Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE is an award-winning speaker, author, sales presentation trainer and in-demand speech coach. Her speech-coaching clients include corporate leaders, celebrity speakers, well-known sports and media personalities, ministers and sales teams. Meetings and Conventions magazine named her "One of the 10 most electrifying speakers in North America." She delivers high-energy, high-content, and dramatically memorable presentations. Steven Covey's Executive Excellence magazine named her "One of the top 50 consultants, trainers, speakers, authors and professors who cover the Seven Dimensions of Excellence." Kiplinger's Personal Finance November 2002 issue claimed, "Patricia Fripp's speaking skills class is the sixth best investment to make with $1,000." Before becoming a full-time speaker, Patricia enjoyed a successful career in a service industry for 24 years. She owned two highly successful businesses that included training both service and sales personnel. Patricia first received payment for speaking and training in 1976. Since 1980 she has spoken to at least 100 groups a year, many of them repeat engagements. This includes Fortune 100 companies and major associations worldwide. The over 4,000-member National Speakers Association elected her the first female President in 1984. She has won or been awarded every designation given by NSA, including the Hall of Fame and the Cavett Award, the highest honor and considered the Oscar of the speaking world. Patricia is the author of two books, "Get What You Want!" and "Make It, So You Don't Have to Fake It!", and coauthor of "Speaking Secrets of the Masters" and "Insights into Excellence". She is featured in the Bullet Proof Manager video series, which is sold in over fifty countries. Fripp starred in the popular training film Travel the Road to Success: An Adventure in Customer Service. Fripp's hobbies of attending screen-writing seminars and avid movie going add an extra dimension to her training that is not usually found with other speech coaches. She has been featured in the media herself for over thirty years. Titles Superstar Sales Presentations: The Inside Secrets The Story Behind Awesome Storytelling How to Develop and Deliver a Career-Building, Confidence-Enhancing, Executive-Attention-Grabbing Speech or Business Presentation Opportunity Does Not Knock Once: Strategies and Tactics to Maximize Opportunity You May Be Overlooking How to Promote Your Business: High-Tech, Low-Tech, No-Tech! Getting, Keeping, and Deserving Your Customers Life is a Series of Sales Situations 21st Century Leadership Building Self-Confidence to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas to Upper-Management Six Strategies for Feeling More Totally Alive Topics Presentations, Customer Service, Sales, Leadership, Change Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $7,500 - $9,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State CA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.