Michel Neray

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Summary Profile

NOTE: I generally fly out of Boston, Buffalo or Toronto and offer flat rate travel within North America. With an E1 US visa and dual citizenships, I am fully eligible to work in the United States, European Union and many other countries around the world.  In addition to keynotes and workshops, I am also available for emceeing, panels, and videocasts.

Michel Neray
MBA, BSc, Certified NLP Practitioner

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What makes you different as a person is what makes you better... in your business, your career and your life.
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What makes you different as a person is what makes you better... in your business, your career and your life.

Michel Neray combines a science degree from the University of Waterloo, an MBA from McGill University, and a career as a creative marketing copywriter, advertising agency director and marketing executive. A visionary and entrepreneurial game-changer, in 1995 he founded Portfolios Online, the world's first Internet search engine for advertising and creative professionals.

As a consultant and facilitator, Michel helps his clients discover, communicate and focus on their greatest value and true competitive advantage -- for massive increases in sales, leadership effectiveness and, yes, happiness! It’s what he calls your 'Essential Message'.

As a motivational speaker, Michel empowers his audiences to dig deeper than the usual marketing messages to access a well of meaning and purpose that drive sales as much as they drive productivity, engagement, resilience and cooperation/collaboration. Since 2008, Michel has held a variety of leadership positions in the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and has spoken professionally in more than seven countries around the world.

Michel co-authored The Great Crossover, which made it to Jack Canfield’s Achiever’s Recommended Reading List. In 2005, his chapter, "Everything Starts With A Conversation" was selected as the lead for the book, Sales Gurus Speak Out. He’s married with three children, two dogs, three snowboards, a whitewater canoe and a black belt in Karate.

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Most Requested Topics:
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• Everything Starts With A Conversation
  This keynote or workshop helps participants develop customer-centric listening skills, and then teaches them how to develop intelligent questions that speak directly to customer interests and needs. This enables participants to ‘ask’ their way through a proposal or sale rather than ‘push’ their way to a decision. The interactive exercises also help participants learn about each other, making this ideal for networking events.
• Differentiation-Based Leadership
  This keynote is fun, engaging, motivating and useful! It begins by showing audience members why an ability to stand out is the single most important challenge in this – or any economy. Then it teaches audience members a simple model for finding the strongest and most differentiating market message for their business, product or service.

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Past Clients:
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• REIC (Real Estate Institute of Canada) National Conference
• United Country Real Estate National Sales Conference
• VISA Small Business Big Ideas show (My session was so highly rated in Toronto, they invited me back the next year in Montreal.)
• The Coaching Super Summit in Baltimore (multiple engagements)
• The ICF-GTA Regional Conference (multiple engagements)
• Mackenzie Financial (multiple engagements)