Walter Bond

After graduating from the University of Minnesota with a BA in Communications, Walter Bond overcame a devastating injury to become the first NBA rookie free agent ever to start on opening night. Bond, the young man who never, ever gave up on his dreams, went on to have an eight-year professional basketball career, playing alongside such NBA greats as Karl Malone and John Stockton as a guard for the Utah Jazz and the Detroit Pistons. Toward the end of his basketball career, he developed the ability to apply on-the-court success and teamwork to the business world when he and his wife became owners of a national franchise. Bond changed his profession but never changed his winning attitude.

For more than 10 years, Bond has been helping people change self-limiting beliefs into self-empowering strategies. He is called the Accountability Leader because he forces each one of his listeners to learn to be responsible for whatever situation they are in. Through his programs, workshops, books, and CDs, he travels the world teaching that personal accountability, confidence, and success are possible for all who desire it, from frontline personnel to the CEO. He reveals how to harness the power of focus and become a rock star of your industry.

Recognized as one of the world's preeminent experts on personal accountability, Bond draws on his experiences as a former NBA player to provide the foundation for the principles he teaches. Having accomplished the astonishing – rising from a reserve player coming off the bench to being the first rookie free agent to start for the Dallas Mavericks – Bond has the background and passion to effectively empower people in their own personal journey. He captivates audiences through his unique and memorable stories, teaching lessons learned from his in-the-trenches experience in selling and as an entrepreneur. Bond enables people to see how they can transform challenges into opportunities and obstacles into testimonies, and that success is a matter of personal choice.

Having spoken to audiences worldwide, Bond has become known for his dynamic and compelling programs that provide both the motivation and the strategies to excel in business and in life.

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No One Can Stop You But You

Does your organization have a culture of accountability? When something goes wrong, does everyone start pointing fingers and making excuses? How much more productive would your organization be if everyone took responsibility for their mistakes and shortcomings and continuous improvement was a team effort? Walter Bond delivers a solid message of personal accountability, overcoming adversity, power of confidence, and pursuit of excellence to the highest degree. Your organization will be rocked with enthusiasm, inspired to work as a team, and motivated to achieve to the highest level, regardless of the stock market, mortgage crisis, or credit crunch. This extraordinarily popular program helps audience members to point the finger at themselves in a fun and safe way. When your audience leaves, they will know they have been Bonded by Accountability. They'll return to their careers with the motivation and skills to take responsibility for their own continuous improvement.

Are You Still Unstoppable?

Has the culture of accountability in your organization kept growing as fast as it did after Walter Bond's first keynote? When you want Mr. Accountability to rekindle the fires of enthusiasm for personal responsibility, book Bond for this encore performance. With fresh stories and engaging analogies, Bond introduces new techniques that strengthen every member of your team, as well as proven strategies that integrate accountability even more deeply into your operations – leaving your attendees motivated, inspired, and ready to take sustained action.

Leaders: Get Out of the Way

Think about it for a moment – have you ever met a person that enjoys being bossed around? The most common form of leadership is micromanagement – which is destructive, expensive, and an organizational buzz kill. Most leaders micromanage because they have never been sufficiently trained on how to lead. In this program, Walter Bond tells how to turn the destructive dangers of micromanagement around with the fundamentals of leadership. Leaders learn how to empower employees to own and be accountable for what they do. As a result, employees feel engaged, inspired, and motivated, and leaders go on to create and grow a culture of accountability that builds retention and productivity for years to come – which is nothing but good news for your bottom line!

Sell It Like You Mean It

Whether you're looking to get your sales team's year off to a fast start, give it a mid-year jolt, or fire it up to finish your year with momentum, this program is full of principles that will empower your sales professionals to be reenergized with passion, desire, and commitment, regardless of their success levels. You might have a team of high producers that have flat-lined, or maybe your whole team needs to crank it up. Either way, you need your sales force to outthink and outperform the competition and win big in the sales game. Mr. Accountability believes that some salespeople are born but most of them are made. So Bond teaches every member of your team how to overcome objections, incorporate storytelling, and establish him or herself as an expert. As a result, they stop selling and start influencing your customers to buy! This program will inspire your sales team to produce at the next level.

Dominate Right Where You Are

Do your employees enthusiastically pursue the pinnacle of excellence? More likely they're just looking to reach the next level – just chasing their next promotion. Let Walter Bond prove that they key to getting ahead lies in their current situation. He explains, "If you dominate right now, right where you are, your superiority will become so obvious that new opportunities and promotions will chase you!" Inspired by Mr. Accountability, every attendee will find new ways to own and pursue excellence in what they do. As a result, employees return to work truly engaged and motivated to attain higher levels of productivity.

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