your Story

A deep dive into storytelling, which is the most effective tool for communicating with Human Beings that Mother Nature has given you! This is a fun, exciting ride that motivates people on multiple levels and gives them highly effective principles and paradigms for storytelling, leadership, effectiveness and communication.

It Must be PitchCraft

In this exciting and authentic speech John shares the most important things to know about successful pitches that no one else is telling you!

Having raised hundres of millions of dollars and having failed in the harsh glare of the limelight with his $80M venture BIGWORDS.com, John has plenty of mistakes, heartbreaks and losses to share, along with the very important lessons learned from them.

Past talks (3)
Best Pitch
Startupfest 2017
Montreal, Canada
December 31, 2016
Women in Technology
23rd Annual WITI Summit
San Jose
December 31, 2016
Say YES to Make a Difference
Accenture International Women's Day, Chicago 2017
Chicago, Ill, USA
December 31, 2016
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American Chamber of Commerce Europe
American Chamber of Commerce Europe
TEDxVilnius 2014 John Bates Compliment Experiment
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Books & Articles (8)

Your Amazing Itty Bitty Guide to Being TED-Worthy: 15 Essential Secrets of Successful Speaking Based in Human Neurobiology
Itty Bitty Publishing,
2019
I Crashed and Burned Onstage During a TED Talk. What I Learned Proved More Valuable Than Success
What I Learned From a Group of NASA Astronauts and Why Entrepreneurs Need to Hear It
How Standing Chest Deep in Sub-Freezing Sea Water Improved My Elevator Pitch
This Common Speaking Habit Is Draining All Your Negotiating Power
Why You Need to Build Emotional Connections With Your Investors (Even Though Everyone Says You Shouldn't)
How to Control Your Audiences' Reaction to You--According to Neuroscience
Try This Exercise to Be a Better Speaker, and Have More Fun in a Room Full of People

Expertise (11)

Leadership
Business
PR & Communications
Health & Well-being
Business Communication Authentic Public Speaking Consulting opportunities Leadership Coach TED TEDx

Clients

NASA
Johnson & Johnson
Accenture
Boston Scientific

Reviews

Testimonials (4)
  • Melinda Richter, Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation Labs (JLABS)
    Melinda Richter
    Head
    Johnson & Johnson Innovation Labs
    Verified
  • We hired John at the TMC Innovation Institute to work with our healthcare startups on preparing their short pitch for Demo Day. He led a day long session, starting with a lecture and workshop, and then sat through 24 start-up presentations and gave meaningful critique to all of them. At the end of the cohort, his session was ranked top of all the sessions we do. I would highly recommend John for any group training on public speaking.
    Arielle Carpenter
    Healthcare Innovation Lead
    TMC Innovation Institute
    Verified
  • I got to hear John's keynotes for the first time today, and I have to say that those 45 minutes were the best and most efficient sales training I've ever been to!
    Miia Huhtamäki
    Customer Success Manager
    Koodiviidakko Oy
    Verified
  • John was one of the best speakers I have ever seen. His entire talk was informative, and filled with invaluable information. I look forward to using the skills I learned in his talk in future pitches and throughout my life in general.
    Harrison V
    Brand Manager
    WeTransfer
    Verified
Recommendations
Why choose me? 

John understands the world of an organizer and will make you happy you chose to work with him.

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