Duncan Stevens

Duncan Stevens is the founder of the Influence Association and the author of the best-selling book, Effective Influence.
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With over 15 years of experience, Duncan Stevens has inspired countless numbers of people in over 20 countries with his engaging and content-rich presentations.

Global business leaders have labelled Duncan as one of the most exciting and inspiring influence, high performance leadership and collaboration conference speakers today.

Essentially Duncan is a leadership and influence coach and keynote speaker with a background in behavioural psychology who spends his time working with brands, companies, teams and leaders to help people cultivate a mindset for success.

He helps teams and leaders create new opportunities through new perspectives by inspiring them to build on their current skillset or unlock skills that currently lay dormant. Doing so, allows them to create new perspectives to enable them to use these skills differently to impact their teams positively.

Duncan is the author of the best-selling book, Effective Influence, founder of the Influence Association, entrepreneur and professional mentalist. He has a proven track record of helping organizations master the art of influence and effective leadership and guides them to work more collaboratively to make a greater positive impact on their organisation.

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Having held senior leadership roles in some of the UK’s most recognizable brands, and spent a period of his life as an Officer in the British Royal Navy and as an entrepreneur, Duncan blends his experience to connect with your team providing real depth of content and context in equal measure.

With a deep understanding of behavioural psychology, the insights shared in Duncan’s Effective Influence Model and One Question Leadership keynote are in use in global companies around the world today.

He has appeared on several television and radio shows and still delivers over 50 keynotes per year, always tailored to the client, placing high-quality content alongside laser focussed context to your business, organization or leadership team.

At conferences and corporate events he is frequently a trending topic on twitter as audiences tweet about his authentic, witty and engaging personality as well as his cutting edge insights into the art of influence and persuasion.

Duncan doesn’t just deliver hypotheses, possibilities, hear-say evidence or ideas. Duncan’s keynotes and masterclasses are content-rich and science-backed. This means anything he presents is watertight from the ground up. All of the strategies Duncan shares are underpinned by supporting evidence. Whilst it’s inspiring to hear a story, it’s even more inspiring AND empowering to know that what you have heard is 100% employable and will work.

Duncan’s approach is fresh, unique and cutting edge. He doesn’t use outdated models and ideas. As an example, his Effective Influence Model was developed off the back of years of research into behavioural psychology and the principles of influence and persuasion and is neither long, difficult, or complicated. Instead, it’s easy to apply methodology all underpinned by behavioural science meaning that if applied – the strategies will work.

This easy-to-apply model and exciting, inspiring and entertaining keynote presentation is some of the many reasons why Duncan is hired to speak at organizations globally – to make an immediate impact on both the organization and leadership teams.

Featured Topics Include:

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THE 3% RULE - UNLOCKING HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP

Helping to Create High Performing Leaders Through An Interactive Keynote Full of Powerful Insights and Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.

Why is it that some leaders are more influential, effective, and successful than others? Often it is the result of attitude and mindset and constantly adapting and evolving their leadership skills.

Designed to inspire, motivate and educate leadership teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that leaders can employ immediately to create more collaborative, purpose-driven, innovative teams and the mind-set and habits that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your bottom line.

2
UNLOCKING POTENTIAL - BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Helping to Unlock The Potential Of Teams & Cultivating a Mindset For Success With Powerful Easy, Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.

In this powerful keynote designed to inspire your teams to embrace change, and the power of collaboration and cultivate a mind-set for success to strive to better than the best and excellence as standard.

Designed to inspire, motivate and educate your teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that teams and leaders can employ immediately to work more collaboratively, think more creatively and keep pace with change with the world around them. Be it, increasing sales, impacting the bottom line or growing as an organisation, your team will be left inspired and thinking differently!!

3
MASTERING EFFECTIVE INFLUENCE

How Brilliant Teams and Leaders Leverage Effective Influence To Build and Maintain More Authentic Long-Term Relationships and hear yes more often.

All teams and leaders (not just sales teams) are having ever-increasing demands placed on them and our ability to have our voices heard as leaders, support function teams or sales teams in order to influence, collaborate and communicate authentically is becoming ever more crucial for business success.

In this custom, interactive, fun, and content-rich keynote audiences members will learn Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to will help them establish, build create longer client relationships and hear yes more often in negotiations. You will leave with the exact, proven, and easy to apply strategies you can apply to hear yes more often.

4
THE 'MAGIC' OF COLLABORATION

How Collaboration Can Future-Proof Your Organization and Bring About Transformational Change For The Better.

Silo working is becoming one the biggest challenges for organizations. Silos can be hugely beneficial for laser focus but can often be more damaging and are often the result of underlying cultural challenges. This results in a lack of motivation, low morale, high employee turnover and low performance. Influence and persuasion expert Duncan Stevens, delivers unifying keynote speeches around the world to bring teams together and offers insights and actionable strategies to overcome silo working and bring teams together to work more collaboratively.

Using his skills as a professional mentalist for the past 15 years, Duncan brings teams together with his interactive, entertaining mentalist routines and interactive experiments that hang the bigger message of his keynote on. These same skills can be used to help equip teams and leaders with the ability to navigate change fearlessly, embrace collaboration and leverage opportunities these bring.

5
UNLOCKING TEAM CREATIVITY TO ADVANCE BUSINESS INNOVATION

Helping Teams And Leaders Unlock Their Creativity In Order To Build An Innovative Culture And Keep Pace With Rapid Change.

A recent study has shown that 60% of CEO’s believed that creativity was one of the most important skills they need as we enter this era of AI tech revolution.

It not change that’s catching organisations out, it’s the pace of change. As a result we need to keep pace with that change. There’s only 2 ways we can do that: Learn fast and quicker than others or innovate and think more creatively than others.

With so many individuals having had the creativity educated out of them, this keynote gives your team the tools to unlock their creativity but for everyone to build an innovative and creative culture.

1
THE 3% RULE - UNLOCKING HIGH PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP

Helping to Create High Performing Leaders Through An Interactive Keynote Full of Powerful Insights and Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.

Why is it that some leaders are more influential, effective, and successful than others? Often it is the result of attitude and mindset and constantly adapting and evolving their leadership skills.

Designed to inspire, motivate and educate leadership teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that leaders can employ immediately to create more collaborative, purpose-driven, innovative teams and the mind-set and habits that are guaranteed to have a positive impact on your bottom line.

2
UNLOCKING POTENTIAL - BUILDING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS

Helping to Unlock The Potential Of Teams & Cultivating a Mindset For Success With Powerful Easy, Proven, Actionable, Habits, Strategies and Takeaways.

In this powerful keynote designed to inspire your teams to embrace change, and the power of collaboration and cultivate a mind-set for success to strive to better than the best and excellence as standard.

Designed to inspire, motivate and educate your teams to give them fresh perspectives, Duncan shares easy to apply, actionable, bitesize strategies, techniques and habits that teams and leaders can employ immediately to work more collaboratively, think more creatively and keep pace with change with the world around them. Be it, increasing sales, impacting the bottom line or growing as an organisation, your team will be left inspired and thinking differently!!

3
MASTERING EFFECTIVE INFLUENCE

How Brilliant Teams and Leaders Leverage Effective Influence To Build and Maintain More Authentic Long-Term Relationships and hear yes more often.

All teams and leaders (not just sales teams) are having ever-increasing demands placed on them and our ability to have our voices heard as leaders, support function teams or sales teams in order to influence, collaborate and communicate authentically is becoming ever more crucial for business success.

In this custom, interactive, fun, and content-rich keynote audiences members will learn Duncan’s Effective Influence Model to will help them establish, build create longer client relationships and hear yes more often in negotiations. You will leave with the exact, proven, and easy to apply strategies you can apply to hear yes more often.

4
THE 'MAGIC' OF COLLABORATION

How Collaboration Can Future-Proof Your Organization and Bring About Transformational Change For The Better.

Silo working is becoming one the biggest challenges for organizations. Silos can be hugely beneficial for laser focus but can often be more damaging and are often the result of underlying cultural challenges. This results in a lack of motivation, low morale, high employee turnover and low performance. Influence and persuasion expert Duncan Stevens, delivers unifying keynote speeches around the world to bring teams together and offers insights and actionable strategies to overcome silo working and bring teams together to work more collaboratively.

Using his skills as a professional mentalist for the past 15 years, Duncan brings teams together with his interactive, entertaining mentalist routines and interactive experiments that hang the bigger message of his keynote on. These same skills can be used to help equip teams and leaders with the ability to navigate change fearlessly, embrace collaboration and leverage opportunities these bring.

5
UNLOCKING TEAM CREATIVITY TO ADVANCE BUSINESS INNOVATION

Helping Teams And Leaders Unlock Their Creativity In Order To Build An Innovative Culture And Keep Pace With Rapid Change.

A recent study has shown that 60% of CEO’s believed that creativity was one of the most important skills they need as we enter this era of AI tech revolution.

It not change that’s catching organisations out, it’s the pace of change. As a result we need to keep pace with that change. There’s only 2 ways we can do that: Learn fast and quicker than others or innovate and think more creatively than others.

With so many individuals having had the creativity educated out of them, this keynote gives your team the tools to unlock their creativity but for everyone to build an innovative and creative culture.

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Everyone had nothing but positive feedback about your presentation. It was thoroughly engaging and really hit the mark. Hopefully, there will be lots of opportunities in the future to work together. Thank you so much for your insights and the mentalism was unbelievable! Look forward to working with you again!"

David Mullen - VP Global Life Science Sales at Elsevier

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Thank you for attending our launch - I've had really great feedback from everyone and your content really hit the mark and was just the inspiration that everyone needed."

Heidi Hastings - VP, Planning & Deployment at Sodexo

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