Michel Neray

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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.

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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Michel Neray combines a science degree of 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.com, 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. It’s what he calls their 'Essential Message'. This results in massive increases in sales and a powerfully differentiated market position.

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. If you believe feedback forms, people love his humor, stories and energy. 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)