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Robert Stevenson

President & CEO at Seeking Excellence, Inc.

CLEARWATER, United States

Robert has worked with the world’s best brands to help them build a high-performance culture, improve performance, and accelerate growth. Simply stated, his goal is to help companies/individuals reach their “Peak Performance”. He has spoken to over 2 million people by delivering 2,500 keynotes and training sessions in 250 industries, to audiences in all 50 states and 16 countries.

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST: FedEx, American Express, AT&T, Hilton, Harley-Davidson, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, AutoZone, Prudential, JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Chevron, Caterpillar, Carrier, Whirlpool, Enterprise, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Toyota, Lincoln Financial, Honeywell, RE/MAX, ERA Real Estate, Berkshire Hathaway, The Hartford, State Farm Insurance, BlueCross BlueShield, Black & Veatch, Aetna, Bridgestone, Citigroup, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Maytag, Germania Insurance, McKesson HBOC, Merrill Lynch, Pitney Bowes, Pizza Hut, Schneider Electric, Tech Data, Time Warner, Tricon Global, Trustmark Bank, Yamaha, YRC Worldwide, Georgia Power, Tennessee Valley Authority, Target, Sprint, Owens-Illinois, McGraw Hill, American Dental Assn., ADP, Old Dominion, and 7-Eleven.

Mr. Stevenson has owned and operated several companies, sold internationally in over 20 countries, and established and maintained hundreds of accounts worldwide. In doing so, he has held positions from Salesman to Chief Executive Officer; he has lived his experiences, not just studied them.

Robert has written 4 books concentrating on the areas of both personal and business success. He is best known for his best-selling book How to Soar Like an Eagle in a World Full of Turkeys.

Why companies hire Robert - Companies are demanding specific relevant ideas and solutions that can be applied immediately, so they can increase profitability and productivity; they don’t need hype, they need help; this is where Robert excels.

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
Travels From: Tampa, FL
Speaking Topics: Leadership, Change, Sales

Speaking Fee $15,000 (In-Person)

Robert Stevenson Points
Academic 15
Author 255
Influencer 348
Speaker 40
Entrepreneur 0
Total 658

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Seeking Excellence, Inc.
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed
Media Experience: 28 years
Last Media Interview: 11/07/2018

Areas of Expertise

Change Management 41.86
Culture 30.30
Customer Experience 32.16
HR
Innovation
Leadership 34.08
Management 45.04
Marketing
Social
Startups
Sustainability

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Agriculture & Mining
Automotive
Building Materials, Clay & Glass
Chemicals
Consumer Products
Engineering & Construction
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
Forest Products & Paper
Furniture
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Higher Education & Research
Hospitality
Industrial Machinery & Components
Insurance
Manufacturing
Media
Metal Products
Oil & Gas
Pharmaceuticals
Primary Metal & Steel
Professional Services
Retail
Telecommunications
Textiles Production
Travel & Transportation
Utilities
Wholesale Distribution

Publications

9 Article/Blogs
A Title Doesn’t Make You A Leader
Robert Stevenson
March 23, 2024
A great leader doesn't need a fancy title to lead effectively. They show leadership through their actions and how they treat others. They're honest, caring, and have a clear vision for success. They don't care about being in charge; they care about helping their team succeed.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

The Art Of Conversation
Robert Stevenson
March 16, 2024
The art of being a great conversationalist has a lot more to do with listening than speaking. Remember, you already know about yourself, so talking about you will seldom gain you anything.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

If you want to advance your career then understand the POWER of MORE.
LinkedIn
February 23, 2024
Your success will be far MORE
than you ever expected if you will …

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

The Ripple Effects Of Kindness
Robert Stevenson
February 18, 2024
Furthermore, kindness is a universal language that promotes understanding and tolerance while promoting harmony and cooperation.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Be Cautious of Technology
LinkedIn
January 30, 2024
While the integration of technology has brought numerous benefits to businesses, there is a growing concern that some companies may be overly reliant on technology, potentially leading to unintended consequences. One significant issue is the potential loss of human-centric skills and decision-making capabilities. Dependence on automated processes might diminish critical thinking, creativity, and interpersonal skills among employees.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Do What You Do Best
Robert Stevenson
January 19, 2024
LEGO, the renowned Danish toy company, was established in 1932. Over nearly 90 years, its iconic bricks became synonymous with the toy industry's success.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Stepping Up Your Game
Robert Stevenson
January 14, 2024
May I suggest a mantra for us all to follow for 2024: "Elevate Your Excellence: Step Up Your Game!" In the ever-evolving landscape of personal and professional development, the phrase "STEPPING UP YOUR GAME" resonates as a call to action—an invitation to embrace the pursuit of excellence.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Fix, Offer, Change, Improve, Focus
LinkedIn
June 07, 2023
I’m doing a program next week on “Embracing Change.” One of my slides asks: Fix What - Offer What - Change What - Improve What - Focus on What? For many companies defining the “WHAT” is a big problem. I have always believed EVERYTHING … decisions, products, services, policies and procedures revolve around the customer

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Discipline is the Key
LinkedIn
December 06, 2022
I used to believe this quote to be true: “If it is important to you, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” Then I did a little research on decision making and ran across some surprising statistics about heart attack and stroke patients. You would think with such a life threatening event, that patients would make the decision to do everything they could to ensure it didn’t happen again. Well, that is definitely not the correct assumption.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

4 Books
Raise Your Line
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 01, 2015
Raise Your Line is a must read for anyone who wants to succeed in today’s competitive business world. This book is filled with information to help employees, business owners, leaders, and managers who are looking for better ways to move forward and progress towards a more successful future. In this book, Mr. Stevenson walks readers step by step, through how to improve their business performance, leadership skills, and reach their career goals.

Mr. Stevenson gives countless practical and thought provoking insights on how to succeed in this highly competitive business environment. Throughout his book, he emphasizes points which are extremely important to success, by placing them in a box entitled “LINE RAISER” (there are over 100 of them in the book). Not only does he identify and explain the things readers should work on improving, he then tells them how.

A small fragment upon an endless line represents the time you have on earth.
Your line may be short or long and it starts at your birth.
Your line can be uneventful, a dull and boring straight line,
or it can rise, and rise again, marking good decisions on your timeline.
The time will come when you are gone and all that is left is your line.
To make it stand out from all the rest, you must keep it rising all the time.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management

Pocketful of Tweets on SUccess
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 01, 2015
I have found that sometimes it just takes one quote, one thought, one phrase that will serve as a spark to get you on a path to success. I have also found in this fast paced world, people want all the clutter removed when it comes to getting the answer; people don't want a lot of commentary because they simply don't have the time.

So, keeping those points in mind, I decided to write a Get-to-the-Point, Cut-to-the-Chase, Give-it-to-me-Fast book on practical principles that are short and to-the-point. I also decided to write each quote in the form of a Tweet (140 characters or less) so they could easily be shared via Twitter. In keeping each principle in Twitter format, you may find that my grammar or punctuation isn't perfect, but my message is still able to be understood, and that is all that matters.

I hope you will find my Pocketful of Tweets on Success both insightful and helpful on your journey towards reaching your full potential. You must understand that your only true security in life is your personal ability to perform. These principles are sure ways to help you succeed in this ever-changing, highly competitive world we live in.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management

How to Soar Like an Eagle in A world Full of Turkeys
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 01, 2011
This book is a practical guide to helping you become an extraordinary person; there are the winning strategies, techniques and thoughts that will inspire, empower and motivate anyone toward a better future. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you think, but most of all, it will make you better.

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Tags: Customer Experience, Management, Change Management

52 Essential Habits for Succcess
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 01, 2010
Robert Stevenson is the best-selling author of How to Soar Like an Eagle in a World Full of Turkeys. In his new book, 52 Essential Habits for Success, he has identified and created a sure-fire, simple method of how to incorporate those habits into your daily life.
There have been some excellent books written which have addressed the topic of success in great detail. Many of them have outstanding suggestions of what one should do to be successful, but they still don’t seem to help: So, where is the disconnect? What’s wrong with most self-help books is that they are just too difficult to implement. In most cases, after a person reads the book, they have every intention of following through with the suggestions made by the author. However, life happens and the readers become distracted with all the steps they must take, lists they must write and self-analysis they must ponder to help them become a better person. Even those who have really good intentions become overwhelmed with all the things the author said “they must do” if they are to become successful. So instead of mapping out a total plan of action you probably won't adhere to, Mr. Stevenson’s book triggers your powerful subconscious mind to help you become a much more talented, motivated, productive, and successful individual.
The beauty of his method is in its simplicity.
It is estimated that the subconscious mind functions at almost thirty thousand times the speed of our conscious mind. Mr. Stevenson uses this power to your benefit. It has been proven your subconscious mind will believe whatever your conscious mind tells it, without question. Your subconscious mind will start working on the Essential Habits for Success and help to make them become a reality for you. This is the power you can easily harness for yourself. A power that can work thirty thousand times faster is something most people are interested in learning about.

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management

4 Keynotes
Ripples of Change
Seeking Excellence, Inc.
December 17, 2019
Robert Stevenson discussing change in front of 700 managers for a major cable company

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Tags: Customer Experience, Leadership, Change Management

How the Best Get Better
Robert Stevenson
January 01, 2019
This double-edged sword presentation cuts to the core of performance, both business and personal performance. Mandates from management throughout the country all seem to be singing the same song: If we are going to remain successful and be players in the marketplace both now and in the future, we must constantly strive to learn more, improve our quality of service, increase customer satisfaction, increase market share and do it in less time with fewer people.

To keep elements for success effective, to facilitate individuals performing at their Optimum Level, it sometimes takes a catalyst of rare ingredients to first ignite the fire and then keep it blazing. This Peak Performance program was designed to be the catalyst to get things moving, and also teach techniques to keep it going.

Foundation:

► Peak performance is a way of work, not a mad dash to a single goal.
► Both innovation and motivation must be present to excel.
► Doing it the way you have always done it will not get you what you have always
gotten. In today's highly competitive, ever-changing business environment,
you can never become what you need to be by remaining what you are.

Participants will be able to:

► Renew past convictions
► Deal with handling and accepting change
► Identify optimum effort necessary to keep growing professionally and as a company
► Delve into revamping, removing, and limiting personal paradigms
► Utilize multiple ways to deal with stress
► Explain the most common trait of all successes

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management

How to Raise Your Line
Robert Stevenson
January 01, 2019
This program is a roadmap to business success. It is the perfect combination of proven business tactics solidly grounded in years of research. Mr. Stevenson is an expert at building a high performance business culture and this program, based on his new book, bearing the same title, contains winning strategies, techniques, methods, thoughts, principles and key habits for success that will empower anyone towards a better future. Raise Your Line offers guidelines and practical to-do’s to help any company or person succeed in business. In this program, Mr. Stevenson walks attendees step-by-step, through how to improve their business performance, leadership skills, and reach their career goals.

Foundation:

► Program is based on twenty-five years of research
► Mr. Stevenson personally conducted over 10,000 interviews
► Employees, managers and senior executives were involved in study
► More than 250 industries participated
► An action-oriented program with specific steps to take that are relevant
to high performing winners

Participants will be able to:

► Apply the extensive leadership lessons into simple and actionable steps
► Raise their level of success
► Increase profitability, communication, cooperation and improve customer service
► Show you how to differentiate themselves and company from their competition
► Understand the importance that customer service brings to the success of any company
► Shorten their learning curve and advance both personally and professionally by applying
these proven practices

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Tags: Management, Leadership, Change Management

If You Don't Like Chane - You are Going to Hate Extinction
Robert Stevenson
January 01, 2019
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." (Benjamin Franklin)

Change is a constant. You can either choose to embrace it or watch as your business disintegrates right before your eyes. Everyone is standing on shaky ground. Today's King of the Mountain could be tomorrow's case study on failure. Kmart, IBM, and American Express have all found out the power of change, from a position of power to a fight for survival. Radio Shack, Kodak, Circuit City, and Blockbuster, all went bankrupt and ultimate reason for their demise was change.

When a company increases the value offered to a customer by improving the product, enhancing service, offering better technology or increasing efficiencies, the competition must follow. The customer wants it better ... they want it easier to use ... they want it cheaper ... they want it now. Even now, in today's tenuous economy, it is the customer who is driving the ship. No matter what else is happening, it is the customer who is choosing when and where to spend their money. This program explores change ... the successes, the failures, the reasons behind both and how to capitalize on the opportunities that are created because of change.

Foundation:

► Change is an inevitable part of life
► Before asking others to change, change yourself first
► By embracing the concept of change, one embraces the future

Participants will be able to:

► See change as an inevitable opportunity
► Examine personal beliefs about change
► Develop a positive attitude toward living in a constantly changing environment
► Understand that the idea receiving the most resistance is probably the best idea
► Capitalize on thinking 'outside the box'
► Deal with the ever-changing needs of the customer
► Teach the process of stimulating ideas
► Realize that change is never final nor always right
► Recognize the value and importance of change

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

4 Media Interviews
Promotional Video for Robert Stevenson
Seeking Excellence, Inc.
December 17, 2019
Promotional Video for Robert Stevenson in front of several audiences

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Tags: Customer Experience, Leadership, Change Management

How do You Teach Someone to be a Better Leader
National Society of Leadership & Success
January 01, 2019
Interview for the National Society of Leadership & Success

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

How To Soar
AM FM 24/7 Broadcast Network
July 02, 2018
Diane Hamilton, Ph.D interviewing Robert Stevenson

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Interview
Marine Retailer
February 03, 2015
Interview from speaking engagement

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

2 Videos
Sizzle Reel - Agents
Vimeo
October 20, 2023
Robert Stevenson is an expert at building a high-performance culture, improving efficiency, and accelerating growth. He is one of the most widely sought-after speakers in the world today, as well as a best-selling author. Robert was recently ranked #4 in the world by “LinkedIn Thinkers 360” as a Change Management Thought Leader & Influencer. He has owned five companies, sold internationally in over 20 countries, along with holding positions from Salesman to Chief Executive Officer.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

Promotional Video - Corporate
Vimeo
October 13, 2023
Robert Stevenson is an expert at building a high-performance culture, improving efficiency, and accelerating growth. He is one of the most widely sought-after speakers in the world today, as well as a best-selling author. Robert was recently ranked #4 in the world by “LinkedIn Thinkers 360” as a Change Management Thought Leader & Influencer. He has owned five companies, sold internationally in over 20 countries, along with holding positions from Salesman to Chief Executive Officer.

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Tags: Change Management, Leadership, Management

3 Visiting Lecturers
Eyes of the Enemy
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 15, 2019
Robert Stevenson in a live performance explaining how companies need to look at themselves through "The Eyes of Their Enemy."

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

Eyes of the Enemy
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 15, 2019
Robert Stevenson in a live performance explaining how companies need to look at themselves through "The Eyes of Their Enemy."

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Eyes of the Enemy
Seeking Excellence Publishing
January 15, 2019
Robert Stevenson in a live performance explaining how companies need to look at themselves through "The Eyes of Their Enemy."

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

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