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ABOUT MATTHEW POLLARD
When it comes to your sales kickoff event, the speaker you choose is critical to success. Meet Matthew Pollard: the embodiment of sales speaking motivation and excellence.
As the recipient of Selling Power Magazine's Sales Kickoff Speaker of the Year award, Matthew is miles ahead of the pack, delivering riveting, relevant, actionable content.
Whether speaking to Fortune 500 companies or the next big up-and-comers, Matthew provides an experience that assures engagement and results. Elevate your next kickoff meeting and let Matthew's expertise illuminate the path to unparalleled sales success.
Matthew was a perfect fit to kick off our sales rally! His wealth of experience, captivating presentation style, and genuine commitment to leaving a lasting impact on our team set him apart. Matthew comes from the door-to-door world, giving him a unique and authentic understanding of our industry. His personal journey of knocking on 93 doors to secure his first sale, and then systemizing the process to become a top-performing salesperson was a motivation to our team while equipping them with valuable tools they could implement immediately.
If you’re seeking to inspire your team at an upcoming event, Matthew is a great choice. He will motivate, inspire, and unleash potential in your entire sales team.
One-size-fits-all doesn’t cut it when it comes to your sales kickoff. Your team deserves a speaker who understands your industry, aligns with your theme, and brings insights that truly move the needle.
Matthew takes customization to a level most speakers won’t touch, far beyond simply aligning with your kickoff theme. From the very first conversation, he digs into your objectives, explores your team’s specific challenges, studies your market and customer base, and builds his keynote around your reality.
Whether your salespeople struggle with complicated buyer journeys, commoditized offerings, risk-averse buyers, or resistance to change, Matthew provides precise, tailored, immediately-actionable solutions that truly ignite your team.
As McKinsey points out, most organizations lean heavily on the top 25% of performers to meet their sales goals, leaving untapped potential across the rest of the team. Matthew helps change that.
His approach empowers every rep in the room, not just the usual high achievers. From mid-level performers to introverts who’ve been overlooked or underestimated, Matthew equips your team with proven frameworks they can actually use. As the bestselling author of The Introvert’s Edge to Sales, Matthew has helped thousands of salespeople overcome self-doubt and adversity, cultivate resilience, and build lasting confidence in their ability to sell.
In short, Matthew will level up your entire team, building a culture where sales excellence isn’t limited to those at the top, but attained consistently across the board.
STARLIMS was fortunate enough to feature Matthew Pollard as the keynote speaker for our Global Sales Kickoff. I found his preparation to be personalized, his message to be concise and actionable, and his delivery to be highly engaging. I would strongly recommend Matt for guaranteed results from your team.
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At Hexagon, we have a team of highly-skilled portfolio strategy consultants who know our products and the market inside and out. Their technical skills are unmatched, but to prepare for our Global Sales Kickoff event, we needed to uplevel their skills to train our customer-facing employees in a meaningful and memorable way.
Matthew facilitated a pre-event workshop with the group, and the results were nothing short of miraculous. Matthew has a way of disarming people and breaking down the barriers to change. He met the experts at their level to develop trust and then introduced them to storytelling, which made their presentations much more impactful.
Since the presentation, Matthew has created a wave of storytelling across our organization. His guidance has been embedded in our culture and is changing how we communicate to our customers and internally.
My experience with Matthew was amazing. I truly appreciate how he partnered with us and understood our audience, and his professionalism and preparation were incomparable to anyone else I’ve worked with in the past. A speaker only has a few minutes to capture the attention of a tough crowd, and he did that really well for our diverse group. His stage presence is incredible, and he absolutely delivered that “wow” moment in an engaging, eye-opening, valuable presentation. The team truly loved it!
Have you ever brought in a keynote speaker who shared brilliant insights, only for it all to fizzle once the event was over?
In many organizations, especially larger ones, rollout is the real challenge. After the speaker steps off stage, it’s often up to internal teams to figure out how to apply the ideas across regions, departments, and levels of experience. It can take months. And sometimes, even with all the perseverance and teamwork in the world, it still never happens.
On top of being a missed opportunity, it’s a waste of time, money, and momentum.
Matthew is different. Far more than just a motivational speaker, he inspires action, and he helps you implement it. His strategies are designed with rollout in mind, and he offers optional follow-on support to ensure the message sticks and scales. If you’re investing in a sales kickoff to create real change, you need a speaker who will help you finish what you started.
I first saw Matthew speak a couple of years ago at the AA-ISP Leadership Summit. I was instantly drawn to his energy and passion to help sellers succeed. After hearing his message, it was clear that he would have an impact on all sellers in our organization.
Fast forward to today: We have had the opportunity to have Mathew share with multiple organizations within our company both in person and through a virtual experience. Each time, Matthew’s message hit a home run with our sales teams, and has been the topic of many discussions long after the events ended. Mathew is the consummate professional, does a tremendous job of engaging the audience, customizes the message to make it relevant to your industry, and is a speaker that definitely walks the walk.
When looking for speakers, you can find many with a great message but few who truly leave a lasting impact on your organization. If you are looking to make an impact on your organization Matthew Pollard should be your first call.
Whether you're gathering in person or launching your year online, your kickoff deserves a speaker who can deliver flawlessly in any format.
Matthew holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned credential in the speaking world, held by just 12% of speakers globally. He’s also an eSpeakers Certified Virtual Presenter, so you can expect the same energy, clarity, and connection on-screen as you would live on stage.
These dual certifications are your assurance of a seamless experience, from first conversation to final applause. No tech fumbles, no lost engagement; Matthew delivers, onstage or on screen.
In the world of digital, finding an engaging and relevant speaker for our virtual event was crucial to its success. Thankfully, Matthew and his team seamlessly made our virtual experience one to be talked about for weeks after. From the virtual backgrounds to the overall production, the experience helped to make it feel as if our attendees were not watching just another virtual presentation.
Matthew’s topic of storytelling was very engaging, impactful, and fit in nicely with our sales-driven organization; our teams most definitely walked away wondering what their “story” could be.
We cannot thank him enough for being a part of our event!
Need more info before deciding? Check out Matthew’s SKO microsite for video examples of story transformations, more details on why Matthew is in a class of his own, additional speaking topics, and endless testimonials.
Looking forward to connecting with you to make your SKO an amazing success.
