Erik Wahl

Your best sustainable edge in business is your ability to visibly differentiate yourself from your competition. The Art of Vision is an entertaining and highly practical program that uncovers new ways to make your organization more creative and ultimately more profitable. It is no longer enough to have good customer service and a good product. The truly great companies have altered the landscape to create a unique experience for the customer. Whether its sales, service or leadership principles; professionals at all levels can achieve superior performance by creatively differentiating themselves from the competition.

In this informative, interactive and motivating keynote presentation, Wahl covers:

Sales and Service Excellence

• Differentiation, Differentiation, Differentiation
• Working smarter, not harder
• Creating a unique customer experience

Embracing Change

• Sustaining Excellence in a changing economy
• Leveraging chaos to create opportunity
• Discovering untapped potential

Empowering Leadership

• Creating a culture of commitment
• Transcending mediocrity
• Freeing the mind to out-think the competition

Through this highly interactive and motivational keynote, Wahl uses his skills as an artist as a metaphor and a vehicle to inspire the educational community to build a vision in the best interests of our children. He draws his audience in through humorous and heartwarming stories as well as audience participation. His goal is to help educators at every level explore new levels of achievement and success. Whether you are a teacher, an administrator or a bus driver, we all have the ability to profoundly and positively impact the life of our children. The Art of Vision for Educators program is specifically designed to be a unique and entertaining multi-media experience as much as it an educational tool.

Wahl challenges and empowers the educational community to recreate their vision for their students. The principles in this uplifting and highly practical message will redefine the role of a teacher as an artist as well as an architect.

His program will touch on the following points:

Creativity in Education

• What is creativity as it relates to vision?
• How creativity is "learned" out of us
• What can we do to recapture our natural creativity?
• How we can use creativity to transcend mediocrity

Teamwork through Vision

• Why a unified vision is important to lasting success
• We are all individual agents of change working together

Personal Motivation

• Finding the Heroism in our work as educators
• Igniting the spark of passion to bring creativity back to the classroom
• Thinking outside the box for greater levels of success
• Profoundly impacting kids' lives through our communication

You must see it before you achieve it. As the landscape for healthcare continues to change, a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow's unchartered water. The Art of Vision in Healthcare is an entertaining and highly practical program that uncovers new ways to make your healthcare organization more productive and ultimately more profitable. Healthcare professionals who embrace innovation are better equipped to succeed in the future. Whether it's patient services, administrative issues or leadership principles, healthcare organizations at all levels can achieve superior clinical excellence and patient safety by defining a vision of purpose and commitment.

Wahl will touch on the following:
Visionary Excellence

• Transcending mediocrity
• Building a lasting vision

Embracing Change

• Sustaining Excellence in a changing economy
• Using change to leverage performance

Empowering Leadership

• Creating a culture of commitment
• Finding the heroism in your work